Sightings Archive

Blackburn Meadows NR: Canada Goose - 5 ; Mallard - 14 ; 320 - 4 ; Goosander - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 12+ ; Herring Gull - 20+ - drifting over from sewage works. ; Snipe - 8 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Greenfinch - 7 - 4 singing males ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 3 singing males

Den Bank: Brambling - 1 - female at the allotments

Dore: Starling - 1 - Taking nest material into neighbour’s roof

Green Moor: Brambling - 6 ; Fieldfare - 20

Holmebrook Valley Park: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Rook - 3 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Mallard - 32 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 12 ; Canada Goose - 2

Newbold, Chesterfield: Waxwing - 13 - In garden on Mardale Close all day

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 5

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 1

Porter Brook: Dipper - one ; Mandarin - 2 - a pair

R Don, Effingham St: Kingfisher - 2 ; Sand Martin - 1 - high W, probably a migrant ; Cormorant - 1 - imm over E

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 3 - 2M+1F viewed from bridge next to old Tesco car park.

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Goosander - 3 - redheads, 2f, and 1w male. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 8

Redmires conduit: Raven - 6 - over moors at end of conduit

Redmires Middle Res: Fieldfare - c50 - in roadside fields

Rotherham Centre: Grey Heron - 1 - high to SW @ 0836hrs ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over from SW @ 1136hrs, soaring over together for several minutes before drifting off rapidly to W

Sheffield Parkway, junction with A57: Red Kite - 1 - mobbed by crows

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 49 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 39 ; Kestrel - 2 - singles ; Black-headed Gull - 400 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 3cy ; Skylark - 6 - singing ; Sand Martin - 6 ; Wren - 13 ; Dunnock - 31 ; Robin - 30 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 12 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Chaffinch - 17 ; Bullfinch - 6 - 3pr ; Brambling - 16+ ; Reed Bunting - 9

Wincobank Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - mobbed by crows

Agden Res: Robin - 5 ; Blue Tit - 9+ ; Coal Tit - 7 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 9 ; Mallard - 7

Agden Rocher: Wheatear - 3 - males

Barlow Common: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 - in three different territories ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - across four different sites

Burbage Valley: Golden Plover - 30 - scattered flock flew north. ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male singing at the top end of the valley. ; Stonechat - 1 - Female

Freebirch: Little Owl - 2

Green Moor: Brambling - 6

Heeley City Farm: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Low Bradfield: Curlew - 48 - feeding in field opposite old Agden Res on Windy Hill Lane ; Treecreeper - 3 - also on windy hill ; Magpie - 4 ; Jackdaw - 30+ ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair on stream in low bradfield ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - in same area as mandarin ; Wren - 2 ; Fieldfare - 7 - in tree on windy Bank Lane then flew off towards Dale Dyke ; Jay - 2

Low Bradfield/Rocher Area: Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Pheasant - 4 ; Lapwing - 4