Sightings Archive

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; 320 - 2+ - Calling from stream. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 4 - Hooting before dawn. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting at first light in rain. ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Roosting in set aside hedge. ; Magpie - 6+ ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Forge Dam: 320 - 6 - 3m 3f

Hangingwater Allotments: Greenfinch - 3 - including one in full song

High Storrs: Treecreeper - 1 - First record in garden trees ; Siskin - 6 ; Starling - 1 - Unusual visitor ; Nuthatch - 1 - On sunflower feeder ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male on sunflower feeder

Howden Res: PARROT CROSSBILL - 4+ - at least 4 Parrot Crossbills among a flock of 32 Crossbills approximately 1km beyond King's Tree, between 10 and 10:35 ; PARROT CROSSBILL - 1 - Singing female from this morning.

Ibbotson Wheel Dam: Mallard - 4 ; Moorhen - 3

Langsett Res: Goldeneye - 2

Linacre Res: Mallard - 60 ; Mandarin - 17 ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 29 ; Coot - 8 ; Moorhen - 10 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Meadowhall: Cormorant - 2 - sat above footbridge

Millhouses garden: Bullfinch - 2 - 1m,1f ; Blackcap - 1m - irregular visitor, but 3rd record this week

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on roadside verge

Poolsbrook CP: Great Black-backed Gull - 12 - low Gull numbers ; Herring Gull - 4 ; 324 - 1 - Barnacle Goose hybrid

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st W again on waste ground on Stevenson Road, Attercliffe

Rotherham Centre: Pink-footed Goose - c 80 - c 80 west over railway station at 1205

Rotherham; Herringthorpe: Pink-footed Goose - 50-60 - W @ 1200hrs

Thrybergh CP: White-fronted Goose - 1 - still at Thrybergh in fields with Greylags on E side, but not easy to see ; Water Rail - 2

Ulley CP: Scaup - 1 - with tufties by bridge. (Orgreave bird?)

Wentworth Lakes: Mute Swan - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed ; Lapwing - 22 ; Black-headed Gull - 100 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 16 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; FIRECREST - 1 - in trees by Morley Pond @ 08.55 with tit flock, calling regularly. ; Goldfinch - 45 ; Linnet - 35 ; Yellowhammer - 7

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 24 - grazing with 23 Canada geese near ; Starling - c150 - in fields, 2 Fieldfare and 2 Mistle Thrush also

Crookes: Waxwing - 3 - In tree behind flats on Coombes Close, then feeding on rose hips.

Curbar: Dipper - 3 ; Mandarin - 2 ; Goosander - 1 - male ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Siskin - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Feeding on ground. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Goldcrest - 1 - With LTT ; Bullfinch - 4

Middleton Moor: Fieldfare - 180 - Feeding in recently manured pasture ; Common Gull - 23

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Goosander - 4 - 2m 2f

R Sheaf, Heeley: Mandarin - 1m - Near Broadfield Road ; Mallard - 14 - Near Broadfield Road

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - c30 - in horse fields sheltering among mole hills

Redmires Middle Res: Red Kite - 1

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 1 - Redwing -15, Tree Creeper-1, Bullfinch - 4, Blackbird - 24

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3 - 01-Feb ; Mute Swan - 12 ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - came in from fields 10.00.flushed by gas gun ; Greylag Goose - 54