Sightings Archive

Schole Village& Little Lane: House Sparrow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Greenfinch - 2+ - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Linnet - 20+ ; Bullfinch - 2 - probable pair

Scholes Coppice: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 5 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 2+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 1 - trilling ; Gadwall - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - baffling ; Lapwing - 4 - two pairs displaying over fields to west ; Reed Bunting - 6 - singing ; Skylark - 6 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - north ; Jackdaw - 2 - east ; Stock Dove - 2 - east ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - regular adult ; Herring Gull - 3 - adults

Stubley Hollow: Magpie - 34 - ; Starling - 134 ; Jay - 6 -single flock ; Little Owl -1 - first since 21.11.2017 ; Buzzard - 1, Fieldfare - 26 ; Yellowhammer - 10

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 2 - In observers garden ; Siskin - 40+

Bassingthorpe Spring: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Jay - 1 - mimicking buzzard ; Chaffinch - 1+ - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Linnet - 20+ - resting in trees adj to farm fields

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 2

Catcliffe Flash: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Pochard - 2 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 12 - 4 female ; Coot - 12 ; Mute Swan - 4 - 2 Adults, 2 juveniles.

Cowell Flat: Snipe - 3 - chipping and drumming at dusk

Gleadless: Skylark - 1 - north over "common" 07:20. calling. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - on "common" 07:20.

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 4 - 2 vocal pairs near Charles Ashmore Drive entrance.

Grenoside: Whooper Swan - 2 - Very vocal - flying east at 07:55

Handsworth Cemetery: Fieldfare - 10+

Hillsborough: Kestrel - 1 - over Bradfield Rd

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 3+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling

Jaunty Park: Skylark - 2 - over together heading W 07:36.calling ; Redwing - 10 ; Fieldfare - 12 - in trees behind Gleadless Prim Sch.07:45

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - 44+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Magpie - 14 - Together in treetop

Millhouses Lane garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male feeding on suet ball feeder, 2+ visits ; Nuthatch - 1 - fleeting visit to feeders ; Siskin - 5+ - 4+ m,1+ f visiting feeders ; Greenfinch - 1 - male, not a regular visitor ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ - feeding on suet balls

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 1 - on top of building am

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Oystercatcher - 1 - ringed bird with loafing Gulls ; Common Gull - 1 - ad ; Herring Gull - c25 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c20 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - adults, including bird colour ringed at Amrun, Germany in 2007

Redmires conduit: 319 - 1 - ; Kestrel - 1

Redmires Top Res: Robin - 1 - at roadside feeders ; Nuthatch - 2 ; 324 - 1 - Bank Vole

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 1pr - NE, then back SW @ 1108hrs

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Mistle Thrush - 2 - over

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 30+ ; Common Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Rook - 2+ ; Magpie - 3