Sightings Archive

Cinder Hills: Nuthatch - 1 - sing ; Goldfinch - 2

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 20+ - at 12:45

Green Moor: Brambling - 15+ ; Siskin - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1

Ladybower Res: Common Buzzard - 2 - Pair circling above Ladybower Inn

Low Common: Skylark - 2+ - sing

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 3 ; Goosander - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Wigeon - 40+ ; Lapwing - 60+ ; Golden Plover - 15 ; Ringed Plover - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Short-eared Owl - 1 - Over tip at 17:00 ; Goosander - 25 ; Goldeneye - 6 - 2 Drakes

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Goosander - 2 - redheads

Ramsley Moor: 319 - 02-Mar ; Kestrel - 1 - showing exceptionally well ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; 324 - 16 - 16 Red Deer seen looking across from Ramsley Moor to Big Moor

Rawmarsh: Sparrowhawk - 1 - displaying over

Redmires Top Res: Golden Plover - 28 - late afternoon ; Lapwing - 201 ; Mallard - 68

Scholes Coppice: Robin - 6+ - sing ; Blackbird - 2+ ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - sing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Brambling - 1 - calls

Shillito Wood: 319 - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - (3 in total) ; Coal Tit - 02-Mar ; Pheasant - 2

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Greylag Goose - 22 ; 319 - 1

St George*s Church: Peregrine - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 2+ - sing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing from scrub.

Wadsley Common garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Drumming. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Rare garden visitor.

Walkley: Waxwing - 10 - flock of c10 reported feeding in a berry tree on Palm Street

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 3 - 1 towards Forge Dam and a pair not far from Shepherd Wheel foraging for nesting material. ; Dipper - 3 - First half of pair ; Dipper - 3 - the other half! ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 - including a courting couple

Wincobank: Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair displaying ; Peregrine - 1 - nearly caught white Dove. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 7 - 5 over Wincobank Wood, and 2 further east towards M1, photo of dark adult

Barbrook Plantation: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Stonechat - 1 ; Raven - 2 - over

Barlow Common: Skylark - 30+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 2

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pair + 4 (nervous) imm ; Canada Goose - 2 - ignored by ad swans ; Gadwall - 7 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Pochard - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 11 - 8m, 3f ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 3+ - getting territorial ; Coot - 27 - lots of aggression

Dronfield: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - On Hallowes golf course ; Fieldfare - 10 - In tree on edge of Hallowes golf course ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - Hallowes golf course ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - Hallowes golf course

Eastwood/Rotherham town centre: Peregrine - 1 - soaring high over, gradually drifted SW @ 1612hrs (located by behaviour of passing BH flock)

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 9

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - 40+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1