Sightings Archive

Sunday 31st March 2019

• Hollin Bank Car Park: Robin - 3 - Territorial dispute ; Great Tit - 8+ ; Blue Tit - 8+ ; Coal Tit - 12+ ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Dunnock - 1
• Hoober: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, Hoober House
• Hoober Bank: Carrion Crow - 1pr - at nest
• Hoober Field Road: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - male ; Tree Sparrow - 01-Feb - garden, Hoober Field Cottages
• Hoober Hall Lane: Red-legged Partridge - 1pr ; Woodpigeon - c260 - in recently tilled field ; Stock Dove - 4 - with WP ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male, feeding on road ; Fieldfare - 60-70 - flock ; Redwing - c5 - with FF flock ; Skylark - 3
• Hoober Hill: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Hoober Plantation: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Ickles: Blackcap - 1 - Singing on Bessemer Way 07.45 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing off Bessemer Way.
• Lea Brook/Lane: Stock Dove - 3 - 1pr + 1 singing ; Mallard - 1pr - on road ; Fieldfare - 7 - W ; Canada Goose - 5 - N
• Lodge Moor garden: Brambling - 2 - M ; Siskin - 5 ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1M 1F ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - 2M . One male, perched in a Rowan, attacked the second male when it entered the garden
• Miller*s Dale: Mandarin - 3 - 2 males and 1 female
• Millhouses garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - 1m,1f
• Monk*s Dale: Mandarin - 2 - Male and female
• Moss Valley: 321 - 1 - Ford Dam - on ‘Private Fishing’ sign
• Moss Valley, lower: Jay - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - Singing ; Mandarin - 2 - a pair ; 319 - 2
• New Stubbin; colliery & tip site: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2prs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Jay - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: Redshank - 6 ; Grey Partridge - 2 - East of small Lake ; Great Crested Grebe - 13 ; Wheatear - 2
• Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 3
• Peat Pits: Fieldfare - c350 - large group of birds sat in ash trees and surrounding field at dusk . ; Golden Plover - c80
• Peter Dale: Fieldfare - c.15
• Porter Clough: Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Brambling - 2 ; Siskin - 1 ; 319 - 2
• Rawmarsh: Raven - 1 - flew south calling over Sandhill Park at 15.40
• Rawmarsh; St Mary*s Church: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from tower
• Redmires Bottom Res: Swallow - 2
• Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 17 - in fields ; Mallard - 16 ; 320 - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - calling briefly over Top Res ; Curlew - 10 - five pairs displaying ; Golden Plover - 8 - on conduit ; Lapwing - 16 - 8 pairs displaying along conduit ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - flew SE ; Linnet - 30 - small flock around Middle Res - several now back on breeding territory ; Brambling - 10 - several moving overhead and at least one male in sub-song ; Crossbill - 2 - calling over Bottom Res ; Goldfinch - 8 - including one with newly constructed nest in beech tree by Top Res - looked rather exposed as no leaves on it yet! ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - by Top Res ; Song Thrush - 4 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 15 - c. inc small flock by Bottom Res ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Raven - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - separate birds calling ; Oystercatcher - 4 - 2 distinct pairs displaying ; Fieldfare - 11 - flew N
• Rivelin Valley: Common Buzzard - 1 - over King Edwards
• Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 6 - 2 male, 4 female nr NYS ; Canada Goose - 3 - Noisily landing NYS 08.30 ; Dunnock - 3 - 1 singing NYS
• Silver Wood: Chiffchaff - 4 - singing along disused r/way line