Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Canada Goose - 100+ ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 7 - 5m2f ; Tufted Duck - 71 ; 319 - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 60+ ; Black-headed Gull - 420+ - most drifted s ; Common Gull - 1 - ad ; Herring Gull - 4 - ad ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 20 ; Blackbird - 57 ; Long-tailed Tit - 17+ ; Siskin - 1 ; Bullfinch - 11 - 2-5-2-2 ; Blackbird - 57 ; Short-eared Owl - 1 - flying low along old railway embankment se 0750

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - c90 - On roof at Warren St, inc York colour ringed 2cy ; Great Black-backed Gull - 19 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad

Brecks: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male breakfasting on next door's lawn.

Harthill Res: Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 - excellent views low water level 2nd pond ; Gadwall - 14 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 - in at 12.00 ; Siskin - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 20 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 - inc 2 juv ; Goldfinch - 30 - 14,6,10 ; Mute Swan - 14 - inc 4 cygnets ; Black-headed Gull - 120 - most left thro day

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 9 - flew N @ 0818hrs, at least 2 circling back & returning SW ; Cormorant - 4 - 3 SW @ 0810hrs; 1 NE @ 0818hrs

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 9 - max on pylons @ 1000hrs

Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Song Thrush - 8 ; Redwing - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Mallard - 4 ; 320 - 2 - drakes ; Moorhen - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - feeding in dense cover; probably more present ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - left S ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Linnet - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male

Baslow: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - S E at 10.15

Centenary Riverside: Cormorant - 7 - one on river + 6 W ; Grey Heron - 1 - on river ; Mallard - 6 - on river ; Goosander - 6 - 1pr E; 1pr + 2 redheads W ; Mute Swan - 1pr - adult pair (587 & 941 yellow) on river ; 320 - 2prs - on river ; Moorhen - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Kingfisher - 1 - on river ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - SW ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/juv hunting, left NW ; Water Rail - 2 - one 'sharming' + one scuttled out from under boardwalk into adjacent reedbed ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - dropped into trees from N ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling constantly ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Kingfisher - 2 - River 13.15 ; Goosander - 2 - Pair on river ; 321 - 1 ; Mallard - 18 - 12 Drakes, 6 female. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2

Chatsworth Park: Wigeon - 1 - Female grazing between Paine’s bridge and cricket ground ; Mute Swan - 4 - Adult and three young

City Road Cemetery: Pied Wagtail - 25 - single flock of 25+ feeding around cemetery10:20. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - with Pied wagtails

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 10+ ; 320 - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Flushed from sluice reed bed. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ - Inc 14 down on main Res. ; Kestrel - 2