Sightings Archive

Sunday 8th April 2018

• Grange Park Golf Course: Skylark - 1 - sing ; Wren - 8 - sing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 15 - sing ; Blackbird - 5 - 2 sing ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 12 - sing ; Blackcap - 7 - 6 sing ; Goldcrest - 3 - 2 sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Coal Tit - 2+ - 2 sing ; Blue Tit - 5+ - 2 sing ; Great Tit - 10+ - 6 sing ; Nuthatch - 3 - sing ; Treecreeper - 3 - 2 sing ; Jay - 4+ ; Magpie - 1+ ; Jackdaw - 2 ; Chaffinch - 8 - 6 sing ; Goldfinch - 1+
• Greenhill: 319 - 4 - Circling over then moving on to Abbeydale Golf Course.
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Pair still displaying on lake. ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2 Pairs. ; Chiffchaff - 5+ ; Reed Bunting - 2
• Langsett Res: Whooper Swan - 21 - 21 on the water at 10:30, left a short time later
• Linacre: Swallow - 1
• Millhouses garden: Wren - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1m
• Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - still present on NW bank, above footbridge. ; Arctic Tern - 1 - On Big Lake from 09:30 to 10:00 when flew towards Treeton Dyke ; Arctic Tern - 1 - another photo ; Swallow - 8 - At 08:30 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - Between bridges ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Redshank - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - on island, small lake ; Great Crested Grebe - 16 - 14 resting on main lake, 1 on nest on shore of island, small lake, its mate resting alongside ; Kestrel - 1 - hovering alongside footpath round small lake ; Blackcap - 1 - singing in riverside trees, south of river bridge ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing between bridges
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - 15 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Mute Swan - 50-60 - inc 6 in from NE @ 0856hrs
• Parkgate; Fitzwilliam Canal: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 7 - 5m; 2f ; Song Thrush - 2 - one singing ; Bullfinch - 3 - 1m; 2f (song) ; Blackcap - 3 - 2 singing m; 1f ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - female
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 500+ ; Wheatear - 1 ; Golden Plover - 500+ - iphone photo of yesterdays birds-many more on ground.
• R Don Kelham Island & Neepsend: Sand Martin - 5+ - at least 5 between Kelham Island and the junction of Neepsend Lane and Penistone Road
• R Don, Bow Bridge to Main Street: Kingfisher - 2 - male fishing successfully in river, flew down canal where joined by a second; lots of calling/interaction ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing
• R Don, Centenary Riverside to Bow Bridge: Mallard - 4 - drakes ; Moorhen - 1 ; Canada Goose - 6 - N/NE ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Gadwall - 1pr
• R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 5 ; Grey Wagtail - 1pr ; Goosander - 1pr ; Greenfinch - 1 - song/aerial display
• Redmires Middle Res: Swallow - 2
• Redmires Top Res: Common Buzzard - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - at roadside edge, flew to far edge. ; Tufted Duck - 2 - m+f
• Redmires, Hammond*s Field: Tufted Duck - 2 - male and female on small pond
• Rocher Flat: Little Owl - 1
• Rocher Head Fields: Wheatear - 3
• Rotherham; private site: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing
• Silverwood Lagoon: Swallow - 2 ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing ; Cormorant - 5 - SSW at 09.40
• Sothall: Swallow - 1 - north
• Thrybergh CP: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - still present ; Mute Swan - 44 - inc 16-cy 2nd ; Tufted Duck - 24 - 15m,9f ; Water Rail - 1 ; Swallow - 3 ; House Martin - 1 ; Wren - 18 - 17sing ; Dunnock - 33 - 19sing ; Robin - 20 - 13sing ; Song Thrush - 4 - sing ; Blackbird - 18 - 3sing ; Blackcap - 6 - sing