Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Greenfinch - 10 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 12 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 6 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling

Wortley: Pink-footed Goose - c200 - West at 09:24 ; Fieldfare - c50 - Roving group ; Redwing - c20 ; Lesser Redpoll - 01-Feb ; Skylark - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; 319 - 1

Agden Res: Mandarin - 100+

Coombs Dale: Fieldfare - 67 - 3 groups - 5, 30, 32

Green Moor: Redwing - C50 ; Fieldfare - 20+

Kimberworth Park: Magpie - 10 - on Grey Hill

Kiveton: Jack Snipe - 1

Lodge Moor garden: Siskin - 1 - Male. First here for some weeks

Mayfield Valley: Goose sp - 200+ - Heading SE at 09:20

Middleton Dale: 321 - 1 ; 319 - 1

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 221 ; Golden Plover - 30 ; Black-headed Gull - 390 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 400+ - Still arriving at 16.30 ; 320 - 25 ; Goosander - 9 ; Starling - 200 - Single party ; Lapwing - c160 ; Starling - c1,000 - Gathering on telephone wires in late afternoon

Midhope: Brambling - 1 - male sat at top of hawthorn tree on Midhope Hall Lane

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - 105 - Circling for ages ; Golden Plover - 65 - Circling above Lapwings, having arrived from the north ; Peregrine - 1 - Adult low over Middle Res from the north, then flew east towards Soughley Lane ; Kestrel - 1 ; 320 - 11 ; Mallard - 18 ; Canada Goose - 38 ; Pheasant - 1 ; 319 - 1

Redmires Plantation: 319 - 1

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 560 - late afternoon ; Common Gull - 1 - adult with BHGs late afternoon ; Herring Gull - 3 - late afternoon ; Kestrel - 1 ; Fieldfare - 30 - west late afternoon, presumed to roost

RVCP, Main Lake: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2+ - a few roosting around Bedgrave Mill/Visitor Centre area,,,, a max of 6 around Christmas.

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Woodall: Skylark - 1 - singing

Boston Park, Rotherham: Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/imm ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - flock, in gorse below castle

Canklow Woods: Coal Tit - 1 ; Goldcrest - 3 - woodland generally very quiet bird-wise ; Raven - 1 - circling low over calling @ 1005hrs

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 4 - adults with 2 juv' ; Greylag Goose - 16 ; Mallard - 90+ ; Coot - 4 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 10+

Frecheville: Goosander - 9 - 2m 7rh Frecheville pond

Longshaw: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - another photo ; Lesser Redpoll - 14 ; 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