Sightings Archive

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 2 male

Rivelin Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - Near Wolf Wheel, not singing. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mandarin - 2 - A pair on Wolf Wheel ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1

Scholes Coppice: Pheasant - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from leaf litter nr centre of wood ; Woodpigeon - 3+ - 2singing ; Wren - 3+ - singing ; Robin - 7 - Singing ; Blackbird - 3+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 4 - 3 singing ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 3+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1 - singing

Silver Wood: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing along disused railway line ; Jay - 8 - party of 6 along disused railway line, 2 in woods ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing ; Treecreeper - 2 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Fieldfare - c15 - in fields to north of woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 6 - 3 pairs trilling ; Mute Swan - 6 - resident pair + party of 4 NW ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Snipe - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - north ; Skylark - 6 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Linnet - c15 - several singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Grey Partridge - 1

Carbrook: Sand Martin - 1 - Flew west up the valley at 12.20

Edge Mount: Fieldfare - 200+ - flew into beech trees at dusk .

Hillsborough Park: Mute Swan - 2 - ad and imm ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 3m, 1f ; Coot - 10 - 2 on nests.

Holmebrook Valley Park: Greylag Goose - 3 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 10 - two groups of 5 ; Mute Swan - 3 - 2 adults and 1st winter ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - calling round site.

Kimberworth: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Immature female perched in a big tree at the bottom if the garden ; Nuthatch - 1 - On garden peanut feeder. First time in 14 years.

Loxley Valley: Little Owl - 1 - Long Lane

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 16 - Over main lake at 09:00 ; Shoveler - 4 - 2 pairs on main lake

R Don, Newhall Rd: Mute Swan - 1 - imm, red CR 722Y. [ringed at Wombwell on 02/09/2017 - 13km SSW] ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - drifting W

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Kingfisher - 1

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 4 - 3 male 1 female.; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1+ - 3rd egg laid early this morning

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 4 - 2M, 2F

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 52+ - 20-1st w ; Tufted Duck - 31 - 23m8f ; Water Rail - 3 ; Golden Plover - 1 - past w ; Wren - 5 - sing ; Dunnock - 26 - 21sing ; Robin - 19 - 14sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing

Barlborough: Red Kite - 1 - Flying due north, quite low

Barlow Common: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5

Blackburn Meadows NR: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing

Canklow: Kestrel - 1 - Swooped on to footpath opposite MacDonald's 14.05.

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - 1 singing

Centenary Business Park: Kestrel - 1 - .

Cross Hill, Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling over Hartley Brook. ; Common Buzzard - 1

Curbar Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - A male.

Graves Park: 324 - 1 - Alexandrine Parakeet - note chestnut lesser coverts and long yellow tail

Handsworth: 319 - 1 - Over Parkway 11.05

Keppels Field: Yellowhammer - 3 - 2 male ; Skylark - 2 - 1 singing ; Robin - 1 - Singing ; Blackbird - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 - singing