Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 6

Rawmarsh cemetery: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0740hrs

Redmires Res: Mallard - 10 ; 320 - 8 - on Middle Res ; Greylag Goose - 52 - in fields along Soughley Lane ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - feeding in fields with Greylags ; Lapwing - 55 - c. on Middle Res ; Curlew - 3 - on Middle Res - first returning birds ; Black-headed Gull - 215 - c. roosted on Top Res

Rotherham Centre: Jackdaw - c90 - wheeling over together in pairs, calling excitedly in sunshine @ 1610hrs

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over @ 1119hrs, left N/NE

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 50+ - several in breeding plumage ; Rook - 5+ ; Herring Gull - 7 - mainly juvs

Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Robin - 3+ - singing ; Blackbird - 5+ - several fighting/chasing, 1 singing briefly ; Redwing - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 3 - calling simultaneously

Treeton Meadows: Wigeon - 87 ; Gadwall - 16 ; Mallard - 8 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Canada Goose - 122

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1+ - singing

Agden Res: Black-headed Gull - c200 - late afternoon ; Cormorant - 1

Broomhead Res: Black-headed Gull - c1000 - Roosting, not a single 'large' Gull. ; Common Gull - 6 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling at dusk

Damflask Res: Cormorant - 2

Ecclesall: Blackbird - 19 - roosting in garden on Ansell Road

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 7 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Chaffinch - 5 ; House Sparrow - 10+ ; Yellowhammer - 5

Midhope Res: Fieldfare - 50 - c. in nearby fields

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 42 - in fields - no sign of Pink-foot ; Canada Goose - 3 - with Greylags

Underbank Res: Siskin - 2

Wharncliffe Side: Waxwing - 1 - adult male in Hawthorn tree on Don Ave at 14:30 sat for 10 minutes before flying off

White Lee Moor: Woodcock - 2 - dusk, one flew over, another flushed at roadside.

Parkwood Springs: Red Kite - 1 - Soaring over, being mobbed by two crows, flew off in a north-westerly direction

Peat Pits: Curlew - 1 ; Lapwing - 25 ; Golden Plover - 300 - 400 ; Golden Plover - 300-400 - Another photo

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Iceland Gull - 1 - Still, on part flooded waste ground opposite entrance to Hesslewood Ltd ; Iceland Gull - 1 - Photo ; Iceland Gull - 1 - another photo

Shillito Wood: Starling - 450 - Seeking shelter from storm Dennis in the field to the east of the wood

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 2 - Drake and Redhead, presumably pair ; Mandarin - 20

Barlow Common: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c. 16 - including around 15 on one small sewage filter bed ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Brownhills Lane: Mistle Thrush - 2 - in fields

Dore: Stock Dove - 1 - feeding below bird feeders in observer’s garden for the second day

Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling low High St

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Coot - c30 ; Moorhen - c5 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - c70

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 10 - 5 pairs Main Res. ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Grey Heron - 3 - Together in set aside field. ; 319 - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Fieldfare - 6+ ; Redwing - 10+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Bullfinch - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7

Forge Dam: Rook - 55 - c. took flight from the rookery