Sightings Archive

Sunday 10th June 2018

• Barlow Common: Grey Heron - 1 ; Goldfinch - 07-Aug ; 324 - 1 - Cinnabar ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4
• Birley Edge: Swift - 12 - A sudden increase in numbers here; that's a bit more like it!
• Blackburn Meadows NR: Cormorant - 2 - West at 07.50
• Bridle Road Wood: Nuthatch - 1 - Heard
• Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling at 1900
• Centenary Riverside: Magpie - 7 - family party ; Song Thrush - 05-Jun - inc 3-4 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - 1 singing, 1f/juv + 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Kingfisher - 1 - flew upriver ; Reed Warbler - 04-May - inc 3-4 singing ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Moorhen - 3+ - + 2 juvs ; Long-tailed Tit - breeding confirmed - family party ; Bullfinch - 3 - inc 2 males ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1pr - singing, carrying food ; Mallard - 2 - 1m; 1f ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Herring Gull - 4 - SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 1 SW; 1 E
• Coal Aston: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
• Dowey Lumb: 319 - 1
• Ecclesall Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - Circling overhead, one calling.
• Grange Park Golf Course: Black-headed Gull - 7+ - feeding on fairways ; Herring Gull - 2 - circling ; Stock Dove - 1 - sing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - sing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 4+ - inc adult at nest with juvs, in oak 20+ft up ; Skylark - 1 - sing ; Swallow - 3 - 1+ nests at barn adj club house ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Wren - 4+ - sing ; Dunnock - 2 - sing ; Robin - 2+ - sing ; Blackbird - 5+ - sing ; Song Thrush - 4 - 3 sing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - sing, flew up from gorse ; Blackcap - 2+ - sing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Blue Tit - 10+ - juvs, several parties across site ; Magpie - 5+ ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 2+ - sing ; Goldfinch - 1+
• Ickles: Mute Swan - 3 - S ; Grey Heron - 1 - S
• Killamarsh: Oystercatcher - 2 - 2 adults on small pond used as drinking water by horses just west of Killamarsh Pond
• Newfield Spring Wood: Coal Tit - 7-8+ - Coal Tit family - at least 6 young
• Onesmoor bottom: Swift - 20+ - feeding low over hay fields .
• Padley Gorge: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Redstart - 2 - males ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - pair ; Treecreeper - 2 - pair ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Adult and juvenile
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Song Thrush - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Mute Swan - 28 ; Mallard - c35 ; Black-headed Gull - 40-50 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - over ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult
• R Don, Rotherham Centre: Greenfinch - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Sand Martin - c20 - feeding over river ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - inc singing male
• Rivelin Valley: Blue Tit - 6 - Fledged young for Blue Tit in observers garden ; Great Tit - 3 - Fledged young in observers garden ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Fledged young in observers garden ; Blackbird - 2 - Fledged young in observers garden ; Dunnock - 3 - Fledged young in observers garden
• Roughwood Rec: 319 - 2 - flew S @13:00
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2pr ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 73 - inc 2pr with 4-2young 18+7left w 1n ; Greylag Goose - 2 - left s ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 2f ; Kestrel - 2 - mf ; Swift - 30+ ; Skylark - 4 - sing ; Swallow - 5 ; Song Thrush - 3 - 1sing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - past n ; Blackcap - 4 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 6 - sing ; Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - 2sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing ; Great Tit - 35+ - in 6 family parties ; Blue Tit - 20+ - in 3family parties ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+ - 2 fams