Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Greylag Goose - 36 - inc 18-17 in ; Canada Goose - 160+ ; Tufted Duck - 57 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Lapwing - 55 ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1ad1j ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 1ad s 1j w ; Swift - 10 ; Sand Martin - 40 ; Swallow - 5 ; House Martin - 10 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 25 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - party

Ewden Height: Swallow - 52 - South 06:50-07:15 ; Meadow Pipit - 15 - South ; Linnet - 2 ; 324 - 1 - Stoat

Glen Howe Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 - catching insects on rocks in stream ; Robin - 03-Apr - coming to feeders for meal worms ; Carrion Crow - 3 - checking empty take away container ; Woodpigeon - 5 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Blue Tit - 05-Jun - on feeders ; Great Tit - 4 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Wren - 2 ; Jackdaw - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Magpie - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Blackbird - 1

Killamarsh: Swift - 1 - Flying S

Parkgate; Rotherham Road & surrounds: Starling - c300 - mobile flock feeding on broad verges

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing @ 0750hrs

Redmires: Kestrel - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 50+ ; Herring Gull - 10+ ; Swallow - 6+ - inc 2 juv ; Meadow Pipit - 6+ ; 324 - 1 - water vole

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Brown*s Cut: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling from canal-side scrub @ 0755hrs

Rotherham Centre; Greasbrough Road: Goldfinch - 13 - flock dropped into roadside trees

Tideswell: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 50+ - In the fields next to the B6049, near the junction with the A623

Wharncliffe Side: Collared Dove - 20 - in observers garden ; Nuthatch - 1

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Swallow - 8+ - mainly juvs

Canklow: Common Buzzard - 1 - over towards Canklow Wood @ c1030hrs

Greystones: House Sparrow - 55+ - record count for observer's garden

Highfield: Dunnock - 2 - One of this year's young and one adult visiting garden in Edmund Rd. ; Robin - 1 - In garden - Edmund Rd. ; Great Tit - 1+ - visiting feeders in garden Edmund rd ; Blue Tit - 2+ - in garden - Edmund Rd. ; Coal Tit - 1+ - In garden - edmund rd.

Millhouses: Swift - 1 - flying south

Norfolk Park: House Sparrow - 20+ - Adults and this year's young have become an annual event at my garden feeders at during mid- to late-summer. ; Goldfinch - c10 - Party of adults plus this year's young in various stages of gaining adult plumage visiting garden feeders - daily event. ; Wren - 1 - this species back to the garden after several months absence

Peat Pits: Raven - 2 - heading east.

R Don, Effingham St: Reed Warbler - 1 - on island below weir ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 1cy again

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Grey Heron - 1 - juv/1cy fishing @ 0800hrs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Wheatear - 1 - male ; House Martin - 30

RVCP: Mute Swan - 47 - Including 3 cygnets ; Coot - 125+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Grey Heron - 11 ; Little Egret - 4 ; Cormorant - 11 ; Pied Wagtail - 13 ; Moorhen - 14 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - River Rother bank side ; 319 - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 120+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 ; Herring Gull - 6

Stubley Hollow: Swallow - 9 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 9

Tankersley Park Golf Course: Tawny Owl - 1 - Heard calling at 20.15

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Canada Goose - 185 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; 319 - 1 - to east ; Kestrel - 1 - to SE ; Lapwing - 65 ; Black-headed Gull - 220+