Sightings Archive

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 30 also 70 Canada geese

Chatsworth Park: Peregrine - 1 - 1 male flying E over flood waters ; Mallard - 115 - On flooded cricket pitch

Curbar Gap: SNOW BUNTING - 1 - Feeding on path from car park to White Edge

Greystones: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female on fat in observer's garden

High Green: 319 - 2 - Pair mobbed by crows. ; Goldfinch - c20 ; 327 - 2

Longshaw: Goldcrest - 1 ; Jay - 2

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Redwing - 4 - W ; Goldfinch - 6

Redmires conduit: Meadow Pipit - 6 - Feeding along conduit. Also one Kestrel

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - c60 ; 320 - 14

RVCP: Red-breasted Merganser - 1 - redhead on jet ski lake with 6 Goosander ; Lapwing - 60 - Main Lake ; Goosander - 12 - throughout the park

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 6

Wharncliffe Wood: 319 - 3 - Together low by Stocksbridge by-pass

Brownhills Lane: Black-headed Gull - c200 - In roadside fields. Also 12 Fieldfare

Crookes Valley Park: Grey Heron - 1 - adult by lake this morning in pouring rain (little disturbance)

Frecheville: Goosander - 3 - On Frecheville pond.

Millhouses garden: Blackbird - 1 - Young male singing as it has done every morning for the last ten days. ; Blackcap - 1 - Female ; Goldcrest - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Cormorant - one

Shepherd Wheel: Grey Heron - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1

Baslow: Whooper Swan - 5 - S-E at 8.50

Crookes Valley Park: Herring Gull - 4 - adult pair resident around this area (regularly on top of Hicks Building on Univ campus) present again this morning with a juv that was still giving begging calls.

Crookesmoor: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Howard Road - In flight towards Crookes, calling with potentially a second calling in response

Hudson*s Rough: Pheasant - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Wren - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Robin - 1+ ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - male

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 2 ; 320 - 8 ; Mallard - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Stonechat - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Shelduck - 1 - Female

R Don, Leppings Lane: Grey Heron - 1 - rear of Wednesday ground

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Grey Wagtail - 2 - one joined by second over from direction of canal, with much excited calling, 0800hrs ; Goosander - 3 - 1m; 2 redheads @ 0800hrs

Redmires conduit: Red Grouse - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Goldfinch - 03-May

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 90 - c. roosted on Top Res

Rivelin Valley: Whooper Swan - 10 - Flying south

Rother Valley CP: Little Egret - 1 - In drain at Killamarsh entrance, flew off around Meadowgate Lake.

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Goosander - 5 - 2m & 2 redheads SW @ 1420hrs; 1 SW @ 1518hrs

Shirebrook Valley: Goosander - 1 - f. on Carr Forge pond ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - At Birley East rocks. ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead on Carr Forge Dam

Silverwood Lagoon: Rook - c.60 - in stubble to west

Walkley garden: Blue Tit - 3 ; Wren - 1

Wingfield School: Black-headed Gull - 10 ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Jackdaw - 5+ ; Rook - 20+

Rother Valley CP: Little Egret - 1 - On Meadowgate Lake

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - circling low over Brookhill roundabout at 4 p.m., scattering Feral Pigeons from flats nearby

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - Perched on stepping stones near cafe at 7:10.

Hagg Lane Allotments: Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; House Sparrow - 2 ; Coal Tit - 10 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1

Ibbotson*s Dam: Long-tailed Tit - 9 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Long-tailed Tit - 12+ - noisy feeding flock in riverside willows ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - imm, fishing in swollen river

Sothall: Fieldfare - 1 - nocmig recorded overnight at 0122hr - the only one recorded this autumn so far.

Thrybergh CP: Goldeneye - 1 - f ; Water Rail - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 3 - in noisy mixed flock of finches ; Brambling - 2 - 1nice looking m

Ulley Res: Willow Tit - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Wren - 3