Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Wren - 17 - sing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 13 ; Blackcap - 13 - 11sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Whitethroat - 6 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 8 - sing ; House Sparrow - 6 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 4sing ; Yellowhammer - 1

Wincobank Hill: Common Buzzard - 4 - circling ; Kestrel - 1

Barbrook Plantation: Song Thrush - 2 - 2 recently fledged young ; Willow Warbler - 1 - nest building ; Redstart - 2 - singing males ; Willow Tit - 1

Bassingthorpe Farm: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 4+

Bassingthorpe Lane: Yellowhammer - 1 - Male carrying nest material.

Bassingthorpe Spring: Wren - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 1 - 1singing 500 yards below Devil’s Elbow ; Blackcap - 5 - 2m 3f ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - 1 pair at bottom of Piper House Gate path. First sighting in the area by observer for several years.

Cowell Flat: Snipe - 3+

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; 319 - 1 - Watching tractor cut set aside field. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Linnet - 1 - Over. ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Blackcap - 4 - All Males. ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 1 - Sat on nest high in tree tops. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On sluice.

Fulwood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Flew through garden off Crimicar Lane

Greasbrough: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - In bushes on path going down from yellow lion

Heeley: Long-tailed Tit - 1+ - family party Saxon Road ; Blackcap - 1 - singing Saxon Road ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Saxon Road

Hollin Bank Stanage: Woodcock - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 2 - Minimum of 2 males singing ; Willow Warbler - 11 - Minimum number of singing males ; Blackbird - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Robin - 4 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Dunnock - I

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 3+ - singing ; Wren - 4+ - singing ; Robin - 2+ - singng ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singng ; Blackcap - 2 - singng ; Great Tit - 1 - singng ; Treecreeper - 1 - singng ; Chaffinch - 1 - singng ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing from adj f/p ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singng

Onesmoor: Grey Partridge - 1 - calling in rape fields

Orgreave Lakes: Golden Plover - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Swift - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 20

Oughtibridge garden: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - Drinking at garden pond

Peat Pits: Little Owl - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - fem

Poolsbrook Marsh: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 1 - drake

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Interchange: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing from riverside buddleias/elders @1615hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 50-60 - another big increase this morning; several birds entering nest holes ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - male ; Carrion Crow - 1pr - at nest

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - 1 singing

Redmires Top Res: Peregrine - 1

Rivelin Filters: Common Sandpiper - 2 - on pond at rear of filter station

Rocher Head Fields: Ring Ouzel - 1 - male singing in Hawthorn. ; Golden Plover - 6 - rapidly dwindling numbers in fields above crags

Rotherham; Northfield: Canada Goose - 4 - NE @ 0754hrs ; Blackcap - 1 - singing by canal

Sheaf Bank Retail Park: Sand Martin - 8+ - at least one pair regulary visiting a nest hole and another excevating/ investigating another hole in the mortar of the high wall above the Sheaf Bank Business Park between the River Sheaf and Prospect Road.

Sheffield Centre: Whitethroat - 2 - Singing in South Street Park above railway station.

Stanage Jubilee plantation 1: Woodcock - 1 ; Crossbill - 1 - Smart female feeding in larch , then came to drink at roadside puddl ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair courting/fightingp