Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 12 ; Greylag Goose - C180 ; Canada Goose - C80 ; Blackbird - 38 - Good numbers showing this morning ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Redwing - C60 ; Fieldfare - 20 ; Kestrel - 1f

Totley: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - flew NE over Green Oak Park calling twice

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - 32 ; Carrion Crow - 26 - Feeding on filters

Ulley Village: Fieldfare - 50+ ; Redwing - 40+ ; Redwing - 40+

Woodhouse Washlands: Redwing - 52

Agden: Grey Heron - 2 - Sat together ; Dipper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Siskin - 2 ; Mandarin - 7 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Beauchief: Blackcap - 1 - Male on garden suet feeder.

Crosspool garden: Brambling - 3 - 3, with flock of Goldfinch and male Bullfinch.

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 23 ; Black-headed Gull - 18+ ; Cormorant - 2 ; Common Gull - 1

Frecheville: Goosander - 8 - Frecheville pond. 1m 7rh.

Grange Park Golf Course: Willow Tit - 1 - Heard from on 3 occasions around the course with LTT ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 - Flew across fairway allowing accurate count ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Fieldfare - c20

Lodge Moor: Stonechat - 1 - male along conduit behind The Sportsman

Low Bradfield: Greylag Goose - 104 - flocks of 39 and 65

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 5 - Feeding on holly berries

Orgreave Lakes: Goldcrest - 7 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Goldeneye - 7

Redmires Bottom Res: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from conifers

Silverwood Lagoon: Goosander - 3 - 1 male 2 female. ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c40 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Coot - 8 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Siskin - 6 ; 319 - 2

Soughley Lane, Redmires: White-fronted Goose - 1 - first-winter feeding in fields with Greylags. Present at dusk yesterday evening, but id not 100% certain until this morning. ; Greylag Goose - 58 ; Canada Goose - 7 ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - first-winter wth Greylags - photo ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - another photo ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - a third photo

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Little Grebe - 11 ; Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Goldeneye - 1 - RH ; 319 - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - in with pied wagtails in ploughed field down from the village

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 1 - male in observers garden ; Greenfinch - 10

Aldwarke SF: Chiffchaff - 1 - feeding in low vegetation, calling constantly ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Coot - 2 ; Redwing - 3+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 6

Bar Brook Valley: 324 - 18 - Red Deer

Blacka Plantation: Crossbill - 20+ - In west end. Two birds with wingbars were present in the flock.

Brecks, Rotherham: Pied Wagtail - c30 - flock feeding in ploughed field adjacent Brecks Lane ; Linnet - c20 - with PW flock in field adjacent Brecks Lane ; Thrush sp - 60-70 - mixed RE/FF flock in field adjacent Brecks Lane; mostly FF ; Coal Tit - 2 - in roadside hedge, Brecks Lane

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 43 - possibly more, counted after dark, Brightside Lane outside ROM. ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing after dark, Don Road

Catcliffe Flash: Black-headed Gull - 30+ ; Wigeon - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Gadwall - 10

Dore: Collared Dove - 5 - the first I have seen in Dore for well over six months -seemingly much scarcer ; Pink-footed Goose - c60 - c60 flying low N/NW 15.15

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 18

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; 320 - 1 - Single Female still present. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Over. ; Herring Gull - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Worming on farmland. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male made a kill near entrance gate.