Sightings Archive

R Don, Carbrook: Sand Martin - 10 - no obvious interest in the nest bank. ; Kingfisher - 1

Reaps Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - young bird making begging calls

Silverwood Lagoon: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 8+ - including pair feeding downy young ; Reed Warbler - 5 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Lapwing - 2+ - pair with 1-2 chicks in fields to west ; Oystercatcher - 3 - north at 06.55 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; House Martin - c15 - breeding birds from Woodlaithes estate gathering mud

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 4

Barbrook Plantation: Whinchat - 2 ; Stonechat - 6 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 6 ; Redstart - 2 ; Tree Pipit - 6+ ; Woodcock - 1 - roding

Barbrook Res: Woodcock - 1 - roding

Barbrook Valley: Whinchat - 4 - pair and 2 singing males in evening

Barlow Common: Skylark - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 03-Apr ; Swallow - 05-Jun ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Swift - 2

Crowhole: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; House Martin - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

Elsecar Res: Common Tern - 1 - Feeding over res took fish off high in the direction of old moor. ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 - Including two newly hatch chicks.

Frecheville Pond: Mute Swan - 2+ - Pair with 7 young cygnets

High Bradfield: Tawny Owl - one - Perched on upright gravestone at St. Nicholas's Church, 20 feet from upper path.

Leam/Sherriff Wood: Cuckoo - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Redstart - 3 ; Tree Pipit - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Dunlin - 3 - Early morning ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Lapwing - 5 - 2 and 3 very young chicks with 2 pairs. ; Great Crested Grebe - 22 - Including pair on small lake with at least 2 young ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Still singing below weedy mound

Redmires: Willow Tit - 1

Redmires Plantation: Cuckoo - 1 - male singing

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Rotherham Lock: Sand Martin - 07-Aug - 'splinter group' from main colony prospecting around walls of lock again this morning

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 3 - Singing males ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 2

Agden Res: Mandarin - 2 - Pair with at least 7 ducklings. ; Greylag Goose - 19 - with Black Swan. ; 322 - 1 - BLACK SWAN

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Swallow - 1

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female caught juvenile starling in observers garden

Damflask Res: Oystercatcher - 3 - pair and interloper.

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 6 - Feeding in sown field. ; 319 - 1 - Circling over set aside. ; Kestrel - 2 - Pair in telegraph pole. ; Swift - 10+ - Screaming over site. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing from Reeds near dam wall.

High Bradfield: 322 - 1 - Black Swan - in fields below church tonight, visible from Mill Lee Road.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Crossbill - 9 - flew from Midhope Res towards Langsett Res

Midhope Res: 320 - 3+ - 2 drakes and female with 6 ducklings

Onesmoor: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - male

Owler Bar: Tawny Owl - 1 - roadkill - just downhill from The Moorlands

R Don, Attercliffe: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c30 - including colour ringed 2cy 'intermedius'- ringed in Bergen, Norway in Sept 2016. ; Herring Gull - c10

Reaps Wood: Tawny Owl - 1

Rivelin: Little Owl - 1 - Coppice Lane

Silverwood Lagoon: Great Crested Grebe - 1

Stocksbridge: House Martin - 30+ - Gathering mud at East Whitwell.

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 3 - ; Little Owl - 2 ; Swallow-12 ; House Martin - 3 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Starling -123

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 - male singing ; Redstart - 1 - singing male

Abney: Swallow - 3+ ; Great Tit - 1 - Singing in tree

Agden Res: 322 - 1 - BLACK SWAN - with Greylag Geese at 11:30, and dropped back on to res at 18:30. ; Greylag Goose - 36

Agden Rocher: Hobby - 1

Agden Side: Cuckoo - 1 - singing

Aldwarke; Tata Steel: Stock Dove - 1 - singing male ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Cormorant - 8 - max on pylon

Blackburn Meadows: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1

Blackburn Meadows NR: Gadwall - 4 - 3 male, 1 female ; Lapwing - 2 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing