Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Chiffchaff - 10+ - Influx this morning

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Common Buzzard - 4 - over together, interacting @ 0940hrs ; Raven - 1 - soaring over with Buzzards

Totley Bents: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Swallow - 23 - perched together on wires

Weston Park: Nuthatch - 1 - Single on trees near lake.

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Crystal Peaks: Sparrowhawk - 1 - low over Sainsbury's car park, mobbed by pigeons

Drakehouse; Eckington Way: Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - together

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - lower lake at 07:20

Middle Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 ; House Martin - 10+ - including juvs on wing ; Mistle Thrush - 1+ ; Robin - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Linnet - 20+

Orgreave Lakes: Pintail - 4 - Dropped in at 17:15 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Dunlin - 5 - Briefly

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 2 - feeding in recently seeded field. ; Little Owl - 1 - alarm calling from wall. ; Pink-footed Goose - c150 - heading east @ 15:00.

Rawmarsh; High Street: Grey Wagtail - 1 - on roof of Earl Grey PH; left S

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 12 ; Lesser Redpoll - 40 - c. flew SW in two flocks ; Crossbill - 2 - flew SW ; Chiffchaff - 4 - around res

Tankersley, Black Lane ponds: Mallard - 40 ; 320 - 12 ; Lapwing - 7 - c7 ; Snipe - 2 ; 322 - 1 - Ringed Teal still present

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 23 ; Canada Goose - 450+ ; Greylag Goose - 48 ; Pink-footed Goose - 364 - 364 Total upto 11:50 ; Egyptian Goose - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Swallow - 20 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Lapwing - 30+ ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Collared Dove - 15 ; Reed Bunting - 3

Wortley: Goldfinch - c40

Barlow Common: 319 - 1 ; House Martin - 20+

City Centre, Pounds Park: Wheatear - 1 - Flew over construction site and landed briefly on park

Crookes: Swallow - 7 - Over top Bole Hills flying South

Ewden Height: Meadow Pipit - 470 - c470 south, 07:00-09:00 ; Pied Wagtail - 77 - South ; Chaffinch - 168 - South ; Siskin - 97 - South ; Lesser Redpoll - 40 - South ; Goldfinch - 104 - South ; Woodpigeon - 15 - S/SW ; Swallow - 3 - South ; Linnet - 4 - South ; House Martin - 472 - c472 south, majority 08:00-08:30 including groups of c200 and c100. ; Greenfinch - 10 - South ; Stock Dove - 2 - SW ; Crossbill - 21 - south in groups of 10 and 11. ; Kestrel - 2 ; Raven - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Skylark - 8 - South ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - South ; Yellowhammer - 6 - 4+2 south ; Starling - 11 - S/SW ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 4+2 south ; Jackdaw - 10 - South

Millhouses: Hirundine - 5+ - Small group of unidentified hirundines over Archer Rd at 13:30

Nether Green garden: Jay - 1 - caching nuts/acorns in the cracks of neighbours dry stone wall

Orgreave Lakes: Mediterranean Gull - 1 - First winter ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - 1st winter ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - second picture ; Pintail - 6 - On small lake early morning. ; Shelduck - 2 ; Goosander - 18 - All juvs ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - Behind 'iron curtain' on north shore.

Rotherham Centre: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over Greasbrough Road, N towards Rotherham Cut ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - Central Road, by railway station

Triangle Pond Treeton: Cetti's Warbler - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - lower lake at 17:00

Kimberworth Park: Swallow - 13 - north up Remout Road at 10:05 ; Starling - 30+ - on telegraph wires and rooftops on Ashworth Drive/Remount Way

Langsett Res: Pied Wagtail - c15

Low Common, Scholes: Pied Wagtail - 1+ - around partially ploughed areas ; Magpie - 7 - feeding in ploughed area adj Rockingham Wood, with 3 Carrion Crows ; Red-legged Partridge - 15+