Sightings Archive

Barbrook Valley: Reed Bunting - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 2

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 6 - in the air together at 15:00

Dungworth: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing near western end of Sidling Hollow.

Ecclesall: Cormorant - 1 - flew S mid-morning ; Lesser Redpoll - 9 - flew S over Ansell Road

Porter Brook: Kingfisher - 2 - Chasing each other down the Brook under the bridge at the bottom of Frog Walk ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Redmires Top Res: Chiffchaff - 1

RVCP: Snipe - 8

Sothall: Redwing - 2+ - nocmig sound recorded 0605hr ; Redwing - 3+ - nocmig sound recorded between 1930-0000hr

Ughill: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing near Wet Shaw Dike.

Wortley: House Martin - 04-May ; Skylark - 4 - South ; 319 - 04-May ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - South ; Lesser Redpoll - 02-Mar ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair chasing with some song/territorial behaviour

Aldwarke: Common Buzzard - 1 - SW ; Cormorant - 3 - 2 on pylon; 1 SW

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Raven - 2 - over from SW, dropping onto N part of site @ 0850hrs ; Canada Goose - 12 - low to SW @ 0753hrs

Canklow Woods: Raven - 1 - 1 kronking south at 13:00

Greystones garden: Grey Wagtail - 1 - observer's garden - only the 2nd ever ; Goldcrest - 1

Middleton Moor: Shoveler - 6 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 440 ; Goldeneye - 1 - male still present

Nether Green garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - feeding in Rowan amongst 10+ Long-tailed Tit flock

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - low to W @ 0820hrs ; Stock Dove - 1 - W ; Siskin - 2 - S ; Kestrel - 2 - one hunting over, set upon by a second (male), with noisy talon grappling, first bird left N in a flurry of feathers with male in hot pursuit; male returned SW a few minutes later ; Common Buzzard - 1 - very pale bird, over from W, then N over golf course

Rawmarsh: Grey Wagtail - 2 - SE together @ 0725hrs

Rotherham Centre: Pink-footed Goose - c50 - North at 18:15

Roundwood Golf course: Coal Tit - 1 - singing from conifers ; Goldcrest - 2+ - in conifers ; Cormorant - 2 - SW @ 0820hrs ; Swallow - 7 - SW together ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over briefly ; Common Buzzard - 1 - SW

RVCP: Pied Wagtail - 35 - feeding flock

Silverwood Lagoon: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing on and off

Thrybergh Park: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over S end for over 30 minutes from 0825hrs

Woodseats: Raven - 1 - Low and slow to south

Barlow Common: Sparrowhawk - 1

Middleton Moor: Shoveler - 5 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Goosander - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2

Nether Green garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - feeding solo in Rowan tree

Rawmarsh: House Martin - 6 - over Bellows Road @ 1750hrs

Redmires Middle Res: Tufted Duck - 6

Redmires, Hammond*s Field: Lapwing - 52

Woodseats: Goosander - 2 - Heading south

Wortley: Jackdaw - c815 - Assumed post roost dispersal - majority headed west ; Swallow - 3 - SW ; Chaffinch - 8 - South ; Stock Dove - 7 - NW ; Collared Dove - 2 - NW ; Woodpigeon - c300 - Some moving NW ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - South ; Starling - 1 - West ; Skylark - 8 - Single group ; Cormorant - 1 - West ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - South ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c140 - Single swirling group appeared and drifted west ; Linnet - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; Raven - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 10 - Single group ; Kestrel - 1

Bell Ground, Tankersley: 320 - 14 ; Mallard - 66

Forge Dam: Cormorant - 2 - One had a phenomenally high success rate of dives to fish caught - poor photo but shows size of fish well ; Moorhen - 2+

Frecheville: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - 150+ eastwards at 1907hrs

Loxley Chase: Hobby - 1 - flying towards Edgemount

Peat Pits: Linnet - c200 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Raven - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; 319 - 1

Rawmarsh: Greylag Goose - c20 - low to W over High Street @ 0720hrs ; House Martin - 6 - up to 6 over Bellows Road throughout day; possibly late local breeders ; Common Buzzard - 3 - together over High Street @ 1540hrs; left W/SW

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - c30 - In horse fields ; Golden Plover - 10 - Flying rapidly south

RVCP: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - high over to the south with Grey lags ; Whooper Swan - 1 - single bird on the main lake