Sightings Archive

Pit-house West: Whooper Swan - 9 - SW at 15:40; presumed same as earlier at Treeton Dyke ; Water Rail - 1 - squealing on Bittern Pool late afternoon ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling near Chinese Bridge at dusk ; Yellowhammer - 3 - dropped into reeds on Bittern pool to roost ; Reed Bunting - 12 - dropped into reeds on Bittern pool to roost ; Pied Wagtail - 8 - dropped into reeds on Bittern pool to roost ; Starling - 6 - dropped into reeds on Bittern pool to roost ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - male and female watched hunting separately ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting around Bittern pool to dusk ; Lesser Redpoll - 2

Poolsbrook CP: Great Black-backed Gull - 130 - mid-afternoon ; Herring Gull - 70 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Linnet - 9 - in to roost in bushes by S car park ; Greenfinch - 10 - in bushes S car park

Poolsbrook Marsh: Bullfinch - 10 - single flock feeding on dock seeds ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Gadwall - 2 - pair on main pool ; Wigeon - 1 - male on main pool ; Mallard - 5 - main pool ; Mute Swan - 2 - first-winters ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - single flock

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 5 - 3 male + 2 female

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 3 - SW @ 08.00 ; Mallard - 57 - E @ 08.40 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Red Kite - 1 - N @ 09.03 ; Golden Plover - 8 - SW @ 10.15 ; Herring Gull - 6 - S ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - N ; Fieldfare - 20 - SW ; Redwing - 2 - SW ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - SW ; Starling - 8 - SW

Rivelin Dams: Goosander - 2 - pair on lower dam ; Cormorant - 1 - flew W

Rother Valley CP: Goldeneye - 9 - 8 on NR; 1 on fishing lake ; Shoveler - 1 - male on NR ; Goosander - 9 - on NR ; 319 - 1 ; Lapwing - 20 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - m and f ; Kestrel - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Fieldfare - c.300 - big influx this morning ; Redwing - 15 ; Blackbird - 75+ - all round pit top and many more in Silver Wood area ; 319 - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 4 ; Mute Swan - 3 - pair + imm. ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Linnet - 11

Upper Padley: Jay - 4 ; Kestrel - 1

Wyming Brook: Crossbill - 0 - no crossbills (of any description) found during 3 1/2 hour search ; Siskin - c.120 - crowded into crown of alder tree, feeding, near bottom of brook.

Barlow Common: Treecreeper - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2+

Manor Park fields: Redwing - c8 ; Song Thrush - 1 - feeding under hedgerow ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - feeding on grass alongside Redwings ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 6+ ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 6+ ; Carrion Crow - 3+ ; Black-headed Gull - 4+ ; Robin - c5 ; Mallard - 8+ ; Dunnock - 2+

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 5 - in garden

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Golden Plover - 4 - NW @ 15.35

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 19 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 14 ; Mute Swan - 6 ; Canada Goose - 60+ ; Pochard - 10 - 9m1f ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Goldeneye - 1 - m ; Gadwall - 14 - 8m6f ; Lapwing - 210+ - inc 60 on frontm 150 in from north ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 20 ; Redwing - 3 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Blackbird - 43