Sightings Archive

Manor Fields Park: Blackcap - 1 - male. ; Moorhen - 6 - 2 Ad 4 juv. ; Stock Dove - 3

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 1 - On big lake early morning ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 7+ ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Sand Martin - 250+ ; Swallow - 5 ; Wheatear - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 - pair.

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 15-20 - around colony & ranging more widely

Redmires: Golden Plover - 50+ - next to Hammond's Field at 16:00

Ringinglow: Whinchat - 1 - this morning

Rivelin Filters: Swallow - 2 - 2 swallows circling over trees

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 56 ; Tufted Duck - 20 - 11m9f ; Scaup - 1 - m ; 319 - 2 - soar.drifting w ; Kestrel - 2 - singles ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad ; Sand Martin - 200 - + ; Blackcap - 2 - sing. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing in reedbed ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 10 - sing. ; Yellowhammer - 7 - 1sing

Treeton: Starling - 1 - In garden collecting nesting material Inc. scrap of paper

West Nab area Bradfield: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Female resting on power line near Swan cottage ; Curlew - 3 - all calling ; Lapwing - 9 - displaying ; Skylark - 7+ - all singing in flight and perched on wall

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Brambling - 1 - Calling from south of heath, brief burst if song ; Mallard - 7+ - Male, 2 female and 4 newly hatched ducklings at dam pond ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - Singing

Aldwarke: Ringed Plover - 05-Jun - lots of aerial display ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 - chased off by RPs ; Lapwing - 7

Aldwarke SF: Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock ; Song Thrush - 4 - inc singing male ; Chiffchaff - 4 - inc 3 singing males ; Coot - 8 ; Lapwing - 1 - displaying on treatment works ; Black-headed Gull - 17 ; Gadwall - 7 - 5m; 2f ; Mallard - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; 320 - 1pr ; Moorhen - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; Robin - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1

Brampton en le Morthern: Swallow - 1 - Resting on wires.

Burbage Bridge: Stonechat - 2 - a pair ; Ring Ouzel - 1 female - on rocks at southern end

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - in the air at 1030 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew downriver towards Rotherham at 12:45 ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair on river ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - Calling ; Wren - 2 - singing ; 321 - 1 - On pond

Chatsworth Park: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - singing males ; Redstart - 1 - male ; Swallow - 1 - by cricket pitch ; Sand Martin - 4 - by cricket ground ; Mute Swan - 1 - immature by cricket ground

Cressbrook Dale: Redstart - 1 - silent male

Firsby Res: Tufted Duck - 1 - Male main Res. ; Sand Martin - 5 - Through site heading W. ; Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing. ; Chiffchaff - 4

Graves Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Female drumming. Male also seen earlier by another observer. ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2

Greystones: Waxwing - 14 - 08:15 Probably the same group from yesterday making a brief visit here at Greystones.

Heeley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Cruising over gardens scanning for prey, then gained altitude flying N.

Limb Valley: Mandarin - 1 - m ; Little Grebe - 1 - trilling ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair ; Jackdaw - 3 - 2 at nest site? ; 319 - 1 - over farmland to W in treetop ; Curlew - 1 - calling over farmland to W ; Blackcap - 5 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male in boggy area near Ringinglow

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Big lake ; Sandwich Tern - 4 - flew through ; Little Gull - 1 - Stunning pink flushed adult ; Red Kite - 1 - over Waverley estate at 0930 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - still present at 18:15 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Very distant in choppy conditions with friend ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - photo