Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Bullfinch - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - m1sing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 2sing

Waterthorpe: Waxwing - 18 - Viewed briefly resting in tree tops and feeding on dried berries.

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 319 - 4 - circling slowly overhead, at least one calling

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 1

Clifton Park, Rotherham: FIRECREST - 2 - Unconfirmed report of 2 Firecrests in Clifton Park. Near the rock garden

Handsworth: Waxwing - 80 - up to 80 ASDA rbt on Sheffield Parkway 9.30-10.00am ; Waxwing - 80 - At Asda ; Waxwing - 80 - another photo ; Waxwing - 80

Harthill Res: Willow Tit - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - courtship display ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - m ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 - pr ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Fieldfare - 50+ - adjacent field ; Lapwing - 3 ; Starling - 25+ - adj field ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 26 - just 3 female ; Shoveler - 6 - 2pr,2m ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Mute Swan - 4 - 2ad 2juv

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Female on garden fatball feeder - in and out most of the morning. ; Bullfinch - 2 - Male and female on seed feeder ; Dunnock - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - on fat ball feeder ; Goldfinch - 5

Onesmoor: Lapwing - c60 - sat in rape field . ; Golden Plover - 48 - flying over , then dropped in with lapwings . ; Skylark - 9 - singing over surrounding fields .

Peat Pits: Reed Bunting - 1 - male feeding at roadside verge . ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - calling as it flew west . ; Skylark - 7 - all singing .

Pilsley(Near Chatsworth): Red Kite - 1

Rawmarsh: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling bird heard on Chapel Walk @ 1000

Strines Res: Curlew - 3 - over, heading towards Ladybower at c1430

Waitrose Sheffield: Waxwing - ca 20 - Flying north west over the car park at 16:30

Carterknowle: Skylark - 1 - over c.NW calling in the mist.

Catcliffe Flash: Pochard - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Mute Swan - 3 - ad pr + 1 imm ; Coot - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - 65+ - 65-70 ; Shoveler - 2 ; Gadwall - c40 ; 320 - 1+ ; Little Grebe - 1

Centenary Riverside: Cormorant - 3 - 1 feeding on large pond, 2 over. ; 321 - 1 - On pond. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Great Tit - 2 - Pair ; Goldfinch - 2 - Pair ; Chaffinch - 2 - 2 Males. ; Wren - 1 - Singing ; Robin - 1 - Singing

Handsworth: Waxwing - 1+ - reported, Asda car park

Kimberworth: Wren - 1 - apparently carrying nest material

Kiveton Community Woodland: Skylark - 4 - 4 singing, including 2 fighting mid air.

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 8 ; Goosander - 11

R Don, Oughtibridge: Goosander - 1 pr

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing male @ 0750hrs ; Chiffchaff - 1 - feeding/calling in riverside trees @ 0750hrs

Rotherham; New York, nr stadium, off New York Way: Waxwing - 13 - sat in top of birch by railway 1230-1300hrs at least

Silver Wood: Grey Heron - 1 - regular bird on Woodlaithes duckpond ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 6 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Peregrine - 1 - over stubble fields to west at 09.45

Agden Res: Whooper Swan - 6 - at 13:25

Barbrook Plantation: Raven - 1 - Flying North ; 319 - 1 - West of plantation ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Woodcock - 1

Blacka Moor: Bullfinch - 2 - pr ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 25 - flock of 25 plus

Edge Mount: Lapwing - 68 - circling over fields . ; Golden Plover - c15 - with lapwings .

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 10 - At and around feeders

Handsworth: Waxwing - 80 - c80 dodging traffic, Handsworth Asda coming down to Cotoneaster berries on Parkway roundabout at 13:45

Homebrook Valley Park: Water Rail - 1 - at the north end of the lake.

Kiveton Community Woodland: Whooper Swan - 7 - Flying over the woodland heading in the rough direction towards Orgreave lakes

Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - fem type in reedbed. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - around top pond.