Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Chaffinch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 7+ - Good numbers on site. ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+

Forge Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Active on lake at 14:20. Presumably same bird seen flying up river from the lake at 15:20.

Green Moor: Pheasant - 70+ - Obvious remnants of game release

Hillsborough Park Pond: Goosander - 1 - male

Midhope Res: GANNET - 1 - uvenile reported over Midhope Res mid- afternoon, presumably same that flew NW over Silkstone, Barnsley earlier

Millhouses Park: Shelduck - 3 - Flying North

Morehall Res: Cormorant - 9 ; Mallard - 11 ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 319 - 1 - calling from conifers near neck end of res ; Black-headed Gull - 12

R Don, Effingham St: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - colour ringed 1cy, ringed in June at Lillestrøm, Norway

Ringinglow: Brambling - 10 ; Brambling - 10 - Another shot

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - c70 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Rook - 25+ ; Jackdaw - 10+

Silverwood Lagoon: Swan sp - 5 - SSE at 07.45 ; Pochard - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coot - 22 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Blackbird - c.20

Thrybergh CP: Peregrine - 2 - calling noisily

Tideswell: Common Gull - 180+ - Feeding in recently matured field

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 3 ; 319 - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Fieldfare - 2+ ; Redwing - 5+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - Over calling. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male. ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2+ ; Pheasant - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Over high.

Frecheville: Goosander - 4

Sothall: Golden Plover - 1+ - nocmig recorded over garden

Crowhole: Nuthatch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

DeepcarGarden: Robin - 1 ; Blue Tit - 7 - feeding on sunflower and peanut feeders ; Coal Tit - 4 - with blue tits ; Dunnock - 3 ; House Sparrow - 15+ ; Goldfinch - 12 - feeding on sunflower seeds and hearts ; Jackdaw - 3 ; Magpie - 2 - feeding on remains of cheese pie ; Rook - 1 - with magpies ; Starling - 20+ ; Woodpigeon - 2

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Seen fishing

Stocksbridge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - on Steel Valley Walk near Pearoyd Lane.

Stone Moor/Long Lane S/Bridge: Brambling - 9+ - Feeding in Beech trees at side of path top of Long lane ; Chaffinch - 15/20 - With Bramblings ; Jay - 2 ; Wren - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - in conifer ; Robin - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 12+ ; Blackbird - 4 ; Coal Tit - 4 - feeding in conifers ; Blue Tit - 6+ - in conifers with coal tits ; Rook - 11 ; Red Grouse - 1 - calling from rock perch ; Kestrel - 1 - hovering over rough pasture

Wortley: Cormorant - 16 - 7.40am single party flew low NE, assumed recently left a local lake/res?

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - c250 - Warren St, inc Yellow ringed bird ringed York 2016, and here for it's second winter. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 35 - inc yellow ringed bird ringed Notts in 2012, and here for it's fourth winter. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - adult and 1w ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - lower lake at 7:15

Little Lane,Scholes: Skylark - 1+ ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Redwing - 30+ ; Fieldfare - 30+ - feeding on hawthorn along with Redwing and Blackbirds ; Corvid - 50+ - majority Jackdaws, ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Greenfinch - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ - Some finches coming from maize crop. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - male

Millhouses garden: Jay - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - first for a while ; Starling - c30 ; Redwing - 3+ ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Collared Dove - 1 - currently an irregular visitor

R Don, Rotherham Centre; weir: Grey Heron - 1 - onto weir from S briefly @ 1305hrs