Sightings Archive

Monday 1st January 2018

• Ranmoor: Pink-footed Goose - 100+ - Flying west @ 12:40
• Ravenfield Church: Goldcrest - 2 ; Herring Gull - 1 - Juv over farmland calling.
• Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd/New Stubbin: Cormorant - 4 - W ; Pink-footed Goose - 218 - WSW. 58 over Rotherham @ 11.40. 130 over Meadowhall @ 12.40 & 30 over Rotherham @ 13.45 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Lapwing - 40 - in area ; Golden Plover - 8 - NW @ 12.55 ; Herring Gull - 18 - on playing field ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - fw on playing field ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - fw on playing field ; Skylark - 50 - flushed from set-aside ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Fieldfare - 10 - W ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - on path
• Redmires Res: Pink-footed Goose - 155 - WNW @ 12:55
• Rotherham: Pink-footed Goose - 58 - flew over SW viewed from Rawmarsh
• Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 50+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Wren - 1+ ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 2+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1+
• Sheephill Road: Fieldfare - 30 - in fields
• Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting at first light ; Tufted Duck - 50 ; Pochard - 2 ; Gadwall - 11 ; Coot - 10 ; Mallard - 6 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Mute Swan - 4 - pair + 2 imm. ; Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - SW ; Herring Gull - 3 - SW ; Grey Partridge - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Blackbird - c.15 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Carrion Crow - 9 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Peregrine - 1 - NW at 10.35 ; Bullfinch - 2
• Thrybergh Cemetery: Little Owl - 1
• Thrybergh CP: Bullfinch - 1 - Male on bird table at side of Thrybergh Lane. ; Pink-footed Goose - 2 - with greylags in field at north east of res ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 42 ; Canada Goose - 61 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 21 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 8 ; Coot - 111 ; Black-headed Gull - 160 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 5 - w ; Dunnock - 15 ; Robin - 15 ; Blackbird - 12 ; Great Tit - 14 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Starling - 60+ ; Goldfinch - 40+ - inc flock 30+feeding in fields
• Ughill Moor: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting mid morning
• Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1
• Wentworth Lakes: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; 321 - 3 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Mallard - 150 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Goosander - 2 - redheads ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - imm male W @ 09.45 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Lapwing - 70 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Common Gull - 1 - ad ; Stock Dove - 10 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1