Sightings Archive

Rotherham; Primrose Hill: Great Black-backed Gull - 7

Silver Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Skylark - 4 - in stubble to north ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Bullfinch - 3 - along disused r/way line ; Jay - 2 ; Jackdaw - 1 - north ; Fieldfare - 1 - in hawthorns to west of woods ; Linnet - 8 - in gorse on Pingle Lane Tip ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Tufted Duck - 13 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - north ; Jackdaw - 5 - 3-1-1 east ; Crossbill - 1 - calling bird flew SW over pit top at 07.55. My first for Silverwood in almost thirty years of watching the area. ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - c.12 - in stubble to west ; Reed Bunting - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 30+ ; Jay - 5 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Goldfinch - 25 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Pheasant - 15+ - including several males calling at dawn

Strines: Kittiwake - 2 - 2 juvs flew north towards Strines Res at c08:00

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 9 ; Cormorant - 10 - + ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 8 ; Greylag Goose - 11 - inc.grey/brown hybrid ; Gadwall - 2 - m ; Shoveler - 2 ; Pochard - 15 - 8m7f ; Tufted Duck - 86 - circa ; Goldeneye - 2 - r/h ; 319 - 1 - n ; Red-legged Partridge - 15 ; Pheasant - 2 - m ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 10 - + ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1j1a ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 15 ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Redwing - 207+ - inc 50-65-30-50, all NW ; Fieldfare - 80 - inc.30+nw ; Blackbird - 21 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 18+ - in 3 parties ; Treecreeper - 1 - call. ; Chaffinch - 11 ; Goldfinch - 35+ - in small parties ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - in with canadas

Crookes: Woodcock - 1 - in a garden at 16-30 . Rested for a while then flew off

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 15 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Edge Mount: Brambling - 40+ - feeding at roadside and on Beech mast at side of Delf Road.

Firsby Res: Mallard - 7 ; Cormorant - 1 - Circled ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Willow Tit - 1 - Calling first record for some time. ; Redwing - 30+ ; Bullfinch - 3+ ; Black-headed Gull - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - Over together.

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Trees near cafe

Ladybower Res, North arm: Brambling - c10 - Hagg side car park ; Siskin - c30

Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 2 - left at dawn ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1

Redmires Res: Mallard - 60 - c. ; 320 - 2 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - flew low to the W & into hide plantation ; Lapwing - 30 - c. ; Raven - 1 - flew E calling loudly ; Woodpigeon - 1000 - c. moving mostly SW, but flocks heading in a variety of directions at times ; Stock Dove - 5 - flew SW - inc a party of four ; Fieldfare - 300 - c. flew NNW in 2 hrs ; Chaffinch - 200 - c. flew NNW in 2 hrs ; Chaffinch - 40 - c. flew W in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 25 - c. flew W in 2 hrs ; Yellowhammer - 1 - arrived from SE at dawn - dropped into Redmires Plantation - scarce migrant these days

Wadsley Common garden: Siskin - 1 - On feeders-first of the autumn

Walton Dam: Barn Owl - 1 - Quartering over uncut grassland (old football pitch) west of cricket field between Walton Dam and Moorland View Road

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - adult, on chimney from 0735hrs with frequent unsuccessful sorties after FPs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - S ; Cormorant - 4 - max on pylon by 0830hrs ; Mute Swan - 3 - SW @ 0946hrs