Sightings Archive

Rotherham Centre: Peregrine - 1 - over @ 1605hrs; left S/SW in a long, shallow glide

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

High Bradfield: Meadow Pipit - 18 - Party forced down in blizzard

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - c17 - Feeding in grass at top of Park ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1

R Don - Morehall Tip: Goosander - 2 - pair

Rotherham Centre: Cormorant - 3+ - 3 SW @ 1136hrs + usual 'commuters'

RVCP: Little Egret - 1 - Meadowgate Lake ; Oystercatcher - 2 - a pair on the Main Lake

Thrybergh CP: Nuthatch - 1 - at feeding station. ; Tree Sparrow - 1 - at Peanut feeder. ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Dunnock - 8 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Blackbird - 12 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Starling - c300 - On stubble field ; Fieldfare - 30+ - With Starlings ; Lapwing - c150

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - c50 - with c200 starlings and 2 redwing

High Green: Sparrowhawk - 1 - 7.40 Male nearly hit my car as it hunted low across the road to Wortley in poor weather.

Longshaw Lodge: Brambling - 1 - By cafe. Female

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - flying across the Park & then drumming

Porter Clough: Willow Tit - 2 ; Crossbill - 6 ; Siskin - 40+

Poynton Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2

Redmires Top Res: Mistle Thrush - 2 - feeding roadside

Rivelin Valley: Tawny Owl - 2 - Regularly calling at 6pm on Tofts Lane. Possibly a third bird

Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 2 - NE @ 0923hrs

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 4 ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 3

Baslow SF: Mandarin - 4 - First here for some time ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 24

Chatsworth Park: Meadow Pipit - 9 ; Redwing - 90 - Parties of 50,20+20 in leaf litter amongst Fallow Deer

Wincobank: 319 - 5 - 4 circling + another nearby near j34 M1

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female over village mobbed by BH Gull. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing at 6:00AM.

Carter Hall Wood: Blue Tit - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 150+ ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blackbird - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 - First I've heard singing this year.

Charnock Hall: House Sparrow - c40 - in thick hedgerow and neighbouring gardens alongside public footpath ; Blue Tit - 6+ - very vocal ; Woodpigeon - 2+ ; Starling - 3+ ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Magpie - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Cinder Bridge Field: Common Buzzard - 1 - over, drifted W/NW ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - SW ; Linnet - c50 - feeding in field ; Chaffinch - c20 ; Yellowhammer - 1+ ; Skylark - 1 - singing

Cinder Bridge Plantation: Common Buzzard - 1 - over, drifted W ; Woodpigeon - c100 ; Kestrel - 1 - female on adjacent wires

Derwent Valley: Crossbill - 8+ - 2+ singing birds and 1 pair copulating ; Siskin - 20+. - 5+singing males

Dore: 319 - 6 - 6 birds circling together, Blackamoor Rd

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Herring Gull - 60+ - Movement over inc flock of 25 with some landing on farmland. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting at dawn. ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Calling to each other before dawn. ; 319 - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 3