Sightings Archive

Longshaw: Lesser Redpoll - 14 - another photo

Parkgate: Mistle Thrush - 1

Ranmoor: Pink-footed Goose - 15 - Flying east at 09:40

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - c30 - flock, visiting gardens

Rotherham Centre: Goldfinch - c15 - flock, Effingham Street ; Starling - c100 - flock, Effingham Street; constantly splitting into foraging parties & regrouping ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Cormorant - 1 - W/SW

Rotherham DGH: Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2

Wortley: Swallow - 1 - Low south 15.40 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Redwing - c50 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Goldcrest - 2 - With LTT

Yorkshire Bridge: Dipper - 1

Ashopton: Brambling - 2 ; Siskin - 6 - c6 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Goldcrest - 6

Crowhole: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Derwent Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 80 - c80 west at 11:40 ; Red Kite - 1 ; Red Grouse - 20 - 20+ ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - 10+ ; Raven - 2

Greave*s Piece: Lesser Redpoll - 200 - In Birch tops next to Car Road

Midhope Res: Jay - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1+ ; Mallard - 51 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Siskin - 2+ ; Long-tailed Tit - c40 - Part of large mixed group ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Fieldfare - c329 - 2 groups - 79 and c250 ; Black-headed Gull - c300 - Moving west towards roost at Langsett ; Blue Tit - c20 - Mixed group ; Great Tit - c10 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Linnet - 2 ; Redwing - c20 ; Goldfinch - 27 ; Coal Tit - c10 - Part of mixed group ; Brambling - 1 - With Chaffinch ; Chaffinch - 10

Scholes: Fieldfare - c40 - feeding in muddy edge of stubble field

Scholes Ground: Grey Heron - 3 ; Woodcock - 2 - disturbed from under trees,near stream, E edge of field

Scholes, Little Lane: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting,low through trees @ Scholes Pond ; Kestrel - 1 - male on fence post just W of Scholes Pond

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 7 ; Mute Swan - 2 - female and now only one surviving immature. Suspect illness or disease has made them weak and more susceptible to fox or dog attack, but unlikely to be Bird Flu as not finding any dead ducks, coots etc. ; Coot - 16 ; Black-headed Gull - c.100 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 - heard ; Woodcock - 1 - in bottom of valley early morning ; Redwing - 20 - finally! ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Jay - 6 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 30+ ; Bullfinch - 2

Smithy Wood, Chapeltown: Snipe - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 3

Frecheville: Goosander - 6 - 1m 5rh Frecheville pond

R Don, Meadowhall: Little Egret - 1 - On the riverbank between Meadowhall Way and Weedon Street at 13:20.

RVCP, Main Lake: Whooper Swan - 6

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 28 ; Canada Goose - c300 ; Greylag Goose - 50 ; Pink-footed Goose - 16 - In East fields departed West 0900 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lapwing - 80+ ; Water Rail - 1 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Greenfinch - 10