Sightings Archive

Barlow Common: Jay - 1 ; Redwing - 15+ ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Pheasant - 6 - 2 m, 4 f ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 6+ ; 319 - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Brown Hare ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Wigeon - 72 ; Gadwall - 85 ; 320 - 7 ; Shoveler - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 6+ ; Coot - 60+

Fulwood: Blackbird - 1 - calling over Crimicar Drive after dark

Greasbrough: 319 - 1 - W between Tip and Bassingthorpe Lane @10:35.

Holmebrook Valley Park: 320 - 1 - Male on lake ; Common Gull - 1 - On lake then left at 12:20. 1st this winter ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 116 ; Mallard - 52 ; Moorhen - 11 ; Coot - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female ; Great Crested Grebe - 2

Midhope Res: Goldeneye - 1 - rh ; 320 - 28 ; Mallard - 77 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 8

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - heard distantly at 09.45, seemed to be heading SE

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 1 - ; Buzzard -2 ; Redwing- 23 ; Yellowhammer - 8

Walkley garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling from Lime tree ; Jay - 2 - Pair flying W, briefly in Ash tree.

Agden Rocher: Waxwing - 1 - one reported today. - no details

Bingham Park: 319 - 1 ; Jay - 1

Ecclesall: Skylark - 1 - Flew S calling over Ansell Road whilst still dark at 06:15 hrs

Forge Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Male perched at the top of the waterfall ; Grey Heron - 1

Kimberworth: Greenfinch - 1 - 1 juvenile on the sunflower hearts feeder with a flock of goldfinches.

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Low over Remount Road then into Shepherd's Pltn, Town Lane.

Leash Fen: Raven - 2 ; Fieldfare - 350+ - Large unsettled groups of up to 170 flying in a range of directions. ; Redwing - 70+

Millthorpe: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 7 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - c.15 - mixed flock with Redwings ; Redwing - c.15 - mixed flock with Fieldfares ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+

Orgreave Lakes: Mandarin - 1 - Drake ; Goldeneye - 1 - imm drake ; 320 - 7 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Pochard - 66 ; 319 - 1 ; Goosander - 5 ; Snipe - 1 ; Golden Plover - 14 - SE

Owlthorpe: Pink-footed Goose - 60+ - Flying over and calling

Pebley Pond: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Goldeneye - 2 - (m+f) ; Shoveler - c6 ; 320 - c22 ; Pochard - 4 ; Wigeon - c20 ; Gadwall - 15 ; Tufted Duck - c18 ; Mallard - c35 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 12 ; Canada Goose - c55 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c25 ; Coot - c12

R Don, Effingham St: Common Buzzard - 1 - escorted W by c20 Carrion Crows.

River Don, Blonk Street: 321 - 1

River Don, Effingham Street: Goosander - 3 ; Kingfisher - 1

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 1

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 2 - N

Thrybergh CP: Pintail - 1 - f came in with 7 gadwall

Walkley: 319 - 1 - Flying low over South Road, S towards city.

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - c80 - influx recently ; Great Black-backed Gull - 20 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10