Sightings Archive

Parkgate Canal Basin: Stock Dove - 1 ; Mute Swan - 59 - inc 8 1cy ; Mallard - 17 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy

R Don, Rotherham; Centenary Riverside to Main Street: Grey Heron - 1 - adult; left upriver ; Canada Goose - 1 - resident 'misfit' associating with white domestic goose ; Moorhen - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c5 ; Mallard - 5 - 2prs + 1m ; Goosander - 1 - drake on Don Canal

Rawmarsh; High Street: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on spire of Methodists' Church

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 46 - in fields ; Canada Goose - 32 - in fields

Rivelin Dams: Red Kite - 1 - circled low over Res and drifted off W at 08:32 hrs ; Cormorant - 1

Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 19 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Mandarin - 22 - On Wolf Wheel pond ; Goosander - 2 - 1 male and 1 female with Mandarins ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 1 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Magpie - 6 ; Rook - 11 - Feeding in fields south of Long Lane ; Jackdaw - 9 - feeding with Rooks ; Woodpigeon - 23 - feeding in fields ; Blue Tit - 3

Rotherham; Thorn Hill: Great Black-backed Gull - 12 - on rooftops ; Herring Gull - c55 - on rooftops

Seymour Link Road, Poolsbrook: Snipe - 17 ; Jack Snipe - 6

Shuttlewood: Pink-footed Goose - 350+ - low NW at 15.32. Presumably Carr Vale flock departing - Brent Geese couldn’t be picked out from moving car but possibly with them.

Thornseat Delf: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed from track ; Bullfinch - 4

Thrybergh CP: Little Grebe - 10 ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Pochard - 12 ; Shoveler - 2 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Greylag Goose - C240 ; Canada Goose - C110 ; Lapwing - 180+ ; Linnet - C200 - Numbers building up well in filterbed area ; Lesser Redpoll - 28 ; Goldfinch - 60+ ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Chaffinch - 22 ; Brambling - 2 - Male at feeding station 2nd bird in caravan park ; Blackbird - 24 ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Fieldfare - 12 ; Redwing - C50 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; 319 - 1

Treeton Dyke: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - still at Falconer Lane end

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - 17 - on filter beds ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on filter beds

Birley Edge: 319 - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Fieldfare - 10 - Feeding in birches with Redwings and Blackbirds ; Blackbird - 10 - More than normal here - continental cousins? ; Redwing - 5

Blackbrook conduit: Stonechat - 1 male

Bolehill Flash: Blackbird - 9 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Coombs Dale: Bullfinch - 1 - fem ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stonechat - 2

East Moor: Stonechat - 10 - 5 pairs ; Stonechat - 10 - Another photo ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 - Another photo ; 319 - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 21 ; Black-headed Gull - 280 ; Linnet - c200 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead

Eyam: Pink-footed Goose - 45 - N-W at 10.50

Flash, near Stannington: Merlin - 1 - Flying west, low over fields to south of Moorwood Lane.

Freebirch, Derbyshire: Common Buzzard - 1 - Perched on telegraph pole and then in flight

Hagg Lane Allotments: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Robin - 4 ; Blue Tit - 5