Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 20 - 10 left s 0830 ; Gadwall - 5 - 2pr +1m ; Pochard - 3 - mff ; Tufted Duck - 33 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 15+ ; Coot - 70 ; Lapwing - 250+ ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Dunnock - 20 ; Robin - 25 ; Redwing - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 40+ - #NAME? ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Bullfinch - 10 - 2-2-2-4

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 - just above Whiteley Woods Rd bridge

Attercliffe: Iceland Gull - 1 - 2w at Norfolk Bridge at 09:30 ; Iceland Gull - 1 - 2W. Effingham Street ; Iceland Gull - 1 ; Iceland Gull - 1 ; Iceland Gull - 2 - Second winter, and a juv/1w at 14:15, record shot of juv/1w ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - dirty looking 1w from Norfolk Bridge

Barbrook: Short-eared Owl - 1 - Hunting over Bucka Hill

Brinsworth: Waxwing - 34 - Off Whitehill Lane, in Willow tree on Barratt estate, opposite Ellis Street 11.30

Burngreave: Waxwing - c50 - on Ellesmere Road

Fairholmes: Nuthatch - 1

Harthill Res: Kingfisher - 1 ; Siskin - 1 - feeding with Goldfinches ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Goldfinch - 42 - 10,20,12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 42 - 32 inc just 4 females,10 ; Shoveler - 5 - 2pr,1m ; Gadwall - 19 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 4 - 2 ad 2 juv

Kilnhurst Ings: Little Egret - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Ladybower Res, North arm: Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - west side ; Treecreeper - 1 - west side ; Goldcrest - 5 - west side ; Cormorant - 2 ; 319 - 2 - west side, circling together

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 26 ; Tufted Duck - 24 ; Goosander - 1 - a redhead

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 5 - 2 males 3 females. ; Goosander - 10 - 7males 3redheads. ; Lapwing - 70+ ; Linnet - 60+ ; Goldfinch - 30+

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c80 - inc at least 11 2cy ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 2cy ; Mallard - 50 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Song Thrush - 3 - scrub to W of basin, singing c20m apart!

Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 15 - 7 SW @ 1021hrs; 4 NE @ 1041hrs; 4 NE @ 1049hrs ; Cormorant - 4 - 2 SW @ 1335hrs; singles SW @ 0815hrs & 1448hrs ; Goosander - 5 - 2 @ 1334hrs & singles @ 1423, 1438 & 1513hrs, all NE

Sheffield Centre: Waxwing - c.65 - Gell Street Park/Victoria Street area late afternoon

Sheffield University: Lesser Redpoll - 20 - feeding in alders by Goodwin Sports Centre

Ulley CP: Greylag Goose - 95 - in field between Reservoir Rd and Green Lane (access to quarry). ; Canada Goose - 1 - with GLGs ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with GLGs ; BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1 - with GLGs.

Aldwarke SF: Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Song Thrush - 4 - inc a singing male ; Magpie - c25 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Gadwall - 6 - lagoons 95%+ frozen over ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Mallard - 1pr ; 320 - 4 ; Coot - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Kestrel - 1 - over

Aldwarke; Tata Steel: Stock Dove - 7

Blackburn Meadows NR: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over NR. 14.50 ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2 male, 1 female 14.50 ; Goldfinch - 10 + ; Great Tit - 2 ; Robin - 1

Centenary Riverside: Goosander - 2 - Pair on river ; Mallard - 4 - 2 pair on river. 15.30 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Male

Crosspool: Waxwing - 1

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Black-headed Gull - c200 - SW ; Common Gull - 2+ - SW ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - SW ; Herring Gull - 1 - SW ; Goldcrest - 02-Mar ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+