Sightings Archive

Chatsworth Park: Chaffinch - 30+ ; Coot - 27 ; Cormorant - 2 - Hopefully moving on

Ecclesall: Tawny Owl - 1 - Heard calling on Marsh House Rd at 18:00

Kimberworth Park: Goose sp - 100+ - N @ 11:45, breaking up into 3 skeins.

Longshaw: Treecreeper - 3

Meadowhall Station: FIRECREST - 1 - In conifers by platform 3&4 this morning.

Millhouses Lane garden: Brambling - 1 - male, a little reluctant to visit the feeders ; Blackcap - 1 - female visiting sunflower hearts feeders - yesterday’s male not seen today

Norbrigg*s Flash: Shoveler - 7 ; Willow Tit - 1 - calling ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Bullfinch - 5

Thrybergh: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from top of telephone pole @19:30 back of Park Terrace.

Aldwarke: Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2

Aldwarke SF: Kestrel - 2 ; Goldfinch - 5 - on teasel heads ; Magpie - 37+ - in loose flock ; Song Thrush - 2 - one singing ; Coot - 1 - lagoons frozen

Attercliffe: Kestrel - 2

Burbage Valley: 319 - 1

Centenary Riverside: Cormorant - 02-Mar - 2 NE; 1 W ; Song Thrush - 03-Apr - singing in general area ; Mallard - 14 - on river ; Moorhen - 1 - river ; 320 - 3 - 2m; 1f, on river ; Redwing - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult; left upriver ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - Came in to land but didn’t due to frozen Res. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Sluice. ; 319 - 1 - Perched in tree. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Mobbed by Jays. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling in woodland. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 2 - Mobbing Tawny Owl. ; Starling - 20+ - Two flocks 1 in sheep paddock, 1 on farmland, both feeding with Redwings. ; Redwing - 30+ - Feeding with Starlings. ; Fieldfare - 5 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male. ; Red-legged Partridge - 6 - In sheep paddock. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male. ; Fieldfare - c500 - Feeding on fields to East of site ; Grey Heron - 3 - Roosting in set aside field ; Kestrel - 1 ; Barn Owl - 1 - at dusk ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Longshaw: Goldcrest - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Mandarin - 6 - M&F ; Coal Tit - 1+ - On feeders by Discovery Centre ; Brambling - 6+ - Near the Discovery Centre

Midhope Res: Red Grouse - 6 ; Greylag Goose - 50/60

Millhouses: Blackcap - 1 - Male in Stowe Avenue garden also male Sparrowhawk

Millhouses Lane garden: Blackcap - 1 - male on sunflower hearts feeder

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 103 - inc 15 2cy ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Herring Gull - 40-50 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Mallard - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 25-30

Parkgate; Forge Way: Long-tailed Tit - 11

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c280 ; Fieldfare - c70

R Don, Rotherham; Centenary Riverside to Main St: Long-tailed Tit - 10-Dec - Don Island ; Mallard - 5 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 - inc one singing, Don Island ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2 - Rother mouth ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Rother mouth ; Cormorant - 3 - in trees, Don Island; inc breeding adult

R Don, Rotherham; Grafton Bridge: Goosander - 2 - flew downriver @ 0745hrs ; Mallard - 30 ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult

Ravenfield Church: Chaffinch - 10+ - In churchyard trees. ; Treecreeper - 1 - In woodland.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 7

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - c50

Rockingham Wood: Woodpigeon - 40+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - mobile flock ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Rotherham; Northfield: Herring Gull - 70-80 - on rooftops & visiting recycling centre ; Great Black-backed Gull - 20-30

Scholes Ground: Grey Heron - 1 ; Lapwing - 60+ - in ploughed field

Scholes Village: 319 - 1 - Resting in tree top before flying N.

Shepherd*s Plantation: Nuthatch - 2 - singing

Ulley Res, NE arm: Coot - 4 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Mallard - 3 ; Willow Tit - 1 - Coming to seed.

Wentworth Park: Stock Dove - 1 - singing from woodland near Peacock Lodge farm. ; Woodpigeon - 200+ - feeding in field between Peacock Lodge and Doric Temple.