Sightings Archive

Bingham Park: Treecreeper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Swift - 2

Crookes Valley Park: Robin - 3 - including fledged young ; Coot - 2 - resident pair; one sitting on nest ; Moorhen - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 - taking food to nest site in wall in SE corner ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; House Martin - 45 - feeding below dam wall in poor weather

Elsecar Res: Common Tern - 2 - Feeding over the reser this pm in the rain.

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 5 ; Dunlin - 3 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Redshank - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - pair with 2 young ; Canada Goose - 24 - 16+8 goslings. ; Great Crested Grebe - 18 - inc.pair with nest on island. ; Swift - 120+

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 7 - 5 singing males, 1 pair observed. ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair defending nest site from Carrion Crow ; Jay - 2 - 1 seen with egg, possibly Blackbird. ; Nuthatch - 3 - 2 alarm call. ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 2 - Pair feeding ; 319 - 1 - Spooked from tree ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 2 - m & f ; Snipe - 2 - feeding in fields

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 20+ - over/around colony & surrounding area

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Jay - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 28 - inc.pr with 4yng ; Gadwall - 3 - 2m1f ; Whooper Swan - 1 - pkgate bird ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 3m1f ; Scaup - 1 ; Herring Gull - 5 - 1ad -4imm ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 1ad ; Swift - 40+ ; Sand Martin - 180 ; Swallow - 10+ ; House Martin - 50+ ; Blackcap - 4 - sing ; Whitethroat - 7 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - call ; Willow Warbler - 5 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2+

Barlow Common: Skylark - 3 ; Swift - 1 ; Swallow - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Linnet - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Rook - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Blacka Hill: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1

Blacka Moor: Redstart - 1

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying at 1140

Cattis-side Moor: Ring Ouzel - 2 - a pair ; Whinchat - 1 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing

Coombs Dale: Redstart - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling ; Wheatear - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Also a Red Admiral & a number of Orange Tips ; 324 - 1 - Brimstone butterfly

Lodge Moor: House Martin - 2 - back at breeding site on Moorside

Middleton Moor: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Orgreave Lakes: TEMMINCK'S STINT - 1 - in at 08:00, still on small lake at 09:30 ; TEMMINCK'S STINT - 1 ; TEMMINCK'S STINT - 1 ; TEMMINCK'S STINT - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 26 - arrived from S and some loafed for a while ; Herring Gull - 1 - 1 cy bird N ; Pochard - 2 - pair ; Canada Goose - 10+ - including two pairs with 18 chicks ; Swift - 40 ; Swift - 40 ; Oystercatcher - 2+ - pair on island with 2 chicks ; Mute Swan - 8 - including one with red plastic ring on leg 305Y

Redmires Res: Dunlin - 4 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Common Sandpiper - 6