Sightings Archive

Stubley Hollow: Starling - 77 ; Carrion Crow - 94 ; Jackdaw - 82 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Swallow - 7

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - ad ; Little Grebe - 2 - ad ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mute Swan - 8 ; Pochard - 1 - fem ; Tufted Duck - 48 ; Swift - 30 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; House Martin - 3 ; 319 - 2 - noisy birds soaring ; Reed Warbler - 3 - 1ad, 2juvs begging food ; Blackcap - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - 2 singing ; Chiffchaff - 12 - 1 singing ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - thought to be ad in moult last seen at 0650 not located again upto 1100

Wharncliffe Side: Willow Tit - 1 - calling from dense scrub on brightholmlee lane

Whinfell Quarry Gardens: Robin - 1 juv ; 324 - 1 - Small Copper butterfly

Whirlow Playing Fields: Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+

Birley Edge: Swift - 1

Botanical Gardens: Swift - 1 - 1 W

Crookes Valley Park: Herring Gull - 1+ - adult and three juvs on lake this morning, suspected to have bred nearby after adult pair present through spring-summer

Derwent Edge: Kestrel - 1 ; Red Grouse - 4 ; Curlew - 1 heard

Froggatt: 319 - 3 - circling together

Green Moor: Yellowhammer - 3 - Adult feeding two juveniles

Ladybower Res, North arm: 319 - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Swift - 21 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Little Egret - 2

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling from riverside willows @ 0755hrs

Ramsley Moor: Stonechat - 4+ - At least 4 juvs ; Whinchat - 3+ ; Whitethroat - 1 - In bracken

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal: Sand Martin - 2 - feeding over @ 0755hrs

Strines Inn: 319 - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mute Swan - 8 - inc.3y ; Gadwall - 3 - in thn w ; Tufted Duck - 49 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 ; Lapwing - 30+ ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - resident birds ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad in ; Swift - 40 ; Sand Martin - 4 ; Swallow - 1 - south ; Robin - 12 ; Blackcap - 6 ; Whitethroat - 5 ; Reed Warbler - 3 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - inc. 1 in full song ; Chiffchaff - 15 ; Goldfinch - 80+ - inc flock 70+ ; Greenfinch - 25+ - inc 20+ in with goldfch ; Linnet - 8

Woodhead: Swift - 1

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 1 - on pylon, briefly ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Linnet - 3 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Swift - 6 - drifted SW together

Aldwarke SF: Stock Dove - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - left S ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Moorhen - 3+ - adults + brood of 3 ; Tufted Duck - 1+ - duck + 3 well-grown juvs ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Coot - 5 - inc 3 independent juvs ; Mallard - 27 - moulting ; Goldfinch - c30 - on thistles ; Kestrel - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - juv/1cy

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - sat on chimney

Crosspool: Redstart - 1 - In garden on Barholm Road for at least 2 days.

Ecclesall: Swift - 2 - flew SW at dusk

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - c700 - roosted ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 251 - roosted

Middleton Moor: Little Grebe - 1 - Still present