Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2000+ ; Black-headed Gull - 165 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 9 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Pintail - 1

Norton Lees: Mistle Thrush - 3 - Squabbling at back of gardens

Peat Pits: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Golden Plover - 102 - 88 in field , 14 over . ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting from telegraph pole . ; Pheasant - 5 - all males . ; Goldfinch - 30+ - feeding at roadside verge . ; Jackdaw - c100 - single flock heading east at dusk .

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Grey Heron - 1 - by weir ; Cormorant - 05-Jul - 5 N & 2 SW

Ramsley Moor: Fieldfare - 600+ ; Redwing - 250+ ; Skylark - 8 - S-W ; Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Brambling - 2

Totley: Tree Sparrow - 5

West Nab: Stonechat - 1 - male sat in gorse . ; Black Redstart - 1 - fem / juv around farm outbuildings .

Woodhouse Washlands: Little Egret - 1 - R. Rother ; Crossbill - 1 - over calling

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 2 - ad female and juvenile male on opposite corners of the Bernard Rd incinerator building.

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c 60 - flock of c 60

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Robin - 2 - sing ; Corvid - 50+ - Came in off field to S and settled in trees either side of lake @ 15:50.

Ewden Cabin: Snipe - 17 - 7+5+5 SW ; Stonechat - 2 - M+F ; Linnet - 6 ; Goldfinch - c30 ; Fieldfare - 500+ ; 319 - 1 ; Raven - 5 ; Kestrel - 2

Kimberworth Park: Grey Heron - 1 - Fly SW low over Remount Road @17:45.

Morley Pond: Mallard - 10+ ; Mute Swan - 4 - Resident family, 2 juvs ; 319 - 1 - mobbed by Jackdaws ; Red-legged Partridge - c25 ; Pheasant - 30+

R Don, Salmon Pastures: Goosander - 4 - redheads, 2 fem, 2 juvs

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 14

RVCP: Redwing - 12 - Headed over Pithouse West ; Mute Swan - 25 ; Tufted Duck - 60+ ; Pochard - 15+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 14+ ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Lapwing - 90+ ; Grey Heron - 5 ; Kestrel - 1

RVCP River Rother: Kingfisher - 1

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Little Egret - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Cormorant - 20

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 14 - lots of trilling ; Cormorant - 11 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 11 - inc.3 juV ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Wigeon - 10 - 3 left North, 7 came in later ; Pochard - 6 - 5m,1f ; Tufted Duck - 70+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 ; Water Rail - 2 - 2nd bird back tday ; Golden Plover - 1 - call only prob s ; Lapwing - 150+ ; Black-headed Gull - 120+ ; Herring Gull - 24 - inc.20 south with 10 LBBG ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 - left south ; Skylark - 29 - most S/SE, inc flock of 16 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 7 ; Dunnock - 14 ; Robin - 33 - 22 singing ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Blackbird - 19 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Goldcrest - 6 - inc 3 together ; Chaffinch - 13 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - called o/head ; Goldfinch - 100+ - inc flock 80+ ; Brambling - 2+ - calling among two areas holding lots of finches ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Attercliffe: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - Adult President Park, 3cy Stevenson Rd.

Big Moor: Swallow - 1

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c 60 - flock of c 60