Sightings Archive

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1 - male in gardens still, giving subsong this afternoon. Presumably a wintering bird ready for off.

Meersbrook Park: Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Middleton Moor: Oystercatcher - 1

Millhouses: 319 - 4

Norfolk Park: Greenfinch - 2+ - wheezing males in trees and hedges along Park Grange Road ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Magpie - 2+ ; Goldfinch - 4+

R Don, Effingham St: Common Buzzard - 1 - circling overhead

Redmires Top Res: Treecreeper - 1 - feeding around car park. ; Wheatear - 1 - on south side of top res. Distant record shot ; Coal Tit - 4 - ringed bird ; Crossbill - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 1

Ringinglow Bog: Merlin - 1 - Female flew across the road from Burbage Moor onto Ringinglw Bog.

Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 34 ; Greylag Goose - 52 ; Canada Goose - 97 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; 321 - 10 ; Cormorant - 19 ; Great Crested Grebe - 24 ; 319 - 2 - Display ; Mallard - 127 ; Gadwall - 49 ; Wigeon - 81 ; 320 - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Goldeneye - 11 ; Goosander - 6 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 68 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Curlew - 1 - North ; Redshank - 1 ; Coot - 129 ; Moorhen - 11 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 10+ ; Sand Martin - 20+ ; Chiffchaff - 8+

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 1pr - circled & left NE @ 1603hrs ; Grey Heron - 1 - SW @ 0852hrs ; Cormorant - 1 - NE @ 0952hrs

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Raven - 1 - NW @ 0834hrs mobbed by JD, passing 30m from office window!

Sheffield Centre: Magpie - 2 - pair nest building behind H.S.B.C. banking sign on Cambridge st . ; Blackbird - 2 - singing from trees along roads near St Mary's Gate ; Woodpigeon - 1 - in trees near Queens Road ; Robin - 2 - singing from shrubs along A61 near St Mary's Church

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 59 ; Kestrel - 4 - 2pr ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 - 2pr ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Sand Martin - 30 - circa ; Blackcap - 1 - sing briefly ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing. ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Brambling - 18 - waiting at f/stat

Aldwarke: Mallard - 1pr ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female, over

Barbrook Pools: Wheatear - 1 - Male on grassy area below Barbrook Cottage ; Stonechat - 1 - Male in dead bracken below Barbrook Cottage

Barbrook Res: Red Kite - 1

Bull piece: Fieldfare - 12 - Small flock again in trees by Moscar Cross road.

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - 3 in the air at 12:00

Dale Dike Res: Crossbill - 2 - over ; Brambling - 3 - dropped into plantation ; Jackdaw - c90 - feeding in fields

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 1 - Male. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - F on bird table. ; Chaffinch - 5 - All M inc 2 singing. ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Bullfinch - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 5

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 - Prob pr soaring together over Barber Wood and 14th fairway also one mobbed over Brick Kiln Pltn (one of same)? ; Stock Dove - 1 - sing, Gallery Bottom ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - sing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls and drumming, Upper Kennel Wood ; Wren - 7+ - sing ; Dunnock - 4 - sing ; Robin - 9+ - sing ; Blackbird - 4+ - 2 sing ; Song Thrush - 4 - sing