Sightings Archive

Orgreave: Redwing - 20+ ; Kestrel - 3 ; Cormorant - 7 ; 324 - 1 - Fox

Orgreave Lakes: Black-headed Gull - 130 ; Tufted Duck - 67 ; Pochard - 120 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 16 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Goosander - 3 ; Wigeon - 40 ; Gadwall - 14 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; 320 - 25 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 3 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Herring Gull - 11 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 28 - All large gulls left to roost at 17.00 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 11 ; Herring Gull - 261 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - C400 ; Goosander - 34 - Came in to roost ; Little Egret - 1

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 44

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Robin - 2 - presumed pair; very territorial. One very optimistically picking up dead leaves and investigating cavity in stone wall!

Silverwood Lagoon: Woodcock - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead south at 09.50

Smithy Wood: Snipe - 4

Thrybergh: Blackcap - 1 - Fem in garden

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - Male back on today after day trip to Old Moor ; Tufted Duck - 113 ; Pochard - 3 ; Goldeneye - 1 - redhead ; Water Rail - 1 ; Gadwall - 14 ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; 319 - 2

Walkley Bank: 319 - 1 - low over Bell Hagg Road, mobbed by 3 carrion crows.

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - c180 - inc 90+ on lower pond, 80+ near cafe ; Redwing - 2 - in holly bushes behind cafe ; Mandarin - 7 - 4m & 3f

Hangingwater allotments: Fieldfare - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - f. Not the "usual" one as this has ring

Longshaw: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Brambling - 40+ - Mixed Finch flock behind main Lodge. A lot of Chaffinches in the flock. ; Nuthatch - 1

Mayfield Valley: Redwing - 5+ - 5-10 in field below May House Farm ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting in fields around Harrop Lane ; Jay - 1 ; Jay - 1

Orgreave: Goosander - 4 - 3 drakes 1 duck on river. ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Fieldfare - 1

Rivelin Valley: Hobby - 1 - overhead towards a large flock of hirundines foraging over a recently cut hay field.

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 - m

Totley Moss: Red Grouse - 1

Wadsley Lane: Pied Wagtail - 1 - First time seen here

Walkley garden: Goldfinch - 25+ - In silver birch trees and hawthorn

Agden Res: Mandarin - 5

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1 - on chimney

Bramley: Common Gull - 1 - On large grass area at end of Blackthorn Avenue.

Brecks, Rotherham: House Sparrow - c25 - flock in roadside hedge, Brecks Lane ; Grey Heron - 1 - low over Brecks Lane heading W/NW @ 0915hrs

Broomhead Res: Goosander - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - drakes

Coal Aston: Redwing - 6

Dalton: Black-headed Gull - 14 - on playing field ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Damflask Res: 320 - 7 - 2m,5f ; Mandarin - 3

Ecclesfield: Lesser Redpoll - 8 - Feeding in birch in Cross Hill garden

Ecclesfield Park: Black-headed Gull - 23 - On football field ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Siskin - 3 ; Goldfinch - 5

Gibbing Greave Wood: Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Coal Tit - 5 - inc one singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Woodpigeon - c30 - flock, feeding under beeches ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male ; Blue Tit - song ; Great Tit - song

Graves Park: Goosander - 5 - 2M+3F on Boating Lake.