Sightings Archive

Crowhole: Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - c. 20 ; Redwing - 01-Feb ; Pheasant - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - rare here ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3

Curbar Gap: Fieldfare - 3

Meersbrook Park: Grey Wagtail - 1

Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 3 - Adults

Rawmarsh: Woodcock - 1 - over back garden at dusk

Redmires Middle Res: Mallard - 80+ - equal numbers of male and females ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2 males and 1 female

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 14 ; Canada Goose - 89 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2m, 2f ; Pochard - 7 - 1f ; Tufted Duck - 51 ; Pheasant - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 240+ ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 9 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Redwing - 45 ; Fieldfare - 60+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Bullfinch - 5

Padley: Redwing - 60+ - Mixed flock

Poolsbrook: CASPIAN GULL - 6 - reported - (2ads 3cy 2cy 2x1cy) SE of Staveley at Poolsbrook this pm on country park lake and waste ground by Seymour Link Road at SK452734

R Derwent, Grindleford: Mandarin - 9 - 5m,4f

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 6 - all males ; Fieldfare - 80 ; Goldfinch - 40 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Jay - 10+ ; Skylark - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - c. 30 - three flocks ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; 320 - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Wigeon - 1 ; Gadwall - 50+ ; Shoveler - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Coot - 33+

Forge Dam: Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; 320 - 1 - Female

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from low in tree near old quarry at 17:25.

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew downstream, later seen on Ibbotson dam. ; Jay - 1

Whiteley Woods: Treecreeper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Jay - 1

Bingham Park: Kingfisher - 1 - f on first pond

Callow Bank: Barn Owl - 2

Millhouses garden: Redwing - 1 - first of the season and several weeks later than usual

Redmires Res: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over south side of Middle Res. It or another later seen over Soughley Lane ; Mallard - 49 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male on Middle Res

Sheffield Centre: Peregrine - 1 - carrying prey over Town Hall at 13:30

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1

Skye Edge Fields: Woodcock - 1 - Flew from scrub.

Sothall: Raven - 1+ - at least one over calling at 7.10am.

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 2 ; Redwing - 15 ; Fieldfare - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - 54 ; Blackbird - 28

Sugworth Road, near Moor Lodge.: Brambling - c100 - flushed from road, feeding below beech trees.

Thrybergh CP: Song Thrush - 2 - 1 in Willows Thrybergh Lane singing quietly, 1 in sheep paddock feeding. ; Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Redwing - 10 ; Fieldfare - 7 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lapwing - 100c - Along Dam wall, roosting. ; Blue Tit - 12 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+