Sightings Archive

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - singing on E end of Bramall Lane

Thrybergh CP: Little Gull - 1 - adult early am ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 67 - inc.14-2cy ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Shoveler - 2 - mf ; Wigeon - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 48 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 - singles ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ ; Little Gull - 1 - ad.found at 0750 not seen after 1000 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2-cy ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Skylark - 4 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - singles ; Wren - 14 - 12 singing ; Dunnock - 20 - 16 singing ; Robin - 22 - 17 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 11 ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - inc 2on feeders ; Jackdaw - 2 - col. n/mat (wool) ; Chaffinch - 10 - 5 singing ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr ; Reed Bunting - 9 - inc.2sing -4m at f/stat ; Brambling - 7+ - at f/stat ; Yellowhammer - 4 - 1 singing ; Whooper Swan - 8 - 1n.. still present at 10-45 ; Sand Martin - c20 - Over reservoir at 18:25 feeding but moving West as sun sets. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Male feeding along dam wall.

Underbank Res: Chiffchaff - 4 - singing S side ; Siskin - 6+ - sev singing males ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - inc singing male ; Brambling - 2 - male singing

Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 3 - Still including singing male.

Waverley: Mistle Thrush - 4 - pair with 2+ recently fledged juvs ; Grey Partridge - 2 - males calling against each other at dusk

Waverley AMP: Black Redstart - 1 - Just below McLaren unit on Whittle Way ; Linnet - 2 ; Black Redstart - 1 - still present tonight around Metalysis and Nikken units on Brunel/Brindley way

Waverley AMRC: Black Redstart - 1 - Fem/imm flycatching off security fencing below Mclaren

Wharncliffe Chase: Meadow Pipit - 4 - 1 song/display ; Redwing - 3 ; Skylark - 1 - Singing ; 319 - 2 ; Linnet - 2

Whitwell Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 21 - flew over

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 2 - SW ; Mute Swan - 49 - inc at least 16 2cy, SW to canal basin, 0630-0805hrs

Barlborough: Treecreeper - 5 - 2 pair , 1 single ; Willow Tit - 5 - 1 pair, + 3 singles, in different locations, 47T ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Chiffchaff - c10 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Single female ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - One pale cream in color ; Kestrel - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 3 - Display flight

Bents Green (near Bents Green School): House Sparrow - 1 - Male collecting nest material.

Bingham Park: Mallard hybrid - 2 - Pair on Porter Brook

Blacker Hill: Swallow - 1

Brinsworth: 319 - 3 - 2 over Barrett estate, 1 over towards Canklow 11.45

centenary way rotherham: Blackcap - 1 - 1 singing near ickles roundabout ; Goosander - 3 - 3 redheads on the river near ickles roundabout

Green Moor: Brambling - 5 ; Tree Sparrow - 6

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 - Pair ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Pair ; Common Gull - 85 ; 320 - 3 - 2 males, 1 female

Millhouses: Whooper Swan - 4 - Four N at 05:40. Worth leaping out of bed for.

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - In at 07:30

Parkgate; *Banana* planation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - N ; Pipit sp (Rock/Water) - 1 - N, calling @ 0648hrs ; Redwing - 2 - left SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - single adults, SW ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, over ; Jay - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - S, then SW @ 0630hrs

Parkgate; Forge Way: Grey Heron - 1 - N

Poolsbrook CP: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - feral ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - briefly up the far end of the lake

R Don, Effingham St: Sand Martin - 3

R Don, Rutland Rd: Sand Martin - 4 - Over river by Rutland Rd bridge 12:50. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - overhead at 12:53 ; Common Buzzard - 3 - Circling over with sparrowhawk

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Siskin - 1 - over, calling

Redmires conduit: Wheatear - 1 - in rough fields ; Golden Plover - 9 ; Lapwing - 15 - including much territorial chasing ; 319 - 1