Sightings Archive

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 4

Middle Common: 319 - 1 - chased by carrion crow from Rockingham Wood

Millhouses: Blackcap - 2 - 2 males in garden, following yesterday's single ; Carrion Crow - 18 - on a neighbour's tree; not seen such a large gathering here before

Morley Pond: Kestrel - 1 - male ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Dunnock - 1 - calls ; Jackdaw - 1+

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Common Buzzard - 1 - over SW

Rotherham Centre; Don Street: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0805hrs

Rotherham; Rawmarsh Road: Redwing - 4 - S/SW

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 15 - inc.2left s 2-3left w ; Greylag Goose - 45 ; Canada Goose - 70 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Shoveler - 2 - m ; Pochard - 4 - m ; Tufted Duck - 33 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 300 ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Herring Gull - 21 - inc.13s2s1w ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Dunnock - 22 ; Robin - 33 - 21sing ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Blackbird - 23 ; Great Tit - 14 ; Blue Tit - 14 ; Bullfinch - 15 - 3-2-2-8 ; Reed Bunting - 7 - 2m5f ; Yellowhammer - 1 - f ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - back in with greylag mainly in fields ; Golden Plover - 24 - past s ; 319 - 1 - past w

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Beighton Marsh NR: Hawfinch - 1 - In bushes by cottage at entrance from Beighton Road.

Meersbrook Park: Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Redwing - 40+ - Feeding with 20+ Starlings

Millhouses: Blackcap - 1 - male, infrequent garden visitor ; Blackcap - 1 - Male at feeder on Hastings road

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Mute Swan - 1 - N @ 16.10 ; Curlew - 1 - NW @ 15.40

Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Redwing - 24 - In Oak Farm field ; Little Owl - 1 - On Coppice Farm ; Goldcrest - 1 - In observers garden

Rotherham Centre; Don Street: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0800hrs

Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Grey Wagtail - 1

School Lane Hathersage: Bullfinch - 6 - 4m & 2f feeding with 2 Goldfinch & a Chaffinch in observer's garden

Thrybergh CP: White-fronted Goose - 1 - Still in SW field with Greylags. 'Russian' bird (ssp albifrons) ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - second photo. ; Barnacle Goose - 1 - with Canadas. ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mute Swan - 25 - inc 5 left s13left w ; Greylag Goose - 40+ - in fields ; Canada Goose - 76+ ; Pochard - 11 - 9m2f ; Tufted Duck - 24 ; Pheasant - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 1 - only came for food ; Lapwing - 330+ - inc 300+ in fields ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Skylark - 2 - in with lwing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Fieldfare - 150 - circa in field with lwing ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Chaffinch - 20+ - at feed stat ; Goldfinch - 50+ - flock ; Bullfinch - 18 - 10-Aug ; Brambling - 1 - f at feed stat ; Reed Bunting - 8 - 02-Jun ; Yellowhammer - 4 - a feed stat

Aldwarke: Redwing - 1 - strangely birdless today! ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 - flock ; Pied Wagtail - 6 - feeding together around puddles

Aldwarke SF: Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - SW ; Herring Gull - 6 - SW ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over; drifted off S ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 1m; 2f