Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 27 ; Great Tit - 10 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Bullfinch - 20 - inc 10 at feed stat. ; Reed Bunting - 9 - 5 singing ; Yellowhammer - 3

Tinsley Locks: 319 - 1

Walkley garden: Stock Dove - 2 - Pair spent 30 minutes below nyger feeder

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1

Canklow Woods: 319 - 3 - 1 over woods joined by second with courtship display, then a 3rd with more display. 14.50.

Handsworth garden: Stock Dove - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - In water on flat garage roof .

Mayfield Valley: Kestrel - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Milhouses: Bullfinch - 2 - 1m,1f - feeding on garden bird table

Millhouses Lane garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - f - 1+ visits to suet ball feeder, m - 3+ visits later in day to same feeder ; Goldcrest - 1 - feeding on suet balls, chased off by Blue Tit ; Stock Dove - 1 - foraging under bird feeders before being chased off by omnipresent Woodpigeons

Rawmarsh: Sparrowhawk - 1 - E @ 1332hrs

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Silver Wood: Fieldfare - 20 - in field by NW corner of wood

Silverwood Lagoon: Stonechat - 1 - male in reeds and gorse at southern end

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - singles ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 28 - inc 10 j/1st w ; Pochard - 6 - 5m1f ; Tufted Duck - 20+ ; Water Rail - 3 - together ; Moorhen - 13 ; Coot - 50+ ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad ; Skylark - 2 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 31 - 16 singing ; Robin - 31 - 11 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 22 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 10 - 2 singing ; Bullfinch - 22 - inc 12 at feed stat ; Reed Bunting - 7 - 4 singing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - m

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - the bronze shining superbly in the late afternoon sun ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 27 - Foraging in field, including the white greylag/domestic goose ; Lapwing - 5

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 4 - 2 ads, 2 imms ; Gadwall - 9 ; 320 - 7+ ; Shoveler - 4 ; Pochard - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 - trilling ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Coot - 12

Gleadless: Black-headed Gull - 63 - on Gleadless Common playing fields 07:15. ; Common Gull - 2 - with BHG's

Handsworth garden: Siskin - 1 - Male,on feeders.

Ibbotson Wheel Dam: Kingfisher - 1

Jaunty Park: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Siskin - 4 - in Alders near brook 07:50. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 28 - on playing field.

Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - male in reedbed singing 07:00-08:00. ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing around site. ; Linnet - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Mallard - 6 - 3 pair.

Midhope: Curlew - 2 - Two curlew flying and calling over field

Parkway M1 juction: Kestrel - 2 - 1 pair copulating

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - c30 - in flight over conduit

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female, W past office window before heading off N @ 1500hrs

S&SY Nav, Rotherham Cut: Goosander - 5 - 3 m and 2 f on Don adjacent to Jordan Lock and weir.

Schole Village& Little Lane: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Skylark - 2+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Redwing - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 4 - 2 singing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Magpie - 1+