Sightings Archive

Hillsborough Park: Canada Goose - 126 ; Goosander - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 5

Hudson*s Rough: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Kimberworth Park: Black-headed Gull - 60+ - on Roughwood Rec, later onto Wingfield School fields ; Common Gull - 1 - on Roughwood Rec

Midhope Res: Redwing - 40+ ; Fieldfare - 1+ ; 319 - 06-Jul - Seemingly displaying ; Mallard - 42 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Linnet - 3

Norton Lees: Long-tailed Tit - 3 - observer’s garden

Rawmarsh; High Street: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on top of Methodist Church spire

Redmires Top Res: Jay - 1 - Coming to food ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Feeding with Gt Spotted ; Wren - 1 - Seemingly nest building, high in branches ; Goldcrest - 4

Summerley: Redwing - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Unstone: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Kestrel - 1

Bingham Park: 321 - 2 - one with fish, the other observing

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 2 - 2m together

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 85 - Feeding in fields

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 2 - near Hunter's Bar

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - f eating ornamental dates

Norton Lees: Redwing - 9

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 470 - Roosted

Silverwood Lagoon: Water Rail - 1 - calling from phragmites in NE corner at 09.40

Stannington: Redwing - 12 - Feeding on cotoneaster in Oldfield Rd garden ; Blackbird - 7

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 48 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Pochard - 10 ; Gadwall - 20 ; Great Crested Grebe - 15 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Redwing - 22 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Greenfinch - 20 ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Herring Gull - 24 ; Black-headed Gull - C250 ; Lapwing - 80

Tyzack*s Dam: Wood Duck - 1 - female again. ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair ; Mallard - 6 - Really low count ; Black-headed Gull - 84 - My highest ever count there.

Agden Res: Grey Heron - 1 - ad on dam wall ; Mallard - 21

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; Redwing - 1

Broomhead Res: Mallard - 12

Burbage Moor: Raven - 1

Carr Vale Nature Reserve: Canada Goose - 200 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Wigeon - 50

Chatsworth Park: Brambling - 8 - in beech trees - late-afternoon ; Canada Goose - 50 - c.

Don Canal, Rotherham Cut: Bullfinch - 1pr ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Redwing - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in tit-flock ; Mute Swan - 3 - + 1 dead in open water

Eastwood, Rotherham; Eldon Road: Goldfinch - c20 ; Siskin - 3+ - with Goldfinches ; Redwing - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 - grazing on playing field (colour ringed Y683 & Y818, yellow

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - Main Res. ; Mallard - 1 - Male. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - Over together. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Cottage roof. ; 319 - 1 - Over sheep paddock. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over Arbour Lane.