Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Chase: Reed Bunting - 10 ; Linnet - 25+ - 3 breeding colonies with singing/display ; Redstart - 1 - Male singing ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Heron - 3 - Separate singles south, local movement ; Redwing - 2 - With Fieldfare ; Tree Pipit - 6 - All singing ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female ; Goldcrest - 1 - Singing ; Nuthatch - 20+ - Several singing ; Lapwing - 9

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 2 - roding

Whiston Meadows: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Common Buzzard - 2 - aerial display

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - a male

Barbrook Res: Black Redstart - 1 - Female, feeding by small group of trees

Birley Edge: Blackcap - 1 - Singing male

Bolehill Flash: Whitethroat - 1 ; Sand Martin - 20+

Cavendish Mill: Skylark - 2 - in surrounding fields

Coombs Dale: Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 2 singles heard ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - singles in fields ; Wheatear - 1 - male at top ; Curlew - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - at top ; Skylark - 12+ - singing in the fields at the top of the Dale, & above on the SE side

Graves Park: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing near the middle pond.

Handsworth: Peregrine - 1 - Flew over Asda car park

Langsett Res: Oystercatcher - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 8 - 4 male, 4 female

Midhope Res: Raven - 1 ; Fieldfare - 31 ; Swallow - 4 - West ; Common Sandpiper - 3 - Calling/display ; Common Sandpiper - 3 - Another pic ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2 males, 1 female ; Sand Martin - 8 - 7+1 west ; Chiffchaff - 01-Feb ; Song Thrush - 4 - Singing ; Skylark - 1 - Singing ; Oystercatcher - 5 - Pair + 3 over from Low Moor ; Linnet - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - One food carrying to nest ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Curlew - 01-Feb ; Lesser Redpoll - 12 - 4+8 eastwards ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 3

Northern General Hospital: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Soaring above hispital grounds,mobbed by BHG's

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 4 ; Goldeneye - 3 ; Goosander - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Little Egret - 4 ; Arctic Tern - 6 - 15:30-18:30 at least ; Arctic Tern - 6 - another photo ; Sand Martin - 2 - very few hirundines tonight ; 320 - 2 ; Pochard - 1 - drake ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - this evening on the plains

Parkgate Canal Basin: Common Sandpiper - 1 - Flew from canal path towards cafe @05.30 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing

R Don, Meadowhall: Little Egret - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Kingfisher - 2 - presumed pair? Very noisy in riverside willows; left upriver @ 1130hrs

R Sheaf, Heeley: Sand Martin - 5

R Sheaf, Totley Rise: Dipper - 2 - Flying along R Sheaf near West View Lane

Redmires conduit: Grey Wagtail - 1 - At conduit outflow bridge

Rotherham Centre: Sand Martin - 10-Dec - along river & canal from Chantry Bridge to Rawmarsh Road; no activity around traditional nesting site.

RVCP: Egyptian Goose - 2 ; Shoveler - 2 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - down with resident geese

Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing, W of pond, Little Lane ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - feeding, W of pond

Scholes Pond: 319 - 1 - Moving through trees calling ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1+ - 1 singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - foraging, chased by Blackbird, in turn chased by Jay ; Blackcap - 1 - singing, close by from Little Lane ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - male ; Skylark - 1 - singing just E of pond

Scholes Village: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - S from Yew Tree Farm into back garden ; Woodpigeon - 6+ ; Collared Dove - 3 ; Blackbird - 2 - singing ; House Sparrow - 6+ ; Greenfinch - 1+ - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Stoney Middleton: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - in fields at top of village