Sightings Archive

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - first sighting of year here

Barlow Common: 319 - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 1 - 1 m

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - in the air together at 1100

Derwent Edge: Golden Plover - 20 - Approximately 20 birds feeding in the heather.

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 100 - at least 100 on lower pond inc. a few 1st winter and some already in breeding plumage

General Cemetery, Sharrow: 324 - 1 - Bat at midday spent a long time hunting across green space

Holmebrook Valley Park: Canada Goose - 2 - On lake ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male calling by river. ; Tufted Duck - 9 - 3 Female + 6 Male ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming by river

Howden Res: PARROT CROSSBILL - 6 - still at Ronksley South Plantation at 12.45 +8 Crossbills SK 164 935. From road at layby by 7km marker walk NW along track for 450 yards to puddle - per BirdNewsDerbyshire

Howden Res, nr King*s Tree: Goosander - 2 - pair ; Crossbill - 2 - pair

Keppels Field: Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Magpie - 3

Linacre Res: Mallard - 51 - WeBS count ; Coot - 5 ; Moorhen - 6 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 18 ; Tufted Duck - 27 ; Mandarin - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Meersbrook Park: Bullfinch - 2 - 1m, 1f - 1m, 1f ; Redwing - 4+

Millhouses: 319 - 1 - Flew west over Springfield Rd chased by 2 crows.

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 2 - m&f, later 1m ; Bullfinch - 4+ - 2+males, 2+ females

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 1 - white headed adult perched on building this morning.

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: 321 - 1 - N ; Mallard - 37 - W ; Fieldfare - 70 - E

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 2 - probable pair display flight ; Robin - 10+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 2+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - 1singing ; Treecreeper - 2 - 1 singing ; Jay - 1

Sheffield University-St Georges: Peregrine - 2 - One perched unusually on south face of the tower.

Thrybergh CP: Fieldfare - 64 - feeding in fields ; Lapwing - 43 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 17 - inc. 6 left w ; Canada Goose - 58 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 5 - m ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; 319 - 2 - in se ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 80+ ; Black-headed Gull - 330+ - in two flocks ; Common Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Skylark - 1 - sing ; Dunnock - 14 - 10sing ; Robin - 32 - 19sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing ; Fieldfare - 60+ ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; Chaffinch - 15 - 4sing ; Bullfinch - 14 - inc.2-2-2-8 ; Reed Bunting - 7 ; Yellowhammer - 3

Canklow Woods: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting field below boston castle at 0300

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 20 ; Mallard - 16 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 3 - 2m + 1f at 7:25 on lower lake ; Goosander - 2 - m+f lower lake at 7:25 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - 8

Freebirch: Starling - 300 ; Fieldfare - 100 ; Rook - 60

Fulwood: Grey Heron - 1 - Resting in garden tree, Crimicar Drive

Rotherham Centre; All Saints* churchyard: Goldfinch - 40-50 - first birds arrived & dropped into trees, pre-roost @ 1615hrs

Stanage Edge: Lapwing - 6 - in the field on corner of main Stanage Edge climbing parking

Thrybergh CP: Little Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 22 - inc 13 left west 0830 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 11 - 3f,8m