Sightings Archive

Rother Valley CP: Chiffchaff - 2 - One singing near old Playdales site and second (photo) in bushes/trees along path between River Rother and Meadowgate Lake

Sheffield Centre: Peregrine - 1 - circling and calling above Sydney St

Shepherd*s Plantation: Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Pheasant - 1 - male

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2 - presumed resident pair returned ; Fieldfare - 30 ; Grey Partridge - 1 - calling at first light ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying over Round Wood ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - 'yaffling' in southern paddocks ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Rook - 5 - west

St George*s Church: Redwing - 4

Ulley CP: Raven - 1 - flew E calling at 10.40.

Upper Burbage Bridge: Reed Bunting - 1 - Male

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pos pr into Scholes Coppice.

White Lee Moor: Fieldfare - 56 - perched on wires .

Woodseats: Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Pair midway through constructing nest in same bush as they built in during April last year. ; Collared Dove - 2+ - resident population

Acorn Hill, Stannington: Tree Sparrow - 1 - singing

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Circling high over from Canklow moving NW towards Brinsworth 13.10.

Centenary Riverside: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Bathing and preening under bridge. ; Moorhen - 4 - River, 1 pair. ; Blue Tit - 6 - 2-3 feeding on Bulrushes in reed bed. ; Great Tit - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Robin - 03-Apr - 2 singing. ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; 321 - 1 - On pond. ; Goldfinch - 05-Jun ; Wren - 05-Jun - 3 singing. ; 321 - 1 - On pond ; Robin - 3 - 2 singing ; Wren - 05-Jun - 3 singing ; Goldfinch - 05-Jun

Crookes Valley Park: Canada Goose - 9 - A welcome visitor! Unusual here ; Mute Swan - 0 - Two first-winters have moved on ; Coot - 6 - On lake, with much territorial chasing ; Nuthatch - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - Singing ; Jay - 2 - Agitated pair, apparently mobbing Tawny Owl in ivy-covered tree, but owl not seen ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - In wood near previously used nest site

Ellsemere Green: Waxwing - c12 - feeding in Sorbus above bus stop 9am

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 41 - Lower pond ; Treecreeper - 2 - on adjacent trees

Kelham Island: Mandarin - 1 - Male, on slack water above Ball Bridge weir

Malin Bridge: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 circling very low over Norris Road , calling .before heading towards Hillborough. ; Dunnock - 2 - feeding on insects and seed, male singing possibly going to nest in ivy hedge ; Blackbird - 2 - male and female - female collecting nesting material and taking it to ivy hedge

Munsbrough Lane: Kestrel - 1 - Flew from pylon then onto mobile mast near Bassingthorpe Spring.

Nether Edge: Blackcap - 1 - female briefly in garden on Moncrieffe Rd

Orgreave Lakes: Redshank - 2 ; Goldeneye - 3 - 1m,2f. ; Goosander - 4 ; Skylark - 7 - 2 high ,singing

R Don, Effingham St: Chiffchaff - 1

R Don, Newhall Rd: Kingfisher - 2

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Grey Heron - 1 - adult, wading in shallows ; Goosander - 3 - all drakes, feeding actively ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - over

Rawmarsh: Whooper Swan - 2 - flew over south at 07:28

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 27

Redmires Top Res: Curlew - 61 - Roosted ; Oystercatcher - 4 - Roosted ; Woodcock - 1 - roding,

Silverwood Lagoon: Whooper Swan - 6 - early afternoon, still present at 16.00

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 39 ; Greylag Goose - 28 ; Gadwall - 5 - 2f ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 43 ; Kestrel - 1 - imm.f ; Pheasant - 2 - crowing ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 30 - circa inc.4disp. ; Black-headed Gull - 100 - circa. ; Common Gull - 1 - south ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Skylark - 4 - singing ; Dunnock - 27 - 20 singing ; Robin - 29 - 20 singing ; Song Thrush - 4 - singing ; Fieldfare - 10+ - in stubble fld ; Great Tit - 11 ; Blue Tit - 18 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - 5pr