Sightings Archive

Catcliffe Flash: Coot - 16 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+

Kiveton Community Woodland: Peregrine - 1

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 24 ; Mandarin - 16 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 8 ; Little Grebe - 1

Meersbrook Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Millhouses Marriott Road garden: Jay - 1 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - female ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; House Sparrow - 30+ ; Nuthatch - 2

R Don, Stephenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - adult, different bird to November, no black in P4 for a start. ; Great Black-backed Gull - c80 ; Herring Gull - c40 - including this bird ringed in a colony on Hørnoya Island, Vardo, Finnmark in 2010, and seen at his site in Jan 2018, and previously in Salop in 2012.

Endcliffe Park: Redwing - c10

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 7 - 4m, 3f ; Long-tailed Tit - 6

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Mute Swan - 2 - adults SW @ 1247hrs

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2+ - 3 separate sightings between Shepherd Wheel and Forge Dam. ; Jay - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1

Barbrook Plantation: Lesser Redpoll - c40 - Feeding in Alders

Barbrook Valley: Lesser Redpoll - 10 - In trees by pond ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; 324 - 18 - Red Deer

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 1 - 1 male feeding on cotoneaster

Fulwood garden: Jackdaw - 2 - including one bird showing characteristics of 'Nordic' Jackdaw (monedula) - photo ; Jackdaw - 2 - another photo of the apparent 'Nordic' bird; only stayed briefly before leaving with Rooks ; Jackdaw - 2 - and a final photo of the 'Nordic' bird ; Brambling - 5 - at feeders - 1m and 4f ; House Sparrow - 6 - below feeders ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m, 1f at feeders ; Rook - 6 - below feeders

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - by pond ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ - inc 1 sing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - inc 1 sing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 - Feeding on bird food left on Green Man sculpture

Nether Edge: Redwing - 20+ - Sunning themselves In tree on Steade Road

Redmires Top Res: Bullfinch - 2 - 1M, 1F

Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 3 - 1 SW @ 0826hrs; 2 SW, circled & returned NE @ 1122hrs

Rotherham Centre; Brown*s Cut: Mute Swan - 1 - adult (colour ringed 941 yellow)

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Goosander - 1pr - SW @ 0825hrs

Rotherham Centre; Rotherham Lock: Grey Heron - 1 - imm in from W @ 0802hrs

Rotherham; Northfield: Mute Swan - 2 - W @ 0755hrs

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 30+ ; Common Gull - 3 ; Herring Gull - 2 - Ad and juv

Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Robin - 1+ - sing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - inc 1 sing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Brambling - 10+ - Some feeding on ground beneath beech trees in SW corner of wood. ; Goldfinch - 4+

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Coal Tit - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 6