Sightings Archive

Rockingham Wood: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ - inc 1 displaying ; Goldfinch - 1+

Rotherham Centre: Jackdaw - c70 - flock over from W/NW @ 1545hrs, wheeling around together briefly before dispersing

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Raven - 1 - W @ 1545hrs

Silver Wood: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing near r/way line pond ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing near r/way line pond ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing on Pingle Lane Tip ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Moorhen - 2 - on Woodlaithes duckpond ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 1pr ; Little Grebe - 6 - lots of trilling ; Coot - c.15 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 - north ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Skylark - 3 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 10+ - including 6 singing ; Jackdaw - 2 - SE ; Common Buzzard - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Redwing - 2

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1+ - singing

Upper Ox Close Wood: Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Walkley garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male feeding from suet feeder

Wentworth Park: 319 - 2 - Above Peacock Lodge Farm, one chased by Carrion Crow

Wortley: Cormorant - 8 - NW at 07:40

Agden Res: Oystercatcher - 1 - stood on dam wall at 13:30

Agden Side: Tawny Owl - 1

Barlow Common: Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Redwing - c. 16 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Beighton Marsh NR: Kingfisher - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; 321 - 1 ; Mallard - 2 ; Goldfinch - 6+ - #NAME?

Big Moor: Stonechat - 3

Cowell Flat: Snipe - 5 - feeding in fields

Crabtree Pond: Nuthatch - 2 ; Wren - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 - checking nest boxes. ; Mallard - 3 - 2 males & 1 female ; Moorhen - 1

Endcliffe Park: 319 - 2 - Circling over cafe ; Black-headed Gull - 55+ ; Mandarin - 4 - M&F, Top pond

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; 319 - 2 - Displaying together ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 2 - Mobbing a Squirrel ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1

Ibbotson*s Dam: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; 324 - 1 - Bat flying over the dam, dipping down to drink 12.15.

Kimberworth Park: Goose sp - 60+ - W over Shepherd's Plantation @09:45

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Snipe - 2+ - chipping and drumming after dark

Midhope Res: Woodcock - 1 - roding late dusk ; Tawny Owl - 3 - 2 males and a female calling.

Millhouses garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - fem

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 6 - 2 drakes ; Wigeon - 6 ; 320 - 4 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - A very vocal individual with single Greylag ; Redshank - 1 - First returning bird ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 9 - On north facing slope of tip ; Stonechat - 1 - On tip ; Linnet - 65 - Below wheel wash

Pitsmoor: Peregrine - 1 - ad in hunting flight W over Petre Street

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Goosander - 1pr ; Mallard - 5 - drakes

Redmires Bottom Res: Curlew - 20+ - Flying low east to west

Rivelin Filters: 320 - 1 - male ; Cormorant - 1 - adult with entirely white head and neck ; Canada Goose - 20

Rivelin Valley: Long-tailed Tit - 6 - On garden feeders. All ringed

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female, SW @ 1443hrs

Sheephill Road: Redwing - 50 - In fields with starling

Shepherd Wheel: Goldcrest - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting at 06.35

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - single bird singing near Steel Valley Walk ; Willow Tit - 2 - two birds together near Steel Valley Walk, one of them singing

Thrybergh CP: Stonechat - 1 - Male in paddock in front of small hide.