Sightings Archive

Tankersley Park Golf Course: House Martin - 3 ; 319 - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Canada Goose - 130 - +1 grey col feral ; Tufted Duck - 35 ; 319 - 2 - call soaring in e ; Kestrel - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - circled then ne ; Lapwing - 84 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Swift - 2 - in from n ; Swallow - 3 - 2s1s ; House Martin - 6+ - inc 4+ calling high ; Blackcap - 2 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 32 - inc 4 singing ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 16+ - in 2 flock ; Raven - 2 - w call .0747 ; Moorhen - 11

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 - singing at several different spots in the river ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 - Two small roving flocks ; Nuthatch - 1 - alarming

Wincobank Wood: Common Buzzard - 2

Bar Brook: Whinchat - 6

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 2+ - ad pr + single juv ; Wigeon - 6 ; Gadwall - c40 ; Shoveler - 2 ; Pochard - 12 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Little Grebe - 4+ - inc pr with 2 small chicks ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Coot - 58+ ; Black-headed Gull - 13

Greenhill: Common Buzzard - 3 - From back garden on Westwick Road

Moss Valley: Red Kite - 1 - presumed Red Kite in field

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Chiffchaff - 1 - still present & calling @ 0750hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Interchange: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing from riverside buddleia @ 0750hrs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Cormorant - 1 - imm landed on riverside lighting pole. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing

Agden Rocher: Stonechat - 5 - family group fly catching from fence posts in sheep field.

Glen Howe Park: Jay - 2 ; Magpie - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Coal Tit - 08-Dec - on new peanut feeders ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+ - on peanut & fat ball feeders ; Stock Dove - 1 - Not seen one here before ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 7 ; Jackdaw - 4

Holdworth: Little Owl - 2 - sat on wall at dusk.

Norfolk Park: Common Buzzard - 4 - over Norfolk Park most of today....harassed now by Peregrine

Orgreave Lakes: Swift - 7 - feeding over river at dusk ; Common Gull - 4 - 2x 1cy, 1x2cy and ad ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1+ - at least one adult ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 120+ - constant turnover of birds in evening, heading towards Great Bear warehouse roofs to roost. ; Herring Gull - 12+ ; Black-headed Gull - 700++ - birds coming on from S in evening

Parkwood Springs: Chiffchaff - 3 - calling ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 - calling ; Swallow - 4 - SW ; Mistle Thrush - 3

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling from riverside willows @ 1610hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew downriver

R Don, Rotherham Centre; weir: Cormorant - 1 - yesterday's juv sat on end of weir @ 1230hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - passed through garden @ 1130hrs

Redmires Top Res: Lapwing - c40 - over flying north ; Peregrine - 1 - flying SW

Rivelin Valley: Grey Heron - 1 - On Wolf Wheel ; Dipper - 1 ; Kingfisher - 2 - On Frank Wheel and 2nd Coppice Wheel ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Robin - 5 ; Wren - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Moorhen - 2

Shirecliffe Tip: Common Buzzard - 7 - circling together and calling over old tip

Brownhills Lane: 319 - 1 ; Goldfinch - 4 - adults feeding on thistle heads

Burncross, Chapeltown: Grey Wagtail - 2 - South 7.40am ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sanderling - 1+ - Presumed Sanderling - heard calling over house 21.15

Carr Vale: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - at 09.30 then flew NE [presumably into SBSG recording area]