Sightings Archive

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 2 - where have they all gone? ; Mallard - 49

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Greenfinch - 2

Parkgate; Don Canal: Cormorant - 5 - circled & dropped onto canal @ 0810hrs ; Grey Heron - 1

R Don, Grafton Bridge: Grey Wagtail - 1

R Don; Grafton Bridge: Mallard - 2prs

Ravenfield: Skylark - 6 - in fields alongside access track to Pingle Lane Tip, including one singing

Ravenfield Park: Grey Heron - 1 - Worming on farmland. ; Mallard - 6+ ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting. ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+ ; 319 - 1 - Low through trees on top path. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Female.

Redmires: Crossbill - Oct-15 - Flying across western plantation

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 660 - c. roosted on Top Res ; Common Gull - 1 - ad roosted with BHGs ; Lapwing - 90 - c. on Middle Res ; Fieldfare - 100 - c. flew W at dusk

Rotherham; Northfield: Chaffinch - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c40 - visiting recycling centre & loafing on adjacent rooftops; vast majority adults ; Herring Gull - c80 - visiting recycling centre & loafing on adjacent rooftops; vast majority adults. ; Carrion Crow - 25+ - visiting recycling centre with small numbers of Jackdaws & Magpies

Rotherham; Riverside Way: Redwing - 19 - dropped in briefly

Silver Wood: Treecreeper - 2 - Calling. ; Nuthatch - 3 - Maybe more birds lots of calling all round woods. ; Jay - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Pair chasing each other in tree tops over path. Courtship behaviour? ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 100+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Over surrounding fields.

Silverwood Lagoon: Cormorant - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Jay - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ - most thru' south ; Common Gull - 1 - With BHG flock.

Storrs: Stock Dove - 3 - foraging in field off Storrs Lane

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - Male ; Water Rail - 1+ ; Mute Swan - 26 ; Coot - 60 - c. ; Tufted Duck - 39 ; Pochard - 4 ; Scaup - 1 - imm male still present ; Gadwall - 5 ; Shoveler - 1 - imm male ; Great Crested Grebe - 11 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Grey Partridge - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Lapwing - 120 - c. ; Skylark - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 6

Treeton: Linnet - 40 - c. in fields on Wood Lane ; Stock Dove - 4 - in fields on Wood Lane

Ulley CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7

Walkley garden: Blackcap - 1 - Female in apple tree in Bentley Road garden.

Wisewood Forge Mill Dam: Tufted Duck - 2 - 2 males

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Redwing - c40 ; Linnet - c15

Broomhead Res: Tufted Duck - 13 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Black-headed Gull - 1450 - c. roosted ; Common Gull - 40 - c. roosted ; Tawny Owl - 3 - separate males calling at dusk

Dale Dike Res: Goosander - 2 - male & female flew in from NW ; Fieldfare - 30 - c. flew W

Ecclesfield: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - In birch, Cross Hill

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Diving for food at top pond - great views

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 2 - roosting together again

Norfolk Heritage Park: Robin - 6 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 21 - At least 10 were gathered at left food at a spot by the football field. ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - Small quiet flock. ; Woodpigeon - 13 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Wren - 1 - Singing ; Goldfinch - 5 - In flock. ; Jay - 1