Sightings Archive

Shirebrook Valley: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Near Birley East rocks.

Stanage Edge: Merlin - 1 - ad male perched briefly on Cowper Stone, later hunting under S end of Stanage.

White Lee Moor: Crossbill - 5 - feeding in conifer plantation. ; Bullfinch - 9 - single group feeding on heather seeds. ; Fieldfare - 75 ; Siskin - c40 - in plantation.

Wortley: 319 - 1 - 7.40am Low hawk like attack across road into hedge on road to Wortley.

Bingham Park: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from Bingham Park woods at 5:30pm

Brightside: Goosander - 1 - male over E

Frecheville: Goosander - 1 - RH. Frecheville pond.

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 24 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Moorhen - 8 ; Coot - 3 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Meersbrook Park: Pied Wagtail - 1

Northern General Hospital, Herries Road: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing before daylight

Norton Lees: Sparrowhawk - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Collared Dove - 2 - pair now regular; formerly scarce in this locality ; Goldfinch - 10

Redmires Top Res: Brambling - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Raven - 1 - over fields to west being mobbed by local crows at 09.15

Wyming Brook: Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - c150 - Warren St ; Great Black-backed Gull - c60 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2+ - one adult and at least one 1w still around

Green Moor: Pheasant - 80+ - Game release in local fields ; Tree Sparrow - 6+

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 - low over N end of wood calling

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1 - went up from saturated ground below NW corner of lagoon at 09.15

Upper Common, Scholes: Fieldfare - 20+ - feeding in field ; Bullfinch - 1 - female in small tree above ditch

Attercliffe: Pink-footed Goose - 76 - Came in from N over Grimesthorpe, then swung SW and over towards Sheffield centre at 13:25

Bingham Park: Dipper - 1 ; Jay - 1 - Bathing in the stream

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew up river under bridge 10.30 ; Long-tailed Tit - 18-20 - Feeding group. ; Robin - 1 - Singing ; Wren - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mallard - 6

Ecclesfield park: Black-headed Gull - 130+ - Feeding on cricket pitch in heavy downpour.

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Male on lower pond ; Black-headed Gull - 150+

Middleton Moor: 320 - 23

Norton Lees garden: Blackbird - c7 - In trees/shrubs at back of garden

R Don, Effingham St: Black-headed Gull - c120 - inc yellow colour ringed bird ringed as a chick at Fishers Green, Essex June 2019 and also seen recently in Endcliffe Park.

Rother Valley Golf Course: Brambling - 8 ; Fieldfare - c50 ; Redwing - c30 ; Greylag Goose - c50 - Grazing on 17th fairway

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Peregrine - 1 - low to W/SW, past office window, @ 0930hrs

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - c50

Silverwood Lagoon: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in Hollings Lane sidings early morning and at dusk ; Woodcock - 2 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c.170 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Coot - c.25 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Jay - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Rook - 40 - in stubble to west ; Woodpigeon - 80 - in stubble to west ; Pheasant - 20+ ; Redwing - 12

Bingham Park: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling from Bingham Park woods at 6:50

Ecclesall: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling from Ecclesall graveyard at 6:40

Forge Dam: Dipper - 2 - feeding together

Holbrook Marsh: Willow Tit - 1 - calling in tit flock

Hurlfield Garden: Blackcap - 1 - male feeding on berries 09:20-09:45 ; Nuthatch - 2 - regular visitors to feeders ; Goldfinch - 24 - on feeders. ; Goldcrest - 1 - with a mobile mixed tit flock thru garden.

Meersbrook Park: Grey Wagtail - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Grafton Bridge: Cormorant - 3+ - usual commuting over town throughout day; 3 NE together @ 0750hrs

Redscope Plantation/Barkers Park: Woodpigeon - 6+ ; Wren - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Redwing - 20+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1