Sightings Archive

Rivelin: Mandarin - 3 - 2m + 1f on wolf dam ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 20 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Dipper - 1 - In waterfall at bottom of Blackbrook near Wolf Dam

Rotherham; Northfield: Great Black-backed Gull - c15 - at recycling centre ; Herring Gull - c70 - at recycling centre ; Carrion Crow - c30 ; Jackdaw - c15 ; Magpie - c20

Scholes Coppice: Robin - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing near bell pits. ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 2+

Shepherd*s Plantation: Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Treecreeper - 1

Silver Wood: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - heard, WNW at 08.40

Strawberry Lee Plantation: Crossbill - 11+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 55 ; Pochard - 8 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Fieldfare - C40 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Blackbird - 18 ; Robin - 18 ; Pink-footed Goose - C40 - Birds west other birds calling but not picked up ; Raven - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3

Ughill: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling in wood by Wet Shaw Lane

Underbank Res: Tufted Duck - 11 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1 - very light morph

Unstone: Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Whirlow: 320 - 2 - males on Whirlow lake at 09:40

White Lee Moor: Crossbill - c23 - in flight over plantation

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c 50 - flock of c50

Dore: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Goldfinch - c10 ; Kestrel - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 13 - Main Res. ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead. Observers first record here ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - Feeding in front of top Reed bed. ; 319 - 1 ; Fieldfare - 10+ - in hedgerow. ; Jay - 1 - Calling ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - Flew from set aside field calling. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Juv over.

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Redwing - 10

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 9 ; Common Buzzard - 3 - In the air together

Lockerbrook: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting mid-afternoon

Longshaw: 324 - 7 - Red deer stags

Manor Fields Park: Mallard - 8 - 4M, 4F ; Moorhen - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - female in reedbed at 08:00 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 18 ; Redwing - 70+ - 21 flew over 40-50 feeding on site. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing early am. ; Blackbird - 7 ; Starling - 4 - amongst Redwings ; Kestrel - 1 - 1 male hunting site early am

Orgreave Lakes: 324 - 1 - Greylag hybrid ; Stonechat - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead

Rivelin Dams: Cormorant - 1 - ad on Bottom Res ; Grey Heron - 1 - ad on Bottom Res

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 - 'trilling' ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - west

Baslow SF: Pied Wagtail - 16 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - First this year ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Brightholmlee: Fieldfare - 12 - feeding in rough pasture off fairhurst lane ; Mistle Thrush - 1