Sightings Archive

Dog Kennel Pond: Coot - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - 10+ ; Robin - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Ewden Height: Redwing - 91 - Majority south in groups of 6-30. Some landed locally. ; 319 - 03-May ; Woodpigeon - c200 - South 7.30 - 8.15 ; Fieldfare - 5 - With Redwings ; Snipe - 8 - South 7.30 - 8.15 in 3 groups of 3+4+1 ; Linnet - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - South in small groups ; Peregrine - 1 ; Raven - 03-Apr ; Siskin - 12 - South ; Kestrel - 2

Firvale: Common Buzzard - 1

Greave*s Piece: Redwing - 30 - a single flock flying in from NE, landing to feast on berries.

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 4 - family 2 Ad 2 juvs in Cascades area. ; Mallard - 40+ ; 319 - 1 ; Pheasant - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ - adj field ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Corvid - 40+ - mixed mainly Carrion Crow and Jackdaw following tractor with gulls

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 - 1 south end of big lake at 1140 ; Little Egret - 1 - On island ; Kingfisher - 1 - Perched,fishing,below Weir.

R Don, Effingham St: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult on weir. ; 324 - 2 - large Signal Crayfish in the river. ; Kingfisher - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Little Egret - 1 - flew from direction of Hawke Street to closed stretch. ; Kingfisher - 2 - chasing and calling ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 ad and 3cy early evening

Rotherham Centre: Cormorant - 3 - SW @ 0823hrs ; Mute Swan - 2 - adult & 1cy NE @ 1009hrs ; Grey Heron - 1 - SW @ 1059hrs (may have been 1cy on weir @ 1605hrs)

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Little Egret - 3

Tapton School: Snipe - 2 - Heading north together

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 11 ; Cormorant - 8 - inc.3past s ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 22 ; Canada Goose - 62 ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 81 ; Golden Plover - 1 - past n ; Black-headed Gull - 120 - + ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Skylark - 21 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Robin - 21 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 17 - in from e0825 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 5 - past sw 0818 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 - scattered aroud site ; Magpie - 16 ; Raven - 1 - call past sw mobbed by j/daws ; Jackdaw - 15 - inc 5 se 8w ; Goldfinch - 120 - + 2flocks 20+100+ ; Reed Bunting - 5

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 5+

Barbrook Pools: Golden Plover - 1 - Flew W. ; Meadow Pipit - 45+ - SW in 30 minutes. ; Skylark - 6 - S in 30 mimutes

Beauchief: Redwing - 14 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Chased off the Redwings.

Big Moor: Fieldfare - c.100 - Flew across, low down, moving W

Bradfield Moors: Redwing - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2

Bramley: Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male on feeders.

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 2 - Females

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Gadwall - 50-60 ; Mute Swan - 6 - pair + 4 1cy ; Coot - c70 ; Moorhen - 16+ ; 320 - 6 ; Shoveler - 17 ; Wigeon - 22 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Mallard - 19 ; Black-headed Gull - c60

Chatsworth Park: Raven - 1 - Dobb Edge