Sightings Archive

Roughwood School: Starling - 20+ - both sp feeding on playing field

Sheffield Centre; nr Victoria Quays: Kingfisher - 1

Ulley CP: Scaup - 1 - Young male in with a group of Tufties

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 2 - on Bernard Road incinerator building.

Barlow Common: Lapwing - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Chatsworth Park: Starling - 300 - Feeding around red deer on snow-covered pasture

Cinder Hills: Sparrowhawk - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Cormorant - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Fishing in lower lake at 17:25

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - over car park near Charles Ashmore Rd

Holmebrook Valley Park: Common Gull - 2 - On lake ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ - On lake. Including juvenile metal ringed bird. ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Male and female on lake ; Greylag Goose - 1 - Back on lake ; Cormorant - 3 - On raft on lake ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - On lake ; Kestrel - 1 - Over ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Over bottom end of lake ; Greenfinch - 1 - In trees at the bottom end of the lake

Morley Pond: Mute Swan - 4 - behind boathouse ; Lapwing - 20+ - field W of boat house ; Mallard - 1+

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Snipe - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - female

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Mute Swan - 7 - in low over road from NE onto canal basinn @ 0747hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Main Street: 320 - 1pr

R Don, Stevenson Road: Great Black-backed Gull - c30 - inc a colour ringed adult ringed as a chick in 2012 in Tromso, Norway - inside the Arctic Circle. ; Common Gull - 1 - ad

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Peregrine - 1 - imm male circled over playing field @ 14.35. Flew SW ; Redshank - 1 - flew SE @ 14.50

Redmires Plantation: Sparrowhawk - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Greylag Goose - 23 - inc.17from fields left n ; Canada Goose - 46 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 5 - m ; Tufted Duck - 28 ; 319 - 2 - soar.to ne ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - e of site ; Water Rail - 2 ; Robin - 27 ; Blackbird - 21 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - past e sing.in flight ; Great Tit - 12 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Greenfinch - 7 ; Bullfinch - 24 - inc.12-2-2-8 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 2

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - male

Aldwarke SF: Song Thrush - 1 ; Coot - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2m; 2f ; Shoveler - 1 - drake ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Magpie - 4

Denaby Common/Low Meadow: Greylag Goose - 17 - + 1 GJxCG hybrid ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Lapwing - c220 ; Golden Plover - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c80 ; Mallard - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 08-Oct ; Gadwall - 9+ ; Wigeon - 50+ - visible; many more feeding in dense juncus

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 2 - m + f lower lake at 9:45

Flash, near Stannington: Golden Plover - 1+ - heard calling but not seen

Holmebrook Valley Park: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - Back on lake. ; Goosander - 3 - 1 Male + 2 Female ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Male and female ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ - Some with quite black heads. ; Cormorant - 3 - On raft

Hooton Common: Common Buzzard - 1 - drifted over to SW @ 0915hrs

Kilnhurst Riverside: Song Thrush - 4 - inc 2 singing ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Redwing - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 - on river ; Goosander - 1 - f, on river ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Mallard - 9 ; Shoveler - 2 - drakes ; Gadwall - 3prs ; 320 - 2prs ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Snipe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - S @ 0755hrs ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 5+ ; Kestrel - 1