Sightings Archive

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Canada Goose - 1 - accompanied by a white domestic goose

Ramsley Moor: Ring Ouzel - 3

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; 321 - 1 - Fishing from Carp pond bank. ; 319 - 1 - Call in woodland. ; Siskin - 1 - Adult. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15

Redmires Conduit: Raven - 2

Rother Valley CP: Canada Goose - 498 ; Greylag Goose - 76 ; Mute Swan - 38 ; Grey Heron - 6 ; Cormorant - 24 ; Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Mallard - 260 ; Gadwall - 7 ; Wigeon - 24 ; 320 - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 110 ; Pochard - 2 ; Goosander - 7 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12 ; Black-headed Gull - 26 ; Lapwing - 86 ; Curlew - 1 - Over ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - Main Lake ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - S ; Chiffchaff - 22+ - Including up to six moving with Long-tailed Tit parties ; Coot - 212 ; Moorhen - 19

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 4 ; Canada Goose - 46 - departed north at 07.35 ; Coot - c.20 ; Moorhen - 6 ; Mute Swan - 8 - resident pair and 6 juvs. ; Black-headed Gull - 25 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; House Martin - 15 ; Swallow - 3 ; Jay - 8 ; Jackdaw - 4 - party west ; Siskin - 1 - SW ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Skylark - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Upper Midhope: Meadow Pipit - c40 - Large group feeding together ; Kestrel - 1

Walkley garden: Hobby - 1 - Flew just above treetop height, over end of garden and Toft Wood. Low cloud.

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Siskin - 50+ - Flock below wharncliffe crags ; Lesser Redpoll - 30+ - with siskins ; Crossbill - 3

Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 2 - feeding in observers garden, one observed flycatching

Burbage Rocks: Black Redstart - 1 - Still present this morning ; Wheatear - 2 ; Black Redstart - 1 - Showing well at 17:30, approximately 250-300m from the road.

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 2 - Feeding near bridge, very brief song 11.10 ; Long-tailed Tit - Dec-15 - Feeding party. ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Robin - 1 - Singing

Hagg Lane Allotments: Long-tailed Tit - 8 - On feeders ; Coal Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2 juveniles, 1 female ; House Sparrow - 6 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Robin - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Magpie - 3

Malin Bridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing quietly in gardens

Norwood Allotments: Siskin - 13 - over south ; Swallow - 113+ - over south, mostly from 16:45 when 50 went through in a broad front. Continued until 18:00. Probably under counted. ; Pied Wagtail - 20 - over southeast at 18:30, presumably going to roost? ; 319 - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 24 ; Black-headed Gull - 85 - hawking for insects late afternoon

Peat Pits: Linnet - 100+ - flushed from stubble by sparrowhawk. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - making unsuccessful attempt to catch linnets. ; Golden Plover - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting from wall. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 10 - in garden

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Greenshank - 1

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - Black-headed Gull wing fresh under nest platform today - atypical prey item

Walkley Bank: Feral Pigeon - 1 - Juv calling and leaning out of ventilation slit on stone house, Bentley Road, eventually took off.

West Nab: Wheatear - 2 - fly catching from wall. ; Mistle Thrush - 2