Sightings Archive

Silverwood Pit Top: 319 - 1 - Over old Colliery Railway line. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Over. ; Fieldfare - 5+ - Down on field between Quarry Garage and Silverwood. ; Siskin - 1 - Over slurry pond calling.

Swinton: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER - 1 - reported in Holly Bushes near war memorial by St Margaret's Church, Church Street 11am but not since.

Thorpe Hesley: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lapwing - 19

Wadsley Common garden: Long-tailed Tit - 20 - Through garden.

Wentworth: Fieldfare - 10 ; Redwing - c50 - in field ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Whirlow: 320 - 3 - 2f+1m on the lake

Gleadless Valley: Redwing - c15

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male on fat feeder in observer's garden ; Song Thrush - 1

Hillsborough Park: Kingfisher - 1 - First here for a few years.

Kirk Edge: Fieldfare - c250 - feeding in surrounding fields.

Ladybower Res: Cormorant - 9

Malin Bridge: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing..

Moss Valley, upper: Jay - 7 - c7 singles seen or heard ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Onesmoor: Lapwing - 28 - feeding in cereal fields. ; Golden Plover - 1 - with lapwing flock. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 - heard calling.

Ravenfield Park: Tawny Owl - 3 - 2 together West side and 1 on East

Rawmarsh: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on Methodist Church spire @ 1150hrs

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 12 - 8 males and 4 females on Frank Wheel Dam. ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Baslow: Siskin - 1 - Male on feeder; first this winter

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Lapwing - c100 - W, 14:47 ; Mallard - 20+ ; Tufted Duck - 10+ ; Coot - 12+ ; Black-headed Gull - 20+

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pair remaining with others departing. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Redwing - 10+ - With FF. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male. ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Jackdaw - 1 - Over. ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Pheasant - 1 - Male. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Over E.

Fulwood: Fieldfare - 1

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 2 - Observer's garden ; Redwing - 11

Harthill Res: Mute Swan - 1 ; Mallard - 90 - c. ; Gadwall - 3 ; 320 - 18 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Coot - 5 ; Lapwing - 120 - c. ; Redshank - 1 - on Bottom Res ; Grey Plover - 6 - still present on Bottom Res ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - c. ; Blackbird - 12 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Siskin - 30 - c. ; Goldfinch - 40 - c. ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Skylark - 11 - flew NW ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Longstone Edge: Goshawk - 1

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 5+ - coming into rowan tree in Norris Rd all day

Markham Vale: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Snipe - 3 - flushed from wet area by reedbed ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed with Snipe in wet area by reedbed

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 92 ; 320 - 35

Moorgate, Rotherham: Blackcap - 1 - 1 male, regular visits to feed on fat balls

Old Ravenfield: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult over fields between St James church and Arbour Lane. ; Skylark - 3 - Over Arbour Lane. ; Linnet - 6 - Over farmland. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On Garden Lane. ; House Sparrow - 5+ - In Horse Paddock near Pingle Lane.

Orgreave Lakes: Pochard - 63 - Maim lake. ; Tufted Duck - 54 - Main lake ; Goldeneye - 1 - Female ; Goosander - 26 - Main lake .16 males lots of display. At dusk ; Great Black-backed Gull - 102 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 13 ; Herring Gull - 367 ; Black-headed Gull - c2500 ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter. ; Little Egret - 1

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 132 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Poolsbrook Marsh: Gadwall - 3 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling by north pool ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling