Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 4

Parkgate: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

R Don, Effingham St: Sand Martin - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Herring Gull - 25 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 3cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2cy ; 321 - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Sand Martin - 8 - back at the breeding site and visiting previous nest sites. ; Kingfisher - 2 - chasing downstream ; Goosander - 1 - drake flew upstream

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - W @ c1430hrs

River Don Hillfoot-Owlerton: Dipper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - flew out and towards Hillsborough. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 - Male ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing. ; Kestrel - 1 - Overhead. ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Rotherham town centre: Goosander - 2 - Female nr Chantry Bridge, Male opp Forge Island

Stanage Edge: Red Grouse - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - A pair ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Ring Ouzel - 2

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Brambling - 27

Wentworth Park: 319 - 2 - Prob pr soaring and calling together over woodland adj to deer shed.

Wincobank Wood: Common Buzzard - 1

Big Moor: Lapwing - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; 324 - 30+ - Red Deer - 30+

Bole Hill Rec: Raven - 1 - calling overhead, flying north-east

Catcliffe AMP: Golden Plover - 200+

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1 - male - fem presumed nesting ; Gadwall - 21 ; Shoveler - 2 - a pair ; Pochard - 5 - 3m, 2f ; Tufted Duck - 8+ ; Little Grebe - 1+ - trilling ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - an apparent pair ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 22+ ; Black-headed Gull - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 2 - a pair prospecting

Green Moor: Brambling - 8+ - Still feeding in garden

Hangingwater garden: Brambling - 1 - m first after a few weeks' gap

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - singing in copse at bottom of garden for the first time this year. ; Goldcrest - 1

Leash Fen: 319 - 1

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Newbold, Chesterfield: Waxwing - 14 - Still on Mardale Close at 12:30

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Sand Martin - 21 - moving N (4,11,6) ; Stock Dove - 1

Padley Gorge: Pheasant - 1 - Calling ; Kestrel - 1 - Male ; 319 - 1 ; Brambling - 13+ - Flock of males and females in beech trees ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Stonechat - 1

Poolsbrook CP: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - feral ; Great Crested Grebe - 6

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Canada Goose - 2 - pair

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Goosander - 7 - 4m (1 2cy); 3f @ 0800hrs ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm, wading in shallows

R Don, Rutland Rd: Sand Martin - 3 - feeding over river.

Ramsley Res: Lapwing - 4

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 6 - 4 males and 2 females on river between Forge Island and Chantry bridge. ; Common Buzzard - 2 - one soaring high over @ 1250hrs, left N in a long, rapid descending glide & joined by a second bird over Barbot Hall

Shillito Wood: Curlew - 2 - in a field near the wood ; Lapwing - 13 - in and over fields near the wood ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - by the road near the wood

Strines Moor: Woodcock - 2 - roding over Strines Inn

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Brambling - 27

Wadsley Common: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singling above Aldene Road

Blackbrook Wood: Brambling - 1 - singing

Blackburn Meadows: Raven - 1 - flew north at 12:35

Blackburn Meadows NR: Chiffchaff - 5 - singing acorss site ; 319 - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Raven - 1 - flew over heading north.