Sightings Archive

Grange Park Golf Course: Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Blue Tit - 3+ - at least 1 singing ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 6+ ; Bullfinch - 3+

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Female on garden fatball feeder. seen almost daily for the last few weeks.

Manor Fields Park: Kestrel - 1 - male hunting central area c10:30 ; Pink-footed Goose - c100 - WNW over park 10:30 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew from watercourse ; Redwing - 12+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2+ - 2 poss 3 birds singing mid morning

Middleton Moor: 320 - 24 - Displaying and calling ; Mallard - 15 ; Bullfinch - 6 - 2m, 4f feeding on dock seeds ; Pink-footed Goose - ? - skein heard overhead in mist at 10.30 but not seen

Moscar: Kestrel - 1

Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - Regular visitors

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 349 - early am ; Pink-footed Goose - 420 - NW in 4 skeins between 10:00 and 11:00 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 1st winter ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Adult ; Goosander - 28

R Don, Effingham St: Great Black-backed Gull - c30 - inc colour ringed 5w bird ringed as a chick in 2015 on an island in the Kattegat, Denmark, and also seen in Sheffield in Jan 2018.

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 150 - c. roosted on Top Res

Rivelin Valley: Pink-footed Goose - 42 - Flying south at 10:30 ; Dipper - 3 - 2 territories and one pair displaying/courting. ; Magpie - 20 - Roscoe woods.... pre roost?

Rother Valley CP: Wigeon - 130+ ; Grey Heron - 8 - On island together ; Goosander - 2 - Males ; Lapwing - 30+ - On floating platforms on main lake

Stocksbridge/Stonemoor: Brambling - 30/35 - In and around Beech trees at top of Long Lane ; Chaffinch - 10-Dec - with bramblings ; Red Grouse - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 50+ - largish flock over stonemoor heading northwest ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Rook - 20 - feeding in fields on long lane ; Wren - 2 ; Siskin - 6 - in conifers at pathside ; Blackbird - 8

Thornseat Delf: Red Grouse - 5 - flushed at top of track ; Kestrel - 1 - male hunting ; Bullfinch - 3 - feeding up main track ; Crossbill - 4 - flew over plantation ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - feeding in pasture

Walkley garden: Stock Dove - 2 - Feeding on crumbled fatball remnants put out on the ground

West Nab: Golden Plover - 23 - in waterlogged field opposite farm

Botanical Gardens: Waxwing - 2 - reported at 14:30 ; Song Thrush - 2

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Grey Heron - 1

Holbrook Marsh: Willow Tit - 1

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 125

Morley Pond: Mallard - 6+ ; 319 - 3 - Possibly more soaring over lakes and Rockingham Wood. ; Lapwing - c30 - in adj pioughed field with gulls ; Black-headed Gull - 150 + - some following tractor. ; Herring Gull - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w at 9am

Redmires Middle Res: Cormorant - 1

Ridgeway: Kestrel - 2 - 2 hovering a few yards apart at High Lane

Rivelin Valley: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying across Frank Wheel ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Mallard - 9 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Above Coppice Farm ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - On Oak Farm ; Bullfinch - 3 - In observers garden

Rotherham; Barbot Hall Ind. Est.: Kestrel - 1 - hunting

Rotherham; Meadow Bank: Kestrel - 1 - hunting

Silverwood Lagoon: Greylag Goose - 16 - south at 07.40 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; 320 - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - c.25 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 05-Jun ; Long-tailed Tit - 25+