Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Pied Wagtail - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Lapwing - c60

Botanical Gardens: 319 - 3 - 3 drifted over from NE and eventually drifted back over Broomhall. Sizes suggest pair + juv

Ecclesall: Swallow - 1 - flew S mid-morning

Fulwood Lane: Brambling - 3+ - among 50 Chaffinches on beech mast in carpark

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - in observer's garden

Kimberworth Park: Goose sp - 100+ - large skein, splitting into 3, NW.Probably N of Wentworth @ 08:55. ; Starling - c30 - on tel. wires, Clover Green

Orgreave Lakes: Kingfisher - 2

Orgreave Tip: Stonechat - 3 ; Swallow - 1

Parkgate; Barbot Hall Ind. Est.: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over, harassed by crow @ 1335hrs

R Rother, Catcliffe: Goosander - 4 - downstream side of bridge. I drake, and 3 redheads. ; Goosander - 4 - second picture

Redmires Top Res: Lapwing - 60 ; Golden Plover - 12 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 60 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 1

Scholes, Little Lane: Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Robin - 1+ - calls ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 20+ ; Carrion Crow - 20+

Silverwood Lagoon: Water Rail - 1 - calling in eastern reedbed ; Siskin - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Wadsley Common garden: Wren - 2 - Very young downy fledgling pecking around window then joined by adult. (seems very late)

Barlow Common: Raven - 1 ; Yellowhammer - c15 ; Skylark - 7 ; Linnet - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Rook - 2

Canklow: Pink-footed Goose - 80+ - flew west at 08:58

Ewden Height vis-mig: Jackdaw - 59 - South ; Meadow Pipit - 27 - South ; Chaffinch - 34 - incl 19 south ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Linnet - 1+ ; Starling - 43 - 42 south, 1 west ; Redwing - 14+ - Flying around general area ; Finch sp - 10+ - south ; Greenfinch - 6 - south ; Siskin - 2+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - south ; Snipe - 1 - SE ; Woodpigeon - 1685 - South 07:15-08:45 ; Goldfinch - 13 - south ; Pied Wagtail - 6 - south ; Skylark - 15 - south ; Brambling - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 - south

Middle Common: Sparrowhawk - 1 - moved by Crow into W edge of Rockingham Wood ; Skylark - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1+

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 800 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 5 ; 320 - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 135 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Golden Plover - 15 ; Dunlin - 2

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c90

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1330hrs; 'stooped' away to W

Rotherham Centre: 319 - 1 - Low near Near Jackoes takeaway 17.45, harassed by 4-5 angry crows.

Shepherd*s Plantation: Dunnock - 1 - calls ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - c120 - south at 08:50

Thurcroft: Raven - 2 - Calling as they flew over Steadfolds Lane towards Brookhouse.

Leash Fen: Stonechat - 9 - On fence to sheep pens

Ramsley Moor: Redwing - 40 - All west; one party of 30, remainder ones and twos ; Goldfinch - 30 - In mixed flock with Greenfinches ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling from rowan tree, then flew into bracken

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Coal Tit - 2 - feeding together in garden for several minutes

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 28 ; Jackdaw - 30+ ; Rook - 30+

Thorpe Hesley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Briefly sat on garden fence

Upper Newbold: 319 - 1 ; Jay - 1

Wortley: Long-tailed Tit - c30 - Majority species in a mixed tit/Goldcrest/Nuthach roving group

Wortley - vis mig: Jackdaw - c370 - West - assumed roost dispersal ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Brambling - 1 ; Siskin - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - c30 ; Woodpigeon - c400 - South - many stopping to feed ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - South ; Chaffinch - 2 - South ; Pied Wagtail - 5 - SSW