Sightings Archive

Totley Grange: Goldfinch - 18 - Calling from top of magnolia.

Whiteley Woods: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Dipper - 1

Wyming Brook: Crossbill - c10 - Flock of 10 or more judging by the amount of "chipping", but only one seen. ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Coal Tit - 10

Bingham Park: Kingfisher - 1 - female ; Grey Heron - 1 - stalking then feeding on prey, Ibbotson's Dam

Crookes Valley Park: Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 2 - first-winters still present ; Herring Gull - 2 - adult pair again on lake this morning ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+

Crowhole: Chiffchaff - 2 - still at sewage works ; Fieldfare - 20+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Redwing - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Wren - 3+ ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Endcliffe Park: Redwing - 6

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 4 - 2 pairs ; Moorhen - 10+ ; 320 - 2 - pair ; Dipper - 1 - singing downstream of the dam ; Grey Wagtail - 01-Feb - 1 heard upstream of the dam, one at dam

Gibbing Greave Wood: Brambling - 30+ - feeding on beech mast with Redwings.

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Female, caught & ate fish ; Grey Heron - 1

Kelham Island: Kestrel - 1 - Male using 3rd floor apartment balcony glass as a perch while observing the tits below. For the 2nd day running

Limb Valley: Raven - 2 - flying E/ESE near Lady Canning's Plantation

Manor Fields Park: Water Rail - 1 - on watercourse at 16:20. ; Moorhen - 10 - on part frozen pond. ; Mallard - 8 - 5 drakes 16:00 ; Brambling - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; Redwing - C30

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 1 - male on N mound. ; Glaucous Gull - 1juv - Sitting on bank just above water line.at 14:40 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - Main lake spit ; Ringed Plover - 1 - On small lake ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Along railway ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - Displaying between bridges

Redmires conduit: Red Grouse - 12 - pack of 12 in flight ; Stonechat - 1 - male feeding along conduit

Rotherham Centre: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over high, mobbed by corvid @ 1243hrs ; Common Buzzard - 1 - high over @ 1350hrs, mobbed by corvids; drifted off to E

Rotherham Centre; Brown*s Cut: Goosander - 1pr - actively feeding; left SW later, disturbed by passers-by

Rotherham Centre; The Statutes: Blackbird - 1 - in full song @ 1610hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: 320 - 7 ; Grey Heron - 1 - north at 08.25 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling in The Close ; Herring Gull - 3 - SW ; Rook - 3 - south ; Jackdaw - 2 - north ; Common Buzzard - 1

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - singing in scrubby woodland behind Hunshelf Bank substation.

Thrybergh: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting along road and verges at 17.00hrs

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2 - Seen together ; Redwing - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

Bingham Park: Kingfisher - 1 - 1 female daily, can be on either lake ; Goldcrest - 2 - Interacting ; Siskin - 5 - Feeding in trees nr Ibbotson's dam

Brincliffe Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 100 - at least 100, flying SW at 10:00 ; Bullfinch - 6 - 3 male, 3 female in garden

Crowhole: Chiffchaff - 2 - still at the sewage works ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Fieldfare - c.40 ; Redwing - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 60+ - Sitting on the ice ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3

Forge Dam: 320 - 2 - M&F ; Mandarin - 2 - M&F

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c95 - southwest at 11:50

Orgreave Lakes: Glaucous Gull - 1 - Present from at least 10:45 to 12:30

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 2 - on Saville House

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 4 - at garden feeders. 3 male 1 female. ; Siskin - 2 - at nyjer seed feeder

Silverwood Lagoon: Woodcock - 1 ; Fieldfare - 10