Sightings Archive

Tinsley Golf Course: Goldcrest - 1 - Among Long Tailed Tit group. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - Feeding and alarm call. ; 319 - 1 - over calling, mobbed by 4 Carrion Crows.

Wadsley Common garden: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - With tit party through garden.

Walkley garden: Blackcap - 2 - m and f on fat ball feeder ; Goldcrest - 1 - single bird in fruit trees

Blackburn Meadows NR: Woodcock - 1 ; Snipe - 45+ ; 320 - 12

Canklow Woods: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 2 - in the air together 1030 ; Barn Owl - 1 - hunting field below boston castle

Gleadless: Grey Heron - 2 - attempted to land on pond on Myrtle Springs est at 16:25 but seen off by local corvids.

Howden Res: PARROT CROSSBILL - 10+ - At least 10 still in Upper Derwent Valley in usual area (per Birdguides).

Hutcliffe Wood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Near entrance to cemetery off Hutcliffe Wood Rd at 14:25.

Hutcliffe Wood Cemetery: Redwing - 40

Orgreave Lakes: Woodcock - 1 - Flew from large plantation SW corner of site

R Don Niagara Weir: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Song Thrush - 1 - singing male

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Brown*s Cut: Goosander - 5 - 3 drakes on canal @ 0755hrs + 2 (pair?) SW @ 0810hrs

Rotherham Centre; Don Street: Song Thrush - 1 - singing male regularly present

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - singles ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Greylag Goose - 48 ; Canada Goose - 90 ; Shoveler - 6 - 5m1f ; Pochard - 9 - 7m2f ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 235 - inc 200 in from n ; Herring Gull - 4 - ad inc 1s1s ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad s with a hg ; Dunnock - 18 ; Robin - 27 - 11sing. ; Blackbird - 20 ; Great Tit - 12 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; House Sparrow - 2+ - calling ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Goldfinch - 19 ; Greenfinch - 7 ; Bullfinch - 13 ; Reed Bunting - 5

Walkley Bank: Mistle Thrush - 2 - A pair feeding in the garden with 6 Blackbirds

Baslow Edge: Fieldfare - 60 - On snow covered pasture below edge

Chapeltown: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Present in a garden in Chapeltown in early January, but no sign since 12th. Likely to be an Eastern race bird.

Dalton; Mushroom roundabout: Mistle Thrush - 2

Ecclesall: Bullfinch - 2 - Male and female visiting feeder

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - Behind the cafe, slightly up-river from the stepping stones. ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 - Pair on small unfrozen part of main Res. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male ; Kestrel - 1 - On wires ; Fieldfare - 30+ - Feeding in sheep field. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Jackdaw - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Over. ; Willow Tit - 1 - Calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Linnet - 4

Forge Dam: 320 - 3 - 2 M 1 F

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 8 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Siskin - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Jay - 1

Handsworth: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Goldfinch - 17 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 9 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Jay - 2 ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Blackbird - 3 - 2 males 1 with crossed mandibles ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Golden Plover - 3 - South East . All other bird on feeders garden.

Handsworth garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male.

Millhouses Sheaf valley Walk: Goldfinch - 78 - 78 in the regular pre-roost gathering.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 115 - inc 20 2cy ; Herring Gull - c50 - attracted by swan feeding ; Whooper Swan - 1 - long-stayer ; Mallard - c30 ; Black-headed Gull - c150 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2cy with HGs

R Don, Aldwarke: Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mallard - 20 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/imm