Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Golden Plover - 1 - Single over calling flew towards M18. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male calling. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Rook - 12 - Over at 18:20. ; Jackdaw - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Magpie - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - Over. ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Linnet - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling

Middleton Moor: Pintail - 3

Millhouses: 319 - 1 - Soaring over Springfield Rd

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 62

R Don, Effingham St: Kingfisher - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Song Thrush - 3 - together; behaviour/calling suggesting migrants

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Mute Swan - 1 - adult (753 yellow)

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Little Egret - 1 - still on closed stretch of 5 weirs walk ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Ramsley Moor: Ring Ouzel - 1

Redmires conduit: Mistle Thrush - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; Jay - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Black-headed Gull - 5+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10+

Redmires Top Res: Crossbill - 2 - Females ; Lapwing - 115

Rotherham Centre: Cormorant - 03-Apr - 2 @ 0836 & 1 @ 1125hrs, all NE; 1 SW @ 1420hrs ; Grey Heron - 2 - circled over @ 0933hrs & left SW

Shillito Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2+ ; Goldfinch - 4+ ; 319 - 1 - sitting in the field next to the woods ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c. 10 - in the field next to the wood ; Common Gull - 1 - in the field next to the wood

Shirecliffe: Redwing - 4 - dropped in ; Song Thrush - 1 - presumed migrant dropped in with 3 Redwings ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - over SW ; Skylark - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Brambling - 1 - dropped in with 2 Chaffinches ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Starling - c60 - small flocks W

Walkley: 319 - 2 - Drifting S above South Road

Abbeydale: 319 - 2 - Over Abbeydale Golf Club

Big Moor: Stonechat - 04-May ; Meadow Pipit - 10 ; 324 - 7 - A stag and six hinds

Blackburn Meadows NR: Skylark - 5 - flying sw ; Lesser Redpoll - 12 ; Wood Duck - 2 - 2 still on canal sitting on recently fallen tree about 100 meters to the east of Steel st bridge by reserve entrance.

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Crookesmoor: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - In flight and squawking, apparently being pursued by pigeons?

Crowhole: Whooper Swan - 1 - on the fishing ponds ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - heard only

Ewden Valley: Willow Tit - 1 - heard calling briefly near Ewden Village.

Holmebrook Valley Park: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - Flew length of lake. Presumably getting ready to head off. ; Black-headed Gull - 10+ ; Mute Swan - 6

Howden Edge: Ring Ouzel - 2 - In mountain ash below edge

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Swallow - 4 - Single birds heading south over moor ; Redwing - 200 - Many birds in groups of 30/40 moving west in evening with small numbers of Fieldfare. ; Raven - 1 - Single bird ; 319 - 1 - Single bird over Barnside Moor. ; Kestrel - 3 - 3 birds spreadout hunting across moor.

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Kingfisher - 1 - flew downriver @ 0755hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Grey Wagtail - 2 - flew upriver, calling excitedly @ 0800hrs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 adults and a 3cy

Rother Valley CP: Little Egret - 3 ; Grey Heron - 17 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Lapwing - 120+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; 319 - 1

Rotherham Centre: Grey Heron - 2 - over from SW, one dropping onto river, other continuing NE

Upperthorpe: Collared Dove - 6 - Family party feeding near Tesco’s

Worrall: Linnet - 50+ - Flock moving to and fro from power lines to field

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 26

Chapeltown: Swallow - 1 - North low over Burncross Road, 15:00

Cinder Hills: Kestrel - 1 - male on tel. pole ; Wren - 1+ ; Robin - 1 - sing ; Jay - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1+ ; Cormorant - 2 - One joined by 1 from W ; Tufted Duck - 1+ ; Mallard - 1+ ; Moorhen - 1+