Sightings Archive

R Rother, Treeton: 320 - 3

Rotherham; Glasshouse Street: Great Black-backed Gull - 16 - loafing on rooftop ; Herring Gull - 2

Rotherham; Thorn Hill: Great Black-backed Gull - c100 - mobile; loafing on rooftops & visiting recycling centre; vast majority adults ; Herring Gull - c100

Thornseat Delf: Red Grouse - 5 - flushed from top of track

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - c80 - feeding on trickle filters ; Grey Wagtail - 3+ - feeding with PWs ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Carrion Crow - c50 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling

Treeton; Flatts Lane: Long-tailed Tit - 5

White Lee Moor: Crossbill - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 80+

Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 26 - 16 m, 10 f ; Goosander - 1 - f

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 31 - Woodhouse end ; Jack Snipe - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - In observers garden.

Brampton en le Morthern: Kestrel - 1 - Hovering over road near wind turbines. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Down on flooded farmland.

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - river 11.45 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew towards BM reserve. ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing 11.30 ; Robin - 3 - 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 05-Jun ; Blue Tit - 4

Eastwood, Rotherham: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over, mobbed by crows & BHs @ 0920hrs

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Together on sluice. ; Pink-footed Goose - 200+ - Over approx 13:30. ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from undergrowth. ; Grey Heron - 4 - All in set aside field. ; Kestrel - 1 - Resident Male. ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - On treetop in cottage garden. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Call only. ; Jackdaw - 6 ; Jay - 2 - Squawking in willows. ; Fieldfare - 2+ ; Redwing - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Both Males. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male on seed. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+

Kilnhurst Ings: Pink-footed Goose - c.50 - Flew over heading west

Leash Fen: Lapwing - 150+ - moving SE at 15.30

Longshaw: Brambling - 35 ; Mandarin - 46

Norton Lees: Redwing - 2 ; Magpie - 2 - Each seen carrying a stick to last year’s nest

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blue Tit - 1pr - investigating nestbox again, presumably prompted by mild conditions

Silverwood Lagoon: Great Black-backed Gull - 12 - south at 09.15

Ulley CP: Kestrel - 1

Upper Whiston: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1

Wardlow Mires: 319 - 2 over

Whiteley Woods: Mandarin - 20 - 13 male, 7 female on fishing lake

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 350+ - c250 Warren St, c100 Stevenson Rd ; Herring Gull - 250+

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 5 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Calling from main Res reedbed. ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On stream. ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - Coming to bread. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - Over high towards TCP. ; Herring Gull - 5 - Over heading S. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting. ; 319 - 1 - Down on farmland. ; Fieldfare - 8 ; Redwing - 2+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 6+ ; Chaffinch - 2 - A pair. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+

Graves Park: Goosander - 4f - On bottom pond

Handsworth garden: Grey Wagtail - 1 - In standing water on flat garage roof.

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 8+ - near A&E

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w

Ramsley Res: Lesser Redpoll - 15+ - a mixed finch flock feeding in alders including at least 15 lesser redpoll.

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2 ; 320 - 5 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Pochard - 1 - Male. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 2

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 1 - flushed below Wharncliffe Crags

Whiteley Woods Road: Song Thrush - 1 - singing vigorously in garden

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 6 - 3m & 3f ; Mandarin - 16 - 13m & 3f ; Bullfinch - 1 - heard but not seen nearby

Brinsworth: Sparrowhawk - 1

Chatsworth Park: Pink-footed Goose - 51 - Flying S-W over house at 10.50