Sightings Archive

Pit-house West: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 12 - over/around colony @ 0805hrs

Ravenfield Church: Blackcap - 1 - Male in woodland near sewage farm.

Rother Valley CP: Chiffchaff - 2 - pair present on riverside, one carrying nest material

RVCP: Chiffchaff - 10 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sand Martin - 10 ; Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Tufted Duck - 35 ; Wigeon - 34 ; Pied Wagtail - 8 ; Egyptian Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 38 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - pair in riverside vegetation, one with nest material.

RVCP, Main Lake: Pied Wagtail - 1 - Male White Wagtail near the cable ski centre ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair on cable ski ramps ; Sand Martin - 100

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Goldeneye - 8 ; Shoveler - 3 - Males

Sheffield Airport: Wheatear - 6 ; Skylark - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Carrion Crow - c60

Silverwood Lagoon: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Treeton Dyke: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing at N end of dyke

Walkley garden: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - single bird at nyger feeder

Barlborough Hall: Swallow - 1 - First seen this year in area.

Bingham Park: Dipper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Saw entering probable nest ; Nuthatch - 2 - 1 near last years nuthatch nest, other singing

Centenary Riverside: Goldfinch - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - River ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Moorhen - 1 - River ; Goosander - 1 - Female on river ; Robin - 3 - 2 singing ; Wren - 2 - 1 singing ; 321 - 1 - Flew in , landed on pond. ; Cormorant - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Nest high in Willow tree

Crookes Valley Park: Herring Gull - 2 - adult pair again/ still present this morning, relentlessly mobbing a Grey Heron by the lake. Territorial? ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult mobbed by 2 Herring Gulls and eventually chased off

Ecclesfield park: Brambling - 6+ - Flock in trees next to playground calling

Endcliffe Park: Treecreeper - 1 - Nr Cafe ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - Lower Pond ; Mandarin - 6 - 5m+1f on lower lake at 16:45

Firsby Res: Willow Tit - 1 - At least 1 calling in Willow scrub. ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - Males ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Males singing. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - Calling in sheep paddock. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Willow Tit - 3

Green Moor: Brambling - 15+ - Still ; Tree Sparrow - 10+

Orgreave Lakes: Curlew - 3 - On west shore of big lake early morning. ; Sand Martin - 72 - 60 1st light then 12 in ; Swallow - 1 ; Curlew - 3 - On west side a dawn

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 2 ; Siskin - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1

Pit-house West: Water Rail - 3 ; Sand Martin - 25

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair?

Rawmarsh: Sand Martin - 2 - north over Grange Road at 17:26 ; Raven - 1 - flying towards Kilnhurst mobbed by Carrion Crows

Rawmarsh; St Mary*s Church: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from tower

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 19 - circling over horse fields in blizzard!

Rivelin Dams: Oystercatcher - 1 - 1 heard flying over the dam ; 319 - 1 - 1 in trees surrounding dams

Sheffield Centre: Mistle Thrush - 3 - 3 chasing each other in trees on Norfolk Road.

Thrybergh CP: Avocet - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 68 - inc.17 -2cy+13@8 left w ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 47 ; Kestrel - 2 - singles ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 35+ ; Lapwing - 7 - inc.3pr disp. ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ ; Skylark - 4 - singing ; Sand Martin - 200+ ; Swallow - 3 - in with s/m ; House Martin - 5 - in with s/m ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Fieldfare - 2 - in h/row ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Tree Sparrow - 1