Sightings Archive

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 pair ; Mandarin - pair ; Grey Wagtail - at least 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - On rock in river, unperturbed by stationary onlookers, including dogs.

Rotherham Centre: Iceland Gull - 1 - 2W, N over before circling & returning SW 1150-1155hrs. (Presumably Attercliffe bird)

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Rotherham Lock: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male @ 0755hrs

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Sand Martin - 16 - tight flock headed strongly SW @ 1506hrs; not seen to return

Thrybergh CP: Avocet - 2 - swimming and feeding on water surface at 06:40 -dep south at 06:50 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mute Swan - 47 ; Egyptian Goose - 1 ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 46 ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - singles call. ; Pheasant - 8 - m call ; Oystercatcher - 2 - in then left n ; Skylark - 7 - sing ; Sand Martin - 8 - in from high ; Wren - 17 ; Robin - 19 ; Dunnock - 11 ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 10 - sing ; Jay - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr ; Yellowhammer - 6 - 4sing ; Barn Owl - 1

Totley: Waxwing - 1 - Single bird fly-catching from tall tree for c10mins, junction of Baslow Rd and Totley Grange Rd at 13:45

Agden Res: Curlew - 2 - Pair feeding on farmland W of road by dam wall. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on dam wall

Agden Rocher: Mandarin - 2 - Male and female on bank 50m from road bridge over brook

Blacka Moor: Meadow Pipit - 30+ - their back, males displaying ; Stonechat - 3 - pr + male calling ; Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 3

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 3

Canklow Woods: 319 - 1 - High over, came down near Holiday Inn.

Dore: Curlew - 2 - Whitelow Lane

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - flying fast over lower lake ; Mandarin - 2 - m+f on lower lake

Europa View,Sheffield Business Park: Lapwing - 6 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 3 - m and 2f visiting feeders

Heeley: Mandarin - 1 - Male

Holling Dale Plantation: Red Kite - 1 - headed north at 14:20

Millhouses: Waxwing - 15 - 15, flying NE over Dewar Drive

Morehall Res: Chiffchaff - 13 - 12 singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pair, one bird building nest ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - singing ; Coot - 3

Orgreave Lakes: Blackcap - 1 - singing by scrapyard at 12:50 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 5 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; 320 - 1 - a male in river ; Goosander - 17 - one red-head in river and 15 redheads and one male on large lake ; Willow Warbler - 3 - One near railway bridge and 2 more on western side of Treeton Dyke

Poolsbrook Marsh: 325 - 1 - reported this afternoon, found by Mark Beevers ; 325 - 1 - still present amongst the reeds at 16:30 ; 325 - 1 - record shot ; 325 - 1 - still present at 17:55 ; 325 - 1 - flew off north at 18:35 ; 325 - 1 - flew from reedbed to dead tree at 18:13, before circling over at 18:32 and departing N into the distance. ; 325 - 1 - another photo

R Derwent, Harper Lees: Dipper - 2 - Investigating tree hole next to river ; Mandarin - 2 - pair ; Grey Wagtail - 2

R Don, Effingham St: Iceland Gull - 1 - 2w again in flight over Effingham St and Burngreave. ; Sand Martin - c10

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 9 - over/around colony site; courtship flights

Rawmarsh: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - playing field, Haugh Road

Redmires Bottom Res: Wheatear - 1 - male feeding in field opposite res.with 2 Mistle Thrushes, before perching on field wall.

Ridgeway: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over horse paddock near Ridgeway early evening

Rivelin Valley: Blackcap - 1 - Male singing well in observers garden

Rotherham; Drummond Street: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male on flagpole of Bailey House ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing male

Sheffield air port: Wheatear - 1 - Male

Shirebrook Valley: Common Buzzard - 4 - All soaring together ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Soaring

Silver Wood: Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing along disused railway ; Chiffchaff - 13 - 4 singing main woods, 1 singing woodland south of Hollings Lane, 8 singing disused railway line Hollings Lane-->Old Ravenfield ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing males main wood and south of Hollings Lane ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Silverwood Lagoon: Shoveler - 1m ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Little Grebe - 8 - 4 trilling pairs ; Wheatear - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 11 - singing