Sightings Archive

Sothall: Swift - 1 - South 1520 hr

Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 4+ - 1 singing ; Mute Swan - 4 - SW, to canal basin ; Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over with SH ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over ; Kestrel - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - adult & 2 juvs, circling over

Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Lapwing - 27 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - 1cy ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - inc 2 singing ; 320 - 8 ; Mallard - 24 ; Moorhen - 6 - all 1cy ; Shoveler - 2 - eclipse drakes ; Coot - 1 - 1cy ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Stock Dove - 9+ - feeding with WP flock ; Woodpigeon - c20 ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ - moving S ; Pheasant - 2 - m & f ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - on water tower

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 14+ ; Whitethroat - 1 - in tit-flock

Barbrook Res: Stonechat - 8 ; Whinchat - 3 - Whinchats and Stonechats all on fence wires by path between the B6054 and the res catching the erupting Flying Ants ; Snipe - 2 ; Raven - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 - by small pools just south of Barbrook Cottage

Barnside Moor: Stonechat - 1 ; Red Grouse - 10+ ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; 319 - 2 - flying over together ; Merlin - 1 - flew onto drystone wall where it flushed up small birds, then flew off back west

Bramley: Black-headed Gull - 30+ - Flock over village feeding on insects. ; Herring Gull - 2 - In with BH Gull flock. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Pair circling over Flanderwell Avenue. ; Goldcrest - 1 - In school field hedgerow. ; House Martin - 6

Catcliffe Flash: Hobby - 1 - Patroling reedbeds catching dragonflies. ; Hobby - 1 - second picture ; Gadwall - 20+ ; Wigeon - 6 ; Little Grebe - 6+ ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Shoveler - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Cowell Flat: Hobby - 1

Don Canal; Rotherham Cut: Whitethroat - 4 - all 1cy ; Mute Swan - 2 - NE towards Aldwarke ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Blackcap - 2+ - feeding in Elders ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Herring Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Goldfinch - c10 ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ - moving S

Ecclesall: Swift - 1 - flew low to the S at 19:20 hrs

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; Moorhen - 3 - Main Res. ; 320 - 3 ; Mallard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over stubble field. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male low through site. ; 319 - 4+ - Soaring high over site including calling juvs. ; Jay - 2 ; Swallow - 15+ ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - 2 singing. ; Whitethroat - 1 - On dam wall vegetation. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling near road. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On house roof. ; Pheasant - 1

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 1+ - 1 over Brick Kiln Pltn, with calls probably of juv from near Watson's Tip ; Kestrel - 1 - Hovering high over Watson's Tip

High Green: 319 - 4

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 23 ; Shoveler - 2 ; 320 - 26 ; Lapwing - 14 ; Redstart - 1 - On fence to hide ; Stonechat - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Black-headed Gull - 250+ ; Lapwing - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 70+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 80+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 2 Juv ; Common Gull - 1