Sightings Archive

Holmebrook Valley Park: Siskin - 20+ - By lake. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Female by lake

Millhouses garden: Redwing - 18 - on neighbour's tree ; Jay - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1m;1f ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - briefly ; Starling - 1 - infrequentvisitor ; Greenfinch - 2 - males ; Goldcrest - 1 - infrequent visitor

Morley Pond: Cormorant - 6 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 6 - 2 Adult, 4juv ; Mallard - 20+ ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Pheasant - 10+ ; Jay - 1 ; Moorhen - 4

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 adults an 1 almost adult ; Great Black-backed Gull - 78 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 23 ; Herring Gull - 174 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - C 250 ; Grey Partridge - 1 - Calling at dusk ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 adults and 1 almost

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c100 - inc 9 1cy ; Whooper Swan - 1 - long stayer still present ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Mallard - c100 ; Black-headed Gull - c120 ; Herring Gull - 12

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Redwing - 7 - 4 S; 3 N ; Siskin - present - several heard over ; Fieldfare - 2 - SW ; Herring Gull - 9 - SW ; Greenfinch - 1 - N ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - SW

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 2 - S ; Mallard - 97 - E 08.05-08.15 ; 319 - 2 ; Golden Plover - 4 - W @ 08.30 ; Common Gull - 4 - on playing field ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - S ; Herring Gull - 14 - S ; Great Black-backed Gull - 15 - S ; Brambling - 1 - SW

Rotherham; Primrose Hill: Great Black-backed Gull - 15-20 - all ads/near-ads except 1 2cy, at recycling centre ; Herring Gull - c80 - at recycling centre ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Carrion Crow - c20 ; Rook - 4 ; Fieldfare - 1 - W ; Redwing - 6 - W

Roundwood Golf course: Magpie - 17 - presumably leaving roost @ dawn ; Mistle Thrush - 7 - inc one singing

Totley Brook: 321 - 1

Abbeydale: 319 - 2+ - Circling over Abbeydale Golf Course

Bowden Housteads Wood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Two birds feeds in Apple trees near by gardens.

Chatsworth Park: Kingfisher - 1 - At top of Park - Emperor Lake area ; Mistle Thrush - c4 ; Fieldfare - c8

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; 320 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Over. ; Cormorant - 3 - 1 caught Roach on main Res. 2 others circled but did not land. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Called at dawn. ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Large female through. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over set aside field. ; Redwing - 5+ ; Fieldfare - 10+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 12+ ; Willow Tit - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 ; Siskin - 6 - Small numbers over. ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Goldfinch - 6 - On teasels. ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Jackdaw - 50+ - Two flocks over. ; Rook - 8 ; Jay - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - on main Res. ; Grey Heron - 1

Greystones garden: Siskin - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2M, 1F ; Jay - 2

Holmebrook Valley Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Fishing on lake ; Goosander - 1 - 1 Male on lake.

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - Adults ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 160 ; Herring Gull - 22 ; Common Gull - 4

Millhouses garden: Redwing - 3 - on neighbour's tree