Sightings Archive

Middle Common, Scholes: 319 - 3 - 1 from telegraph pole, into Rockingham Wood then joined over wood by 2 more at 15 :37 ; Meadow Pipit - 5+

Middleton Moor: Spotted Redshank - 1 - Winter plumage bird, flew off SW at 15.35 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Shoveler - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1

Midhope Res: Pied Wagtail - c40 ; Lesser Redpoll - c70 - Single group in conifers along southern edge ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - c200 - 16:45 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c15 ; Swallow - c15 - South ; Little Grebe - 2

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 - in field adj hawthorn hedge at W end ; Mallard - 15+ ; House Martin - c20

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 2 - colour ringed adult 5Y95 (yellow) accompanying 1cy

Scholes Ground: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - low over field as tractor ploughing E side of field ; Black-headed Gull - 1+ ; Lapwing - 7 ; Carrion Crow - 20+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 15+ ; Pheasant - 5+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ - moving through trees, E edge

Upper Common, Scholes: Woodpigeon - 60+ ; Linnet - 50+ - moving between stubble and cover crop

Wentworth Park: 319 - 3 - together W of Wentworth Woodhouse at 14:50

Barbrook Valley: Swift - 2 - flying low and strongly south 09:05

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Cressbrook Dale: Raven - 2 - Mobbing a Kestrel

Ewden Height: Swallow - 77 - South 7.20 - 8.55 ; Goldfinch - 94 - South - moving throughout 07:20-08:55 in a range of numbers with one large group of c50 including Linnets. ; Lesser Redpoll - 13 - South ; Linnet - 31 - South ; Meadow Pipit - 159 - S/SE ; Cormorant - 7 - West ; Siskin - 20 - S/SE ; Stonechat - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 9 - S/SE ; Skylark - 3+ - S/SE ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; House Martin - c80 - S/SE in 3 groups ; Kestrel - 01-Feb ; Crossbill - 15 - S/SE in 2 groups of 6 and 9 ; Raven - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - South ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - SE

Middle Comon, Scholes: Skylark - 1+ - song and calls ; Swallow - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ - calls ; Linnet - 20+ - up from cover crop

Miller*s Dale: 321 - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Kestrel - 4 ; Wheatear - 1 - Feeding behind building site perimeter fence.

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Canada Goose - 2 - inc long-stayer with damaged wing ; Greylag Goose - 1

Rotherham Centre: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, Rotherham Lock @ 0745hrs

Rotherham; Rawmarsh Road: Mute Swan - 2 - adults, very low having just left canal basin, S/SW @ 1615hrs

Tankersley: 320 - 14 ; Lapwing - 6 ; 322 - 1 - Female Ringed Teal

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 18 ; Canada Goose - c250 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Pochard - 10 ; Shoveler - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Lapwing - 26 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swallow - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 5 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Goldfinch - 60+ ; Greenfinch - 6

Tideswell Dale: Nuthatch - 1 - Feeding on the path near the car park, presumably on the beech mast.

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing ; Carrion Crow - 3+ ; Magpie - 1+ ; Woodpigeon - 1+

Wardlow Hay Cop: Kestrel - 1

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Mute Swan - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 - female. The area of open water has dwindled considerably over the last few years.

Wharncliffe Side: Woodpigeon - 2 - recently fledged juvenile from nest in observers garden, adult close by

Wortley: Goldfinch - c50 ; House Martin - c80 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Stock Dove - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1