Sightings Archive

River Don Oughtibridge: Magpie - 2 ; Wren - 2

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 24

West Nab: 319 - 2 - Being mobbed by rook/jackdaws ; Fieldfare - Oct-15 - feeding on rowan berries near Swan cottage ; Rook - 40+ - large flock circling before settling to roost nr Spout house farm wood ; Goldfinch - 5

Weston Park: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from trees by lake at 17:45

Attercliffe: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - adults at Warren St

Cinder Hills: Redwing - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 27 - S @ 14:15

Handsworth garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Kimberworth Park: Brambling - 1+ - calls nr Scholes Coppice @ 15:50

Lodge Moor: Woodcock - one - In garden in thick mist, flushed by a cat and flew into sunroom window. Luckily flew away uninjured, leaving a breast feather on the damp glass.

Lydgate, Holmesfield: Raven - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Middle Common: Long-tailed Tit - 20+ - in hedge

Norton Lees: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Flying over back of gardens

Orgreave Lakes: Dunlin - 2 ; Snipe - 1 ; Common Gull - 1

Oughtibridge garden: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Eating Rowan berries before flying off north.

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Kestrel - 1 - on roadside lamp post

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Grey Heron - 01-Feb - 1cy by weir @ 0800hrs, left SW; 1 SW @ 1200hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Grey Wagtail - 1 - S @ 0740hrs

Rotherham Centre; Greasbrough Road: Pied Wagtail - 1pr - feeding in car park

Rotherham Centre; Rotherham Lock: Kingfisher - 1 - flew up Brown's Cut from river, settling briefly on lock gate before continuing N up canal @ 0805hrs

Upper Common, Scholes: Mistle Thrush - 2 - Possibly guarding nearby rowan. ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Skylark - 1 - calls

Aldwarke SF: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male ; Redwing - 6 - SE ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Magpie - 7 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Herring Gull - c40 - moving SW in small parties ; Wigeon - 1 - drake ; Gadwall - 17 ; Shoveler - 2 ; Mallard - 2 ; 320 - 20 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - ducks ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult

Burbage: Kestrel - 1

Dalton: Common Gull - 3 - SW, all 1cy ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - c30 - feeding in Hawthorns ; Herring Gull - 2 - SW

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Moorhen - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 18+ ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Redwing - 12 - W ; Goldcrest - 1

Firsby Res: Mallard - 4 ; 320 - 13 - Flushed from from top of main Res. ; Cormorant - 1 - Still present. ; Fieldfare - 2+ ; Redwing - 10+ ; Siskin - 2+ - Calling. ; Bullfinch - 8+ ; Coal Tit - 2 - Pair together. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - Feeding near sluice. ; Treecreeper - 1 - In hedgerow. ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Down on water.

Grange Park Golf Course: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Hunting N of Watson's Tip ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over former paddock adj to barn ; Herring Gull - 1 - juv circling ; Woodpigeon - 5+ ; Wren - 3 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - calls ; Redwing - 10+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jay - 2 - @ Watson's Tip ; Magpie - 5 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 30+ - inc 20+ feeding on birch and alder along with 1 female Bullfinch.