Sightings Archive

Meadowhall: Swift - 14 - 19.15

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 2

Padley Gorge: Spotted Flycatcher - 1

Rocher Wood: Little Owl - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 - pair regularly attending nest box ( this box was previously taken by blue tits who were seen taking in nest material on April 20th). ; Pied Flycatcher - 4 - 3m , 1f . ; Redstart - 2 - singing males . ; Blackbird - 2 - male feeding fledged juv .

Rotherham Centre: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together over police sta at 1310

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Coot - 12 ; Little Grebe - 6 - probably 3 pairs nesting ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 6 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - seems to have found its voice in recent days and now reeling earlier and for longer periods ; Linnet - 12+ - several pairs breeding ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult south ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - singing ; Lapwing - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Whitethroat - 15+ - still plenty singing around pit top ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; House Martin - 8 - a few over Woodlaithes end of pit top ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Skylark - 3 - singing ; Swallow - 2

Wadsley Common: Cuckoo - 2 - Heard calling from opposite ends of Common ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing. ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Seen flying and singing. ; Jay - 2 ; Blackcap - 2 - 1 male and 1 female seen.

Wharncliffe Side: Sand Martin - 4 - 4 birds flying around earth workings from demolished tissue factory next to river Don

Aldwarke: Lapwing - 1pr - possibly with young ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 3 - 1pr + 1 singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 1pr - circled & dropped onto pond ; Sand Martin - 2 - NE ; Swift - 44 - moved NE together in a loose flock

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 1 ; Whinchat - 2 - M&F ; Whinchat - 2 - Male ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Cuckoo - 2 - Heard calling at the same time from different places ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Kestrel - 1

Burncross, Chapeltown: Coal Tit - 1 - Regular to feeders in garden

Cowell Flat: Lapwing - 2 - 1 adult with single 10 day old ?chick.

Fulwood Booth: Cuckoo - 1 - Visible and vocal on hill from path along Redmires bottom reservoir.

Greystones: Swift - 5 - Over observer's garden

Hangingwater Allotments: Dunnock - 2 - A pair displaying

Hillsborough: Swift - 4 - 17.45 - 3 appearing to be involved in courtship

Longshaw: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Mandarin - 5 - males ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Longshaw Lodge: Swallow - 2 ; Siskin - 2 - M&F ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Middleton Moor: Whimbrel - 9 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Curlew - 3 ; Garden Warbler - 2 - Singing

Millhouses garden: Bullfinch - 2 - irregular visitor, 1m 1f

Orgreave Lakes: Common Tern - 4 ; Whimbrel - 1 - at 08:30 ; Shelduck - 3 - flew through ; Common Tern - 4 ; Whimbrel - 1 - appeared 0830, dep. E at 0838. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - still in phragmites ; Turnstone - 1 - NW corner of main lake at 11:30 ; Wheatear - 2 - near west shore of big lake ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Dunlin - 7 ; Ringed Plover - 2

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 5 - 4M & 1 Female with 2 silver rings ; Redstart - 1 - Male ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2

Parkgate: Whitethroat - 1 - singing adjacent to Morrisons filling stn

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Swift - 7 - N ; Swallow - 2 - W