Sightings Archive

Strines Moor: Common Buzzard - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 - 2pr +1 ; Mute Swan - 12 - 2nests ; Mallard - 13+ - inc 1f-9y, 1f-2y ; Tufted Duck - 11 - 9m2f ; Herring Gull - 3 - 1nc.1-2cy -2imms past s ; Swift - 20+ ; Skylark - 5 - sing ; Swallow - 25+ ; House Martin - 100+ ; Pied Wagtail - 4 - 1m, 3juv ; Wren - 14 - sing ; Dunnock - 9 - sing ; Robin - 10 - sing ; Blackbird - 14 - 7sing ; Blackcap - 7 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Whitethroat - 3 - 2sing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Magpie - 11 ; Chaffinch - 11 - 10sing ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - sing ; Shelduck - 1 - reported - circled site dep s 0720

Bamford: Osprey - 1 - Flying north

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 1 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Display flight ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Blackbird - 2

Canklow: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Male singing in AMG works 05.15 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Feeding on field AMG works 07.30 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - On field , carrying food AMG. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over field AMG.

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - pair in the air at 1430

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1 - male ; Gadwall - 1+ ; Mallard - 2+ - 2 fems with broods (8,5) ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2m, 1f ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - a pair checking possible nest sites ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 6+ ; Black-headed Gull - 3+ ; Swift - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Sand Martin - 5+ ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling

Chatsworth Park: Mandarin - 2+ - 2 females with a total of 14 small young.

Fulwood Lane: Swallow - 2 ; Lapwing - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Swift - 2

Greystones: Starling - 13 - 5 juveniles

Hallam Moors: Curlew - 5 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 3

Hollinsend Park: Starling - 36 - mostly adults but several new young birds. ; Goldfinch - 20 - all adults. ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Hunter*s Bar: Swift - 2

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 3 - 1 adult +2 young still 21:30. ; Swift - 8 - overhead

Jaunty Park: Long-tailed Tit - 14 - c14 birds inc many new fledged young 07:45. ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Robin - 4 - singing around site

Meadowhall: Skylark - 1 - singing above waste ground between Mall and IKEA!

Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 1 - On tern rail briefly then North at 07:10 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swift - c.100 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing upstream of River bridge

R Don, Effingham St: Kingfisher - 1 - plus the Yellow-bellied Slider has survived the winter.

R Don, Meadowhall: Sand Martin - 10 - 10 max, mostly group of 4 flying over river ; Mallard - 12 - 5m and 2f, one with 5 chicks ; Moorhen - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 5 - 2 prs plus 1m. One pr flying over Vickers building ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 1 ad feeding 2 juv ; Jay - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Swift - c30 - low over river this am ; Herring Gull - c25 - high numbers for this time of year ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c40 - inc 3cy ringed as a chick in Vest-Agder Norway in 2016, and also present here in June/July 2017, and a 2cy ringed last year as a chick on Burhou, nr Alderney in the Channel Islands.

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 15+ - around colony

Redmires: Willow Warbler - 2

Redmires conduit: Meadow Pipit - 12+ ; Swallow - 1