Sightings Archive

Agden: Dunnock - 2 ; Brambling - 3 - 2 males and female ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 2 - roosting in pine tree

Agden Res: Tufted Duck - 2 ; Mallard - c28 ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair

Blackburn Meadows NR: 320 - 1 ; Snipe - 12 ; Jack Snipe - 2

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Wigeon - 5 ; Gadwall - c50 ; 320 - 8 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Pochard - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Moorhen - 2+ ; Coot - 20 ; Black-headed Gull - 110+

Chapeltown Park: Woodcock - 2 - flushed ; Brambling - 20+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 40+ ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Redwing - 50+

Ecclesall: Redwing - 7 - on rowan tree, Ansell Rd. Been there most of the week until they have finished all the berries

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 7 ; Grey Heron - 3 - Together ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling, answered by another in Ravenfield Park. ; Little Owl - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - F on wires. ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10+ ; Brambling - 1 - Over called very loud twice. ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Skylark - 1 ; Redwing - 20+ ; Fieldfare - 40+

Limb Valley: Mandarin - 7 - Leucistic individual present.

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c40

Pilsley(Near Chatsworth): Brambling - 50+ - Feeding under beeches on Handley Lane

Poolsbrook CP: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Adult at 3pm

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 3 - on roof of Saville House

Ravenfield Park: Barn Owl - 1 - Sat on public footpath sign to Ravenfield Church on Arbour Lane @ 05:55 AM.

Rawmarsh; St Mary*s Church: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from church tower

Silverwood Lagoon: Snipe - 1 ; Pochard - 2 ; Fieldfare - c.30 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 10+

Canklow Woods: Green Woodpecker - 1

Common Lane Sheffield: Brambling - 3 - Up to 6 around for last week or so; today 3 (1m 2f) together with chaffinches on feeder with sunflower hearts

Ecclesfield: 327 - 20 - Flock of 20 feeding on silver birch 70m west on transpennine trail.

Greave*s Piece: Yellowhammer - 11 - Together at game bird feed station. ; Bullfinch - 15 - In one flock, at least 15 briefly in treetop with some other finches and buntings. ; Stock Dove - 7 - Together on pasture field.

Longshaw: Brambling - 150+ - flushed by sparrowhawk from under beech trees.

Ramsley Moor: Brambling - 200 ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Siskin - 30 ; Goldcrest - 5

Shoreham Street, Sheffield: Waxwing - 2 - High in trees at the Sheffield Childrens centre.

Smithy Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male over wood.

Stubley Hollow: Redwing - 21 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Greenfinch - 5

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 7 ; Grey Heron - 1 - a ; Mute Swan - 3 - ad. res pr back tgether ; Greylag Goose - 70 - inc 15 dep w +35-20 left ne ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 11 - 2f ; Tufted Duck - 51 ; 319 - 1 - down in fld ; Moorhen - 13 ; Lapwing - 200 ; Black-headed Gull - 220 ; Herring Gull - 7 - inc.2res ad 1a in then s 4in later ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - inc.1ad s 2ad in then s ; Little Owl - 1 - in h/row ; Tawny Owl - 1 - call in se pre dawn ; Coal Tit - 1 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Tree Sparrow - 4 - at feed stat ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Greenfinch - 7 ; Brambling - 1 - ad f at feed stat ; Bullfinch - 10 - 2-2-2-4 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - m