Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Meadow Pipit - 3+ - moving S ; Little Grebe - 2+ - calling from dense cover, S end ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Goldfinch - 13 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - both 2cy, W ; Cormorant - 3 - NW ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ - light W trickle from dawn, with max c60 present at one time ; Linnet - C30 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Goldfinch - C20 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Mute Swan - 29 - inc 4 (3+1) remaining 1cy, & 2 in from W. ; Chiffchaff - 6+ - inc 2 singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - sat on hedge to E

Treeton: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Across High Hazel Road chasing a Starling 8.00 am

Treeton Dyke: Pintail - 10+ - Flock of c30 ducks all thought to be Pintail on brief view, looked to be heading towards Orgreave at 15:45

Brogging Moss: Meadow Pipit - c20

Cowell Flat: Red Grouse - 2

Dore: RED-BACKED SHRIKE - 1 - a report of one at Old Hay Lane at 12:00

Dukes Road, Flint Hill: Red Kite - 1 - drifted off towards Ewden Beck headwater ; 319 - 1 - flew off towards Ewden Beck headwater

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 2 ; 320 - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male ; Hobby - 1 - Chasing Swallows and HMs over site. ; Swallow - 10+ ; Jay - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 - Over. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - Over calling. ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male. ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Treecreeper - 2+ - calling ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing. ; Pheasant - 9 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - With Pheasants. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Adult circled but didn’t land. ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - Coming to bread.

Green Moor: Pheasant - 200+ - Game release

Hurkling Edge: Kestrel - 2 - Hunting. Possibly the same ones as seen over Rocher Rocks ; Swallow - 3+ - flying over moors ; Wheatear - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - c6

Longshaw: Cuckoo - 1 - Juvenile heading south, perched/feeding but getting flushed by walkers further south.

Parkgate: Common Buzzard - 3 - 3 soaring over @ 1310hrs

R Don, Effingham St: Mandarin - 1 - imm/eclipse drake again on weir, presumed feral with purple metal ring.

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - W/SW in a long glide @ 1330hrs; presumed same E bird soon after

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 20 - moult flock on Top Res ; Raven - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Linnet - 120 - c. post-breeding flock on Middle Res ; Goldfinch - 50 - c. ; Greenfinch - 40 - c. ; Ringed Plover - 2 - on Middle Res ; Swallow - 16 - flew SW ; House Martin - 4 - flew SW ; Jay - 4 - flew W ; Meadow Pipit - 60 - c. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 15 - c.

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 24 - At Walkley Bank Tilt

Rocher Rocks: Kestrel - 3 - Interacting with Peregrine ; Peregrine - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling as it was chased by a bird of prey (Sparrowhawk maybe) ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Strines Res: Cormorant - 3

Whirlow Hall Farm: Stonechat - 1

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - on top of chimney

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Chiffchaff - 5 - 1 singing ; Bullfinch - 2

Bents Green: Red Kite - 1 - Over Ringinglow Road, south towards Limb Valley

Bramley: Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling on Bramley Sunnyside School hedgerow bordering Flanderwell Avenue.

Carr Vale Nature Reserve: Hobby - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Begging juv being fed by female

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 3 ; Wigeon - 19 ; Shoveler - 9 ; 320 - 7

Don Canal; Rotherham Cut: Moorhen - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - 2 singing ; Cormorant - 4 - W/SW ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1

Fitzwilliam Canal, Parkgate: Moorhen - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 3 - 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 1

Greasbrough Dam,Wentworth: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 50+