Sightings Archive

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Greenfinch - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - inc 1 SW ; Chaffinch - 3 - W ; Yellowhammer - 6 ; Goldfinch - c20

Parkgate; fields to W: Common Buzzard - 1 - foraging on ground ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over to S ; Red-legged Partridge - c10 ; Skylark - 8+

Rawmarsh; Haugh Road: Red-legged Partridge - 2 - on playing field ; Magpie - 8 - on playing field ; Herring Gull - 2 - adult & 1cy, on playing field ; Black-headed Gull - 30 - max, on playing field

Roundwood Golf course: Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 - flock in boundary hedge

Roundwood Ponds: Cormorant - 6 - on pylon overlooking ponds

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - c. 12 - most in one, recently ploughed, field ; Skylark - 35+ - in, and over, two fields; several singing ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Linnet - 2+ ; Pheasant - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 6+ ; Lapwing - 3+ - Calling from surrounding fields. ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Separate birds calling ; 319 - 1 - Down on field worming at dawn. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Over. ; Jay - 3 ; Redwing - 4

Fox Hill: Siskin - 1 - Calling near Shaw Hill Farm. Rare here ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing near Shaw Hill Farm

Green Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 50 - c50 flew SE at 09:30

Hudson*s Rough: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - some singing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Magpie - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 950 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 7

Moorgate, Rotherham: Jay - 3 - singles W at Treetop height within a few minutes of eachother

Norwood Allotments: COMMON CRANE - 3 - Appeared overhead at 10:40. Vocal, being mobbed by a crow. moved south, circled briefly and then drifted away south.

R Don, Effingham Road: 320 - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Goosander - 2 ; Mallard - 27 ; Little Egret - 2

Rawmarsh: Pink-footed Goose - c50 - E @ 0940hrs ; Redwing - c15 - W @ 1015hrs

Rawmarsh; High Street: Pied Wagtail - 1 - feeding on roof of Earl Grey PH ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - feeding on roof of Earl Grey PH with PW

Redmires: Redwing - 1855 - westerly movement in flocks of up to 150. All dried up by 08.30 ; Brambling - 13 - all west ; Woodpigeon - 163

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 60+ - some moving on to Wingfield School fields ; Common Gull - 1 ; Jackdaw - 5 ; Carrion Crow - 1+

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 1 - male ; Shoveler - 2 - m+f ; Snipe - 2 ; Redwing - 11 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Woodhouse Tip: Redwing - 15+

Blacka Plantation: Redwing - 28 - Circling plantation ; Brambling - 6 - Feeding in Rowan ; Lesser Redpoll - 38+ - Over plantation, then seen again circling plantation with Redwing. ; Brambling - 6 - Already reported ; Brambling - 6 - Another photo

Canklow Woods: Redwing - 80+

Freebirch: Lapwing - 54 ; Starling - 100+

Leash Fen: Stonechat - 3

Middlewood: Redwing - 30+ - 32 calls recorded between 5.00 and 6.00am, with a few just after midnight.

Norfolk Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 8 - Flying over obs garden at 07:45 ; Redwing - c40 - Flock flew low over Park Grange Rd towards East Bank Rd.

Ramsley Moor: Chiffchaff - 1

Rawmarsh: Tawny Owl - 2 - female calling close by @ 0535hrs, then male & female 'duetting' & female calling more distantly to 0550hrs ; Common Buzzard - 3 - W together with two talon grappling briefly @ 1053hrs

Redmires: 324 - 1 - Four Spot Orb Spider ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 10+ ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Jay - 1

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 16 ; Greylag Goose - 37 ; Mallard - 80 - c. ; 320 - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 - imm ; Lapwing - 65 - c. ; Golden Plover - 26 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad with LBBs