Sightings Archive

Redscope Plantation/Barkers Park: Magpie - 3+ ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 10+

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Redwing - 5 - SE

Thrybergh CP: Dunlin - 1 - in with circa 100 lapwing

Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 9 - 6m, 3f

Aldwarke: Mallard - 6 ; Linnet - 1 ; Snipe - 3 - on persisting floodwater ; Redwing - 4 ; Song Thrush - 1

Aldwarke SF: Song Thrush - 11 - marked influx ; Bullfinch - 3 - 1m; 2f ; Pheasant - 5 - 4m; 1f ; Common Buzzard - 1 - left W/SW ; Gadwall - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Coot - 3 ; Mute Swan - 1 - regular colour-ringed adult (541 yellow) ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Shoveler - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Redwing - 2 ; Blackbird - 20+ - marked influx ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Magpie - 11 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Redwing - 10+ - feeding in dense Hawthorn scrub ; Waxwing - 2 - SE @ 1115hrs

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling constantly ; Fieldfare - 3 - NE ; Cormorant - 6+ - in area, inc 2 in from NW ; Kingfisher - 01-Feb - on river ; Song Thrush - 4 - inc 2 singing ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Redwing - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mallard - 28 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; 320 - 11 ; Jay - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Goosander - 5 - 3 + 2, all NW

Dovestone Clough: Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from upper part of clough. ; Fieldfare - 11 - Landed in hawthorn on adjacent hillside.

Dungworth: Fieldfare - 25 ; Redwing - 1 - Feeding in hawthorns on Ringwood Lane

Firsby Res: Cormorant - 1 - Circled ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Mobbed by Blackbirds and Jays. ; Red-legged Partridge - 25+ ; Redwing - 5+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 2+ ; Bullfinch - 2 - Both Males. ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Hillsborough Garden: Goldfinch - 12 - Feeding on ash keys

Longshaw: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Brambling - 10 - In the teens but difficult to count amongst all the Chaffinches

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 450 - At 16.15; roost declining ; Lapwing - 92 ; Golden Plover - 6 ; Pied Wagtail - 15 ; 320 - 13 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Male ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Starling - 1250+ - Between 15.40 and 16.15; disappointing

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 66 - inc 5 1cy ; Mallard - 80-90 ; Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Herring Gull - 3 - 1cy

R Derwent, Froggatt: Water Rail - 1 - Calling from west willows between froggatt and Carver new bridge.

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Grafton Bridge: Mallard - 1pr ; Redwing - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c20

Ravenfield Park: Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - Over calling. ; Redwing - 3 ; Starling - 7 ; Stock Dove - 1 - with 50+ Woodpigeon. ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1