Sightings Archive

Monday 2nd January 2017

• Aldwarke SF: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - NE ; Herring Gull - 10 - 7 SW; 3 NE ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Magpie - 30 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - sat together in Elders ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Gadwall - 17 - 11 down + 6 circled & left towards river ; Goosander - 5 - SW ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Shoveler - 2prs ; Mallard - 1pr
• Bingham Park: Stock Dove - 1 - Singing in wood ; Kingfisher - 1 - Female at lower pond ; Dipper - 1 - in River Porter near lower pond, silver ring on right leg ; Redwing - 1
• Bole Hill Rec: Waxwing - 2+ - Small flock on Bolehill Recreation Ground, Crookes - near Northfield Road entrance
• Broomhead Res: Crossbill - 10+ - [not Waxwings as initially reported]
• Catcliffe: Siskin - 12 - Feeding in Alders adjacent former Biffa tip
• Catcliffe Flash: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 feeding in grass on southern flood bank
• Crookes: Waxwing - 100+ - flock between Longfield Road and Northfield Road
• Crosspool: 319 - 1 - Flying over mobbed by crows ; Waxwing - 2 - Briefly at 1130am ; Redwing - 20+ ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Male at upper pond
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Coal Tit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 16 ; Goldcrest - 2
• Fulwood: Brambling - 2 - visiting feeders in observer's garden ; Herring Gull - 1 - over E this morning ; Magpie - 1 - nestbuilding at junction of Crimicar Lane and Crimicar Drive
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 - Female ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female. Regular this week. ; Siskin - 3 - 3 female
• Haugh Rd Cemetery: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding around gravestones
• Lowfield: Waxwing - 400+ - Minimum of 400 on Queens Road by Hagglers Corner and Halfords at 08:45
• Manor: Waxwing - 120 - c120 birds on Windy House Lane at 10:05.
• Manor Fields Park: Waxwing - 200 - c200 flew over car park towards Manor top at 08:45.
• Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 2 - Pair on big hill ; Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 feeding on tip among small Skylark flock! ; Herring Gull - 666 - Part of a large roost of over 1000 big gulls ; Great Black-backed Gull - 366 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40 ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 2nd Winter in roost ; Grey Partridge - 8 - On tip ; Skylark - 20 - On tip ; Woodcock - 1 - At dusk by river bridge ; Goosander - 20
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c110 - inc 11 2cy. Majority of birds colour ringed ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Mallard - 26 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 1W/2cy still present with MS herd
• Pit-house West: Water Rail - 2+ - Bittern Pool
• R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Cormorant - 1 ; Gadwall - 17 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - c15 ; Tufted Duck - c100 ; 320 - c50 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - drake, flew upriver ; Mallard - 11 ; Mute Swan - 4
• Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 3 - 2 SW & 1 N
• Redmires Middle Res: Crossbill - 18 - Mobile flock including several singing birds ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - W with 9 Herring Gulls midday ; Herring Gull - 9 - W with 2 GBBGulls at midday
• Redmires Res: Waxwing - 345 - c345 flew west to roost this afternoon ; Chaffinch - 15 - west to roost ; Brambling - 20 - c. west to roost ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - flew W at dusk ; Fieldfare - 8 - flew W at dusk ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - flew W at dusk
• Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1
• Rotherham; Gin House Lane/Primrose Hill: Great Black-backed Gull - 30-40 - mostly ads/near ads, visiting recycling centre & loafing on adjacent roofs ; Herring Gull - c200 - visiting recycling centre & loafing on adjacent roofs; inc 7B0B (yellow) again ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - over ; Magpie - 30-40 ; Rook - c10 ; Carrion Crow - c20 ; Jackdaw - c20 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over, heading E ; Pheasant - 5 - 1m; 4f, disturbed by prowling vixen
• Shepherd Wheel: Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Male, caught & ate 9 fish in 10-15 minutes. Possibly same male seen earlier in Endcliffe Park
• Silver Wood: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - working its way up higher reaches of a beech in SE corner at 11.45 then flew deeper into woods (possibly joined a mobile tit flock). ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling at 06.55 ; Fieldfare - c50 - in field of winter wheat beyond northern edge of woods
• Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 11 ; Gadwall - 9 ; Mallard - 1pr