Sightings Archive

Sunday 30th April 2017

• Kilnhurst Ings: Moorhen - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing males ; Snipe - 1 ; Linnet - 5+ ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 4 - N ; Greenfinch - 3 - inc singing male ; Sand Martin - 3 - N ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Coot - 1
• Kilnhurst Riverside: Willow Warbler - 6 - singing males ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing males ; Song Thrush - 1 - carrying food ; Linnet - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 - S ; Mute Swan - 1 - S (red colour-ringed bird) ; Common Buzzard - 1 - W ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Whitethroat - 8 - inc 7 singing males ; Blackcap - 3 - 2 singing males; 1f ; Swallow - 2 - N ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - SW
• Longshaw Lodge: Nuthatch - 2 - pr visiting nesthole in dead tree.
• Malin Bridge: Dipper - 2 - 1 in Rivelin & 1 in Loxley ; 319 - 1 - Mobbed by Crows
• Middleton Moor: Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 3 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Redstart - 1 ; Wheatear - 8 ; Sanderling - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Sanderling - 1 - Still present at 19:00 ; Ringed Plover - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: Black Tern - 1 - on big lake ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Arctic Tern - 8 - briefly, then east ; Turnstone - 3 - in at 07:15 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Dunlin - 4 ; Arctic Tern - 10 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Whinchat - 1 - Female ; Yellow Wagtail - 10 ; 321 - 4 ; Turnstone - 2 - still present tonight ; Swift - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Lapwing - 8 - inc leucistic bird ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - 2cy's on island ; Dunlin - 6 - through S ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Herring Gull - 2 - SW ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing male ; Blackcap - 3 - inc 2 singing males ; Mute Swan - 1 - SW @ 0958hrs
• R Derwent, Grindleford: Dipper - 2 - ad feeding juv at mouth of Burbage Brook.
• Rawmarsh: House Martin - 3 - high over calling, p.m.
• Rawmarsh; Collier Brook Marsh: Chiffchaff - 4 - inc 2 singing males ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Water Rail - 1+ - anxious adult in dense typha, soon revealed 1+ downy black chicks!
• Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male
• Rawmarsh; Sandhill Park: Willow Warbler - 3 - singing males ; Chiffchaff - 6 - inc 4 singing males ; Kestrel - 1 - over ; Stock Dove - 3 - 2 over; 1 singing from pylon ; Blackcap - 3 - inc 2 singing males ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc singing male
• Rother Valley CP: Black Tern - 2
• Rotherham; private site: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing male
• Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing males
• RVCP Compound: Willow Warbler - 8 ; Chiffchaff - 9 ; Whitethroat - 4
• RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Black Tern - 2 ; Arctic Tern - 3
• Shepherd Wheel: Dipper - 1
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - past s ; Gadwall - 3 - mmf ; Shoveler - 2 - mf dep.w ; Tufted Duck - 21 - 12m9f