Sightings Archive

Ulley: Skylark - 10 - All airborne for short period Little Common Lane 12.50

Worrall: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over Mowson lane.

Frecheville: Goosander - 3 - Frecheville pond

Hillsborough: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female circling high above Wadsley Lane.

Hudson,s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - song and calls ; Jay - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2 male and female feeding closely.

Jordan, Rotherham: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair near Jordan lock weir at 09:30 ; Goosander - 4 - 2 Male, 2 female. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Robin - 1 - Singing

Longshaw, Discovery Centre: Brambling - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Pit-house West: BITTERN - 1 - sound recorded 'sub-booming' twice during the evening ; Water Rail - 1 - sound recorded

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 2 ; Goosander - 3 - 2 male 1 female

Rotherham Centre: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over mobbed by FPs @ 1343hrs ; Peregrine - 1 - unsuccessfully stooping at FPs, 1344-1348hrs, before drifting away high to E ; Peregrine - 1 - ... back again @ 1358hrs; took a FP in mid-air. Circled, struggling with prey in windy conditions; mobbed briefly by SH before leaving W/NW @ 1405hrs

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Corvid - c50 - majority Jackdaw 17+, Rook 12+ and Carrion Crow

Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 8 - SW @ 0806hrs ; Cormorant - 1 - on pylon

Bramley: Goldcrest - 1 - Feeding on Christmas tree next to observers front door.

Broomhead Res: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Drumming by bird feeder clearing

Edge Mount: Fieldfare - c400 - feeding in fields opposite farm.

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 9 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 2

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 - Male at feeders - first of the year here ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female dashed through garden ; Bullfinch - 5 - 2m, 3f at feeders ; Coal Tit - 2 - Pair investigating nestbox

Graves Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - heard ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Heard

Hallam Moors: Golden Plover - 2 - On Brown Edge

Loxley Valley: Siskin - 100+ - around trees on Hepworth Refractory site.

Middle Moss/Trout Sike Ridge: Meadow Pipit - 2

Millhouses garden: Nuthatch - 1 - first for quite a while

Moscar Flat: Raven - 2 - Feeding on sheep carcass

Oaking Clough plantation: Fieldfare - c20 - flew up from plantation an landed on moor

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 - 3cy, SW; an increasingly scarce bird locally ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 343 - in cereal fields. ; Lapwing - 5 - with G.P's. ; Linnet - 13 - feeding on seeds at roadside.

R Derwent, Calver: Mandarin - 18 - Single party between Calver Mill and Calver ; Dipper - 1

Redmires conduit: Carrion Crow - 3 ; Golden Plover - 2 - flying low and calling towards Brown Edge. ; Wren - 1 ; Mallard - 4 - 2 pairs on the pool at the end of the conduit ; Red Grouse - at least 2

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 4 - 1 carrying nesting material to probable nest site. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Flew up the valley ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - By the cafe ; 319 - 1 - Circling & calling

Roundwood Golf course: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - left S ; Canada Goose - 2 - SW ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2 - W ; Herring Gull - 16 - all SW/S

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 6 - 3 male 3 female ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6+ ; Greenfinch - 1

Stanage Edge: Golden Plover - c35 - flock flying over ; Red Grouse - at least 10

Thrybergh CP: Stonechat - 1m - in pond field ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 4 - feeding station ; Tree Sparrow - 3 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 8 - feeding station

Wyming Brook: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Heard from top car park, yaffling

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Hunting through Ibis hotel car park.