Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; 319 - 3 - 1e 2soar se ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f past w ; Kestrel - 1 - hunt e/side ; Coot - 30 - + inc.at least 5nest ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad w ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Swallow - 3 - n ; Swift - 40 - #NAME? ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Blackcap - 8 - 7sing+1f ; Whitethroat - 11 - 9sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; House Sparrow - 11 - 7 col food ; Reed Bunting - 5 - sing

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 2+ - sing ; Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Magpie - 2

Wire Mill Dam: Mallard - 1+ - Female with 14 ducklings

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2 - singing ; Siskin - 5+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Goldcrest - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Coal Tit - 5+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 4 - inc 1 singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 5 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - singing

Bramley: Swift - 1 - Over Flanderwell Avenue @ 17:00.

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1 - ad male ; Gadwall - 14+ ; Mallard - 2+ - 2 fems with broods (4, 13+) ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Cormorant - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pair displaying ; Coot - 20 - 4+ occupied nests; 2 broods ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Sand Martin - 4+ ; Blue Tit - 2 - pr taking food to nest

Clough,Scrub @ Brick Pit: Woodpigeon - 1+ - 1 singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - male

Ecclesall: Swift - 2 - over Button Hill - earliest recorded date

Fir Vale: Ring-necked Parakeet - 8+ - At least 8, probably 9 in Plane trees by NGH junction.

Kelham Island: Sand Martin - 8+ ; Grey Wagtail - 01-Feb ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Loxley: Cuckoo - 1 - Male calling in woods above Rodney Hill allotments

Millhouses Park: Mandarin - 5 - 3 males and 2 females on boating pool ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair gathering food for nestlings on fish pass

R Don, Neepsend: Mallard - 2+ - 2 fresh broods of 4 between Hillfoot and Rutland Roaf

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Interchange: Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew upriver ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Sand Martin - c15

R Don, Rutland Rd: Swift - 1 ; Sand Martin - 7+ - hard to check numbers; frequently feeding over waste ground behind factories, Rutland Way

Redmires conduit: Pied Wagtail - 1 - near little conduit reservoir

Rotherham Centre, Chantry Bridge: Canada Goose - 2 ; Mallard - 8 - males ; Sand Martin - 3+ ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing, nr Trades

Silver Wood: Reed Warbler - 1 - new in on r/way line pond this morning ; Grey Partridge - 2 - pair in fields to north of woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling at S end of lagoon ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - SE ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - north ; Swallow - 2

Thrybergh CP: Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Arctic Tern - 2 - early afternoon, not present tonight but no great surprise as it was like Ponds Forge. ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - singing male