Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Blue Tit - 3 ; Tawny Owl - 1

Grange Golf Course: Peregrine - 1 - Over towards Wincobank at 14.15

Guilthwaite Common: Common Buzzard - 1 - feeding on ground ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c45 - over to S/SE ; Herring Gull - c35 - over to S/SE

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 2 - m & f fighting near feeders

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 75-80 - inc 11 2cy ; Mallard - 20-25

Ramsley Moor: 319 - 2

Rivelin Valley: Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Goosander - 3 - 2m & 1f ; Dipper - 1+ ; 319 - 3 - Circling together ; Jay - 1

Rother Valley Country Park: Smew - 1 - 'Red-head' smew still present on small lake between fishing lake and Meadowgate Lake.

Rotherham; Northfield: Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - loafing on rooftop ; Herring Gull - 12 - with GBs

Royds Moor Hill/Morthen Lane: Kestrel - 1 - sat in roadside tree @ 0755hrs

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 03-Apr ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 01-Feb ; Pheasant - 6 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldfinch - 11+ ; Coal Tit - 3+

Silverwood Lagoon: Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing Hollings Lane sidings, 1 singing southern end of pit top ; Pochard - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - sat in a birch looking bedraggled and thoroughly miserable ; Little Grebe - 1 - 'trilling' ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Thrybergh CP: Common Buzzard - 1 - lengthy foraging on bare ground in nearby field

Ulley CP: Kestrel - 1 - male ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Kingfisher - 01-Feb - very mobile & vocal ; Cormorant - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 50-60 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 - inc 2 in breeding plumage ; Coot - 16 ; Moorhen - 15 ; Gadwall - 4 - 3m; 1f ; Mute Swan - 4 - adults ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Mallard - 62 ; Herring Gull - 1 - adult ; Tufted Duck - 1

Ulley CP; Morthen arm: Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 3 ; Mallard - 14 ; Coal Tit - 2 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Willow Tit - 1 - calling

Wyming Brook: Raven - 1

Bingham Park: Goosander - 1 - Drake fishing on lower pond

Damflask Res: Carrion Crow - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Jackdaw - c30 - flock ; Blackbird - 2+ ; Mallard - c50 - mostly in pairs ; Long-tailed Tit - c20 - two wandering flocks ; Moorhen - 7+ - two of them vigorously fighting ; Robin - 1 ; Canada Goose - c6 - on water ; Great Tit - 2 - 1 singing ; Black-headed Gull - c200 ; Cormorant - 1 - fishing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c12 - adults and juveniles on water ; Coot - 2 ; Mandarin - c30 - roughly equal numbers of males and females ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Kestrel - 2+ - some sort of squabble between two, poss three kestrels by res overflow

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 3 ; Mallard - 11 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair. ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult ; Herring Gull - 14 - 2 flocks of 5+9 over S. ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Redwing - 10+ ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Jay - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Jackdaw - 35+ - 3 flocks over inc one of 25. ; Magpie - 8+ ; Bullfinch - 8+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male. ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 1