Sightings Archive

Graves Park: Wren - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Hay Wood, Grindleford: Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2+ - 2 seen, plus others heard

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Middleton Moor: 320 - 59 ; Gadwall - 2 - A pair ; Lapwing - 63 ; Curlew - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing

Midhope Res: Crossbill - 5 ; Goldeneye - 1 ; 320 - 4

Olive House, Loxley Valley: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Single presumably male, singing from roof apex.

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 4 - 2 pair. ; Goosander - 4 - 2 pair. ; Lapwing - 50+ ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On Weir

Reaps Wood: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming and aggression call

Reaps Wood, Rivelin: Raven - 1 - low over tumbling and calling. Left WSW

Salmon Pastures: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Shirebrook Valley: 324 - 1 - Brimstone butterfly in Sally Clark's Meadow

Staveley: Glaucous Gull - 1 - 2nd winter reported at Seymour Link Road on waste ground at 13:45 - SK452734

Stocksbridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - in Manchester Road gardens this morning ; Willow Tit - 1 - same male singing at several different points along the Steel Valley Walk.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Greylag Goose - 32 ; Canada Goose - 46 - grey col feral 1 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 2 - 2 males ; Tufted Duck - 41 ; Goldeneye - 1 - f ; Pheasant - 2 - crow. ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 50 ; Black-headed Gull - 300 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - left e ; Little Owl - 1 ; Wren - 6 - 5sing ; Dunnock - 25 - 19sing ; Robin - 20 - 14sing ; Song Thrush - 5 - sing ; Fieldfare - 70 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Chaffinch - 11 - 6sing ; Bullfinch - 9 ; Reed Bunting - 15 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Brambling - 16

Whittington Moor: Waxwing - 12 - reported at King Street North S41 8LJ SK 383 734

Wickersley: Red Kite - 1 - at 09:50

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 13 ; 320 - 8+ ; Shoveler - 3 ; Pochard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 7+ ; Cormorant - 6 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 30+ ; Black-headed Gull - 45

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - c32 - feeding in berry tree above bus shelter at 9am

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 3 ; 320 - 2 - Flushed from stream. ; Redwing - 30+ - Coming in to roost. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Flew from sluice onto Reed stem. ; Meadow Pipit - 7 - In set aside field. ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Cottage garden bird table. ; Tree Sparrow - 1+ - Call only. Cottage garden hedge. ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - Feeding in hedgerow together. ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Kestrel - 1 - Perched on top of Silver birch.

Green Moor: Brambling - 30+ - Feeding on my lawn

Old Wheel Farm, Loxley Valley: Curlew - 25 - My first sighting this year of curlew, observed herd of c.25 wheeling around, calling and then settling in two different fields to feed.

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - first here this year ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - ads ; Goosander - 2 - pair above weir

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Goosander - 3 - all drakes, squabbling over a large (15cm+) fish @ 0755hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Greenfinch - 2 - singing/aerial display @ 0750hrs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Common Buzzard - 3 - over from Wincobank towards Darnall ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Linnet - c30 ; Pied Wagtail - 3

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 22 - in fields - flew W at dusk