Sightings Archive

Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 - on outflow ; Cormorant - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 7

Holmebrook Valley Park: Sand Martin - 1 - Flew high over the lake ; House Martin - 15+ - High over playing fields ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Now on nest. ; Mute Swan - 3 - Pair on nest with 5 possibly 6 eggs now.

Houndkirk Moor: Curlew - 4

Long Line: Swallow - 1

Morehall Lane: Swallow - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 1 - ** No sign of the Garganey or Little Tern this morning ** ; Common Tern - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 - 4 WHITE WAGTAIL ; Arctic Tern - 1 ; Arctic Tern - 1 - photo ; Reed Bunting - 2+ ; Dunlin - 3+ ; Skylark - 10+ ; Wheatear - 2 - Two Greenland males early evening.

Rotherham Centre; Rotherham Cut: Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing ; Sand Martin - 5 - over @ 0755hrs

Rotherham; Rawmarsh Road: Swallow - 2 - SW with party of SM ; Sand Martin - 8 - SW @ 0750hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: Whitethroat - 3 - 2 singing in western paddocks, 1 singing near Hollings Lane entrance

Walkley garden: Red Kite - 1 - over Walkley at 14:40, towards Hillsb'. Disturbed ferals on Ebenezer chapel roof. - Record shot

Canklow Woods: 319 - 2 - Over 12.50 ; 321 - 1 - Heading South, struggling in headwind.

Nether Edge: Brambling - 5 - Agden Road, 1 singing

Orgreave Lakes: Garganey - 2 - Pair on south bank of Big Lake at 07:15. Still on island at 11:00am. ; Garganey - 2 - photo of Drake ; Garganey - 2 - photo of Female ; Black-tailed Godwit - 2 - One on island at 09:15 then joined by a second.Still present at 18:30. ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - east ; Goldeneye - 2 - Pair ; LITTLE TERN - 1 - feeding on big lake to at least 13.55, still present 16.55. ; Garganey - 2 - still on island at 13.55 ; Common Tern - 1 - on rail in E bay at 13.30 ; LITTLE TERN - 1 - Still present early evening. ; LITTLE TERN - 1 - 2nd Photo ; LITTLE TERN - 1 - another photos ; Greenshank - 1 - down but flighty.

Poolsbrook Marsh: Gadwall - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 6 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - flushed and off north ; Gadwall - 2 - pair - with display noted from male ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - migrant flushed from long grass - off N calling

Rotherham centre; Rotherham Cut: Sand Martin - 2

Sheffield Airport: Wheatear - 3 - 2 Males and a Female on old runway ; Wheatear - 6 - increased to 6, 4 males 2 females

Walkley garden: Stock Dove - 1 - under mixed seed feeder

Wortley: Red Kite - 1 - over Finkle Street Lane at 07:35

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1

Barnside Moor: Grey Partridge - 1 - heard calling from moor at dusk

Blackamoor: Ring Ouzel - 6 - in field beyond main track from Hathersage Road. Males and females present.

Brightside: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Singing from trees on the railway bank behind Royal Mail

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling ; Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1430

Cinder Hills: Robin - 1+ - sing ; Blackcap - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 1

Endcliffe Park (south end): Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 8 - m - 7 singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - 1 with territorial calling

Higger Tor: Red Kite - 1 - low over this morning, heading north

Lodge Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 3 - 1m (ringed) and 2f present on garden feeders for several days. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - 1 with silver, yellow, orange leg rings ; Siskin - 2 pairs ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 pairs - Present throughout winter on feeders ; Greenfinch - Pair

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1 - singing in gardens.

Onesmoor: Fieldfare - 25 - sat in tree tops at dusk

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 3 - On north shore ; Ringed Plover - 1 - On Small Lake ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 - Small Lake ; Yellow Wagtail - 1

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - High up in the canopy just before the metal gate, on the far side of the stream from the parking area. was a male

Ramsley Res: Tree Pipit - 1 - In the woodland to the back of the reservoir, was 'parachuting' from high in the tree to a lower branch.

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - c50 - in horse fields

Redmires Plantation: Woodcock - 1

Redmires Res: Ringed Plover - 1 - ad on Top Res ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - flew low to the W over Top Res and into wood - best of luck with that one!

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - 1 male 1 female ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2

Rivelin Valley: Grey Heron - 1 - On Wolf Wheel pondk ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing , one by river , one in observers garden ; Treecreeper - 2 - Building nest . ; Dipper - 1