Sightings Archive

Sheffield Centre: House Sparrow - 6 - foraging with feral pigeons in Tudor Square

Silver Wood: Pink-footed Goose - c.40 - NW at 11.05

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 13 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Little Grebe - 3 - trilling ; Pink-footed Goose - 165 - NW at 10.00 ; Snipe - 1 ; Skylark - 6 - 2 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Rook - 20 - NE ; Grey Heron - 1 - NE

Coronation Park Oughtibridge: Common Buzzard - 3 - circling over this afternoon.

Fulwood garden: Tree Sparrow - 1 - At feeders; perhaps same bird seen last autumn ; Bullfinch - 3 - 1m, 2f

Kirk Edge: 319 - 1 - In field behind convent ; 319 - 1 - In field behind convent ; Fieldfare - 30+ - In a mixed group with Redwing (10+) and Starling (20+).

Longshaw: Brambling - 5 - At least five in trees near cafe ; Siskin - 2 - A pair on feeder at cafe

Millhouses garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1f ; Jay - 2

R Don, Nursery Street: Goosander - 2 - a pair

Ringinglow: Redwing - 50-60

Rotherham Centre: Peregrine - 1pr - adult pair unsuccessfully hunting feral pigeons around 1120hrs ; Mute Swan - 2 - high to S/SW @ 0800hrs ; Peregrine - 1pr - ... back @ 1140hrs, then one @ 1253hrs; appeared to leave NW ; Jackdaw - 60 - flock over from SE; circled briefly before continuing NW @ 1540hrs ; Goosander - 1 - drake SW @ 1610hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Coot - c.25 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Jackdaw - 9 - party north ; Rook - 60 - in fields to west ; Jay - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - singing

Sothall: Goldfinch - 70+ - in to roost at 1630hr

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 3 - 2 female 1 male ; Mandarin - 25

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 15 ; Jack Snipe - 5 ; Grey Partridge - 2

Big Moor: Stonechat - 1 - Male on Drive to Barbrook Cottage ; Reed Bunting - 7 - In hawthorn bush by Little Barbrook

Brownhills Lane: Starling - c45 - with Fieldfares ; Fieldfare - c10 - with Starlings ; Greylag Goose - 80 - 78 + 2 in different fields, but no White-front ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Endcliffe Park: Treecreeper - 1 - By the cafe ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Cafe ; Black-headed Gull - 60+

Graves Park: Goosander - 8 - 6f, 2m. On bottom pond.

Greystones garden: Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4

Rivelin Valley: Goosander - 5 - 2m + 3f ; Goosander - 5 - another photo

Rotherham Centre: Cormorant - 3+ - 3 SW @ 0806hrs plus usual singles commuting throughout day ; Mute Swan - 04-May - 2 SW @ 0808hrs, dropped onto river; 1 NE @ 1144hrs; 2 SW @ 1204hrs

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 1 - Female ; Mandarin - 13 - M&F

Eyam Edge: Skylark - 2 - First upland sighting of year ; Raven - 1

Greystones: Long-tailed Tit - 1 - Observer's garden ; Blackcap - 1 - Female in Observer's garden ; Song Thrush - 1 - Observer's Garden

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 4 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - male

Longshaw: Brambling - 3 - Discovery Centre ; Nuthatch - 1 - Discovery Centre ; Chaffinch - 6+ - M&F Discovery Centre

Longshaw Lodge: Siskin - 1 - Male ; Brambling - 1

Millhouses garden: Wren - 1 ; Blackcap - 1m ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1m ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew briefly across road - poss juv

Norfolk Park: Song Thrush - 3+ - All singing and 2 seen in Clay Wood near the Cholera Monument Grounds ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 2 seen calling and flying, 1 singing in Cholera Monument Grounds and Norfolk Road ; Robin - 4+ - 2 seen, 3 heard singing in Clay Wood near Cholera Monument Grounds ; Wren - 1 - Seen in Clay Wood

Pingle Tip: Yellowhammer - c20 - In loose flock round edge of tip