Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Peregrine - 1 - scattering WP and Corvids. First record this year. ; 319 - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Redwing - 200+ ; Fieldfare - 30+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 15+

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female

High Storrs: Starling - c.40 - in trees in front of school

Linacre Res: Brambling - 1 - Male in woods below bottom reservoir

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - Heard

Millhouses: Fieldfare - 1 - birds now returning to garden but this is the first winter thrush

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 2 - flew N at 10.30 ; Goldeneye - 1 - redhead

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 1 - drake, NE @ 0758hrs

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 3 - m ; Mandarin - 4 - 3m + 1f ; Pheasant - 1 - m on island

Agden Res: Blackbird - 9 - feeding on rowan berries ; Blue Tit - 20 + - On and around both lots of feeders ; Robin - 3 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Coal Tit - 20+ - on Feeders ; Chaffinch - Oct-15 - Mainly females again around feeders ; Woodpigeon - 30+ - Feeding under Oak trees ; Mallard - 15 ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Wren - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; 319 - 2 - circling and calling over conifers near feeders

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 1 ; Red Grouse - 1+

Curbar woods: Redwing - 1 ; Brambling - 2 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Nuthatch - 7 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Blue Tit - 20 ; Great Tit - 20 ; Redwing - 1

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 4 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Jay - up to 5 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - up to 6

Longshaw: Fieldfare - 10+ ; Mandarin - 7 - Males & females ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female

Low Bradfield: Hawfinch - 1 - Feeding on hawthorn berries, junction Wood Fall Lane and Smalllfield Lane at 11:55

Millhouses garden: Brambling - 1 - Feeding with chaffinches

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 5 - Feeding on Rowan berries

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 1pr - feeding actively @ 0755hrs

Ringinglow: Kestrel - 1 - Near Norfolk Arms

Sheffield University: Greenfinch - c.25 - Flying about between Hicks Buildng and Octagon, numbers having built up from c.10 at 15:15.

Ulley CP: Mandarin - 1 - male still present ; Willow Tit - 2 - at Morthen Arm feeders ; Willow Tit - 2 - second photo

Aldwarke: Redwing - 22 - NE ; Linnet - 7 ; Snipe - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Woodcock - 2 - 1 (SK4494); 1 (SK4394) ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - SW

Barlow Common: Pink-footed Goose - c. 100 - Skein going n/w, 12.20

Baslow Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 140 - S-E at 16.00 in low cloud and drizzle

Bingham Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - flew downstream

Canklow Woods: Green Woodpecker - 1

Dore: Treecreeper - 1 - in garden ; Nuthatch - 1

Edgemount: Brambling - 25 - Flock of around 25 in Beech trees on Delf Road plus one roadside casualty.

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 57 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Immature "stalked" by grey squirrel

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 10 - Males & females ; 320 - 1 - Male

Green Moor: Chiffchaff - 1

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 06:50. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult bird seemingly injured (unable to fly). Walking around Hurlfield Rd/Ashleigh Drive between 15:00-17:15. ; Nuthatch - 2 - visiting observers garden feeders all day.

Keppels Field: Blackbird - 1+ ; Redwing - 4+ ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 5+ ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Starling - 1+ - @ Keppels Column.

Leabrook Valley, Dronfield: Snipe - 4 - early morning ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Leash Fen: Short-eared Owl - 1 - briefly at dusk

Manor Fields Park: Woodcock - 1 - Flew out from under feeders at 8am. ; Fieldfare - 7 - flew over site with redwings. ; Redwing - 75 - 8 30 25 12. Flew over site.08:00-09:20 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Mallard - 12 - 4pairs on pond +4 flew over.