Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Shelduck - 2

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 9 - with 7 churring males, at 5 sites

Norwood Allotments: Raven - 2 - over west

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 2 - females, late migrants still presumably

Redmires Middle Res: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Oystercatcher - 2 - pair, one on nest

Redmires Plantation: Woodcock - 2 - Roding ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Hunting edge of plantation late evening

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 8 - 4 pairs with a total of 11 young (5,4,1,1) ; Greylag Goose - 25 - c. in fields ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Lapwing - 4 - 2 pairs down on Middle Res ; Common Sandpiper - 6 - 3 pairs ; Curlew - 6 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Swallow - 8 ; Cormorant - 1 - sub-ad ; Redstart - 1 - singing by Bottom Res

Redmires Top Res: Greylag Goose - 10+ - 2 pairs with 5 and 3 small chicks, plus a creche of 3 pairs with 16 larger chicks ; Canada Goose - 4+ - 2 pairs each with 4 chicks ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 - one on nest ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - pair feeding chicks at nest ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Siskin - 6 - family party ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 2+ - Pair and 9 small chicks Fairthorn Clough inlet

Ringinglow Bog: Wheatear - 1 - female Greenland type ; Snipe - 1 - chipping out in middle in area of softrush ; Golden Plover - 2 - pair displaying at eastern end towards Rud Hill ; Curlew - 4 - 2 pairs displaying

Rocher Flat: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - still with Greylags feeding in fields. ; Greylag Goose - 6 - feeding in fields

Rocher Head Fields: Golden Plover - 3 - still present in rough fields

Rud Hill: Oystercatcher - 5 - chasing and apparent territorial interaction (different to Redmires pair) ; Curlew - 2 - display flighting and feeding in fields

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2+ - resident pair now with 8 cygnets ; Moorhen - 4+ - two pairs feeding young in reedbeds ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Little Grebe - 06-Aug ; Redshank - 1 - north at 06.55 ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; House Martin - 15 ; Swift - 4 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Smallfield: Little Owl - 1 - at roadside early am Smallfield Lane

White Lee Moor: Snipe - 3+ - chipping and drumming ; Woodcock - 1 - roding bird.

Brecks Lane, Rotherham: Whitethroat - 2 - 1 (SK458920); 1 (SK459929), both singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Firsby Res: Coot - 3 ; Mallard - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - In mown set aside field. ; 319 - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 2+ - Calling in sluice reedbed ; Whitethroat - 3+ ; Blackcap - 3 - Singing Males. ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Males singing top of crop stalks. ; Skylark - 2 - Singing early morning. ; Bullfinch - 2

Gibbing Greave Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - in new planting

Greystones garden: Starling - 5 - 1 Juvenile ; Robin - 1 - Juvenile ; Swift - 2 - Over

Herringthorpe Playing Fields: Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing (also from grounds of Rotherham Hospice) ; Blackcap - 3 - 2 (SK4392); 1 (SK4491), all singing ; House Sparrow - c20 - old plant nursery site ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 5 - inc 2 singing, around old plant nursery site ; Goldcrest - 1 - calling, old plant nursery ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - inc fledged juvs ; Jackdaw - c45 - on recently cut amenity grassland ; Carrion Crow - c30 - with JDs ; Rook - 1

Herringthorpe Valley Park: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Herringthorpe Wood: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling

Hunter*s Bar: Swift - 2 - Berkeley Precinct

Orgreave Lakes: Cuckoo - 1 - 1 briefly in trees by west shore at 06:45 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing