Sightings Archive

Shillito Wood: Goldfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 6 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 13 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Mute Swan - 4 - 1attacked by dogs on 16th had to be put down ; Greylag Goose - 60+ ; Canada Goose - 85 ; Gadwall - 6 - 3pr ; Wigeon - 1 - fem ; Pochard - 15 - 3f ; Tufted Duck - 98 ; Water Rail - 3 - came to breakfast ; Lapwing - 250+ ; Black-headed Gull - 220+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad south ; Little Owl - 1 - reported ; Skylark - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 25 ; Blackbird - 37 ; Long-tailed Tit - 29 - in 2 parties ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 5

Aldwarke SF: Redwing - 4 ; Pheasant - 4 - 2m; 2f ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over towards treatment works ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Herring Gull - 1 - imm, SW ; Reed Bunting - 1 - female ; Tufted Duck - 7 - 2m; 5f ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Common Buzzard - 1 - left W/SW ; Woodcock - 1 - disturbed from dense cover ; Song Thrush - 1

Aldwarke; Candlelight field: Goldfinch - 07-Aug - on teasel heads

Barbrook Pools: Brambling - 01-Feb - at the cottage. ; Goldfinch - 45-50 - at the cottage

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 4 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Redwing - 4 ; Skylark - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 8+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Goldfinch - c.12 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - heard only; mid-afternoon ; Herring Gull - 1

Beauchief: Long-tailed Tit - c5

Big Moor: Red Grouse - 2 - on path between Barbrook Pools and Little Barbrook Reservoir

Greno Wood: Crossbill - 4 - Flew South East calling. ; Brambling - 2+ - 1+ around the feeders and 1 in a flock of Chaffinch feeding by the roadside opposite the car park ; Chaffinch - 40+ - Feeding by the roadside opposite the car park.

Holmebrook Valley Park: Green Woodpecker - 1 - 1st for site since 2013 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Females

Kinder Scout: Raven - 1 - Croaking near Kinder Low (Swine's Back)

Longshaw: Brambling - 10+ - Under beeches by the lake

Millhouses Lane garden: Stock Dove - 7 ; Stock Dove - 7 - a small flock of 6 foraging under the bird feeders before flying away to SE; the 7th, perhaps one of the regular two, feeding later ; Bullfinch - 3+ - males, 4+ females, regular feeders on the sunflower hearts ; Goldfinch - 8+ - regular feeders, too ; Chaffinch - 2+ - one male, two females regular visitors ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 3+ - regular with 1 visiting the nest box, unused during the breeding season, staying in the box for several minutes ; Great Tit - 1+

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Brambling - 1 - heard over ; Black-headed Gull - 25 ; Fieldfare - 6 - all W/SW ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - over ; Great Black-backed Gull - 5 - E/SE ; Herring Gull - 8 - E/SE ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Redwing - c60 - feeding on field with young cereal crop ; Rook - c70 - adults & 1cy, feeding in young cereal crop ; Jackdaw - c75 - with Rooks

Norton Lees: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - over Thorpe estate

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 200+

Ramsley Res/Leash Fen: Brambling - 1+ - 1 (calling) and possibly all of a flock of 14 finches SE at dusk

Rivelin Valley: Goosander - 3 - 2 males on Wolf Wheel Pond followed by single female ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 11 ; Woodpigeon - 12 ; Redwing - 30 - Feeding in Oak farm fields at 2pm

Rotherham; Bassingthorpe Lane: Common Buzzard - 1 - left SW ; Magpie - 8 - together

Rotherham; Northfield: Great Black-backed Gull - 60-70 - mostly adults, visiting recycling centre & loafing on adjacent rooftops ; Herring Gull - c180 - inc colour-ringed adult, 5H3B (yellow)

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 15 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 10