Sightings Archive

Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 2 - male & female

Hangingwater garden: Siskin - 2 - pair on feeders

Manor Fields Park: Stonechat - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - female in central area 17:25. ; Waxwing - 50 - c50 birds in at 17:10-17:20 then flew W.

Meersbrook Park: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 6 ; Magpie - 11

Mount Darnall: Iceland Gull - 1 - 1 2nd winter on the old airport till.18.05 when it flew into town to roost.

Orgreave Lakes: Water Rail - 1 - By the river at 0620. ; Redshank - 3 ; Snipe - 2 - On the island. ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Redshank - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goldeneye - 9 - 3 males. ; Goosander - 14 ; Little Grebe - 2 - Large lake. ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Small lake.

R Don, Effingham St: 319 - 3+ - at least 3 birds circling in area ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Iceland Gull - 1 - Again this morning ; Iceland Gull - 1 - photo ; Iceland Gull - 1 - photo

Redmires: Ring Ouzel - 1 - [an early date]

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 80 - in rough field below conduit; small group present joined by flock that arrived from N ; Red Grouse - 14 - mostly males song-flighting

Redmires Top Res: Waxwing - 12 - W to roost at 17:40 ; Curlew - c.105 - 59 circling res late afternoon looking to roost and c.45 headed off strongly SW - to Middleton Moor?

Ridgeway: Waxwing - 4 - On berry bush in garden on High Lane at junction with Main Road.

Rotherham Centre; Keppel Wharf: Pied Wagtail - 1 - singing from 3rd floor apartment balcony

RVCP: Redshank - 1 ; Goosander - 12 ; Goldeneye - 6 ; Cormorant - 25 ; Wigeon - 50+ ; 319 - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Siskin - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 30+

Salmon Pastures: Iceland Gull - 1 - On roof tops ; Goosander - 2 - Pair on river

Sheffield Centre: Peregrine - 1 - high overhead, brief display.

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2 - pair copulating at 08:20

Silverwood Lagoon: Short-eared Owl - 3 ; Little Grebe - 6 - trilling ; 320 - 2 ; Skylark - 6 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - 'parachuting' ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - baffling ; Siskin - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3 - singing ; Lapwing - 2 - pair displaying over fields to west

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 28 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 9 - 5m4f ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 9 - lot of displaying ; Curlew - 1 - calling nw ; Black-headed Gull - 110+ ; Skylark - 10 - sing ; Dunnock - 33 ; Robin - 25 ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 15 - 1sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 11 ; Bullfinch - 8 - 02/02/2004 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 1sing ; Yellowhammer - 7 - 2sing

Yorkshire Bridge: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mallard - 2 - Both pairs upstream from bridge

Barlow Common: Skylark - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Botanical Gardens: Peregrine - 1 - Very low E and then SW towards Endcliffe Park.

Brincliffe Edge Wood: Blackcap - 1 - 1 singing

Canklow: 321 - 1 - Flew N to S Nr KFC.05.20 ; Kestrel - 1 - Flew S to N towards Iccles. 05.30

Edale End: Curlew - 22 - Flight of 21 wheeling & calling over valley plus 1 in field by railway

Five Weirs Walk: Kingfisher - 1+ - single bird flying upstream at Stevenson Rd and again at Washford Bridge

Greave*s Piece: Great Grey Shrike - 1

Greystones: Bullfinch - 2 - Two males on feeder ; Brambling - 1 - Male in apple tree ; Siskin - 2 - arrived with small flock of goldfinch. ; Redwing - 1

Kilnhurst Ings: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Langsett: Curlew - 35+ ; Lapwing - 15+ ; Red Grouse - 5

Manor Fields Park: Stonechat - 1 - at N end 16:15. ; Grey Heron - 1 - dropped in by watercourse 16:45-16:49 then flew N. ; Moorhen - 2 - pair on reedbed pond. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male with prey 16:55.

Orgreave Lakes: Redshank - 3