Sightings Archive

Sunday 19th March 2023

• Ockley Bottom: Blackbird - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing
• Old Ravenfield: Skylark - 4+ - Singing over fields between St James church and Arbour Lane. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting and calling near Church. ; Greenfinch - 1 - Singing male St James view.
• Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Redshank - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 - Male bird with prey. ; Oystercatcher - 2
• Peter Fidler Country Park: Willow Tit - 1 - singing
• R Don, Aldwarke: Stock Dove - 1 - on pylon ; Cormorant - 3 - 1 flew downriver; 2 ads flew upriver ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock ; Kingfisher - 1pr - around traditional nesting bank ; 320 - 1pr ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - settled on pylon briefly, calling
• R Rother, Bolehill.: Linnet - 20+
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 70 - c. in fields ; Greylag Goose - 65 - c. in fields ; Mallard - 30 - c. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - flew W ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 - on newly raised embankment - my earliest arrivals here ; Snipe - 1 - chipping over conduit ; Lapwing - 20 - c. ; Curlew - 12 - in fields ; Stonechat - 2 - females ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - c. N ; Skylark - 5 - flew NW
• Rudd Hill: Wheatear - 3 - three males
• RVCP: Egyptian Goose - 4
• Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 6
• Thundercliffe Grange: Wren - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing
• Wet Shaw: Oystercatcher - 2 - pair flying towards Loftshaw ; Chaffinch - 3+ ; Woodpigeon - 5 ; Wren - 1 ; 319 - 2 - pair hunting on updraught and perched in trees ; Brambling - 20+ - feeding on beechmast in and under trees with a few Chaffinch ; Blue Tit - 4+ ; Blackbird - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 - male ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1
• Whiston Brook: Common Buzzard - 1
• Whiston Meadows: Reed Bunting - 4 - Male bird with leg ring.
• Whiteley Woods: Chiffchaff - 2 - Two calling in high trees on opposite sides of Whiteley Woods House
• Wickersley Gorse: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female, feeding in alder carr ; Siskin - 8 - flock, feeding in alders ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling frequently/seen briefly; an increasingly rare species in Rotherham ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing; already very territorial ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Jay - 3 - together ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - flew out of valley calling; headed away S ; Chaffinch - 3 - singing ; Jackdaw - c10 - investigating dead Ash trees at S end ; Redwing - 2+ - in treetops
• Wickersley; Green Lane: Tree Sparrow - 1 - an increasingly rare species in Rotherham ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Magpie - 7 - party, in treetop ; Greylag Goose - 2 - SW ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 4+ - lots of activity/song, inc party of 4 chasing ; Rook - 11+ - small rookery on arms of pylon
• Wickersley; King*s Pond/Plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 2+ - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr - by Slack's Farm
• Wickersley; Moat Lane: Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 5 - 4m (3 singing); 1f ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing
• Wickersley; Second Lane: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - pair + singing male ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 2