Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Sothall: Redwing - 7 - nocmig recorded overnight ; Blackbird - 6 - nocmig recorded overnight ; Song Thrush - 1 - nocmig recorded overnight ; Wigeon - 1+ - flocks nocmig recorded over the garden at 1851hr and 2220hr

Stanage: Red Grouse - 14

Abbeydale: 319 - 1 - Abbeydale Golf Club

Attercliffe: Common Buzzard - 3+ - different singles over Stevenson Rd, Effingham Rd and Effingham St.

Canklow: Redwing - 33 - 33 west at 0850

Chapeltown: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female high over estate at 4pm mobbed by Starlings. ; Starling - c40 ; Coal Tit - 1 - Visited garden feeder

Derwent Res: Mandarin - c.30 ; Common Buzzard - 01-Feb ; Kestrel - 2

Ewden Height: Woodpigeon - c5720 - 7-9am groups moving throughout mainly S/SW but also good numbers W. At times it was like watching a motorway intersection with birds crossing over each other. ; Brambling - 20+ - Several within large roving Chaffinch group. ; Fieldfare - c3550 - c3500 W/NW including an incredible group of estimated 2000+ moving over Upper Commons at 7.30. ; Siskin - 25 - 10 south ; Redwing - 360 - c200 W + local roving groups. ; Reed Bunting - 3 - Singles W ; Chaffinch - 150+ - Large local groups plus 20+ S ; Starling - c520 - c500 W, 18 N, 1 S ; Cormorant - 1 S ; Lapwing - 7 - 5 N, 2 SE ; Raven - 2 SE ; Jay - 3+ ; Skylark - 1 - Flew towards Whitwell Common ; Snipe - 1 N ; Pink-footed Goose - c295 - 45 W@7.40, 80 W @7.47, c150W @ 7.47(distant), 20NW @8.14 ; Goldfinch - 20 S ; Whooper Swan - 4 - NW@8am - flew up Ewden Valley and directly overhead watch point towards Langsett Res. Brilliant views. ; 327 - 12 SW

Green Moor: Pheasant - 60+ - Remnants of game release

Ladybower Res: Brambling - 2 - at Fairholmes feeding station ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over Ladybower House

Langsett Res: Whooper Swan - 6 - east at 09:25 ; Pink-footed Goose - 45 - west at 09:15 ; Fieldfare - 290 ; 320 - 20

Longshaw: Brambling - 8 - at least, others heard.

Low Common: Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting along edge of Rockingham Wood. ; Redwing - 6+ - Feeding on hawthorn from defunct hedge/ditch. ; Fieldfare - 1

Manor Fields Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew from watercourse 07:05. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Redwing - 60+ - small flocks arriving 07:00-08:30 ; Fieldfare - 50+ - 10;, 25+ ,16. arrived early am. ; Cormorant - 1 - flew high south 07:45 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 100+ - over SW in small groups 07:00-08:30 ; Goose sp - 20 - Flew NW distant at 07:56

Norbriggs Flash: Common Scoter - 1 - fem/imm at c12:30

R Don, Effingham St: Sparrowhawk - 1 - imm fem through Pigeons and into Willows. ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 3cy ; Cormorant - 3 - 2 imms on lights, more adult bird over

Rawmarsh: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - c150 over NW at 12:23

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - c40 - put up by Sparrowhawk

Rockingham Wood: 319 - 3 - Soaring low over wood

Rotherham Centre: Common Buzzard - 1 - west over St Ann's Church

Shalesmoor: 319 - 3 - 11.30 Circling together, drifting towards city centre

Silverwood Lagoon: Whooper Swan - 7 - high south calling at 07.15 ; Pink-footed Goose - c.70 west at 08.40 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Snipe - 1

Sothall: Redwing - 18 - nocmig recorded overnight ; Blackbird - 11 - recorded overnight ; Song Thrush - 3 - nocmig recorded

Stannington: Tree Sparrow - 3+ - visible at Flash Farm, off Flash Lane; others calling nearby.

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 10+

Wadsley Bridge: 319 - 1 - 12.15

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - adult on Bernard Rd incinerator building. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - one mobbing Buzzard

Baslow Edge: Fieldfare - 120 - Feeding in pasture and hawthorn below edge ; Redwing - 40 ; Jay - 4 - Unusual here

Bingham Park: Dipper - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Crowhole: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3+

Green Moor: Redwing - 30 - Circa 30 West over the Village

Hagg Lane Allotments: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Jay - 2

Hangingwater garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling territorially

High Rake: Fieldfare - c10 - c10 NW ; Raven - 2

Hudson*s Rough: Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 1+ ; Blackbird - 10+