Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Fieldfare - 40+ - In tree tops. ; Redwing - 5+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - On telegraph pole. ; Siskin - 2+ - Calling from willows.

Gleadless Common: Cormorant - 1 - flew N at 11:38. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - on "The Common" 11:30

Grange Park Golf Course: Goose sp - 30 - small skein heading W, low over Walkworth Wood @ 08:35 ; Moorhen - 1 - calling ; Black-headed Gull - 10 ; Little Owl - 1 - calls, W of Grange Lane ; Blackbird - 20+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 5+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Wren - 3+ ; Robin - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 3+ ; Carrion Crow - 3+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 4+

Hallam School: Nuthatch - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Holmebrook Valley Park: Tufted Duck - 1 - On lake. Also 50+ Black Headed Gulls, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 Kingfisher (Fishing around lake), 2 Jays, 1 Buzzard, 1 Grey Heron, 5+ Wrens and 2+ Song Thrush. All around lake.

Longshaw: Pink-footed Goose - c100 - Moving east at 11.07.

Manor Fields Park: Water Rail - 1 - around watercourse 09:45. ; Pink-footed Goose - 80 - c80 birds S/E calling at 09:14. ; Moorhen - 7 - top pond. ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Blackbird - 15+ - mainly in/around hawthorns ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - seen twice hunting thru site.

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - Adults ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 950 ; Shoveler - 6 - Five females, one male

Millhouses garden: Collared Dove - 2 - on a neighbour's tree; currently an infrequent visitor ; Nuthatch - 1 - infrequent visitor ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1f ; Wren - 1 - infrequent visitor

Morehall tip/ R.Don: Goosander - 4 - redheads flying down river . ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c90 - inc 12 1cy ; Mallard - c60 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - long-stayer still present

Pit-house West: BITTERN - 1 - perched in reed tops at the Bittern Pool for a couple of minutes before flying across to roost at 16.23 ; Water Rail - 3 - calling at dusk ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; 319 - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Kingfisher - 1 - fishing @ 0720hrs

R Don; Centenary Riverside to Main Street: Mallard - 15 ; 320 - 1pr ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Cormorant - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Ravenfield Church: Nuthatch - 1 - Calling from woodland.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Grey Wagtail - 2 - W together

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 3 - N @ 09.20 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - ad N @ 09.14 ; Greylag Goose - 9 - S @ 9.35 ; Pink-footed Goose - 300 - SE in 2 skeins. 100 @ 09.05 & 200 @ 9.55 & 40 W @ 08.30 ; Mallard - 43 - E ; 319 - 1 - W ; Golden Plover - 19 - W @ 09.11 ; Lapwing - 21 - W @ 09.07 & 65 NW @ 14.40 ; Herring Gull - 23 - N ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - N

Rother Valley CP: Little Egret - 1 - on Rother near visitor centre ; Cormorant - 17 - Meadowgate Lake ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Goosander - 2 - Meadowgate Lake ; Egyptian Goose - 1 - in fields east of the Rother with Canada Geese

Rotherham; Primrose Hill: Herring Gull - 70-80 - loafing on rooftop at recycling centre, inc colour-ringed adult 6K9B ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - over ; Cormorant - 1 - high to S/SW

Silverwood Lagoon: Fieldfare - c.60 - mobile flock in paddocks ; Redwing - 15 - with Fieldfares ; Blackbird - c.40 ; Cormorant - 1 - north at 09.55 ; 319 - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Coombs Dale: Fieldfare - c50 ; 319 - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 6

Firsby Res: Black-headed Gull - 50+ - flock over. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5+ - Over with BHG.