Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Chase: Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Wheatear - 4 - Together ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Curlew - 1 ; Skylark - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Siskin - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Barbrook Pools: Wheatear - 1 - male

Bents Green: Common Buzzard - 1 - Circling over Thryft House with Sparrowhawk in attendance ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling over Thryft House with Common Buzzard in attendance

Blue Man*s Bower; Ulley Brook: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Bolehill Flash: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Sparrowhawk - 1 - displaying over trees at the rear of the flash. ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 6 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - 1 pair

Catcliffe Meadow: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 1 - male, singing in flight

Cowell Flat: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over calling

Graves Park: Wren - 28 - In song.

Greystones: 319 - 1 - Mobbed by Crow over observer's garden

Heeley: Chiffchaff - 1 - Bradfield Road area

Hudson*s Rough: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female, calls heard regularly ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1+ - on dead ivy covered tree + calls ; Wren - 3 - singing ; Robin - 6 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 2 - singing ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing ; Jay - 1 - carrying nest material to dead ivy covered tree ; Magpie - 1+

Markham Vale: Snipe - 3 ; Jack Snipe - 1

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1

Moss Road, Totley: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling

Orgreave Lakes: Whimbrel - 1 - Called at loudly at 06.57. ; Wheatear - 2 - On the plains 1 Male and 1 Female. ; Marsh Harrier - 1 ; Red Kite - 1 - Drifted slowly south at 09:30 - several feathers missing from the right wing. ; Gadwall - c20 - Several parties of males chasing females. ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - Circling high above Treeton at 07:45, then slowly drifted southwest. ; Whimbrel - 1 - Again at 7:15 ; Avocet - 1 - In from the north at 0750, briefly on the island then continued south, later seen at RVCP & Carr Vale.

R Rother, Bolehill.: Sand Martin - c20 - very active around colony (10-15 holes in N-facing bank of river) ; Kingfisher - 1

R Rother, Catcliffe: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Ramsley Res: Cuckoo - 1 - ad male trapped and ringed

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 1 - adult on Top Res - returning breeder hopefully ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 8 ; Fieldfare - 2 - flew NE ; Willow Warbler - 24 - singing around reservoir perimeter ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Brambling - 1 - male in conifers by Top Res

Rocher Head Fields: Wheatear - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - on ridge

Rother Valley, Canklow: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over woodland to N of M1, J33

Rother Valley, Whiston: Peregrine - 1 - adult over ; Kestrel - 1 - male, over from Brinsworth switching station ; Stock Dove - 3 - 2 under Rotherway Bridge; 1 under M1 bridge ; Gadwall - 5 - 2m, 1f on oxbow W of Rotherway; 1pr on river to E ; Linnet - 5 - flock

Rotherham Centre: Mistle Thrush - 1 - flew into roadside tree; Greasbrough Street

RVCP: Egyptian Goose - 3 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Avocet - 1 - south at 08-55

Treeton Meadows; oxbow & surrounds: Greylag Goose - 3 ; Canada Goose - c40 ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Mallard - 2 - drakes

Treeton; Old Flatts Farm: Stock Dove - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - singing

Wharncliffe Chase: Mistle Thrush - 4 - Singing ; Skylark - 30+ - Numerous singing/chasing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - Singing ; Meadow Pipit - 30+ ; Wheatear - 15 ; Willow Warbler - 30+ - Singing ; Fieldfare - 21 ; Swallow - 1 ; Stock Dove - 4 - 2 pairs ; 319 - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling 10:45 ; Curlew - 2