Sightings Archive

Parkgate Canal Basin: Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - 3cy ; Mute Swan - 70-80 ; Mallard - c30 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mute Swan - c100 - @ 1615hrs ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2m; 1f @ 1615hrs

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Mistle Thrush - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - ads ; Black-headed Gull - c350 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 22 ; Herring Gull - 22 - Including black colour ringed bird ringed Romsdal Norway in 2015.

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Gadwall - 1 - W ; Oystercatcher - 1 - SE

Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 8 ; Greylag Goose - 6 ; Canada Goose - 136 ; Egyptian Goose - 2 ; Cormorant - 15 ; Great Crested Grebe - 19 ; Mallard - 204 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Wigeon - 82 ; 320 - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 38 ; Pochard - 6 ; Goldeneye - 21 ; Goosander - 4 ; Coot - 126 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Redshank - 4 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Herring Gull - 14 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 362 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Blackbird - 25+ ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Redwing - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal: Goosander - 1 - drake ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing male

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 9 ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 12 - 7m5f ; Water Rail - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 100 - + ; Herring Gull - 3 - 2ad1-2cy ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad past ne ; Wren - 5 ; Dunnock - 16 ; Robin - 25 ; Redwing - 2 ; Blackbird - 15 ; Magpie - 14 - 7pr- 3pr nest buillding ; Chaffinch - 12 - 3sing ; Bullfinch - 20 - inc 10 at feed stat. ; Reed Bunting - 7

Bingham Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Male in lower pond

Birley Edge: Grey Wagtail - 1 - On lawn cleared of snow attracted by food scattered and other birds. First sighting here in 26 years, nearest watercourse of note River Don is a mile away.

Blackburn Meadows NR: Great Tit - 1 - Calling. ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; 319 - 3 - Over, harassed by 3 Carrion Crows. ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Snipe - 14 ; Lapwing - 3 - West ; Skylark - 1 ; Kestrel - 1+ ; Robin - 4 ; Redwing - 20+ ; Blackbird - 7 ; Siskin - 1 - In full song ; Bullfinch - 8+ ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 5+

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Large Female low over houses on Flanderwell Avenue scattering Goldfinches, C Doves + Starlings.

Brownhills Lane: Lapwing - 8 - Blizzard conditions. Also Snipe. ; Greylag Goose - 12 - also Canada geese

Centenary Riverside: Fieldfare - 30-40 - Flew over at 12:30

Chapeltown: Red Kite - 1 - Drifted east mobbed by a crow at 11.40am ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Flew past just above head height calling at 11.20 ; Redwing - c10

Dore garden: Blackcap - 1 - 1m ; Siskin - 8

Forge Dam: Song Thrush - 5 ; Redwing - 3

Green Moor: Yellowhammer - 6 ; Tree Sparrow - 12+

Heeley City Farm: Pied Wagtail - 18 - flew over NE at 17:40 ; Redwing - c50 ; Coal Tit - 2 - singing and pair bonding, potential first breeding record for site

Holmebrook Valley Park: Common Gull - 6 - On lake. My highest site record so far. ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ - On lake. Most now have black heads. ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - Asleep on lake.