Sightings Archive

Roughwood Rec: Greenfinch - 1 - male

Roughwood School: Redwing - 5 - possibly more, feeding on playing field ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Thrybergh CP: COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 1 - at feed stat

Ulley CP: Scaup - 1 - nearly full adult

Attercliffe: Common Buzzard - 1 - over arena

Barlow Common: Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Goldfinch - 1

Brightholmlee: Little Owl - 1 - First time in this area for over a year

Brightside: Common Buzzard - 1 - low over late afternoon

Chatsworth Park: Whooper Swan - 29 - Single group calling and flying north in V-formation at 12.15.

Cinder Hills: Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing

Cowell Flat: Curlew - 2 - calling while flying overhead .

Crookes Valley Park: Moorhen - 6 ; Coot - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 91 - on part frozen lake, some fully hooded ; Mallard - 16 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Lapwing - 10+ - in adjacent ploughed field ; Black-headed Gull - 30+ - most in field with Lapwings ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling

Ecclesall: Blackcap - 1 - male singing in garden on Ansell Road - certainly not a migrant!

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - close to Hunter's Bar at 07:35 ; Treecreeper - 1

Fulwood: Whooper Swan - 6 - low N over observer's house at 08:12

Gleadless Valley: Oystercatcher - 1 - flew high over to the west over Gleadless Valley/Cat Lane allotments calling frequently at 09.15

Green Moor: Raven - 1 - flew over calling heading NE

Grimesthorpe: Sparrowhawk - 2 - one displaying

Holling Dale: Curlew - 1 - flying over . ; Fieldfare - 2 - feeding in rough pasture .

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; Redwing - 7+ - Searching for food amongst leaf litter under trees

Millhouses: Whooper Swan - 30+ - flying North in v formation at 12:30

Millhouses Park: Dipper - 2 - one singing

Millhouses Sheaf Valley Walk: Siskin - 9

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2prs diplaying ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 5 - 2Adult ; Greylag Goose - 30+ - At least one shot, retrieved from water by dog ; Wigeon - 4 - 2prs ; Mallard - 20+ ; 319 - 1 ; Coot - 3

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Dunlin - 5 ; Dunlin - 8 - Round the main lake mid afternoon.

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 1 - E ; 321 - 1 - E ; 319 - 2 ; Herring Gull - 17 - S ; Peregrine - 1 - SW ; Fieldfare - 13 - S

Redmires conduit: Grey Wagtail - 2 - 2 at conduit outfall also 1 Kestrel

Redmires Res: Curlew - 23 - in fields ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female W to roost ; Greylag Goose - 29 - in fields

Rotherham Centre: Goldfinch - 150 plus - St Anns churchyard pre roost at 16:40 ; Mute Swan - 6 - 2 NE @ 0800hrs; 4 SW @ 0813hrs ; Goosander - 3 - SW @ 0830hrs

Scholes Coppice: Tawny Owl - 2 - 1pair calling @11:51am ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Silverwood Lagoon: Wigeon - 5 ; 320 - 3 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Coot - 18 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Lapwing - 3 - roosting on ice - first for site this year ; Snipe - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 5 - singing ; Skylark - 15+ - 4 singing ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Goldfinch - 20

Thrybergh CP: Wigeon - 6 ; 320 - 2 ; Water Rail - 3 - together; 2 taking suet pellets, 1 on Warburtons oatmeal bread