Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 4 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Curlew - 1 ; Lapwing - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Starling - 20 - Dropped into reeds in front of hide.

Orgreave Lakes: Coal Tit - 1 - Singing and showing by Treeton railway bridge, pretty scarce here.

Pebley Pond: Common Tern - 1 - adult

R Don, Effingham St: Mediterranean Gull - 2

RVCP: Shoveler - 6 ; 320 - 8

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Common Tern - 2 - ad and juv ; 320 - 5 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Sothall: Barn Owl - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0352hr

Thrybergh CP: Swallow - 07-Aug - Through South in ones and twos. ; Peregrine - 1 - Circling overhead and stooping at Lapwings and Woodpigeon on stubble. ; Lapwing - 40+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Little Egret - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1

Treeton; Burnt Wood: Common Buzzard - 2 - circling over & interacting @ 1050hrs

Upper Whiston: Swallow - 3 - on roadside wires; Pleasley Road

Bannerdale: Tawny Owl - 3+ - Two males and at least one female calling at 04:30 after some kind of disturbance set them off.

Crowhole: Swallow - 8+ ; House Martin - 2

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 30+ ; Mallard - 40+ ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 7 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - over adjacent field, being harvested ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Swallow - 10+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 15+ - within mixed tit flock ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1+

Graves Park: Little Grebe - 4 - Adult male and female feeding 2 young on Boating Lake.

Greystones garden: Magpie - 10 - record number

Langsett Res: Swallow - c30 - Mostly juvs

Load Brook: Swallow - 50+ - mix of adults and juveniles

Middle Common: 319 - 1 - on telegraph pole for over 15 mins before gliding into Scholes Coppice at 19:50

Midhope Res: Common Scoter - 1 - Cracking male, diving frequently from 17.15 until 17.45 at least ; Curlew - 1 - Calling over res before leaving towards Low Moor ; Tufted Duck - 13 - Including two broods (3+3) of well grown juvs. ; Little Grebe - 8 - incl. 2 juvs ; Black-headed Gull - 156 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 32 - Mix of adults and juvs ; House Martin - c30 ; Swallow - c120 - Ranging from here to Upper Midhope. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Large female juv. ; Mallard - 100+ ; Canada Goose - 105+ - Assumed more hidden from view ; Greylag Goose - 41+ - More hidden from view ; Moorhen - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2+ - Over towards Low Moor

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Robin - 1 - local bird resumed singing

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 3 - ad with 2 chicks ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Mallard - 20 - c. ; Red Kite - 1 - sub-ad flew S ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redshank - 1 - arrived on Middle Res at 07:30 hrs ; Lapwing - 20 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20 - c. ; Herring Gull - 5 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 10 - c. ; Swallow - 20 - c. ; Tree Pipit - 3 - singles S

RVCP: Shoveler - 1 ; Egyptian Goose - 5

Scholes Coppice: Sparrowhawk - 1+ - calls regular, continuing after sunset

Silverwood Lagoon: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - a few bursts of song either side of 08.00 at northern end

Stannington: Whinchat - 1 - on dry stone wall on Moorwood Lane

Thrybergh CP: Little Egret - 1 ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Swallow - 20

Upper Common, Scholes: Long-tailed Tit - 4+ - along gorse, adj f/p ; Linnet - 2 - moving through gorse and trees ; Kestrel - 1 - into Shepherd's Plantation after 20:00

Wadsley Common garden: 324 - 2 - 2 badgers fighting in the garden at half past midnight making an awful row.

Damflask Res: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - ad and fully grown juv in neck end

Don Canal; Rotherham Cut: Sand Martin - 4+ - over

Orgreave Lakes: Little Grebe - 14 - Small lake. ; Little Egret - 5 ; Whimbrel - 11 - Southwest at 06:30 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

R Don, Brightside: Sand Martin - 2

R Don, Hecla area: Sand Martin - 3

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Grey Wagtail - 1 - calling ; Chiffchaff - 01-Feb - calling from riverside trees

R Don, Sanderson’s Weir: Little Egret - 1 - on weir

Redmires Res: Mallard - 40 - c. a marked increase ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Little Grebe - 3 - ad with 2 young