Sightings Archive

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c80 ; Herring Gull - c63 ; Black-headed Gull - c250 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - near ad

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 9

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female, low to E @ 1018hrs

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Wigeon - 3

Sothall: Golden Plover - 1+ - nocmig recorded 0507hr ; Wigeon - 2+ - small flock nocmig recorded 0228hr ; Moorhen - 1 - nocmig recorded 0236hr

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 5 - SW; party of 4 + 1 onto pylon

Barlow Common: Swallow - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Ecclesall: Redwing - 1800 - c.1800 over south during the first two hours ; Redwing - 1800 - flew S in 2 hours from 07:30 - 09:30 hrs

Green Moor: Pink-footed Goose - C25 - Flew East at 10.15am

Holmebrook Valley Park: 321 - 1

Morehall tip / R.Don: Kingfisher - 1 - flying downstream. ; Goldfinch - 4 - drinking from puddle. ; 319 - 6 - altogether over tip. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Redwing - 3 - flying west. ; Kestrel - 2 - including 1 catching and eating small rodent.

Onesmoor: Rook - c120 - feeding in cereal field at dusk. ; Golden Plover - 37

Orgreave Lakes: Rock Pipit - 3 - between both lakes

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Goldcrest - 2+ ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - NW ; Redwing - 43 - SW or W, 0700-0900hrs ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - NB: no 'sweeoo' callers whatsoever this autumn!? ; Greenfinch - 1 - SW ; Song Thrush - 3 - dropped in from high to NE ; Bullfinch - 6 - min 4 males ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Starling - c30 - flock, W

Redmires Res: Wigeon - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 9

Roundwood Golf course: Goldcrest - 2+ ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Goldfinch - 6 - over

Royds Moor Hill: Common Buzzard - 1 - sat on telegraph pole at roadside, 1130hrs

Sothall: Golden Plover - 1+ - nocmig recorded 1943hr ; Dunlin - 1+ - nocmig recorded 2118hr ; Wigeon - 2+ - small flock nocmig recorded 2220hr

Thrybergh: Sparrowhawk - 2 - soaring high over together

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Shoveler - 2 - f ; Wigeon - 10 - 3m ; Pochard - 4 - 1m ; Tufted Duck - 39 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - 1sing ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Golden Plover - 1 - first record this year

Thrybergh Park: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over, mobbed by corvids

Wadsley Common garden: Redwing - c100 - Over garden to west.

West Nab: Jackdaw - c200 - heading east at dusk.

Whirlow: Red Kite - 1 - mobbed by 3 Carrion Crows over gardens in Whirlow Grove

White Edge: Wheatear - 1

White Lee Moor: Redwing - 5 - flying west . ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - in aerial dispute. ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 2

Bradfield Moors: Redwing - 5 - Small flock about, 5 caught and ringed

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 16 - on top pond

Ewden Height: Song Thrush - 1 - Flighty in early fog ; Red-legged Partridge - 1+ - Heard calling ; Redwing - 10 - NE in fog ; Chaffinch - 8 - SW ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - SW ; Jay - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Calling from 7.15 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - North towards Midhope ; Raven - 2 - Flew low north out of fog calling

Firsby Res: Mallard - 6 - Main Res. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over set aside field. ; Jackdaw - 2 - Over. ; Pheasant - 3 - 2 F, 1 M. ; Jay - 1 - In willows. ; Redwing - 5+ - Over calling. First record this autumn. ; Song Thrush - 4

Fulwood: Redwing - 15 - In and around observer’s garden, feeding on berries ; Chiffchaff - 1 - In observer’s garden

Heeley City Farm: Redwing - 6+ ; Blackbird - 20+ - an obvious increase ; Jay - 6 ; Coal Tit - 2 - with roving Long-tailed Tit flock