Sightings Archive

Hathersage: House Martin - 2 - Pair returning briefly to last year's nest ; 319 - 1 - Circling over

Kilnhurst: Red Kite - 1 - Flew over high, heading west late morning.

Longshaw: Mandarin - 3 - males ; Tufted Duck - 2 - M&F ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard

Longshaw Lodge: Swallow - 2 ; Siskin - 1 - Female on feeders

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 1 - churring for 5 minutes from 21:31.

Padley Gorge: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - A pair taking nest material to tree above quarry. ; Pied Flycatcher - 7 - M&F ; Pied Flycatcher - 7 - Female ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard ; Stonechat - 4 - M&F ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard ; Willow Warbler - 1

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - nest unattended. ; Herring Gull - c35 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 3cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Common Buzzard - 1 - low over, mobbed by Carrion crows

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Mallard - 3+ - 1m; 2f + broods of 6 & 7

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Interchange: Sedge Warbler - 1 - still present & singing sporadically @ 0755hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - c25 - over/around colony @ 0755hrs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Wheatear - 1 - female on waste ground ; Kingfisher - 1 - male

R Sheaf, Duchess Rd: Sand Martin - 8+ - flying over river and road and going in and out of holes in brickwork on the river side wall of Tec-nick Autos. Appear to be nesting.

Redmires Plantation: Woodcock - 6+ - Roding and displaying ; Snipe - 1 - Drumming between White Stones and Stanage Pole ; Cuckoo - 2 - 2 males calling ; Curlew - 6 - Returning to roost.

Wincobank Wood: Common Buzzard - 2

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2 - Singing and showing well 05.30-06.00 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Singing on bank of dam. ; Jay - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - singing ; Blackcap - 10+ - singing ; Chaffinch - 10+ - singing ; Bullfinch - 4 - 1 pair, 2 males. ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - On fence post on moor

Barlow Common: Wheatear - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 5 ; Swallow - 9 ; Linnet - 03-Apr ; Blackcap - 2 ; Whitethroat - 02-Mar ; Skylark - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2

Bingham Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Blacka Plantation: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling in Strawberry Lee plantation then mobbed persistently and forced into Totley Moor ; Stonechat - 2 - Male feeding fledgeling ; Whitethroat - 1 - Male feeding at Cowsick ; Willow Warbler - 3

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - 1 singing

Chapeltown: Swift - 6 - Burncross Rd,

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - Pair on shore. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - flushed by a drone! ; 319 - 1 ; House Martin - 10+ ; Swallow - 2 - With HM. ; Blackbird - 1 - on nest. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing from reed bed. ; Blackcap - 4 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Fulwood: Swift - 1 - over observer's house this evening; first here this year ; Stock Dove - 1 - in trees in observer's garden ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing near observer's garden ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing near observer's garden

Morley Pond @ Cascades: Cormorant - 2 ; Mallard - 5 - male ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2pr ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing

Orgreave: Grey Partridge - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 6 - pair on island with 3 young +1 adult on other side of island. ; Redshank - 2 ; Dunlin - 1