Sightings Archive

Centenary Riverside: Willow Warbler - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Crookes Valley Park: Blackcap - 2 - Singing males ; Goldcrest - 1 - Singing ; Coot - 2 - Resident pair ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing

Dore garden: Dunnock - 3 - 2 adults with a fledged juvenile.

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair on main Res. ; Mallard - 4 - All Males. ; Sand Martin - 7 ; Swallow - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing. ; Chiffchaff - 4+ ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Tree Sparrow - 3 ; Bullfinch - 6+ ; Skylark - 1 - Singing

Hathersage: Swift - 5+ - Same arrival date in Hathersage as 2016

Hillsborough Park: Swift - 4 - over

Holmebrook Valley Park: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - ; Swift - .3+

Limb Valley: Mandarin - 3 - 3 males on lake

Middleton Moor: Carrion Crow - 18 - Feeding on small food items on shoreline

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - On big lake early morning ; Common Tern - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - Stunning once they'd woken up. ; Curlew - 1 - In at 08:50 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing near railway bridge ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - pair with 2 young. ; Ringed Plover - 3 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 8

Peat Pits: Swift - 1 ; Merlin - 1 - Male ; Wheatear - 3 ; Wheatear - 5+ ; Fieldfare - 2 - sat in ash tree at peat pits farm .

Queen*s Park, Chesterfield: Swift - 3 - Flew over

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 4 - pair with fem incubating Effingham St, second pair Norfolk Bridge.

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair feeding young in nest in N bank wall.

Rawmarsh: Swift - 8 - 5, 1 & 2, all N, 1550-2000hrs

Rother Valley CP: Kingfisher - 2 - flying down R Rother, one carrying a fish. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair on R Rother.

Rotherham Centre: Swift - 1

RVCP, Northern Lake: Common Tern - 1

Sothall: Swift - 2 - singles heading north

Thrybergh: Swift - 2 - Over school fields going North West.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 2-2-1-1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 18 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 18 - 13m5f ; Scaup - 1 - m.comes readily to bread ; 319 - 2 - singles soar. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - ne ; Kestrel - 1 - hover in s ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Common Tern - 1 - no interest shown in tern rafts ; Swift - 21 ; Sand Martin - 6 ; Swallow - 2 ; Blackcap - 8 - sing ; Whitethroat - 3 - 2sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 3 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing 1in oilseed rape ; Willow Warbler - 9 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - 4sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr

Treeton Dyke: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - 3 singing

Weston Park: Goldcrest - 1 - Singing ; Mallard - 25 - Including female with 9 fresh chicks ; Coot - 2 - Pair apparently nesting in one of the duckhouses ; Moorhen - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 3 - Pair and singing male ; Tree Pipit - 4+ ; Mallard - 3+ - Male, 2 females, one female with 7 ducklings at heath pond

Wybourn: Swift - 2 - 2 back over breeding area this am

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Wood Warbler - 2 - Singing males ; Pied Flycatcher - 1

Agden Res: Chiffchaff - 1 - Dilevering abnormal rapid chiff chiff chaff chaff call sounding like two birds calling simultaneously. On Smallfield lane between bridge and farm. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 - 3 recently fledged chicks ; Siskin - 4 - At the farm on feeders ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1