Sightings Archive

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male, showing characters/giving calls of 'northern' race P. p. pyrrhula ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling by river ; Mute Swan - 4 - N

Fulwood garden: Chaffinch - 14 - at feeders ; Brambling - 1 - female at feeders - scarce this autumn ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; Greenfinch - 4 - at feeders ; Goldfinch - 6 - at feeders ; Jay - 1

Heeley City Farm: Pink-footed Goose - 150+ - flew west at 08:00

Holmebrook Valley Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Around lake ; Common Gull - 3+ - At least 3 on the lake. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 1 Adult and 1 Juvenile on lake. ; Snipe - 1 - Flew over north ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female ; Cormorant - 1 - On lake ; Bullfinch - 3+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing around lake ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ - On frozen lake ; Little Grebe - 1 - On east side of lake ; Water Rail - 2 - Calling round lake ; Goosander - 3+ - 3 flew north; 1 on lake ; Tufted Duck - 3 - Females ; Common Gull - 1 - Over ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Ibbotson Wheel Dam: 320 - 2 - 1m still here after a week. 1f seen for the first time.

Norton Lees garden: Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult in pre-roost. ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - adult in pre-roost,with c350 big gulls,most left north.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - long-stayer ; Mute Swan - c80 - inc 12 1cy ; Mallard - c80 ; Herring Gull - c30 - bathing before heading to Primrose Hill ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

R Sheaf, Heeley: Mandarin - 3 - 2m, 1f

Rotherham; Primrose Hill: Herring Gull - 150-180 - feeding at recycling centre; constant turnover of birds ; Great Black-backed Gull - c30 - majority adults; at recycling centre

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 19 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 9 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 7 - inc 3jvs ; Gadwall - 10 - 6m4f ; Shoveler - 1 - ad m ; Pochard - 8 - 7m1f ; Tufted Duck - 51 ; Goldeneye - 2 - mf ; Water Rail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 150 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 5 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Walkley garden: Redwing - c 20 - Moving between berried shrubs

Baslow: Mandarin - 14 - On R Derwent downstream of Devonshire Bridge ; Cormorant - 1 - Flying south

Baslow SF: Pied Wagtail - 18

Bingham Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female feeding in tree tops

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing in ice free area of main Res. ; Cormorant - 2 - Singles over high. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling pre-dawn ; Pheasant - 1 - Male. ; Jackdaw - 40+ - 3 flocks over at first light. ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 4 - Flew from roost. ; Siskin - 2 ; Bullfinch - 6

Hammond*s Field: Stonechat - 1 - male ; Kestrel - 1 - male. Attempted to dive on male Stonechat but, after brief aerial pursuit, the Stonchat escaped after gaining height

Holmebrook Valley Park: Kingfisher - 2 - on lake and river. ; Common Gull - 1 - Landed on lake at 10:46 before flying off about 1 min later; a 2nd different bird flew north in the afternoon ; Herring Gull - 1 - On lake. Then left at 10:19 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ - On lake ; Cormorant - 1 - Landed at 11:10 and left North at 11:12 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female ; Redwing - 3 - Flew over

Howden Res: PARROT CROSSBILL - 12 - at 10.37 am including 4 stonking males still visting puddle near the 5 bar gate, at the top of the steep track ,450m up from the blue 7km marker

Ibbotson Wheel Dam: Kingfisher - 1

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - c3000 ; Common Gull - 46+ - Count abandoned at 46 due to not being able to see the birds for the falling snow

Little don vally: Redwing - 4 ; Raven - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2

Midhope Moor: Common Buzzard - 4 ; Kestrel - 3

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult in roost ; Herring Gull - 135 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 35 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 45 ; Common Gull - 3

Parkgate; Retail World: Goldcrest - 2 - on boundary of Morrison's car park

Pit-house West: BITTERN - 1 - flew across Bittern Pool to roost at 16:12