Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 ; Skylark - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Rook - 1 - NE

Sothall: Redwing - 19 - nocmig recorded 25/26th ; Golden Plover - 2 - nocmig recorded 25/26th

Treeton Dyke: Starling - c1000 - Birds dropping in to roost.

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 9 - My first this autumn. ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair ; 322 - 1 - Wood Duck female

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - c20 - mobile across Upper and Middle Common ; Red-legged Partridge - 7 ; Blackbird - 3

Weston Park: Mandarin - 1 - Single female with c.50 mallard on lake

Barlow Common: Brambling - 1 - female ; Little Owl - 1 ; Redwing - 4+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 6+ ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2

Catcliffe Flash: Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Wigeon - 40+ ; Cormorant - 5 ; Gadwall - 27 ; Shoveler - 4

Centenary Riverside: Redwing - 45 - 27 NW; 4 N; 14 W ; Cormorant - 7 - in from N then remaining in area ; Mallard - 15 - on river ; Moorhen - 1 - river ; Jackdaw - c400 - noisy post-roost dispersal to S/SE, 0745-0750hrs ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - low to W ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Siskin - 3 - W ; Kingfisher - 1 - on river

Ewden Beck: Fieldfare - 60 - Several groups of 20+ birds moving up the Beck mixed with Redwings.

Greystones garden: Redwing - 2 - In observer's garden ; Blackcap - 1 - Female

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 76 ; 320 - 15 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Common Gull - 1

Mount Darnall: Redwing - 118 - 07.45-10.00 - mainly SW ; Woodpigeon - 35 - Mainly west ; Pied Wagtail - 8 - SW ; Chaffinch - 43 - West ; Goldfinch - 13 - SW ; Brambling - 15 - West ; Blackbird - 4 - West ; Starling - 26 - West ; Skylark - 16 - South ; Jackdaw - 51 - West ; 327 - 21 - South ; Yellowhammer - 1 - West ; Pink-footed Goose - c60 - NE @ 09.30 ; Stonechat - 1 - Sub adult ; Peregrine - 1 - Female ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Stonechat - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - 155+ ; Pochard - 26 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 47+ ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Lapwing - 10 ; 320 - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12+ ; Black-headed Gull - 150+

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 26 ; Herring Gull - 4 - 2 ads; 1 1cy; 1 3cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Mallard - c80 ; Black-headed Gull - c50

Rotherham; Bradgate Brick-pits: Stock Dove - 4 - on adjacent fields ; Magpie - 8 - on adjacent fields ; Common Buzzard - 1 - on adjacent fields ; Linnet - 8 - on adjacent fields ; Skylark - 4 - on adjacent fields ; Pied Wagtail - 4 - on adjacent fields ; Yellowhammer - 1 - on adjacent fields ; Redwing - 11 - N ; Chaffinch - 2

Rotherham; Clough Streamside: Goldcrest - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 ; Jay - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2

Rotherham; Primrose Hill: Herring Gull - c40 - feeding at recycling centre ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults