Sightings Archive

Mount Darnall: Jackdaw - 58 - Feeding on fields ; Rook - 24 - Feeding in fields ; Little Egret - 1 - North west towards the town centre at 16.55 ; Herring Gull - 116 - Roosting on factory roofs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 17

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 6 - Group of 5 on big lake and single on small lake island ; Peregrine - 1 - I'm female spooking gulls early morning ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair on tip ; Waxwing - 9 - West at 09:40 ; Curlew - 1 ; Goosander - 4 ; Wigeon - 36 - feeding on hillside ; Cormorant - 4 ; Pochard - 70 ; Gadwall - 6 ; 320 - 6 ; Skylark - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 9+ - small flock ; Kestrel - 1

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Siskin - 4+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Greenfinch - 3 - 2 W; 1 singing male ; Common Gull - 2 - 1 ad SW; 1 N ; Herring Gull - 18 - 3 N; 15 SW ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - NW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Greylag Goose - 4 - NE @ 0817hrs ; Chaffinch - 2 - 1 N; 1 SW

Ramsley Moor: Raven - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Brambling - c.80 - by reservoir

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 - Silver ring on right leg ; Mandarin - 1 - single female on 2nd Coppice Wheel ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Plus a pair in observers garden

Rotherham Centre: Song Thrush - 1 - Singing Nd NYS 07.25 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Wren - 2 - 2 singing ; Robin - 1 - Singing. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - 2 singing between Iccles/ Holmes locks 07.30 ; Mute Swan - 1 - Iccles/Holmes lock. ; Robin - 2 - Singing Iccles/Holmes locks ; Mallard - 2 - Iccles/Holmes lock ; Moorhen - 2 - Pair Nr Holmes lock. 07.25

Roundwood Golf course: Lesser Redpoll - 15 - feeding in birches ; Redwing - c30 - flushed by early golfers ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing male ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male

Shillito Wood: Treecreeper - 1 ; Brambling - 4

Silverwood Pit Top: Short-eared Owl - 2 - At least 2 possibly 3 very active round 3.30pm to 4.30pm, two together nr main path for a few minutes and various sightings of single birds moving round site.

Stonemoor: Lapwing - 2 - displaying in field behind "The Cross" ; Curlew - 4 - in field behind "The Cross" ; Lapwing - c20 - approx 20 in field near Allen Croft ; Lapwing - 11 - in field off Lee House Lane

Thornseat: Brambling - c30 - at roadside

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 12 ; Gadwall - 4 - 3m1f ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Pochard - 15 - 13m2f ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 90 - #NAME? ; Black-headed Gull - 100 ; Common Gull - 1 - ad past s ; Herring Gull - 20 - inc. 19 past w ; Skylark - 9 - sing ; Dunnock - 24 - 17sing ; Robin - 20 - 11sing ; Song Thrush - 5 - sing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Great Tit - 14 - 4sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Bullfinch - 18 - 4-4-2-2-6 ; Reed Bunting - 7 - 2sing ; Yellowhammer - 5

Whitwell Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 4 - in birches near Long Lane ; Stonechat - 2 - male and female

Agden Side: Peregrine - 1 - Prob male harassing 2 ravens ; Raven - 2 - Rocher top ; Stonechat - 1 - Male

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 4 - on pylons @ 1230hrs

Bank Wood, near Calver: 319 - 1

Barbrook Pools: Lapwing - 2 - pair, brief display from male

Baslow Edge: 319 - 3

Big Moor: Raven - 2

Bramley: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Low over Flanderwell Avenue with BHGs.

Broomhead Moor: Merlin - 1

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 - Now a pair on main Res. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Gadwall - 3 - 2 M. ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2 M. ; Mallard - 5 ; 319 - 1 - Over calling early morning.