Sightings Archive

Sunday 22nd April 2018

• Longshaw: Mandarin - 6+ - On pond and pair in padley gorge
• Orgreave Lakes: Yellow Wagtail - 3 ; Swift - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - Singing males between main lake and river.
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 4 - 2 pairs, 1 singing male ; Pied Flycatcher - 4 - Another Photo ; Mandarin - 2 - In trees scouting for a nest site ; Tree Pipit - 1 - In Silver Birches at moorland fringe, singing from trees and in display flights (record shot) ; Nuthatch - 4+ - Including 1 singing male
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 28 ; Mallard - 7 ; Sand Martin - 1 - over ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - female
• R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Canada Goose - 2 - N/NE ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - over, inc a male ; Sand Martin - 8 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Herring Gull - 2 - W/SW
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 6 ; Greylag Goose - 8 ; Mallard - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair ; Common Buzzard - 3 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 20 - c. ; Curlew - 6 ; Snipe - 3 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Common Sandpiper - 8 ; Skylark - 6 - singing ; Swallow - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 29 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling south side of Middle Res ; Wheatear - 5 ; Chaffinch - 6 - singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - male displaying ; Linnet - 11 ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Crossbill - 2 - pair feeding quietly in conifers by Middle Res
• Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 5 - displaying and mating ; Willow Warbler - 4 - At least 4 singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Dunlin - 1
• Rotherham; private site: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Singing bird still present
• Rud Hill: Wheatear - 3
• Shillito Wood: Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Skylark - 1+ - singing to east ; Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 - m+f ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 2 - collecting nest material ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - female at feeders ; Reed Bunting - 4+ ; Yellowhammer - 3+
• Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 13 - singing ; House Martin - 3 ; Swallow - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - north ; Grey Partridge - 1pr ; Gadwall - 1pr ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 - past n ; Mute Swan - 62 ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 11 - inc.5f ; 319 - 2 - soar in n ; Pheasant - 3 - crow ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 - 2cy 3cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad ; Skylark - 7 - 6sing ; Wren - 12 - sing ; Dunnock - 15 - 14sing ; Robin - 9 - 4sing ; Song Thrush - 5 - 3sing ; Blackbird - 12 - 5sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Blackcap - 5 - sing ; Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 3 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing