Sightings Archive

Centenary Riverside: Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 - 2 singing ; Blue Tit - 2 - pair ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - river ; 321 - 2 - 1 over pond 1 over river. ; Gadwall - 4 - 2 over, 2 on river ; Canada Goose - 2 - river ; Cormorant - 1

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 2 - Close to Hunter's Bar at 7:05. One bird flying up river carrying what looked to be nesting material.

Holbrook Marsh: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - in willow scrub this morning

Ladybower Res, North arm: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard ; Cormorant - 1 ; 321 - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Mandarin - 4 - 2m, 1m + 1f ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Curlew - 1 - Calling ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Swallow - 8+

Orgreave Lakes: Ruff - 1 - still present around Small Lake ; Wheatear - 8 - 8 Greenland Wheatear ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Hobby - 1 - Chased and caught a Sand Martin over Small Lake late afternoon

Redmires Middle Res: Common Sandpiper - 0ne

Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 2

Rotherham: Goldcrest - 1 - singing; Oakwood Road West

Scholes Coppice: Stock Dove - 1 - sing ; Woodpigeon - 3+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Wren - 5+ - sing ; Robin - 5+ - sing ; Blackbird - 3+ - inc 2 sing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackcap - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Goldcrest - 2 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 23 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - m ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 5 - crow ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Swift - 10+ ; Skylark - 6 - sing ; Sand Martin - 40+ ; Swallow - 15+ ; House Martin - 11+ ; Wren - 15 - sing ; Dunnock - 16 - 10sing ; Robin - 13 - 10sing ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Blackbird - 12 - 7sing ; Blackcap - 7 - sing ; Whitethroat - 5 - 3sing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Great Tit - 7 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Nuthatch - 1 - call only not located ; Jay - 1 ; Chaffinch - 9 - 5sing ; Goldfinch - 11 ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 2sing ; Yellowhammer - 5

Bar Brook Bridge: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling

Barlow: Stock Dove - Dec-14 - feeding in a field with corvids and Woodpigeons ; Linnet - 12 ; Skylark - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Brownhills Lane: Canada Goose - 14 - Appeared to be in couples feeding ; Curlew - 2 - feeding ; Lapwing - 6 - feeding

Canklow: 319 - 1 ; 321 - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying at 1030 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - 1 sat on nest, other mobbed by Mistle Thrushes. ; Pheasant - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - On road. ; Swallow - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Mobbing Crow in old quarry. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Males.