Sightings Archive

Deepcar garden: Woodpigeon - 3 ; House Sparrow - Oct-15 ; Goldfinch - 9 - feeding on sunflower hearts ; Wren - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male feeding on blue tit at side of pond

Redmires Bottom Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - one male, one female

Redmires Top Res: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - In roadside conifers

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 6+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 4 - ad ; Canada Goose - 67 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Pochard - 24 - 3f, 21m ; Tufted Duck - 65 ; Goldeneye - 2 - r/h imm m ; Pheasant - 3 - call ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 16 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 17 ; Robin - 17 ; Redwing - 36 ; Blackbird - 50 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Siskin - 1 - east ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 4

Brightside: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - adult asleep on roof at President Park on B&F building 11:45

Brincliffe Edge: Woodcock - 1 - Observer discovered dead bird in the garden, no sign of injury from predator, possibly a broken wing.

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Wigeon - 80+ ; Gadwall - 104 ; 320 - 11 ; Shoveler - 8+ ; Pochard - 2 ; Pochard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Moorhen - 8+ ; Coot - 52 ; Black-headed Gull - 55

Glen Howe Park: Brambling - 15+ - flocking with chaffinches and tits in mixed trees around car park ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Blackbird - 7 ; Woodpigeon - 25+ - in upper park area feeding on acorns ; Wren - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - flew up swollen stream from gate area

Kimberworth Park: Black-headed Gull - 7 - @ Barkers Park ; Blackbird - 6 - feedind nr football pitches ; Goldfinch - 12 - feeding in birch, back garden adj allotment. ; House Sparrow - 10+ - f/p adj to Chislett ; Collared Dove - 2 - Oaks Lane nr shops. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - Oaks Lane nr shops.

Meersbrook Park: Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Starling - c30 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 - Heard

Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Mute Swan - 1 - low to SW @ 1605hrs

RVCP: Little Egret - 1 ; Cormorant - 32 ; Goldeneye - 6

RVCP, Main Lake: 322 - W - Pair of Black Swan

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: 322 - 1 - Harris Hawk

Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Also pos Bambling calls?

Skye Edge Fields: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Flying over, calling, 2/3 seen regularly. ; Woodcock - 1 - Lifted from rough grass.

West Nab: 319 - 1 - seen at a distance appeared to be very pale breasted. ; Rook - 50+ - large flock feeding on roadside and in adjoining field by Swan cottage

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 9 - roosting in Sycamore at junction of Barnsley Rd/ Herries Rd by NGH pedestrian entrance at 1600

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - adult at c14:00

River Wye: Dipper - 6 - Total of six individuals between the Monsal Viaduct and Ashford.

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Mute Swan - 1 - SW @ 1003hrs

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 3 - 2M+1F taking sunflower seeds from feeder.in observer's garden

Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 1 - Male on feeders.

Ladybower Res, North arm: Brambling - 15 - Small flock with chaffinch and tits feeding confidently on and around path through Fearfall wood. ; Raven - 2 - a pair overhead

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 3

Orgreave Lakes: COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 1 - Showed well near the railway bridge on a couple of occasions. ; Lesser Redpoll - c.100 - large numbers in the morning, very few by mid-afternoon. ; ARCTIC REDPOLL - 0 - no sign 07.47-15.08. ; Skylark - 10 - 1 Plains, flock of 9 E/ENE