Sightings Archive

Forge Dam: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Hathersage Moor: Barn Owl - 2

Hoober: Lapwing - 4 - in recently ploughed field, inc brief display

Hoober Plantation: Common Buzzard - 2 - over @ 1120hrs

King*s wood, nr Elsecar: Common Buzzard - 2 - over @ 1125hrs

Kirk Edge: Brambling - 1 - Sadly a dead bird near the footpath passing the ecology centre ; 319 - 1 - Flying over ecology centre

Manor Fields Park: Kingfisher - 1 - again on top pond. ; Water Rail - 1 - in reedbed at pond. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Mallard - 9 - 5 drake on pond ; Moorhen - 4

Peat Pits: Lapwing - 15 ; Golden Plover - c300 - Some in almost full breeding plumage

Pitsmoor: Magpie - 2 - pair building new nest. ; Goldfinch - 18 - on feeders with chaffinch. ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Redwing - 2 - feeding in grassed area.

R Don, Stevenson Road: Iceland Gull - 1 - 1w loafing on wasteland 14:15, flew W past President Park towards Tesco at 15:15. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 32 ; Herring Gull - 50 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2

Redmires Res: Herring Gull - 4 - on Middle Res

Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 14 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Canada Goose - 140 ; Grey Heron - 6 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Cormorant - 40 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mallard - 141 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Wigeon - 167 ; 320 - 43 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Pochard - 34 ; Goldeneye - 19 ; Goosander - 24 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - Two pairs interacting loudly, Main Lake ; Lapwing - 48 ; Black-headed Gull - 120+ ; Herring Gull - 15 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Coot - 152 ; Moorhen - 23 ; Skylark - 1 - singing

Scholes Ground: Cormorant - 1 - circling ; Pheasant - 3+ - inc 2 fighting cocks ; Lapwing - 40+ - wheeling above field ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ ; Redwing - 30+ ; Fieldfare - 10+

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1+ - singing ; Magpie - 11 ; 319 - 2 - Over fields and Scholes Coppice.

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Raven - 2

Wire Mill Dam: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - ad on Bernard Rd incinerator building

Barlow: Song Thrush - 3 ; Blackbird - 22 - including 15 in one smallish paddock

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 39 - at roost ; 324 - 1 - Alexendrine Parakeet, roosting male snuggled up next to a female Ring-necked.

Loxley: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting on fields below Admiral Rodney

Newhall: Ring-necked Parakeet - c38 - In trees on Brightside Lane at 07:25.

Ringinglow: Fieldfare - 50 - c. in fields

Tideswell: Common Gull - 250+ - Feeding in fields between Tideswell and Windmill

Upper Derwent: Peregrine - 2

Wharncliffe Wood: Crossbill - 1 - Signing ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - Singing ; Siskin - 10+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female hunting

Whiteley Woods: Goldcrest - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Brincliffe Edge Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - 1 male, 2 females. Lots of drumming and chasing, mostly the two females? ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pairs ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - ca. 30

Ecclesfield Park: Black-headed Gull - 73 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Firsby Res: Mallard - 1 ; Mute Swan - 4 - Arrived together two down on main Res. First record this year. ; 319 - 1 - On ground in sheep paddock. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting at dusk. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice.

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 2 - M&F ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 ; Redwing - 4

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - c10

Lowfield/Highfield: Grey Heron - 1 - Flew east over Asda on Queen's Road. Might have come from River Sheaf which passes under Charlotte Road, which is nearby.

Manor Fields Park: Kingfisher - 1 - fishing successfully on top pond 11:30-12:30

Mayfield Valley: Redwing - c30 - School Green Lane

Redmires Middle Res: 320 - 8

Ridgeway: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting over fields below White Lane before Phoenix - seen from car.

Rotherham Centre: Jackdaw - c100 - two flocks of c50, wheeling & tumbling over town centre in sunshine