Sightings Archive

High Storrs garden: Brambling - 4+ - Stayed around 15 mins before flying off. Mix of m/f & juv ; Goldfinch - 10+ - Feeding, back and forth

Orgreave: Goldeneye - 8 - 4 Drakes ; Pochard - 52 - On Small Lake ; Pochard - 22 - On Big Lake ; Grey Partridge - 14 - On tip ; Skylark - 7 - By Wheel Wash ; Wigeon - 20

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 8 - 4 drakes ; Grey Partridge - 14 - On tip.

Oughtibridge garden: Siskin - 3 ; Brambling - 1

Pit-house West: Water Rail - 2 - 2 calling at 'bittern pool's. ; Kingfisher - 1 - At bittern pool

Ravenfield: Kestrel - 1 ; Woodcock - 1

Ravenfield Park: Tufted Duck - 1 - Male. ; 319 - 2 - Circling over farmland at Doncaster road end. ; Grey Heron - 3 - Perched in same tree. ; Siskin - 20+ - Feeding in tree tops with Lesser Redpoll. ; Lesser Redpoll - 15+ - With Siskin. ; Long-tailed Tit - 30+

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - Oct-15 - noisy flock in treetop

Rother Valley CP: Smew - 1 - Redhead still on Screen Pond this afternoon ; Little Egret - 1 - Meadowgate Lake

Sharrow: Waxwing - 25 - c25 on Cemetery Ave at 11:15

Sheffield Centre: Redwing - 26 - near St. George's Church

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 10 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 13 ; Pink-footed Goose - 2 - among g /lag ; Greylag Goose - 160+ ; Canada Goose - 70 - inc 2fera1l buff/white 1ygrey/black ; Gadwall - 8 - 4pr ; Pochard - 3 - m ; Tufted Duck - 36 ; Goldeneye - 1 - m ; 319 - 2 - down in fld ; Kestrel - 1 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Lapwing - 80 ; Black-headed Gull - 120+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ne ; Herring Gull - 3 - inc.1n1w ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - flock ; Starling - 40+ ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Goldfinch - 25+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 5 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Brambling - 14

Whiston: Raven - 1 - Flew north along Bawtry Road

Broomfield: Bullfinch - 1 - singing Clarkegrove Road

Crookesmoor: Bullfinch - 1 - singing Spring Hill ; Jay - 1 - Crookesmoor Road/Conduit Road

Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Blackbird - 5 - 4m, 1f

Pit-house West: Water Rail - 3 - Calling around Bittern Pool at dusk

R Don, Attercliffe: Grey Heron - 1 ; Goosander - 2 - Pair ; Goosander - 2 - Another image - redhead ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Foraging on Norfolk Bridge Weir

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 3 - On top of Savile House ; Kingfisher - 1 - Flying upstream near Norfolk Bridge ; Common Gull - 1 - ad

Sharrow: Redwing - 40 - Cemetery Avenue ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Cemetery Avenue ; Waxwing - 21 - Cemetery Avenue ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Cemetery Avenue ; Waxwing - 23-24 - Cemetery Avenue at 14.30 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Cemetery Avenue ; Song Thrush - 1

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 3 - visiting garden feeders.

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Brambling - 12+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing. Entire length of eastern edge of wood has been 'massacred' by local farmer. ; 319 - 1 ; Linnet - 4 - fields to north

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Fieldfare - 20 ; Greylag Goose - 11 - south ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 10

Stony Ridge: Stonechat - 2 - a pair

Thrybergh CP: Brambling - 13 - 9m, 4f at 09:00

Barlow Common: Lapwing - c. 45

Broomgrove Road: Waxwing - Dec-15 - Fifty yards up from Ecclesall Road in first bare tree. Flew off towards Botanical Gardens

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 15

Cemetery Avenue: Waxwing - 17

Firsby Res: Barn Owl - 1