Sightings Archive

Woodhouse Washlands: Moorhen - 5+ ; Magpie - c10 ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Cormorant - 1 ; Goldfinch - c6 ; Robin - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Feral Pigeon - c20

Blackburn Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flying NE towards M1

Brownhills Lane: Pink-footed Goose - 2 - in roadside fields with 40 greylags

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - With BHG ; Mandarin - 7 - M&F on top pond ; Treecreeper - 1 - By cafe

Graves Park: 319 - 1 - over

Peat Pits: Skylark - 3 - all singing around site. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - on roadside verge.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldcrest - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3

Thrybergh CP: Stonechat - 1 - male in south paddock

Brincliffe Edge Wood: Sparrowhawk - 1 - One soaring over wood being mobbed by crow

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Coot - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 1+ - Water silty from run off from Morley where levels low and banks exposed - works being carried out. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - calling ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Robin - 1 - singing

Glen Howe Park: 319 - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Magpie - 2 ; Siskin - 4 - in birch trees by car park ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - with siskins ; Nuthatch - 3 - on feeders by old tennis court ; Great Tit - 5 ; Blue Tit - 5+ - on feeders ; Coal Tit - 12+ - on and around feeders ; Robin - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - feeding on fat block rubbed onto tree trunks

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Mallard - 22 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Red-legged Partridge - 14 ; Pheasant - 6+ ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ - in adj stubble fields ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Corvid - 30+ - majority Jackdaw

Norfolk Heritage Park: Redwing - 60+ - Gathered in treetops at 16:30, perhaps to roost. Much vocalising

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0740hrs

Sheffield University: Redwing - 3 - Feeding in St George's churchyard at 08:30

Silver Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

West Nab: Golden Plover - 300+ - In very muddy field opposite old farm ; Lapwing - 3 - in field next to plovers ; Rook - 30+ - in field at top of swan height

White Lee Crossroads: Black-headed Gull - 8 - in field with sheep and more rooks

Blackburn: Red Kite - 1 - Circling over M1 roundabout at 08:20

Brampton en le Morthern: Barn Owl - 1 - over M1 - near jn 32

Fairholmes: Brambling - 110 - Large flock under beeches S of car park

Norfolk Heritage Park: 319 - 2 - Down on the playing field. First time seen there

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Grey Wagtail - 1

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0740hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 1 - singing @ 0740hrs

Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 5 - SW @ 1056hrs

Wentworth: Lapwing - 2 - 1 pair displaying just east of village.

Ecclesfield Park: Black-headed Gull - 112

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 5 ; Mallard - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Mobbing Buzzard. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Redwing - 15+

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1pr

Kimberworth Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing, in trees behind Remount Road, in rain.

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 35 ; Moorhen - 13 ; Coot - 4 ; Mandarin - 3 - feeding on spilt grain below bird feeder ; Goosander - 6 - 3 males ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Goosander - 20 - On Big Lake later afternoon