Sightings Archive

Rotherham Centre; Rotherham Cut: Sand Martin - 6 - & adjacent river ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing

RVCP: Chiffchaff - 5 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Sand Martin - 5

Scholes Coppice: Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Nuthatch - 1 - sing ; Chaffinch - 1 - sing ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1pr

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; Mute Swan - 39 ; Gadwall - 1 - m in ; Tufted Duck - 19 - 12m7f ; 319 - 2 - soar. se ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 4 - crow. ; Skylark - 5 - sing ; Wren - 11 - sing ; Dunnock - 21 - 15sing ; Robin - 13 - 11sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 11 - 3sig ; Blackcap - 5 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - sing ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 12 - 4sing ; Yellowhammer - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 1+ - sing ; Magpie - 3

Aldwarke SF: Linnet - 3prs ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Coot - 6+ - inc adult at nest + pair with at least small 1 juv ; Common Buzzard - 1 - left N ; Blackcap - 2 - males, one singing ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - over towards treatment works ; Reed Bunting - 2 - males ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Gadwall - 2prs - lots of aerial chasing/calling ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting ; Little Grebe - 1 - trilling ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr - nestbuilding ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over to NE

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - adult sat on top of chimney ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1

Beighton Marsh NR: Chiffchaff - 4 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Large Female circling high over village ; Woodpigeon - 1 - On nest in garden Conifer.

Calver: Redstart - 2 - Males singing

Canklow Woods: Willow Warbler - 2 - 2 singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling

Centenary Riverside: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female circling site ; Kingfisher - 1 - On site then on river. ; Blackcap - 1 - singing. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Wren - 4 - singing. ; Robin - 1 - singing. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting nr Toyota garage. 13.45. ; Chaffinch - 1 - calling

Coppice Wood: Coal Tit - 1 - Showing characteristics of continental race - near northern boundary wall near rail line a hundred metres up from river.

Dalton: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 3 - over ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Damflask Res: Grey Heron - 1

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Chiffchaff - 3 - 2 singing ; Kestrel - 1pr - probably same as seen later over Liberty Steel ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Skylark - 6 - inc 4 singing over adjacent fields ; Pheasant - 1 - cock; adjacent fields ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Jay - 1 ; Coot - 1 - probably a pair present ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Grey Heron - 1 - W, calling ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Firsby Res: Coot - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - Singing.