Sightings Archive

Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 - Not often seen here.

Ecclesall: 319 - 3

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 - Juvenile ; Swallow - 20+ - On wires ; Pheasant - 40+ - Game release

Harthill Res: Swift - 200+ - Group started to build 11.45 at its peak 12.15, over the Broad bean field southern edge of reservoirs, left South. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Hobby - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - inc juv ; Mute Swan - 3 - One juv, resident pr fledged 5, 2016 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - m + ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - juv ; Swallow - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 1pr, no juv's ; Grey Heron - 1

Hillsborough: Swift - 6+ - three pairs still feeding young at Oakland Road, Boulder Hill. A total of eleven pairs bred here this year.

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 1+ - fem + 6 ducklings ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; 320 - 1 - a juv

Millhouses: Swift - 40+ - Feeding over Sheaf Valley Walk and then gradually moving SSW.

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 2 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2nd Summer ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - south at 06:30 ; Sand Martin - 48 - South ; Swift - 8 - South ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - juv this evening ; Yellow-legged Gull - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 400 ; Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - islandica

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 7 - record count! inc breeding male from earlier in year with white flecks on forehead. ; Greylag Goose - 1 - first record here? Yellow Bellied Slider also still present ; Chiffchaff - 2 - adults ; Kingfisher - 1 - prob juv

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult on roof ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - adult on roof and on weir tonight

Rawmarsh: Swift - c40 - W/SW, 2005-2010hrs

Redmires Bottom Res: Whinchat - 1

Redmires Res: Song Thrush - 1 - juvenile at 18:30

Rotherham Centre: Swift - 4 - SW @ 1613hrs

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 3 - 1 ad, 2 juvs ; Pheasant 4 - (2ad, 2 juv) , Goldfinch - 60 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Swift - 12 ; Swallow - 14 ; House Martin - 5

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Cormorant - 6 - 3ad 3jv (2recently fledged) ; Grey Heron - 1 - drifted in from s ; Mute Swan - 41 ; Pochard - 6 - 3m3f ; Tufted Duck - 38 ; 319 - 1 - heard calling ; Kestrel - 1 - flew e ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 320 - #NAME? ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad ; Common Tern - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 - heard call 0320 ; Swift - 25+ ; Swallow - 16 - inc.6s ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - 1ad feed.a jv ; Robin - 12 - 3/4 jvs ; Blackcap - 9 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 6 - 4sing ; Chiffchaff - 17 - 3sing ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 13 ; Long-tailed Tit - 32 - inc flock 30+ ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Linnet - 30+ ; Goldfinch - 340+ - inc flock 200 feeding in thistle patch ; Greenfinch - 29 - inc 20- 10 flocks ; Bullfinch - 10 - 2-2-5-1

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 02-Mar - 2 (inc a 1cy) left low to W/NW, disappearing over Parkgate & sending FPs into a panic @ 0630hrs; an adult came in low & fast & struck a FP over complex @ 0710hrs ; Cormorant - 6 - onto pylon @ 0635hrs; 3 left SW

Barrow Hill: Barn Owl - 2 - 2 separate individuals over Staveley Lane towards Breck Farm at 04:40

Bradwell: Raven - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Goldfinch - c60 - post-breeding flock ; Kestrel - 3 - hunting ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - very active, vocal juv. ; Yellowhammer - c5 - inc 2+ singing males

Owlerton: Mistle Thrush - 1 - On small patch of grass by traffic lights near Pizza Hut.

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Whitethroat - 2 - 1 ad.m; 1 f/juv ; House Martin - 5 - S/SW ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - one circled & left W; 1 f, circled & left N/NE, then returned S ; Sand Martin - 5 - S together @ 0630hrs ; Swallow - 10 - SW ; Swift - 1 - SW ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - SW ; Kestrel - 2 - 1m; 1 f/1cy ; Blackcap - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Cormorant - 5 - W/SW

Redmires Res: Sparrowhawk - 1