Sightings Archive

Rother Valley CP: Smew - 1 - photo ; Smew - 1 - photo ; Smew - 1 - photo

Sharrow: Waxwing - 20 - reported from Cemetery Avenue, off Ecclesall Rd. early afternoon

Shillito Wood: Blackbird - 1 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Brambling - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Coal Tit - 8 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Great Tit - 10 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Weston Park: Wigeon - 1 - female evidently present for another (4th?) winter ; Redwing - 19 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; House Sparrow - c.8 ; Common Gull - 1 - adult circling over lake

Crookes Valley Park: Mute Swan - 2 - first winters with red darvic leg rings (867Y and 873Y): only second record here in 25 years ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - probable adult on lake this morning with BHGs and 2 Herring Gulls.

Elsecar Res: Goosander - 4 - 2 pairs

Kimberworth: Bullfinch - 1 - Male on seed feeder. Last seen with successfully fledged young at the end of the summer.

RVCP, Fishing Lake: Smew - 1 - redhead still present between 09:00 and 10:00

Silverwood (pit wood): Brambling - 20+ ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c100 - In flocks ; Great Tit - 8 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Chaffinch - 6 - With Brambling. ; Jackdaw - 30 - In flock over wood ; 319 - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Green Sandpiper - 1 - calling bird went up for pool at southern end of lagoon at 07.35

Stannington: Waxwing - 25 - On Stannington Rd , flying intermittently to berries next to bus stop @ 10:00 . Then flew off SW ; Waxwing - 22 - On Stannington Road, above Roscoe Mount @ 10:50

Arbourthorne: Moorhen - 7 ; Mallard - 8 - 4 pair on pond 08:50 ; Black-headed Gull - 75+ - 25 on pond 50+ on adj playing fields 9am ; Starling - 28 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Banner Cross Hall: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - at 11.35

City Rd Cemetery: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 100+ - moblie flock in trees and feeding in leaf litter 09 :30- 10:00.

Common Lane: Brambling - 6 - Still 6 brambling visiting the garden each day (for last two weeks)

Ewden Valley: Willow Tit - 1 - in dense growth of young trees along north side of Yewtrees Lane.

Fox Hole Carr: Brambling - 100+ - seen from gate and mobile. ; Raven - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 1

Hangingwater Road: Brambling - 2 - Feeding on allotments

High Stubbin: Pheasant - 2 - completely (off-)white, leucistic/albinistic bird (too distant to be sure). Presumably f as m in attendance.

Hillsborough: Blackcap - 1 - male bathing in garden birdbath

Holmesfield: Kestrel - 1

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 16:55 in Sycamore tree.

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - 4100+ - roosted ; Common Gull - c100 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 12 ; Herring Gull - 5 - briefly

Lodge Moor: Brambling - 2 - 2 males regular daily visitors at sunflower hearts feeder

Longley Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 6 - Daily visitors from 2017. Up to 10 seen in garden on feeders.

Loxley: Brambling - 6+ - 6+ in edge of road between the two garden centres. Also one at Damflask.

Middleton Moor: 320 - 13 ; Goosander - 1 - a male ; Lapwing - 3 ; 320 - 8 ; Red-legged Partridge - 12 ; Fieldfare - 3

Nether Haugh: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Brambling - 1+ - calling (heard only) ; Red-legged Partridge - 9 - covey ; Redwing - 7 - left W ; Fieldfare - 5 - left W ; Black-headed Gull - 17 ; Greenfinch - 1 - W ; Herring Gull - 2

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 4

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 200+ - roosting in field off Bolsterstone Road

Pit-house West: BITTERN - 1 - Flew across Bittern Pool 1630hr ; Water Rail - 3+

R Don, Newhall Rd: Kingfisher - 1 - More than likely one of last years juveniles. ; Kingfisher - 1 - Single female on river bank ; Goosander - 1 - Single female heading upstream. Record shot i/c kingfisher.

R Don, Oughtibridge: Goosander - 4 - 2 M + 2 F by Oughtibridge War Memorial Sports Club.

R Don,Sanderson Weir: Grey Heron - 1 - Flew in and settled at weir top.

Redmires: 324 - 1 - Water Vole droppings and slow-moving but active Common Frog, both in ditch.

Redmires Bottom Res: Cormorant - 1 - Flying in over Soughley Lane to bottom res early afternoon

Redmires conduit: Kestrel - 1 - very confiding, landing and staying in a small tree ; Red Grouse - 4 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Water Vole, showing well briefly ; Golden Plover - 2 - Two birds flying fast and low

Redmires Res: Lapwing - c60 - on muddy shore ; Mallard - c30