Sightings Archive

Rivelin Valley: 319 - 1 - Perched in low bushes near Third Coppice Wheel

Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew off over town centre

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling regularly for 10 mins ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 5+ - some feeding on windfalls. ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Brambling - 1+

Sheffield Parkway: Short-eared Owl - 1 - tussling with a Kestrel at c07:35 behind the Aston Hotel

Shepherd*s Plantation: Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Brambling - 10+

Thrybergh: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting on rough ground ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Calling along disused railway track ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - 1 male hunting

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 6 ; 321 - 2 ; Mute Swan - 19 ; Greylag Goose - 98 ; Canada Goose - 88 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 6 - 2f ; Tufted Duck - 34 ; Water Rail - 3 - 2 for suet 1 for hovis ; Lapwing - 85 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Robin - 26 - at least 10 coming to suet pellets ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - 2, 8+ ; Bullfinch - 10 ; Brambling - 7 ; Reed Bunting - 8

Wath-upon-Dearne: Peregrine - 1 - imm with red darvic ring PSA reported (with photos) from Next warehouse, Manvers Way, Wath-upon-Dearne via Twitter; picked up via the Sheffield Peregrines twitter feed. This is one of the birds ringed at St George's in May 2018.

Wharncliffe Side: Goldfinch - 6 - Garden Birdwatch ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; House Sparrow - 3 ; Starling - 3 ; Brambling - 3 - associated with flock of Goldfinches and Chaffinch for the past week or so coming to feed on spilt seed on ground around garden feeders. ; Waxwing - 3 - At end of hour 3 perching in top of Silver Birch for about a minute then flew off to East. ; Dunnock - 2 ; Siskin - 2 - feeding on Niger seed with Goldfinches ; Blackbird - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Aldwarke SF: Tufted Duck - 3 - 1m; 2f ; Coot - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Mallard - 1pr ; Gadwall - 5 ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Snipe - 1 ; Raven - 1 - over from W @ 1008hrs; dropped down on Liberty Steel site

Barlow Brook: Siskin - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 02-Mar

Broomhead Res: Black-headed Gull - 1200+ - in roost ; Herring Gull - 10 ; Common Gull - c15 ; Goosander - 6

Deepcar/Garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - Foraging on small rose bush outside kitchen window made washing up worthwhile. ; Jackdaw - 5 ; Magpie - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Collared Dove - 7

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 20+

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Coal Tit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 01-Feb ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 - single flock

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 3 - 2m+1f at 10:05

Green Moor: Brambling - 3 ; Tree Sparrow - 3

Holmebrook Valley Park: Magpie - 20+ - 20 - 30 appearing to be roosting in scrub at dusk

Linacre Res: Cormorant - 1

Linacre Wood: Nuthatch - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Heard

Morley Pond: Cormorant - 1 - resting on fallen birch @ island W end. ; Mute Swan - 3 - Residents - 2 ad, behind boathouse. ; Mallard - 10+ ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Lapwing - 40+ - In field E of Trowles Wood. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male caught rodent @ Low Common flew into wood S side of lake. ; 319 - 1 - Moving through wood on S side.

Mount Darnall: Carrion Crow - 117 ; Rook - 21 ; Jackdaw - 32