Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Pink-footed Goose - c140 - Skein of c140 moving east at 15.55 in failing light ; 320 - 30 ; Red-legged Partridge - 19

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c100 - inc 4 1cy ; Mallard - c100 ; Black-headed Gull - c100 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 1cy

Parkgate; Forge Way: Grey Wagtail - 1

Parkgate; Retail World: Magpie - 7 - foraging party in car park pre-dawn ; Carrion Crow - 7 - with MGs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - adult dropped in for 10 mins at 15:30

Rotherham Centre: Pink-footed Goose - 23 - low to SE in low cloud @ 0901hrs

Rotherham; Northfield: Herring Gull - c80 - loafing on rooftops & visiting recycling centre ; Great Black-backed Gull - 5 - 4ads; 1 1cy ; Black-headed Gull - c40

Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 30+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Robin - 1+ - at least 1 sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Jay - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Brambling - 1

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew downstream

Shillito Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Blackbird - 2+ ; Blue Tit - 6+ ; Coal Tit - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Brambling - 32+ - inc flock of 30+ briefly ; Chaffinch - 8+ ; Robin - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2+

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - calling in scrubby woodland between steelworks and bypass. ; Redwing - 20+ - feeding on hawthorn berries ; Song Thrush - 2+ - feeding on hawthorn berries ; Bullfinch - 2+ - calling

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 17 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 8 ; 321 - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Canada Goose - 70 ; Shelduck - 2 - in from w circled then n ; Wigeon - 1 - m ; Pochard - 18 ; Tufted Duck - 50 ; Goldeneye - 3 - r/h ; Lapwing - 100 ; Herring Gull - 17 - 11n 3s 3down ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - south ; Water Rail - 2

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 - Flew upstream

Edge Mount: 319 - 2 - circling over fields next to Delph Road

Green Moor: Cormorant - 1 - Flew East

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female

Heeley City Farm: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - c150 flew NE at 11:00

Loxley Common: Yellowhammer - 2 - Near Myers Lane and golf course

Loxley Valley: Brambling - 1 - Male with injured wing, on path near Storrs Bridge

Malin Bridge: Kingfisher - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - catching & eating fish

Orgreave Lakes: ARCTIC REDPOLL - 1 - briefly between the bridges ; ARCTIC REDPOLL - 1 - Between the two bridges between 11 to 11 .10 ; COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 120 - A minimum of 120 ; Pink-footed Goose - 88+ - 3 skeins 22+64+ another not seen in clag. All going generally .west

Ringinglow: Brambling - 20 - near Alpaca Farm ; Brambling - 20

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Grey Heron - 1 - jv ; Pink-footed Goose - 70 - circa past w @0957 + a 2nd skein w heard call 1120 w not seen ; Canada Goose - 65 ; Greylag Goose - 1 - #NAME? ; Gadwall - 5 ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m 1f ; Pochard - 14 - 3f ; Tufted Duck - 64 ; Goldeneye - 3 - r/h ; Water Rail - 3 ; Lapwing - 60+ ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 11 ; Redwing - 8 ; Fieldfare - 11 ; Blackbird - 27 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 18+ - inc.16 flock ; Tree Sparrow - 1