Sightings Archive

Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Swallow - 4 - SW ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Skylark - 1+ - heard moving over SW high

Queen’s Road, Sheffield: Raven - 2 - Circling quite low with 3 Buzzards early afternoon ; 319 - 3 - Circling with 2 Ravens early afternoon

Rawmarsh: Nuthatch - 2 - calling, High Street allotments

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 1 - juv on Middle Res ; Tufted Duck - 17 ; Greylag Goose - 25 - c. ; Kestrel - 2 ; Pink-footed Goose - 370 - c. flew mainly east in 7 skeins 0830-0930hrs ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 10 - c. ; Stonechat - 4 - by Middle Res ; Chiffchaff - 13 - around reservoir perimeter ; Reed Bunting - 7 - around reservoir perimeter ; Moorhen - 2 - separate ad and juv ; Meadow Pipit - 50 - c. flew S ; Swallow - 30 - c. flew SW ; House Martin - 10 - flew SW ; Siskin - 60 - flew SW ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - flew SW ; Chaffinch - 12 - flew W ; Skylark - 7 - flew SW ; Goldfinch - 45 - c. feeding on dam wall ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew SW ; Crossbill - 1 - flew W ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 - on dam wall ; Snipe - 1 - flew W

Rotherham Centre: Pink-footed Goose - c180 - skeins of c50 @ 0817hrs, c60 @ 0823hrs & c70 @ 0911hrs, all E

Rotherham; Barbot Hall: Common Buzzard - 1 - over, harassed by 4 persistent crows for several minutes

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Mute Swan - 2 - low to S/SW @ 0753hrs ; Coal Tit - 01-Feb ; Grey Heron - 1 - N over, tried to settle on pond but disturbed & left NE ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - heard over ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - left SW, then doubled-back N ; Goldcrest - 1 - in conifers

RVCP: Shoveler - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 93 ; Pochard - 8 ; Pink-footed Goose - 130c - east @ 08-59 ; Egyptian Goose - 6 ; Common Sandpiper - 2

Scholes Coppice: Robin - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 1 ; 319 - 1 - calling, same bird? later over Upper Common

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - 110 - east at 08:20 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - brief burst of song along western side of lagoon at 08:10 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 6 - very vocal around pit top ; Skylark - 4 - in stubble to west

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 15 ; Canada Goose - c450 ; Greylag Goose - 38 ; Pink-footed Goose - 280 - Total 280 east upto 11:20 ; Egyptian Goose - 1 ; Pochard - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Cormorant - 16 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Lapwing - 50 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; Swallow - 2 ; Peregrine - 1 - North onto pylon ; Goldfinch - 80+ ; Linnet - 10 ; Chaffinch - 20 ; Greenfinch - 6

West Nab: Mistle Thrush - 41 - coming in to roost at traditional roosting site.

Wortley: Meadow Pipit - c175 - SE ; Pink-footed Goose - c65 - c50 east 07:25 + c15 east 07:44 ; Linnet - 11 ; Chaffinch - 15 - SE 07:00-08:00 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - SE ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - SE ; 319 - 5 ; Swallow - c35 - SE ; House Martin - c100 - SE ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Big Moor: 319 - 1 - mobbed by a smaller bird of prey

Centenary Riverside: Jay - 4 - Noisily calling on site. @14.00 ; Goldfinch - 2 - Feeding in Thistle heads. ; Great Tit - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 - Over ; Kestrel - 1 - Over