Sightings Archive

Rotherham; Primrose Hill: Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - adults

Weston Park: Mandarin - 1 - Single female with c.30 mallards on lake

Baslow: Pink-footed Goose - 70 - N-W at 11.20

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 6+ ; 320 - 5 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Perched in Reed bed calling. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - Flew from waters edge calling mid morning. ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+ - Calling over. ; Siskin - 2+ - With Redpoll. ; Jay - 3

Leash Fen: Stonechat - 3

Longshaw: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Mandarin - 9+ - Couldn’t see clearly as in corner under trees ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 32

Norton Lees: Sparrowhawk - 1 - mobbed by corvid. Flew towards Beauchief, still being mobbed.

Oughtibridge: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - c150 flying east of village at 12:02

Ramsley Moor: Redwing - 200+ - W in 75 minutes

Rawmarsh: Pink-footed Goose - c150 - W @ 1215hrs

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 17 ; 320 - 4 ; Chaffinch - 45 - flew west ; Brambling - 53 - flew west ; Jay - 2 - flew west ; Bullfinch - 2 - flew west ; Siskin - 2 - flew west ; Greenfinch - 10 - flew west ; Jackdaw - 57 - flew west in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 24 - flew west ; Crossbill - 5 - flew west ; Siskin - 27 - flew west ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - flew west ; Fieldfare - 5 - flew west ; Woodpigeon - 2550 - flew south in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 24 - flew west ; Mistle Thrush - 7 - in Fairthorn Clough ; Blackbird - 5

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 36 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - Female flew west 10:15 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Golden Plover - 3 - 3 south ; Lapwing - 54 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - 1 male calling 4am southern boundary ; Skylark - 38 - Small numbers moving southward ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1

White Edge Moor: Red Grouse - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Wortley: Chaffinch - 170 - S/SW 07:40-09:10 - certainly many more moving through and generally around area. ; Woodpigeon - 525 - south ; Brambling - Oct-15 - Single group SW, probably all Brambling with several calling. ; Whooper Swan - 10 - East at 08:55 ; Starling - c310 - SW including a single group of c300 ; Pink-footed Goose - 62 - NE at 07:52 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - south ; 327 - 1 - south ; Redwing - 50+ ; 319 - 3 ; Jackdaw - 400+ - Post roost ; Jay - 3 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2 - south ; Yellowhammer - 1 - south ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Stock Dove - 4

Brinsworth - Phoenix GC: Goosander - 2 - Pair east ; Swan sp - 2 east - 10.15am ; Redwing - 10+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 25+ ; Kestrel - 1

Burbage Moor: Kestrel - 1 ; Red Grouse - 3+

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 122 ; Cormorant - 7

Don Canal; Eastwood Lock: Cormorant - 4 - flew E before circling back & dropping onto river ; Linnet - 4 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Brambling - 1 - heard over

Eastwood, Rotherham: Magpie - 10 - foraging together on Eldon Road playing field ; Peregrine - 1 - female circling over @ 0852hrs; drifted away SE ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over @ 0912hrs; drifted NE

Hathersage Moor: Kestrel - 1 ; Red Grouse - 5 ; Raven - 2

Longshaw: Brambling - 20 ; Brambling - 20 - Another photo

Middleton Moor: 320 - 28 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - feeding on shoreline ; Lapwing - 37