Sightings Archive

Tyzack*s Dam: Coot - 2 - 8am.

Walkley garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - Single bird calling from lime tree until disturbed by fire work, flew towards Lower Walkley

Woodhouse Tip: Meadow Pipit - 17 ; Skylark - 2 ; Blackbird - 19 ; Redwing - 14 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Goldfinch - 7

Bradfield: 319 - 2 - One battling gale force winds on Delph Road the other perched on edge of conifer plantation at Bradfield end of Cowell Flats in less windy conditions

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Mute Swan - 3 - imm ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Manor: Hawfinch - 1 - flew west over observer's garden at 08:05

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 5 - Adults with 3 imm ; Mallard - 5+ ; Moorhen - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 5 - ad pr + 3 imm ; Wigeon - 12 ; Gadwall - 38 ; 320 - 5 ; Shoveler - 4 ; Pochard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 6+ ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Moorhen - 2+ ; Coot - c120

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 70+ - Lower pond

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male ; Jay - 2 - Finding & secreting peanuts in garden fence ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 25 - Small flock moving around but not settling for long in high winds ; Starling - ~200 - Moving around pasture in small groups accompanied by corvids

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Peregrine - 1 - ad m W @ 16.35 ; Herring Gull - 6 - S ; Great Black-backed Gull - 7 - S ; Fieldfare - 24 - W

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 - flew downstream ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 3 - pair + 1 ijuv ; Mallard - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults ; Black-headed Gull - c.90 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Coot - 5 ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Moorhen - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 - north at 08.40 ; Brambling - 1 - in hedgerow below SW paddocks ; Meadow Pipit - 14 - one's and two's scattered round pit top ; Fieldfare - 60 ; Redwing - 30 ; Siskin - 2 ; Jay - 4 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Pheasant - c.20 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - c40 - in three flocks ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1

Swinton: Collared Dove - 63 - (sixty three) on telegraph wires at 15.30.

Barlborough: Bullfinch - 5 ; Lesser Redpoll - c6 ; Tree Sparrow - 3 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 ; Coal Tit - c2

Barlow Brook: Mandarin - 4 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Goldfinch - 12+

Canklow Woods: 319 - 1 - Landed top of woods 15.00

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew down river towards Rotherham. ; Goosander - 2 - Pair, river. ; Mallard - 3 - 2 drakes, 1 female ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Robin - 1 ; Wren - 1

Pot House Wood, Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 400

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 1 - ; Jackdaw - 280 ; Redwing - 51 ; Goldfinch - 50 ; Greenfinch - 13

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 13 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 20+ ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 9 ; Greylag Goose - 104 - and 2 white/brown feral