Sightings Archive

Redmires Top Res: 320 - 6 - 3m, 3f

Rivelin Valley: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Flying up the river just upstream of wolf wheel

Rockingham Wood: Pheasant - 1+ - calls ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Robin - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - sing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Magpie - 5+

RVCP, Main Lake: Cormorant - 27 - All in trees on main lake at dusk ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - In song ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 - Pair showing courtship display

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 3 - Over wood, 2 circled as a pr while the other headed for Shepherd's Plantation.

Sheherd*s Plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Robin - 1 - sing ; Coal Tit - 1 - sing ; Nuthatch - 1 - sing

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 1 - First since 31st October 2018 ; 319 - 2 ; House Sparrow - 35 ; Goldfinch - 25 ; Greenfinch - 12

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 40 - count ; Kestrel - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 1 - prob 2 ; Lapwing - 7 - 6 disp. ; Black-headed Gull - 100 ; Herring Gull - 1 - imm. ; Skylark - 2 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Wren - 6 - singing ; Dunnock - 19 - 15 singing ; Robin - 21 - 16 singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Blackbird - 13 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; House Sparrow - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Bullfinch - 11 - inc.5 at f/stat. ; Reed Bunting - 24 - inc.19 at f/stat. ; Brambling - 10+

Ulley CP: Raven - 2 - flew S ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in Morthen Brook ; Fieldfare - 40+ - in field with 70+ starlings ; Treecreeper - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 2+ - sing ; Carrion Crow - 4

Wadsley Common: Raven - 1 - Flying west over south side of common-our first record for the common. ; 319 - 1 - over water-board compound.

Wentworth Park: Stock Dove - 1 - singing from wood adj deer shed

Arbourthorne: Grey Heron - 1 - on small island on pond at 18:15.

Broomhall: Blackbird - 1 - Female collecting nest material.

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 5 - ad pr + 3 imm ; Gadwall - 11 ; Shoveler - 4 - 3m, 1f ; Pochard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 20 - c20 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Coot - 30 - c30 ; Black-headed Gull - 85+

Crookes Valley Park: Canada Goose - 9 - Present for an unprecedented second day

Dore: Red Kite - 1 - at 16:15

Edge Mount: Red Kite - 1 - drifting north @ 16.40 .

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 4 - at least 4 in trees around the green.

Higger Tor: Stonechat - 1 - Male

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 2 - 2 at 06:00 calling

Loxley Valley: Curlew - 43 - feeding in pasture ; Redwing - 1 - Single in tree

Manchester Road, Crosspool: Waxwing - 7 - in top of tree near junction with Barnfield Rd, facing South and trilling.

Middleton Moor: Common Gull - 110 - Loafing on lagoon

Norfolk Park: Rook - 3 - feeding on grass verge ; Greenfinch - c2 - wheezing ; Starling - 1+ - 1 singing from house roof ; Goldfinch - c10 ; Blue Tit - 3+ ; Dunnock - 2 ; Feral Pigeon - 5+ - regularly seen

Orgreave Lakes: Common Buzzard - 3 - together over N end large lake. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - engaging with buzzards. ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Redshank - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Goldeneye - 3 - 1m 2f ; Skylark - 11

Parkwood Springs: Raven - 2 - pair east over the northern end of the former tip site at 11.49

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c170 - 30+ Lapwing

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Greenfinch - 4 - inc one singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over towards canal

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Redmires Top Res: Siskin - 4 - feeding on cones in roadside conifers