Sightings Archive

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Ringed Plover - 1

Porter Clough: Brambling - 6 - Feeding in car park at the head of Porter Clough 13:00

R Don, Aldwarke: Mallard - 10 - 6m; 4f ; Moorhen - 2 ; Goosander - 1pr ; Song Thrush - 1

R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Mute Swan - 1 - adult + 1 dead in water ; Coot - 2 ; Cormorant - 3 - 1 ad, 2 imm, on fallen tree in river ; Mallard - 3 - 2m; 1f

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - c10 - foraging in leaf litter on edge of Frank Wheel Dam.

Scholes Coppice: Brambling - Dec-15 - feeding and getting into holly bushes next to the main track in the SW corner

Sheffield airport: Herring Gull - 81 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 21 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6

Shillito Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3+ ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Coal Tit - 4+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - particularly bright individual ; Brambling - 2 ; Chaffinch - 10+ - including regular abnormally plumaged male ; Yellowhammer - 4+ ; Reed Bunting - 3+ ; Blackbird - 3 - 3 males ; Goldfinch - 3+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Mute Swan - 12 ; Greylag Goose - 60+ - most hidden behind hedges ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 11 - 2f ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; 319 - 2 - 1 to n 1 to sw ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - buzzed feed stat ; Redwing - 2 ; Fieldfare - 25+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 11+ - 7,2+, 2+ ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; Bullfinch - 9 - 4-2-2-1 ; Brambling - 2+ - sprawk flushed all birds

Thrybergh Tip: Bullfinch - 8 - inc an optimistic singing male! ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Siskin - 6 - 2 over; 4 feeding in Alders ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Stock Dove - 1 - on Thrybergh Bridge ; Herring Gull - 3 - SW ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Goldfinch - 17 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Canada Goose - 33 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 16 - 8m; 8f ; Shoveler - 17 - 10m; 7 f, feeding ; Coot - 5 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Gadwall - 4 - 1pr + 2m ; 320 - c50 ; Goosander - 3 - 1pr & 1m, all SW ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks

Treetom Meadows: Canada Goose - 132 ; Greylag Goose - 29 ; 320 - 12 ; Wigeon - 33

Treetom SF: Pied Wagtail - 33 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Peregrine - 1 - Using updraft and high wind along Wharncliffe Crags to slide N. Probable female

Windy Corner: Raven - 3 ; Crossbill - 1 - male atop nearby tree briefly ; 319 - 3 ; Siskin - 3 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 5 - (Extremely Still Corner this morning)

Wyming Brook: Crossbill - c15 - One mobile flock ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 - At least 8 in mixed finch flock with Goldfinches and Siskins ; Siskin - 15+ ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - m around feeders ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Coal Tit - 10

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - ad fem on Bernard Rd incinerator building

Bolehill Flash: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Calling from reedbed ; Tree Sparrow - 2 - By Flatts Farm

Calver: Goldcrest - 1 - Riverside just below New Bridge ; Wren - 1 - Riverside just below New Bridge

Chelsea Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; Moorhen - 3 ; 320 - 2