Sightings Archive

Rother Valley CP: Oystercatcher - 1 - Main Lake ; Black-headed Gull - 300

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal: Sand Martin - 12 - feeding over @ 0800hrs

Stubley Hollow: Swallow - 10 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 1 ; House Sparrow - 29 ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Jackdaw - 32 ; Carrion Crow - 52 ; Goldcrest - 1 juv

Walkley garden: Swift - 3 - 3 over. 1 entered nest at 20.45 followed by another adult at 20.55. Prev eve both exactly 10 mins later.

Bar Brook Valley: Common Buzzard - 1 - 1 over calling

Bradwell: Raven - 2 ; Swallow - 20+

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew up river away from bridge 14.40

Crookes Valley Park: Herring Gull - 2+ - Adult pair regular through spring and early summer now with a juv. Suspect bred nearby.

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 3 - Male in eclipse

Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Sand Martin - 2 - max seen together

Sheffield University: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Adults circling and calling late afternoon landed on roof of Information Commons

Abney Moor: Kestrel - 2 ; Raven - 1

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1+ - adult with prey pestered by noisy juv on water tower ; Stock Dove - 2 - on wires, inc singing male ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Bar Brook: Whitethroat - 2 ; Whinchat - 6 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 4

Bradwell: Kestrel - 1 - carrying small prey

Bradwell Edge: Raven - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Little Egret - 1

Dale Dike Res: HONEY BUZZARD - 1

Dalton: Linnet - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - juv/1cy

Ecclesall: Swift - 75 - flew S in 30 mins after earlier thunderstorm

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Moorhen - 2 - adult & independent juv ; Chiffchaff - 2+ - pair feeding fledged juvs ; Canada Goose - 11 - over towards Thrybegh CP @0630hrs ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1

Middleton Moor: Little Grebe - 1

Millhouses Park: Dipper - 1 - A juv.First Dipper I've seen on the Sheaf since January

Millhouses, Sheaf Valley Walk.: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing

Norton Lees: Tawny Owl - 1 calling

Orgreave Lakes: Cormorant - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 68 - Iincluding a female with six chicks ; Common Tern - 2 - South at 05.40 ; Peregrine - 1 - Very dark imm female type . ; Whitethroat - 3 - Adult feeding two juvs between bridges. ; Little Egret - 4 ; Common Scoter - 1 - Left low to the south at 07.32

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Swift - 1 - over ; Blackcap - 1 ; Willow Tit - 1 - calling

R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 1 - singing in garden ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in garden briefly

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 28 - on Middle Res ; Mallard - 36 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - female - no sign of young which may have now perished ; Kestrel - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 3 - circling distant ; Yellow-legged Gull - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 72 - mostly in from the east during the morning ; Black-headed Gull - 58 - mostly SW ; Willow Warbler - 16 - around reservoir perimeter ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling by Bottom Res ; Whinchat - 2 - juvs on south side of Middle Res - presumed migrants as none seen during breeding season this year ; Tree Pipit - 3 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Swallow - 60 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; House Martin - 20 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - ad flew low to the W ; Linnet - 18 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - female on Top Res ; Blackbird - 5 - c. in bracken beds ; Song Thrush - 1 - in bracken beds

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - Female roosting on St George’s at dusk

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Sandpiper - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 2 - 1a1j ; Mute Swan - 8 - inc pr 3y ; Canada Goose - 121 - inc.c40 in from south ; Pochard - 2 - jv ; Tufted Duck - 49 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Sand Martin - 1 - south ; Swallow - 4 ; Wren - 10 ; Robin - 10 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 4+ - call ; Blackcap - 3