Sightings Archive

Rotherham: Bullfinch - 1 - Male end of Coggin Mill Way 07.25

Silverwood: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1000hrs

Skye Edge Fields: Swift - 2 - Heard screaming high above ; Hobby - 1 - Briefly hunting over gardens and treetops

Squirel Castle, Town Lane: Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - breeding pr ; Mute Swan - 23 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Tufted Duck - 8 - 4pr ; 319 - 1 - soor.se ; Swift - 20+ ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 3 - 02-Jan ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - ad ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 7 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - + inc. fam party 8 +

Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 1pr - nest apparently deserted; signs of human interference! ; Canada Goose - 2 - dropped in ; Coot - 10 ; Mallard - 2prs ; Gadwall - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 8 - inc 5 singing ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Gadwall - 1pr - on path well away from water, presumably prospecting ; Linnet - 5 - inc at least 1pr ; Reed Warbler - 12 - inc at least 8 singing ; Whitethroat - 14 - inc at least 9 singing & 3 further males in dispute ; Blackcap - 10 - inc 9 singing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - singing ; Pheasant - 4 - crowing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 4 - 3 singing/anxiety calls SK4695; 1 singing SK4696 ; Mute Swan - 4 - 2 + 2, S

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - calling ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling, mobbed by thrushes

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 10 - 8 singing males, 2 females ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 4 ; Redstart - 1 - Male

Wharncliffe Side river don: Dipper - 2+ - adults feeding young at 2 nest sites . ; Blue Tit - 3+ - adults feeding young at 3 nest sites . ; Mallard - 14 - 2 females with broods of 9 + 3. ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - singing male. ; Grey Wagtail - 5 - inc 3 fledged juvs .

Wilcox Plantation,Church Street: Robin - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Barbrook Valley: Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Whinchat - 1 ; Stonechat - 2

Bramley: Starling - 6+ - 2 adults with 4 fledged chicks on lawn, others in area.

Burbage Valley: Whinchat - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1

Clifton Park, Rotherham: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1+ - nest with juvs. Magpies managed to get 3 juvs (close to fledging) out of nest which were rescued & taken into care; still alive on 15/05. 1+ juv still in nest.

Damflask Res: Osprey - 1 - at c.09:30

Edge Mount: Mallard - 3 - female with 2 small ducklings on flight pond . ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing male . ; Linnet - 4 - around gorse patch . ; Curlew - 2 - pair alarm calling at sheep . ; Merlin - 1 - male passing through . ; Wheatear - 2 - females sat on wall . ; Meadow Pipit - 6 - around site .

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 - over set aside field joined by Sparrowhawk. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - With Buzzards. ; Swallow - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 - On nest. ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Singing. ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Blackcap - 6 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Calling. ; Mallard - 2 - a pair on main Res. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 - Collecting food ; Pheasant - 1 - Crowing Male. ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Swallow - 10+ - Over ahead of the rain.

Hathersage pool: Swift - 1

Longshaw: Common Sandpiper - 1 - Flew off from the pond calling ; Mandarin - 4 - Males on the pond