Sightings Archive

R Don, Rotherham; Grafton Bridge: Grey Heron - 1 - flew low downriver @ 0750hrs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 2 - ad and 1w loafing on waste ground 13:30 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c190 - loafing ; Herring Gull - c156

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Brown*s Cut: Mute Swan - 1pr - 0800hrs

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Mute Swan - 2 - SW @ 1206hrs

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 10 ; Goosander - 10

White Edge area: Siskin - c30 - Mixed flock on alders below White Edge ( near Grouse Inn) ; Fieldfare - c30-40 - Over in 2 flocks near Grouse Inn

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 3

Killamarsh: Goldfinch - 55+ - Flying around and perched in tree before going to roost in large evergreen shrub/tree

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Flying over at 15:30

Norton Lees: Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - In observer’s garden

Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Grey Wagtail - 1 - calling @ 0800hrs

Stannington: Redwing - 50 + - Feeding in horse paddocks at rear of gardens

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 81 ; Kestrel - 1

Bingham Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Mobbed by crow ; Kingfisher - 1 - On lower pond

Cavendish Mill: Starling - 70000 - per DOS - roost is still building with an estimated 70k birds currently coming in, but no murmuration visible yet, birds dropping straight into roost

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew upriver over bridge 14.10...Male fishing on top pond 14.30 to 14.45. ; 321 - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 - river ; Redwing - 3 ; 319 - 1 - Over NY Stadium 14.40 ; Robin - 1 - Brief song ; Wren - 1 - Brief song ; Long-tailed Tit - 02-Mar ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2

Chatsworth Gardens: 319 - 2 over ; Kingfisher - 1

Dalton: Peregrine - 1 - adult male; Miner's Welfare Recn Grd, low over to W/SW ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - 1

Longshaw: Lesser Redpoll - 20 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Nuthatch - 4

Owlthorpe: House Sparrow - 62 - flock in hedgerow on Moorthorpe Way.

Parkgate; Retail World: Pink-footed Goose - c100 - E/SE @ 1023hrs

R Don, Aldwarke: Moorhen - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 8 - SW ; Herring Gull - 5 - SW

Redmires Middle Res: 320 - 2

Rotherham Centre: Blackbird - 1 - Singing behind hospital 16.30

Rotherham; Thorn Hill: Herring Gull - 29 - loafing on rooftops ; Great Black-backed Gull - 13 - on rooftops

Silverwood Lagoon: Short-eared Owl - 1 - mobbed by crows over paddocks above SE corner of lagoon at 09.50. Probably flushed by dog-walkers from elsewhere on pit top. ; Gadwall - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Herring Gull - 4 - party south ; Kestrel - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 - three mobile flocks ; Rook - 15 - in stubble to west

Thrybergh Tip: Reed Bunting - 1 - female ; Goldfinch - c20 - feeding on weed seeds ; Woodcock - 2 - flushed together from open grassland ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - singing from pylons ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Cormorant - 6 - all SW ; Siskin - 3 - over ; Pochard - 8 - 6m; 2f ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Gadwall - 6prs ; Coot - 8+ ; Mute Swan - 4 - regular pair on flash (324Y red; 593 yellow) + 2 SW @ 0844hrs ; Mallard - 10 - 8 on water + 1pr SW ; Shoveler - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 - NE ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Jay - 2 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Chaffinch - c10 ; Redwing - 3 ; Pheasant - 5 - 1m; 4f ; Bullfinch - 17 - inc party of 8 feeding together ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; 320 - c50 - noisy flock in dense cover (water levels extremely high) ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Whiston: Goldfinch - c40

Bramley: Pink-footed Goose - 50+ - Over village at mid day heading towards Pit Top.

Firsby Res: Mallard - 7 - 6 Males, 1 Female. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Black-headed Gull - 27 - on main Res. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 15+ - Over with FF. ; Fieldfare - 10 - Over with RW.