Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 59 ; Kestrel - 2 - singles ; Water Rail - 3 ; Lapwing - 4 - 2pr disp. ; Black-headed Gull - 150 ; Common Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Stock Dove - 3 - at f/stat ; Skylark - 5 - sing ; Wren - 11 - sing ; Dunnock - 21 ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 - 4pr ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Chaffinch - 12 - 8sing ; Brambling - 30 - #NAME? ; Reed Bunting - 15 - 6sing ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 2sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing

Tinsley Golf Course: Treecreeper - 2 - pair ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female with alarm calls. ; 319 - 2 - Circling low over woods/course ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing ; Robin - 02-Mar - Singing ; 321 - 1 - 70 Acre pond ; Carrion Crow - 50-60 ; Lapwing - 3 - Showing courtship display airport field.

Ughill Moors: Oystercatcher - 2 - roosting on pond at dusk

Upper Common, Scholes: Dunnock - 2 - sing from nr by gardens. ; Goldfinch - 6 - From gorse behind Remount Cottages.

Worrall: Siskin - 2 - Pair on garden feeder ; Brambling - 4 - On garden feeders

Bingham Park: 319 - 2

Bull piece: Curlew - 15 - 15 birds in to roost on moorland edge.

Canklow Woods: Jackdaw - 78 - 78 west at 1800

Crookes Valley Park: Canada Goose - 2 - pair on lake this morning

Green Moor: Brambling - 8

Handsworth: Stock Dove - 5 - Feeding under bird feeders

Handsworth garden: Goldfinch - 17 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Stock Dove - 2

Hillsborough Park: Nuthatch - 2 - Singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Flew over park heading west

Hudsons Rough: Woodpigeon - 5+ - 1 singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Rattle call then drumming. ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 3+ - singing ; Blackbird - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ - 2 nr pond prob pr ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 2+ - inc 2 singing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Male in trees at bottom of garden

Lower Walkley: Marsh Harrier - 1 - cream-crown SW at moderate height over Morley Street at 10.38 then driven SSW by a mobbing Carrion Crow. Somewhat unexpected at this locality!

Millhouses: Brambling - 2 ; Brambling - 5 - Increase from previous record.

Orgreave Lakes: Little Gull - 1 - still present this morning ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - On island ; Redshank - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goldeneye - 3 ; Goosander - 1 ; Swallow - 1 - Flew in over island briefly at 1005 then turned back East ; Little Gull - 1 - Still present at 1420 ; Little Gull - 1 - 1st winter appeared on the small lake at 11:40 for 10 minutes during a shower.

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Carrion Crow - 1pr - carrying sticks into roadside tree by Retail World entrance

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 1 - drake ; 321 - 2 - fishing in river

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Kingfisher - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 4 - one over, 3 distant to S. ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 3 - soaring over together p.m.

Rotherham Centre: Cormorant - 2 - S/SW @ 0800hrs

Station Road,Ecclesfield: 327 - 5 - In birch 70m west from Station Road on Trans Pennine Trail

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - One singing bird adjacent Hunshelf Road ; Willow Tit - 1 - Hunshelf Road - image

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mute Swan - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; 319 - 1 - drifted.east ; Kestrel - 1 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Lapwing - 5 - disp. ; Black-headed Gull - 250 ; Herring Gull - 3