Sightings Archive

Longshaw Lodge: Siskin - 1 - Male on feeders ; Swallow - 2

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult in roost ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1100 - Roosted; birds still arriving late ; Swallow - 40 - Pre-roost above reedbeds at no.4 lagoon

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 4 - Adult + 3 juvs ; 319 - 1 ; Mute Swan - 6 - family, 4 juvs, preening bank side ; Moorhen - 2 ; Swallow - 1

Northern General Hospital: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling within hospital grounds

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 2 - On island.

Peat Pits: DOTTEREL - 1 - adult still present today, and still in ploughed field at 20:00

R Don, Effingham St: Kingfisher - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 - ad

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - limping adult ; Herring Gull - 1 - 3s

Redmires conduit: Nightjar - 1 - Feeding from the path

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - PTF showing well this morning on St George's

Walkley garden: Swift - 1 - entering nest site, active this season

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - ad on Bernard Rd incinerator building

Catcliffe Flash: Coot - 41 - Including one partially leucistic bird, also red-eared terrapin.

Midhope Res: Little Ringed Plover - 6 - 4 juv ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 9 ; Canada Goose - 67 ; Mallard - 82 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 10 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Greenshank - 1 - Circled site then flew SW at 0825.

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 14 ; DOTTEREL - 1 - loosely associated with Golden Plover ; Wheatear - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 5 ; DOTTEREL - 1 - still present at 12:44 ; DOTTEREL - 1 - still in ploughed field at 17:30 ; Wheatear - 8+ ; Golden Plover - 20+

R Don, Effingham St: Common Gull - 1 - ad

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Herring Gull - 4 - including the first juv of the year. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c50 - 1 juv ; Kingfisher - 2 - flew downstream

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 06-Oct ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: 319 - 3 - circling @ 14.20 ; Common Gull - 1 - ad on playing field @ 9.30 ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad on playing field @ 10.40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - on playing field ; Swift - 37 - SW in 3 hrs ; House Martin - 48 - SW in 3 hrs ; Swallow - 22 - SW in 3 hrs

Rivelin Valley: Grey Heron - 1 - (Kingfisher in photo) ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Dipper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - Male & female

Sheffield University: Mistle Thrush - 12 - Party flew across West Street and into St Georges churchyard.

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 4 - - 2ad 2juv ; Goldfinch - 40 ; Swallow - 39 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 : Chiffchaff - 5

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 5 - 4ad1j ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mute Swan - 37 - inc.10 left w ; Pink-footed Goose - 71 - inc.c30 e 0853+ 40e 1006 ; Canada Goose - 44 - inc.17 into fields ; Pochard - 3 - mff ; Tufted Duck - 37 - + ; 319 - 1 ; Hobby - 1 - in from w left s 0842 ; Black-headed Gull - 900 - +inc 100s 700+in field ; Herring Gull - 2 - j ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - 1s 3j s ; Swift - 1 - in 0937 ; Sand Martin - 30 - + ; Swallow - 25 - + ; House Martin - 40 - + ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Robin - 33 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 18 - 3sing ; Linnet - 170 - +flocks of120+50+ ; Goldfinch - 60 - +inc flocks30+15+

Agden Res: Cormorant - 1 - 2 cy

Aldwarke: Raven - 2 - low over, intermittently above treetops, left SW @ 1020hrs but appeared to drop nearby. Up again @ 1030hrs. Seen again in company of second bird @ 1042hrs; both passed low overhead, one calling quietly & headed off strongly W ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling

Aldwarke SF: Whitethroat - 2 - site hopelessly overgrown making access difficult ; Pheasant - 1+ - #NAME? ; Moorhen - 1 - adult ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over together @ 0930hrs; drifted N/NE ; Mallard - 26+ ; Coot - 2 - adults ; Little Grebe - 2 - 1 trilling adult + 1 1cy ; Blackcap - 1 - male

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - left N ; Whitethroat - 1