Sightings Archive

Centenary Riverside: Moorhen - 2 - river ; Goosander - 1 - female on river ; Canada Goose - 3 - on pond ; Gadwall - 2 - pair on pond ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 - juv ; Mute Swan - 3 ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 15 - 8+ male ; Coot - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 1+

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 ; Dipper - 1

Green Moor: Brambling - 25+

Heeley: Mandarin - 3 - drakes on river at broadfield road

Hudson*s Rough: Mallard - 2 - 1 pr @ pond. ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Middle Common: 319 - 1 - N low over field, nr Cinder Hills

Morehall Res: 320 - 2 - Males on res ; Cormorant - 4

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mallard - 1+ ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling @ 15:00 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Feeding in waterlogged area @ W end. ; Starling - 2+ - Feeding with Fieldfares

Norfolk Park: Brambling - 02-Mar - at least 2-3 inc 1 Male feeding adjacent to Norfolk Park Avenue

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - Earliest site record of LRP by 2 days ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - On small lake, earliest site record

Owler Bar: Starling - 350

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 2

Poolsbrook CP: Iceland Gull - 1 - juvenile again at 13:15

R Sheaf, Heeley: Mallard - 14 - between Broadfield Rd and Sheaf Bank business park ; Moorhen - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - along Broadfield Rd. ; Kingfisher - 1 - at Heeley Bridge ; Dipper - 1 - Broadfield Rd

Rother Valley CP: Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling ; Egyptian Goose - 2 - On side of approach road to main car park.

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - SW @ 0828hrs ; Common Buzzard - 1 - SW @ 1018hrs

Rotherham Centre; Northfield: Common Buzzard - 2 - one soaring over mobbed by corvid @ 1457hrs, joined by second @ 1500hrs

Scholes Coppice: Brambling - 1+ - calls

Scholes Paddock: Lapwing - 1 - Diplaying

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 6 - 4 male, 2 female coming to garden feeders ; Siskin - 2 - taking nyjer seed from feeders ; COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 1+ - one striking bird, and one large, slightly grey probable/possible. ; Lesser Redpoll - 14 - feeding on nyjer seed

Spout House Hill: Fieldfare - 30+

Thrybergh CP: FULMAR - 1 - on water, near dam wall at 11:40 ; FULMAR - 1 - still present at 13:30 ; FULMAR - 1 - still present at 14:15 in NE corner. ; FULMAR - 1 - still present 15.20 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 49 ; Goldeneye - 1 - m ; Kestrel - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 14 ; Coot - 46 ; Lapwing - 32 - inc. 30nw ; Lapwing - 32 - inc. 30nw ; Black-headed Gull - 150 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Tree Sparrow - 3 ; Chaffinch - 13 ; Brambling - 22 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 19 - inc 14 at f/stat ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 1sing ; Moorhen - 14 ; Coot - 46 ; FULMAR - 1 - still present 1645

Thrybergh Res: FULMAR - 1 - photo

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 1

Blackburn Meadows NR: Snipe - 10+ ; Ringed Plover - 1+ - Heard only. ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 5 ; 320 - 7 ; Mallard - 8 ; Water Rail - 1+ - Calling ; Moorhen - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - 1 singing male