Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - over Hollings Lane end of pit top at 08.25

St George*s Church: Peregrine - 3 - Resident pair with possible F intruder on platform.

Sunnybank NR: Redwing - 10 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Bullfinch - 2 - M&F ; Carrion Crow - 1 - Pecking a bone

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 65 ; Tufted Duck - 55 ; Pochard - 6 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Snipe - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Robin - 10 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - C150 ; Golden Plover - c15 ; Lapwing - c20

Wentworth: Redwing - 50 - Feeding in fields closer than usual.

Wentworth Dams: Grey Wagtail - 1

Wentworth Village: Moorhen - 2 - Feeding in farmyard, as a result of cold snap?

Whinfell Quarry Gardens: 319 - 1 - Flew through low & landed in tree ; Goldcrest - 1

Agden Res: Whooper Swan - 7 - at 09:15

Baslow SF: Mandarin - 3 - 2 drakes, 1 female ; Pied Wagtail - 32 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - 13

Birleyhay: 321 - 8

Catcliffe Flash: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Looked like the Orgreave bird

Coal Aston: Whooper Swan - 10 - Flying low NW at 09:15

Endcliffe Park: Pied Wagtail - 10 - flighty flock ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mandarin - 3 - males

Forge Dam: Redwing - 9 - Feeding in leaf litter on bank by playground

Gleadless Common: Meadow Pipit - 5+ ; Stonechat - 1 - feeding on Common stiil

Graves Park: Lapwing - 1 - over Chantreyland Meadow ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2

Greystones: Redwing - 21 - In trees opposite observer's house

High Hazels Park: Redwing - 28 - Feeding on short grass

Manor Fields Park: Water Rail - 1 - showing at the edge of the reedbed at dusk ; Moorhen - 4 ; Mallard - 2 - pair ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Millhouses garden: Redwing - 1

Morehall tip / R.Don: Redwing - 17 - feeding in marshy area. ; Robin - 2 ; Siskin - 11 - feeding in riverside alders. ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 ; Dipper - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Goldfinch - 22 - feeding on buddleia seeds. ; Blackbird - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c70 - around site. ; Mallard - 21 - on river. ; Grey Partridge - 4

Mount Darnall: Lapwing - 142 - Picked up east of Rotherham and watched to go over Manor Top.

Norwood Allotments: Merlin - 1 - through SE at 14:35. A patch tick

Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 2 - 2x1st winters in pre-roost ; Great Black-backed Gull - 51 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 27 ; Herring Gull - 646 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Goosander - 25 - Came into roost ; Black-headed Gull - C400

Owler Bar: Snipe - 4 - 4 circling field repeatedly

Owlthorpe: Peregrine - 1 - Stooped at some resident feral pigeons, missed, landed briefly on an electricity pylon and finally flew off towards Crystal Peaks.

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting in valley bottom at 07.20

Thorpe Hesley garden: Dunnock - 3 ; Robin - 2 ; Wren - 1

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 48 ; Greylag Goose - C60 ; Canada Goose - C40 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Pochard - 6 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Shoveler - 6 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Herring Gull - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Robin - 14 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Blackbird - 12 ; Fieldfare - 10 ; Goldeneye - 1 f

Totley, Moss Road: Blackcap - 1 - Male in tree at feeders ; Magpie - 1 - Nest building ; Long-tailed Tit - 21 - On feeders ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 - Feeding ; Willow Tit - 2 - At feeders