Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - 34 - SE 09:00 ; Goldeneye - 3 - 2 drakes ; Dunlin - 3 - Circled site and left NW.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 15 - inc 3 1cy ; Mallard - c50 ; Black-headed Gull - c100 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Herring Gull - 9

Poolsbrook CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 24 ; Blackbird - 10 - c. ; House Sparrow - 25 - c. on feeder in car park ; Mute Swan - 4

Poolsbrook Marsh: Gadwall - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 3 - separate singing birds ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Blackbird - 20 - c. ; Redwing - 15 - c. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling from reedbed ; Jay - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - flushed by signal box pool ; Song Thrush - 5

Porter Clough: Fieldfare - 50+ - flock feeding in ploughed field on Greenhouse Lane

R Don, Rotherham; Centenary Riverside to Main Street: Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; Kingfisher - 1 - flew downriver ; Mallard - 24 - 13m; 11f

R Don, Rotherham; Grafton Bridge: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mallard - 15 - 9m; 6f ; Mute Swan - 5 - over from S towards canal basin

Redmires Middle Res: Cormorant - 1 - subadult

Redmires Res: Cormorant - 1 - sub-ad on Top Res ; Canada Goose - 50 - c. ; Greylag Goose - 40 - c. ; Mallard - 60 - c. ; 320 - 42 - on Middle Res ; Wigeon - 1 - male on Middle Res ; Lapwing - 50 - c. ; Golden Plover - 20 - on Middle Res ; Brambling - 1 - overhead ; Crossbill - 1 - overhead ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - c. roosted on Top Res

Rockingham Wood: Woodcock - 1 - up from S edge,into wood, with possibly another mins later up from W edge. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+

Rotherham; Northfield: Great Black-backed Gull - 14 - on rooftops & visiting recycling centre ; Herring Gull - c60 - on rooftops & visiting recycling centre

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Canada Goose - 55 ; Greylag Goose - 130 - numbers building up ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 48 ; Pochard - 3 ; Goldeneye - 3 - 1 redhead 2 imm males ; 320 - 5 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Water Rail - 2+ ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Kestrel - 2m/f ; Osprey - 1 - Over southern arm for 10 minutes departing SE 08:35 [presumed same as one south over Worsbrough valley at 08:10 per B BSG] ; Fieldfare - 100+ ; Redwing - 80+ ; Skylark - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - One in SE corner ; Blackcap - 1 - 1 male in Hope Field ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2

Troway: Redwing - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Broomhead Res: Whooper Swan - 6 - at 16:00

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Adult and juv. Possibly 1 at E end, looked motionless, a juv? (D)? ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Coot - c10 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Green Moor: Fieldfare - 100+ - Feeding in Rowans

Kirk Edge: Kestrel - 1

Low Common: Blackbird - 1+ ; Redwing - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 5+ - into Rockingham Wood, from adjacent ' set a side' ; Kestrel - 1 - W toward Scholes Ground

Middle Common: 319 - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4+ - up from cover crop ; Skylark - c30 - up from cover crop

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 76 ; 320 - 40 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Goosander - 1 - a male at 10.00

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mallard - c40 ; Black-headed Gull - c30