Sightings Archive

R Don, Attercliffe: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 3s/4cy bird at Warren St

Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 1 - NE @ 0847hrs ; Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 0850hrs

Rotherham; Don Canal, Rotherham Cut: Grey Wagtail - 1

Rotherham; Don Canal, Rotherham Lock: Sand Martin - 1+ - carrying material into hole in stonework of lock wall

Stanage Edge, below: Willow Warbler - 11 - In Jubilee plantations and Hollin Bank car park woods ; Siskin - 3 - on feeders ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Robin - 10 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Snipe - 1 ; Redstart - 1 - male ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Curlew - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Wren - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 - 2-2-1-1-1 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - in ; Mute Swan - 24 - most dep. ; Greylag Goose - 3 - in ; Canada Goose - 16 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 20 - 11m9f ; Scaup - 1 - m ; 319 - 1 - se soar. ; Kestrel - 1 - m hunt. ; Moorhen - 8 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - 01-Jan ; Herring Gull - 2 - 2cy ; Common Tern - 2 ; Arctic Tern - 1 - in 0905 brief stop then ne ; Swift - 4 ; Skylark - 4 - sing ; Sand Martin - 5 ; Swallow - 2 ; House Martin - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Blackcap - 6 - sing. ; Whitethroat - 4 - 2sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - sing. ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing. ; Willow Warbler - 9 - sing. ; Chiffchaff - 7 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - #NAME? ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - past nw

Tideswell Moor: Common Buzzard - 1 - Sitting on edge of dew pond,presumably "hunting " for frogs or toads

Treeton: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing, Flatts Lane

Wyming Brook: Pied Flycatcher - 1

Bingham Park: Grey Wagtail - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1

Blacka Moor: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling in full view for at least 15-20 minutes

Bradfield/Rocher/Smallfield: Snipe - 5 - displaying over rough moorland and road ; Curlew - 2 - displaying and calling ; Lapwing - 5 - feeding and seemingly calling chicks although none visible ; Raven - 2 - over rocher rocks ; Jay - 3 ; Swallow - 8 ; Blackcap - 2 - singing males ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - many singing ; Willow Warbler - 6+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - feeding by stream ; Siskin - 8 - in conifers and on feeders ; Nuthatch - 1 - on feeders ; Goldfinch - 4 - on feeders ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Jackdaw - 5 ; Rook - 8 ; Starling - 12+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 3

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling ; Whitethroat - 2 - 2 singing ; Common Buzzard - 1

Centenary Riverside: Whitethroat - 3 - 3 singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - 1 singing

Chee Dale: HOOPOE - 1 - reported on the information services today.

Ecclesall Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 2 - m+f lower pond at 17:40

Greystones: Swift - 2 - 17:00 calling and cruising and playing on the wind over rooftops

Manor Fields Park: Waxwing - 9 - in line of Poplar trees 16.50-17.02. then flew over Cemetery. ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Mallard - 12 - M+F with 10 duckling.

Orgreave Lakes: Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - Singing along southern perimeter. ; Pochard - 11 - 7 very vocal and animated males vying for the attention of the 4 females ; Ringed Plover - 6 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - On small lake early morning ; Whimbrel - 2 - Flew from shore of small lake onto island at about 11:20 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - still present on small lake at 11:30