Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 40 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Sand Martin - c20 ; Swallow - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 4+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 8

Wharncliffe Chase: Linnet - 2 - One singing ; Meadow Pipit - 40+ - Several song/display ; Skylark - c40 - Numerous singing/display/chasing ; Lapwing - 4 - 2 pairs acting territorial ; 319 - 3+ ; Wheatear - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Stock Dove - 4 - 2 pairs at traditional breeding sites, song/display ; Redwing - c20 ; Curlew - 3+ ; Fieldfare - c70 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Kestrel - 2 - incl 1 displaying

Whirlow Park: House Martin - 1 - Heading north east ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Carrying nest material

Baslow: Treecreeper - 1 - In monkey puzzle tree in observer’s garden ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair visiting garden feeders ; Siskin - 4 - Visiting garden feeders

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Singing male in trees

Cinder Hills: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 10 - on exposed central island ; Herring Gull - 5+ - juvs ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Mallard - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing

Foxhill: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling, Shaw Hill ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 5 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Siskin - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - one gathering nesting material ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Longshaw: Mandarin - 4 - two pairs investigating holes in trees near the visitor centre

Low Common: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing from copse

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1

Middle Common: Meadow Pipit - 1 - in defunct hedge ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male in defunct hedge ; Blue Tit - 1 - in defunct hedge

Midhope Res area: Fieldfare - c400 - Large roving group, probably more than estimated ; Redwing - c150 ; Curlew - 12 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - All displaying ; 319 - 5 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 7 ; Greylag Goose - c80 ; Mallard - c30 ; Skylark - 1 - Singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - Singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Little Grebe - 3 - One trilling ; Black-headed Gull - c1000 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Raven - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3

Northern General Hospital: Song Thrush - 1 - Singing in wood next to Barnsley Road. ; Greenfinch - 1 - Singing

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 1 ; Redshank - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Little Egret - 4 ; Goldeneye - 2

Owler Bar: Red Kite - 1 - Flying over moor at side of Owler Bar Rd

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 1087 - Counted from photograph.

Rawmarsh; High Street: Greenfinch - 1 - stunning male on roof of Earl Grey PH ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - on roof of Earl Grey PH

Redmires: Brambling - 3 - Two singing near Fairthorne Lodge drive gate.

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 14 - including display ; Curlew - 2 - bubbling on territory ; Snipe - 1 - chipping ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Red Grouse - 3

Rockingham Wood: Chiffchaff - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing

Rotherham Centre: Sand Martin - 1 - Flying over the river and the Bridge Inn