Sightings Archive

Chesterfield Canal - Bluebank Pools NR: Reed Bunting - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Goldfinch - 04-May ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 5 - Squabbling. Numbers increasing. ; Mallard - 6 - 3 pairs. ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Pair calling. ; Snipe - 1 - Flushed from long grass in set aside field. ; Woodcock - 1 - Flew from under willows near stream. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2+ - Calling. ; Pheasant - 2 - Males. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair in set aside field ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Skylark - 2 - Singing. ; Bullfinch - 3+ ; Jackdaw - 30 - Over in single flock.

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 2 - 05:15-06:00.

Norfolk Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - plucking prey in observer's garden

Overstones Farm: Curlew - 7+ - Feeding, wheeling & calling over previous nest sites below Stanage ; Lapwing - 4+ - In usual fields with curlew

Shepherd Wheel: Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2 - 2 Singing Males by allotments ; Dipper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male

Silverwood Lagoon: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in Round Wood (cenotaph wood)

Ulley: Skylark - 2 - Pair, one in air singing, Guithwaite Common Lane, 15.30

Wadsley Common: Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Walkley garden: Chaffinch - 1 - fem, severely calloused left leg with c25 HouseSparrows below nyger feeder

Wharncliffe Side: Waxwing - 12 - Still present at School Lane, perched in ash tree

Wharncliffe Wood: Peregrine - 1 - Over wood ; Raven - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - Displaying

Whittington Moor: Red Kite - 1 - drifting South

Wire Mill Dam: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mandarin - 13 - 4 pairs + 5 lone males ; Nuthatch - 2

Blackburn Meadows NR: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing male.

Canklow Woods: Peregrine - 2 - pair in the air together 1430 to 1515

Norfolk Heritage Park: 319 - 1 - perched in tree by the multi-use games area.

Peat Pits: Lapwing - 8 - Having a hard time in the wind and rain ; Skylark - 4 ; Golden Plover - 200-300

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Goosander - 1pr - feeding actively @ 0755hrs

Rotherham Centre: Raven - 1 - circling over @ 1245hrs; harassed & chased away to NE by local crows

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 1

Wharncliffe Side: Waxwing - 12 - In silver birch off school lane at 13:04

Wharncliffe Wood: Woodcock - 3 - Roding

Barlow: Fieldfare - 5+ - in a mixed flock with 100+ Redwings ; Redwing - 100+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - c23 - roosting, with what looked like the Alexandrine with them.

Crookes: 322 - 1 - male Lord Derby's Parakeet still in Hawthorns at Bute St / Crookes Rd junction

Graves Park: Little Grebe - 2 - On bottom pond.

Pit-house West: Willow Tit - 1 - singing male ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Tawny Owl - 1 - hooting ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Goosander - 1pr

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 2 - 2 in flight then dropped into heather

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 5

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 4 - 2 seen together, 1 had a silver ring on right leg ; Goosander - 2 - M&F ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 324 - 2 - Frogs mating, frog spawn present.

Templeborough: Red Kite - 1 - low over fullerton road

Aldwarke: Song Thrush - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - SW @ 0910hrs ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Aldwarke SF: Magpie - c30 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - probably same seen over Dalton earlier ; Reed Bunting - 1 - female ; Coot - 2-3prs ; Mallard - 1pr ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Grey Heron - 1 - W/SW ; Gadwall - 16 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - male

Aston: Rook - 80 - 37 active nests at entrance to Aston Hall

Barlborough: Waxwing - 2 - Identified from submitted photograph, not re-located today.

Birleyhay Dam: 321 - 3

Blackburn Meadows: Snipe - 2

Bramley: Red Kite - 1