Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Pochard - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 48 ; 319 - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - at feeders ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Water Rail - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Skylark - 4 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Stonechat - 1 - m by f/path in w/arm ; Chaffinch - 10 - 4 singing ; Bullfinch - 7 - inc 5 at f/stat ; Reed Bunting - 8 - inc 6m at f/stat. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - at f/stat ; Brambling - 26 - #NAME?

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - M&F up a tree ; Jay - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Bents Green garden: Blackbird - 3 - male, female and juv

Callow Bank: Curlew - 1 - Heard calling in fields in mist

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - c 50

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair ; Gadwall - 7 ; Shoveler - 3 - a pair + 1m ; Pochard - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Little Grebe - 5+ - possibly 3 pairs ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Coot - 25+ - first nest building ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Crosspool: Waxwing - 7 - On Manchester Road next to ‘the’ berry tree at 08:20 ; Waxwing - 8 - at 10:30

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Brown*s Cut: Carrion Crow - 1 - carrying sticks to 'traditional' nest in canal-side poplar.

Shirecliffe: Lesser Redpoll - c25 - big increase in numbers coming to nyjer seed ; COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 1+ - on feeders taking nyjer seed ; Brambling - 2 - male and female under garden feeders

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 33 ; Greylag Goose - 16+ ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 2 - m ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 - m ; Water Rail - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 150+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1ad1- 2cy ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Skylark - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Fieldfare - 3 ; Goldcrest - 2 - singles 1singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 - 4pr ; Chaffinch - 11 - 7 singing ; Brambling - 28+ ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 11 - 2 singing

Arbourthorne: Mallard - 10 - 5 drake on pond. ; Moorhen - 5 - on grass around pond.

Barlow Common: Kestrel - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Goldfinch - 6+

Blackburn Meadows NR: Snipe - 45+ - 45+ ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Goosander - 3 - 1 male 2 female on canal by entrance to the reserve. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - inc 2 singing males ; Siskin - 2+ - small party heard only flying south ; 327 - 5+ - small flock moving around the site. ; 320 - 5 ; Mallard - 6 ; Moorhen - 2

Bradway: Swallow - 1 - through observer's garden

Brown Edge Farm: Curlew - 1 - Heard only ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 2 - Flying west ; Greylag Goose - 11 - Grazing in field

Callow Bank: Skylark - 2 - Mating/fighting? in rough pasture in regular traditional breeding field

Hallam Moor: Stonechat - 1 - 1 female

Manor Fields Park: Water Rail - 1 - In watercourse at 17:10. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting site. ; Siskin - 1 - single male near feeders. ; Goldfinch - 12+ ; Redwing - 50+ - 50-60 birds on site.17:00. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Collared Dove - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; House Sparrow - 15+ - flock in hedge near allotments. ; Mallard - 8 - 5 male 3 fem on pond