Sightings Archive

Bassingthorpe Spring: Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing

Blackburn Meadows NR: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew over footpath @13.00

Chancet Wood: Blackcap - 1 - singing

Clough Bank Allotment: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; House Sparrow - 1+ ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1 - singing

Green Moor: Fieldfare - 30+ ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Pair

Hordron: Raven - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 30+ - feeding around rabbit warren. ; Ring Ouzel - 4 - all males . 2 feeding in sheep fields , 2 calling from tree tops. ; Feral Pigeon - 15 - around farm buildings. ; Golden Plover - 2 - back on territory.

Hudson*s Rough, NW of f/p: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1 - singing

Hudson*s Rough, SE of f/p: Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing from tall Holly ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1+

Lodge Moor garden: Grey Heron - 1 - Catching frogs in pond ; Brambling - 2 - Male and female regularly ; Siskin - 6 - Regularly

Meersbrook Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1

Middleton Moor: Avocet - 1 - still present at 15.20 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; 320 - 7 ; Shelduck - 2 ; Lapwing - 43 ; Wheatear - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 5 - North at 0800 ; Rock Pipit - 1 - On northern edge of main lake at 08:15 ; Shoveler - 13 - 4 small lake, 9 big lake. 10 drakes. ; 320 - 16 ; Little Grebe - 2 - on small lake ; Oystercatcher - 4 - SW shore of large lake ; Redshank - 2 - on island ; Reed Bunting - 1 - m on N shore ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing near river ; 324 - 1 - Brown Hare on N buildng land ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Goldcrest - 2

Ravenfield: Blackcap - 4 - Males singing, along disused railway line below Pingle lane tip. ; Chiffchaff - c15 - Along disused railway line from Vale Road to Ravenfield Lane, ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing - disused railway line.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 1 - over @ rooftop height harassed by crows @ 1000hrs; left E/SE ; Greenfinch - 2

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 2 ; Curlew - 4 ; Lapwing - 8+

Redmires Top Res: Little Grebe - 1

Rivelin Valley: Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk over Nether Cut Wheel Dam and adjoining areas.

Rother Valley CP: Egyptian Goose - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Rotherham Centre: Kestrel - 1 - Harassed by a crow near New York stadium @12.45 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Pair nest building @ Centenary Way roundabout, Mistle Thrush active also

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Gadwall - 40 - max count. ; Shoveler - 10 - max in the early months ; 320 - 30 - max in early months

Spout House Hill: Yellowhammer - 2 - m+f. ; Tree Pipit - 3

Watergrove: Oystercatcher - 1

Birley Edge: Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing males ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male - first here this Spring

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 1 - Singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - heard

Canklow Woods: Woodcock - 1 - 1 heard 0520

Cressbrook: 320 - 15 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - male ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 5+

Cressbrook Dale: Chiffchaff - 5+

Dale Dike Res: Canada Goose - 2 - pair ; Greylag Goose - 16 ; Mandarin - 6 - two pairs & 2 males ; Mallard - 6

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Chiffchaff - 1 - heard

Gleadless Common: Skylark - 2 - circling low over The Common at 08:17 brief song. ; Grey Heron - 1 - flew low over 07:50 ; Mallard - 2 - a pair flew over towards myrtle springs

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 - Pair? Over W edge of Watson's Tip