Sightings Archive

Shepherd*s Plantation: Magpie - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Brambling - 10+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Stanage: Tawny Owl - 2 - Pair close to each other and calling at 7.40 (record shot) ; Brambling - c80 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 22 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Canada Goose - 74 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 15 - 3f ; Tufted Duck - 71 ; Goldeneye - 1 - fem ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 15 ; Coot - 100+ ; Lapwing - 220+ ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ ; Herring Gull - 20 - inc 10on water 4s2s ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad south ; Skylark - 1 - south ; Redwing - 16 ; Fieldfare - 61 - inc 40+ in field ; Blackbird - 50+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 16 - flock ; Magpie - 12 - 6pr ; House Sparrow - 6+ ; Tree Sparrow - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 - 04-Feb ; Greenfinch - 9 ; Brambling - 1 - at feeders ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Feral Pigeon - 150+

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm (take off and landing practice on-going) ; Wigeon - 3 ; Gadwall - 30+ ; 320 - 5 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 8 - 6m, 2f ; Goldeneye - 1 - male ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 15 ; Black-headed Gull - 110+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 1 down, 1 over ; Herring Gull - 1

Hillsborough Park: Tufted Duck - 8 - 5 male + 3 female ; Goosander - 3 - females

Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Goosander - 3 - NE @ 0755hrs

Canklow Woods: Pink-footed Goose - c 150 - c 150 north west at 1140 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - c30

Kiveton Community Woodland: Stonechat - 2+

Longshaw: Brambling - c10 - Briefly in treetops near lake ; Lesser Redpoll - c40 ; Siskin - 3 - with mixed flock of Tits and Goldfinches ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Mandarin - 11 ; 319 - 1

Manor: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Flew onto pine tree in front of Manor Lodge School, City Road.

Millhouses: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 01.30 Springfield Rd

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c120 - west at 12:!2 ; Siskin - 23 - over south. ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 5 - group flying high, chased by a herring gull for about 30 seconds

Oughtibridge garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male - bathing in garden pond

Parkwood Springs: Pink-footed Goose - 100+ - 100-130 very noisy skein N/W over Oakham Drive at 10:10am

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 1 - NE @ 1157hrs

Shillito Wood: Great Tit - 10 ; Blue Tit - 20 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 ; Coal Tit - 15 ; Chaffinch - 20 ; Brambling - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Goldfinch - 15

Shirecliffe: Pink-footed Goose - c100 - 52 west shortly before 10 and another 45 at 10:10

Big Moor: Fieldfare - 40

Curbar Gap: Brambling - 1

Fairholmes: Coal Tit - 20+

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 17:40

Meersbrook Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c190

Redmires conduit: Red Grouse - 4 ; 319 - 1 ; Coal Tit - 02-Mar

Rotherham Centre; Corporation Street: Blackbird - 1 - in full song @ 1605hrs

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 6 ; Coal Tit - 10 ; Blue Tit - 20