Sightings Archive

Catcliffe Flash: Tufted Duck - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 6+ ; Coot - 45 ; Black-headed Gull - 120+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male caught House Sparrow

Keppels Field: Meadow Pipit - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 3

Kimberworth Park: Pied Wagtail - 2 - On roof top @ Remount Road.

Longshaw: Nuthatch - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Female ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Midhope Res: 320 - 11 ; Mallard - 57 ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 - f/imm ; Little Grebe - 1

R Don Bessemer Way: 320 - 2 - #NAME? ; Mallard - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 - on Phoenix Bridge

Scholes Coppice: Pheasant - 2+ ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1

Shepherd*s Plantation: Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Wren - 1+ - calls ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - hunting

Abbeydale: 319 - 1 - Mobbed by crows

Brinsworth: Kestrel - 1 - Flew over Barrett estate 12.30.

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; 319 - 1 ; Pheasant - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Jackdaw - 5+

Holmebrook Valley Park: Water Rail - 1 - Calling in reeds at bottom end of lake. ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Leash Fen: Fieldfare - 1000+ - Moving low to west in groups late afternoon, probably to roost in heather

Longshaw Estate: Merlin - 1 - after an altercation with a Crow, it flew low over the grassland, westwards towards the B6521

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 4 - Resident family @ pond behind boathouse. ; Mallard - 90+

R Don, Rotherham Centre; weir: Grey Heron - 1 - regular 1cy stood by weir @ 1300hrs ; 324 - 1 - Atlantic Salmon, c60cm long, attempted to negotiate weir, heading upstream @ 1300hrs

Redmires Top Res: Red Kite - 1 - over conifers with a kestrel ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Canada Goose - 50 ; Canada Goose - 43

Rivelin Valley: Tawny Owl - 1 - dead on roadside

Rotherham Centre; Corporation Street: Grey Wagtail - 2 - over N, towards river, calling excitedly @ 1250hrs

Rotherham; Rawmarsh Road: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over towards river @ 0755hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over, mobbed by 2 crows @ 1613hrs; left SE

RVCP: Cormorant - 39 ; Grey Heron - 11 ; Red-crested Pochard - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 ; Pochard - 30+ ; Shoveler - 12 ; Gadwall - 20+ ; Tufted Duck - 30+ ; Wigeon - 150+ ; Egyptian Goose - 2 ; Mute Swan - 20 ; Redwing - 2 ; Jay - 1

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 1 ; Redwing - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - 29 ; Herring Gull - 5 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; House Sparrow - 12

Barlow Common: 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 50+ - saw nine in and over one field, then around 42 in and over the next field ; Redwing - c.8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Greenfinch - 1

Baslow: 319 - 1

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c30 - flock of c30

Elsecar Res: Black-headed Gull - 160 ; Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Shoveler - 3