Sightings Archive

Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 2 - NE @ 0939hrs

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 1pr disp ; Mute Swan - 67 ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Scaup - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f past s ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 12 - 1 sitting nest ; Coot - 50+ ; Black-headed Gull - 40 - max ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad past s ; Skylark - 6 - sing ; Wren - 17 - 16sing ; Dunnock - 18 - 17sing ; Robin - 18 - 16sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 21 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 8 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Blue Tit - 13 ; Bullfinch - 8 - 6-2= 4m4f ; Reed Bunting - 9 - 3sing ; Yellowhammer - 8 - 3sing

Tinsley Marshalling Yard: Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying

Wharncliffe Wood: Brambling - 50+

Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 1 - W, calling ; Lapwing - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - in from NE, circled & returned ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Coot - 8 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Reed Bunting - 2 - 1m + 1 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Grey Heron - 2 - over from W, circled & left N/NE ; Gadwall - 7 - 3prs + 1m ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Little Grebe - 1 - trilling ; Kestrel - 1pr - circling over ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake

Aston: Pink-footed Goose - c200 - heading NW at 08:20 over obs' house

Barbrook Pools: Lapwing - 11 - Eight E and three displaying ; Curlew - 2 - song

Botanical Gardens: Swallow - 1

Brinsworth: Robin - 2 - singing, Grange Lane 07.35 ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing...Brown rat and Fox observed.

Canklow: Robin - 4 - Singing Centenary Way. 07.20-25 ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Blue Tit - 2 - Pair ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, Iccles roundabout.07.25 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Centenary Riverside: Waxwing - 31 - eating berries only feet from traffic.

Cressbrook Dale: Common Buzzard - 2 - 1 soaring, 1 on the ground in a grassy field

Dronfield: Brambling - 3 - 2M+1F in garden ; Siskin - 1 - Male ; Blackcap - 1 - Fem

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 2 - Male and female at lower pond. Started in tree and flew down to pond.

Graves Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female drumming by Charles Ashmore CP at 07:10 ; Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Male and female present between 0710 and 07:30 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - pair copulating ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1+ - Over calling

Greasbrough: 319 - 2 - Low over field next to tip, Carr Hill. 12.15

Greasbrough; St Mary*s Churchyard: Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing male

Greave*s Piece: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - Viewable from A619 at 09:15

Ickles: Bullfinch - 2 - Pair flew over Sheffield Road near Magna roundabout. 07.30

Lees Hall Wood: Curlew - 1 - somewhat incongruously giving a burst of song high above the wood! ; Common Buzzard - 1

Middleton Moor: Common Gull - 111

Miller*s Dale: Red Kite - 1 - flying

Orgreave: Water Rail - 1 - 1 calling this evening

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - c350 - flew NW at 0822 ; Goldeneye - 11 ; Redshank - 6+ ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2

Redmires Res: Osprey - 1 - North at 09:04 ; Pink-footed Goose - 275 - flew north ; Brambling - c90 - flew NE ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - a pair

Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 7 ; Moorhen - 3

Rotherham; private site: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing male again for successive 4th year; sang twice in 90mins

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 46 - inc. 12. 2cy ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 33 ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 2 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing