Sightings Archive

Millhouses garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1f

Orgreave Lakes: Shelduck - 7 - Early morning then east ; Dunlin - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 3 ; Shelduck - 7 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling adjacent to river at 17:50 ; Great Crested Grebe - 29

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 1m ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - heard ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Wren - 1 - heard ; Robin - 2

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Interchange: Sand Martin - 20+ - at least 7 holes occupied beneath Bridge Inn + 2 in stonework of wall beneath Interchange @ SK428931 ; Blue Tit - 1pr - nest in stonework of wall of river beneath interchange ; Mallard - 6+ - 4m; 2f + brood of 5 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - female ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing

R Don, Rutland Rd: Sand Martin - 13+ - minimum of 13 nest sites in wall ; Great Tit - 1+ - occupied nest in wall on edge of Sand Martin colony ; Kingfisher - 1

Redmires Conduit: Lapwing - 8 - 8 chicks in total counted in horse fields. ; Snipe - 6 - 4 over calling and drumming then dropped into Hammonds Field. 2 in opposite field appear to be on territory, possible nest site.

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 1 - Male on the river, just upstream of playground

Roughwood Rec: 319 - 2 - Over Rec @12:20.

Rowlee Bridge: Common Sandpiper - 1 - Adult alarming over R Ashop ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male singing

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Wigeon - 2 - a pair still present

Stanage Edge: Red Kite - 1 - mobbed by Curlew. ; Curlew - 2 ; Wheatear - 3 ; Ring Ouzel - 4 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Mobbed by Meadow Pipits.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - a pr with hidden nest ; Mute Swan - 11 ; Gadwall - 1 - m.f prob on hidden nest ; Tufted Duck - 2 - mf ; Pheasant - 3 - crow. ; Oystercatcher - 3 - a pr disp.chasing off unwanted 3rd bird ; Lapwing - 5 - farmer spraying prob nests in fielld ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - still sing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - 2sing ; Blackcap - 6 - 3sing + a fem.col. food ; Whitethroat - 5 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 - #NAME? ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 4sing

Ulley: Yellow Wagtail - 2 - Pair top of Guithwaite Common Lane, feeding on road verge and on mound of soil in farmers field ; Skylark - 4 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing and alarm calls ; Chaffinch - 2 - Pair, male singing ; Sand Martin - 4 - Low over fields 13.15

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Mandarin - 2 - males in full regalia

Blacka Moor: Curlew - 3 - 1h ; Willow Warbler - 9 - singing males mostly ; Blackcap - 5 - s m ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 - prob fem ; Cuckoo - 1 - h ; Stonechat - 3 - inc pr fem with nesting matl ; Bullfinch - 2 - pr ; Song Thrush - 2 - s m ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Skylark - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - numerous

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Over, circling moving Westward 18.40

Burbage Edge: Cuckoo - 1 - heard ; Meadow Pipit - 6+ ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - 2m, one carrying food ; Whinchat - 1 - male ; Willow Warbler - 3+ - heard ; Wren - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - hovering, then dived and flew off carrying something

Burbage Moor: Curlew - 1 - flew in front of car from Burbage Moor to Hallam Moor

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 3+ ; Ring Ouzel - 3+ ; Ring Ouzel - 3+ ; Whinchat - 2+ ; Meadow Pipit - 7

Burncross, Chapeltown: Starling - 10 - First juveniles (2) at feeders ; House Martin - 2 - Pair returned ; Greenfinch - 1 - Display/song ; 319 - 1 ; Swift - 4 ; Coal Tit - 1 - On feeders before returning to presumed nest nearby

Canklow: 319 - 2 - Over Mcdonalds 10.40

Canklow Woods: Garden Warbler - 1 - 1 singing

Crookes Valley Park: Coot - 4+ - Two pairs with 2 and 1 small chicks respectively ; Mallard - 12+ - including female with two part-grown chicks ; Swift - 6 - circling over this morning; first seen back in Crookesmoor breeding area

Fulwood: Jay - 1 - in observer's garden - first this year

Green Moor: Cuckoo - 1

Grimesthorpe: Peregrine - 1 - circling