Sightings Archive

Ponds Forge: Mistle Thrush - 1+ - Nesting in the amber light on ponds forge roundabout as coming from station

Rivelin Valley: Curlew - 1 - In fields west of Rails Rd ; 319 - 2 - Mewing loudly and circling over Tofts Lane woods at 10-15

Rotherham Centre: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 in buddleia outside of Rotherham railway station ; Goosander - 1 - redhead circled & left SW @ 1117hrs ; Mute Swan - 2 - NE @ 1206hrs

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal: Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, flew following canal to S, just above water, flushing local FPs.

RVCP, Main Lake: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing from the railway embankment

Scholes Coppice: Wren - 3+ - Singing ; Robin - 7 - singing ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1+ - Inc 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 - Flew from field margin adj to wood

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Curlew - 1 - calling from nearby fields ; Goldcrest - 2

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 1 calling - Buzzard - pair, Sparrowhawk - 1, Lapwing - 6 Redwing - 27, Yellow Hammer- 5

Upper Common, Scholes: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffle

Weston Park: Coot - 3 - on duckpond ; Moorhen - 2 - on duckpond ; Wigeon - 1 - long-staying female ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Banner Cross: Waxwing - 3 - Junction of Bannerdale Rd and Brincliffe Edge Rd, tree outside 300 Bannerdale Rd at 09:00 ; Waxwing - 3 - Present 10:30 to 11:00 at Ecclesall Road/ Brincliffe Edge Road junction when flew south. Very few berries left on tree. ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Brinsworth: 321 - 1 - Flew over Barrett estate S to N towards Rotherham 14.40

Chatsworth Park: Common Gull - 41 - On flood water with B H G ‘s

Jaunty Park: Siskin - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - a pair on flooded field at 17:00. ; Black-headed Gull - 26 - on playing field 07:35

Moss Valley, upper: Little Owl - 1 - calling at Povey Farm

Norton Lees: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling

Orgreave Lakes: Scaup - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - female ; Goldeneye - 3 - 2 males , 1 female ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Alba ; Skylark - 12+ - Singing well ; Kestrel - 1 - Evidence of raptor kill (B/H Gull) on lake shore ((Presumed Peregrine ) ; Redshank - 3 ; Gadwall - 6+ ; Pochard - 6

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blackbird - 1pr - resumed nestbuilding after recent snowfall, very low in small conifer & vulnerable to local cats!

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Mute Swan - 3 - N @ 16.55 & 1 W @ 17.15 ; Greylag Goose - 8 - N ; Lapwing - 21 - N ; Fieldfare - 75 - NE

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 3 - One settled in horse fields. Also Bank Vole at roadside feeders ; Nuthatch - 1 - at roadside feeders

Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 4 - Two pairs with some territorial behaviour ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing this evening

Roper Hill: Curlew - 35 - presumed pre-roost gathering in field above Redmires bottom res

Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over @ 1400hrs; drifted off to S

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Greylag Goose - 31

Stanage Edge, below: Curlew - 1 - Calling in fields

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 10 - inc 3,,2cy ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 8 - inc 3f ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - call ; Water Rail - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad ; Skylark - 1 - sing ; Wren - 5 - sing ; Dunnock - 18 - 13sing ; Robin - 27 - 10sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Starling - 27 - flock ; Bullfinch - 15 - 2-2-2-1-8 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 1sing 5at feed stat. ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 2sing ; Feral Pigeon - 60+

Baslow SF: Pied Wagtail - 53 ; Grey Wagtail - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - On filters ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead flying over south

Ecclesall Road: Waxwing - 1 - eating berries in tree on Ecclesall Rd opposite junction with Bannerdale Rd at 08:00. ; Waxwing - 3 - 3 resting and preening in tree near to berry tree at 13.30 (record shot). ; Waxwing - 3 - Another photo

Forge Dam: 320 - 3 - 2 females 1 male

Greystones: Waxwing - 1 - #NAME?