Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Little Grebe - 6

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - calls

Wentworth Park: Nuthatch - 1 - calling from wood adj to deer shed.

Whiteley Woods: Grey Heron - 1 - juv ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 4 ; Nuthatch - 1

Barkers Park: Redwing - 6+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 14 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Starling - 30+ - on adj pylon lines ; House Sparrow - 10+ ; Goldfinch - 10+ - inc c10 feeding in birch tree adj to allotment.

Brincliffe Edge Wood: Redwing - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Lower pond ; Black-headed Gull - 198 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 1

Green Moor: Common Buzzard - 3 - Circling together

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female

Hangingwater garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in observer's garden

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Goosander - 4prs - 3prs SW before 0900hrs; 1pr SW @ 1447hrs

Rother Valley CP: 322 - 2 - Black Swans still on main lake. ; Smew - 1 - Still on small wildlife lake.at 15:00 ; Little Egret - 1 - On small wildlife lake. ; Goldeneye - 5 - 1 m on Fishing Lake and 2m + 2fm on River Rother. ; 322 - 1 - Harris Hawk flew from river over Meadowgate Lake.

Rotherham: Goosander - 8 - On the River Don behind the New York Stadium

Shillito Wood: Blue Tit - 15 ; Great Tit - 10 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Brambling - 4 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Coal Tit - 8 ; Nuthatch - 1

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 3 - coming to garden feeders ; Fieldfare - 1 - feeding on hawthorn berries at the back of observers garden

Walkley garden: Chaffinch - 6 - 2 x m, 4 x f, unprecedented number in 35 years. (Rarely 1 or 2.) ; Blackcap - 1 - single m on fat-ball feeder

Agden Res: Mandarin - 70+ - along eastern shore near Smallfield Lane (mostly around 100m grid square SK262926).

Agden Side: Raven - 2

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1 adult on Stevenson road.

Bingham Park: Black-headed Gull - 26 ; Jay - 2 ; Dipper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing for over an hour

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 70+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Immature on upper pond

Firsby Res: 320 - 3 - Flushed from reeds by sound of nearby shotgun discharge. ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 40+ ; Fieldfare - 20+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling. ; Jay - 1 ; Siskin - 6 - Small flock over. ; Goldfinch - 30+

Forge Dam: 320 - 2 - Male & female ; Mandarin - 1 - Male ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male ; Black-headed Gull - 1

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 4 - Flying in Waterfall Wood ; Goosander - 2 - Bottom pond. Male & female fishing. Male successfully caught a 5" fish, possibly perch.

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female on fat feeder

High Bradfield: Common Buzzard - 2 - overhead ; Kestrel - 2

Langsett: Mallard - 58 ; 320 - 56 ; Fieldfare - 272 - At least 272 flew onto moor to roost could have been many as I was concentrating on the gulls.

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - 2400 - roosted ; Common Gull - 42 ; Pintail - 1 ; 320 - 40 - c. ; Black-headed Gull - 2700 - c. roosted by 16:30 hrs ; Common Gull - 35 - 40 - roosted

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 24 -13m,11f

Mayfield Valley: Redwing - 3+ ; Jay - 1

Middleton Moor: Goosander - 5 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 300 ; Black-headed Gull - 500 ; Herring Gull - 25 ; Common Gull - 23

Monsal Dale: Goosander - 1 - Female on wide slow section above weir ; 320 - 1 - Male on wide slow section above weir ; Raven - 2 - Flew over

Orgreave Lakes: Chiffchaff - 1 - still present along river

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 108 - inc 5 1cy ; Mallard - 80-90 ; Black-headed Gull - c30

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 138 - in fields

Porter Clough: Mandarin - 4 - 2m+2f ~ 200m up stream from Forge Dam at 15:10

Redmires Res: Mallard - 68