Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Mallard - 3 ; 319 - 1 - Perched in set aside field. ; Pheasant - 6+ - Into set aside to roost. ; Fieldfare - 1 - calling in cottage garden. ; Redwing - 25 - 23 over together plus 2 singles. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 5

Greasbrough Dam,Wentworth: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 2+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 10+ ; Moorhen - 4 ; Coot - 12 ; Black-headed Gull - c40 ; Jackdaw - 50+ - Across fields, E of Roman Ridge

Longshaw: Kestrel - 1 - Female ; Mandarin - 17 - M&F ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female

Low Common: Red-legged Partridge - 30+ - Scattering W along with 50+ Pheasant, shoot taking place S of Dog Kennel. ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls from hedge

Markham Vale: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Adult on roof of Great Bear warehouse ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult

Middle Common: Skylark - 40+ - Flushed from ground.

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Kingfisher - 1 - calls

R Don, Attercliffe: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 3cy

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 1 - redhead, NE @ 0758hrs ; Cormorant - 4+ - usual daily commuting of 1-2 up & downriver throughout day; 4 NE @ 0757hrs

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Redwing - 3 - SW ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - SW @ c1500hrs

Ulley: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting in field off Guithwaite Common Lane. 13.05 ; Long-tailed Tit - 05-Jun ; Skylark - Oct-15 - An exaltation in farmers field. ; 319 - 1 - In newly ploughed field 13.20

Walkley Bank: Golden Plover - 1+ - calling overhead

Broomhead Res/Rushy wood feeders: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - 1 female 1 juvenile ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Coal Tit - Dec-15 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Robin - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Robin - 3 ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Pheasant - 4

Chapeltown: Skylark - 1+ - 13.00 Heard high above garden, direction of flight thought to be north

Edge Mount/Delph Road: Raven - 1 - Mobbed by Rooks ; Rook - 20-30 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over rough pasture ; Jackdaw - 7 ; Brambling - 3 - in beeches at side of House ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 18+ - Also in beeches

Five wiers walk,wicker to washford bridge: Kingfisher - 1 ; Goosander - 2 - redheads

Hagg Lane Allotments: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2

Keppels Field: Kestrel - 1 - hunting

Kilnhurst Ings: Brambling - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - 3 adults, 1 near adult ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1300 ; Black-headed Gull - 175 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Starling - 750+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 5

Orgreave Lakes: Goosander - 9 ; Skylark - 6 ; Lapwing - c. 25 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pochard - 15+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Cormorant - 2

Peatpits/WestNab: Lapwing - 11 - in field ; Golden Plover - 15-20 - same field as Lapwings ; Starling - 60-80

Rivelin Valley: Pink-footed Goose - c130 - Flying SE at 10:25

Silverwood Lagoon: 320 - 7 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - party east at 09.05 ; Cormorant - 1 - SW ; Skylark - 6 - in stubble to west, one singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Jackdaw - 8 - party west ; Rook - 12 - in stubble to west ; Siskin - 1 - south ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Redwing - 4

Upper Common, Scholes: Pheasant - 14 - inc 1 leucistic.