Sightings Archive

Chatsworth Park: Swift - 5+ ; Swallow - 10+ ; House Martin - 20+ ; Curlew - 1 - over RHS Show calling ; Oystercatcher - 2 - over RHS show calling and browsing lawns ; 321 - 1 ; Swift - 20+ ; Red Kite - 1

Dore: Great Tit - 1 - 1 adult, 2+ juvs in observer's garden

Greystones garden: Starling - 12 - 8 Juveniles ; Blue Tit - 2 - 1 Juvenile ; Bullfinch - 1 - Juvenile ; Goldfinch - 5 - 3 Juveniles

Houndkirk Moor: Curlew - 1

Nether Green: Blackcap - 1 - singing in clough behind Tesco garage

Norwood Allotments: Red Kite - 1 - low east at 08:55.

Onesmoor bottom: Little Owl - 2 - sat at roadside.

R Don, Neepsend and Kelham Island: Chaffinch - 4+ - 4 territories confirmed along Don over last couple of months; Hillfoot Road, Neepsend Lane, Kelham Island (2)

R Don, Nursery Street: Blue Tit - 1+ - family party in riverside vegetation ; Great Tit - 1+ - family party in riverside vegetation ; Wren - 1+ - family party in riverside vegetation by Iron Bridge ; Mallard - 1+ - including fresh brood of 2 ; Sand Martin - 6

R Don, Rutland Rd: Sand Martin - 1+ - not counted (yet) but now a large number of occupied nests

Ramsley Moor: Mistle Thrush - 1 - adult carrying food ; Willow Warbler - 1 - adult carrying food ; Linnet - 2 - 2 recently fledged juvs ; Song Thrush - 1

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 3 - Anxious female calling as 2 well-grown juveniles were ahead on the path

Rivelin Filters: Mandarin - 14 - 1 female and 6 chicks on river behind cottages and 4 adults and 3 chicks on pond rear of filters

Treeton SF: House Martin - 40+

Walkley garden: Swift - 3 - 3 swifts, one entered traditional nest chased by magpie.

White Lee Moor: Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling at dusk.

Wyming Brook: Crossbill - 2

Blackburn Meadows NR: Raven - 1 - Flew over SE at 09.05.

Dore: Goldfinch - 2 - 2 adults with 3 juvs

Eckington: Red Kite - 1

Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 2 - 2 Juveniles on feeders

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Grey Heron - 1 - adult, wading in shallows @ 0800hrs ; Canada Goose - 2

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling briefly beyond southern end of lagoon at 08.55. Been quiet for past fortnight

Burbage Valley: Woodcock - 1 ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male ; Wheatear - 1

Burncross, Chapeltown: Swift - c20 - PM

Canklow Woods: Woodcock - 1 - 1 roding at 2200

Graves Park: Treecreeper - 1

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - In low from east at 16.30

Millhouses: Swift - 2 - Screaming "party" of two. Regular count of only two for the past three weeks over this former stronghold.

Orgreave Lakes: Swift - 500+ ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Sanderling - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing quietly from dense buddleia scrub @ 0755hrs

Rawmarsh: Greylag Goose - 6 - W @ 0625hrs

Rivelin Filters: Canada Goose - 17 - 6 adults + 3 broods of young (4,4,3)

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - calling repeatedly in woodland edge next to Steel Valley Walk

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 16+ - 4 pairs feeding juveniles, 4 males singing, 12 confirmed territories

Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 1

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 2 - Possible pair. ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing, 1 parachuting in song ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Female ; Reed Warbler - 3 - 1 pair, 2 singing ; 321 - 2 ; Pheasant - 2 - Male and 1 calling ; Kestrel - 1 - Over ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing ; Dunnock - 1 - Singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 07-Aug - Family feeding party. ; Wren - 10+ - Singing+ family of 6+ juviniles. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing on island ; Swift - 8 - over

Eckington: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mandarin - 2

Edge Mount: Curlew - 1 - sat on nest. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing male.

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Curlew - 2

Midland Station: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair holding territory on River Sheaf by bridge

Nether Green: Swift - 03-Apr - approaching traditional nesting site in Oakbrook Road

Nether Haugh; Clay Hills: Chaffinch - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Great Tit - family party ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting

New Stubbin colliery/tip site: Blackcap - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing; 1 SK4396, 3 SK4296 ; Swift - c20 - feeding over ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 1 singing, SK4396; 3m (2 singing) + 1, SK4296 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - 1 singing SK4396; 2 singing SK4296 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing