Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Willow Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Moorhen - 4

R Don, Lady’s Bridge: Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Cormorant - 1 - NE @ 0748hrs ; Goosander - 1 - SW @ 0748hrs ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling in riverside Buddleias

Redmires Bottom Res: Goosander - 2 - 1 male, 1 female

Silverwood Lagoon: Peregrine - 1 - NW at 09.20 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair - juvs gone to TCP ; Fieldfare - c.20 - in western paddocks ; Redwing - 4 ; Blackbird - c.30 - all round pit top ; Siskin - 1 - south

Beauchief Abbey Ponds: Mandarin - 8 ; Mallard - 2 - pair ; Moorhen - 2 ; Siskin - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 - female just south of ponds and adjacent golf course

Beauchief Allotments: Kestrel - 1 - male with small mammal

Beauchief Hall: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1+ - at least 1 heard heading c.NE (e.g. towards Graves Park) at c.09.00. ; Greenfinch - 11-Dec - flock ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Damflask Res: Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Common Gull - 1 ; Mandarin - 5 - Male & female ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+

Ecclesall Woods (Wood 3): Kestrel - 1 - carrying small mammal over Donkey Field area

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Fishing on lower lake at 7:15 ; Moorhen - 10 - browsing on grass together near upper pond

Fulwood: Pheasant - 1 - male in observer's garden this morning

Graves Park: Pintail - 1 - female with impeccable credentials still present; wary nature confirmed when kept distance (a good 6 inches) from child feeding it bread. ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - over W at c.14.30 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Mandarin - 10 ; Fieldfare - 12 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 1 - Male

High Bradfield: Pink-footed Goose - 210 - flew SE at 09:00

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 1 - 1 male

Meadowhall Interchange: Redwing - 3 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male

Millhouses garden: Jay - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3m

Norfolk Park: Grey Heron - 1 - Grey Heron on rooftop on Norfolk Park Avenue

Orgreave Lakes: Redwing - 9 - Between bridges .

R Don, Rotherham; between Grafton & Crinoline Bridges: Goosander - 3 - SW @ 1615hrs

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 1 - Blackbird - 31, Song Thrush - 2, Mistle Thrush -2, Redwing - 19, Bullfinch - 6, Sparrowhawk - 1, Goldcrest -1

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 14 - 2 1st w males, 12 redheads early moring only ; Tufted Duck - 3 - male, 2 1st w. male ; Mallard - 44 - + 3 with domestic influence ; Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 31 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 - juvenile low over ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - 1 singing from poplar at Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, 1 on house nearby ; Mandarin - 20

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Cormorant - 20 - on pylon by 1050hrs (probably inc some/all of those seen earlier at Thrybergh tip) ; Peregrine - 1 - adult sat on handrail by old nest site on lime tower ; Stock Dove - 4

Barlow Common: Raven - 2 ; Skylark - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Botanical Gardens: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female on garden hedge.

Fairholmes: Brambling - 15 ; Brambling - 15 - another photo

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Redwing - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - high to NE ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - over ; Meadow Pipit - 01-Feb - over ; Song Thrush - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 18 ; 320 - 25 - Main Res. ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male over low., ; Willow Tit - 1 - Calling. ; Siskin - 2 ; Redwing - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Jackdaw - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 8 ; Redwing - c20 ; Moorhen - 4