Sightings Archive

Bingham Park: 320 - 1 - male

Bolsterstone/ Heads Lane: Lapwing - 30 ; Fieldfare - 20+ - feeding in newly manured field

Centenary Riverside: Mallard - 4 - 2 pair ; Goosander - 1 - Male, river ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Grasscroft Wood: Common Buzzard - 2 - displaying over A61

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 2 - Pair calling

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 1 - 1 male ; Tufted Duck - 1 - 1 male ; Mute Swan - 3 - Pair + 1 juv ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 1 drumming

Howden Res: PARROT CROSSBILL - 4 - still at Ronksley South Plantation at 14:00 - per BirdNewsDerbyshire

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 3 ; 320 - 25 ; Wigeon - 1 - Drake

Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - 5 - circled over at c.10:30

Old Sheffield Airport Runway: Carrion Crow - 120 - All feeding frantically in a small area on the old runway

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 25 - North at 0940 ; Dunlin - 1 - Round the small lake first thing. ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goosander - 5 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Female

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 27 - in fields ; Greylag Goose - 22 - in fields ; Starling - 150 - c. in fields ; Stock Dove - 2 - flew W

RVCP, Main Lake: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Herring Gull - 7 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Pochard - 46 ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Wigeon - 130+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 8

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Cormorant - 27 ; Goldeneye - 5 ; Wigeon - 40+ ; Gadwall - 16 ; 320 - 20+ ; Goosander - 16 ; Tufted Duck - 20+

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2 - adult pair; one on Arts Tower, one on St George's

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - c.160 - NW at 09.15 ; Skylark - 4 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 5 - singing ; Little Grebe - 4 - two pairs trilling ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 4 - m ; Tufted Duck - 28 ; 319 - 1 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Skylark - 2 - 1 singing ; Wren - 6 - 4 singing ; Dunnock - 15 - 9 singing ; Robin - 30 - 18 singing ; Blackbird - 25 ; Great Tit - 14 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Chaffinch - 11 - 6 singing ; Goldfinch - 18 ; Bullfinch - 10 - 02/02/2006 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Ulley CP: Scaup - 1 - still with ten tufties, now in Morthen Arm due to speed boats travelling flat out around reservoir ; Siskin - c15 - in alders at top of Morthen Arm.

Walkley Bank: Skylark - 3 - flying south-west over Providence Road, making flight calls

Wentworth: 319 - 1 - Btw Wentworth & Nether Haugh.

Whiteley Woods: Goosander - 2 - Pair of Goosander in the pond below Shepherds Wheel (M & F) - flew off

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - adult on Bernard Rd incinerator building

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 8 - all in field margin on Bole Hill, just south of Barlow Common ; Skylark - 2 ; Rook - 12+

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 5 - ad pr becoming increasingly intolerant to 3 imms ; 320 - 3 ; Gadwall - 12 ; Pochard - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 23 ; Black-headed Gull - 56 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 10

Eastwood, Rotherham: Goosander - 1 - Redhead on river by Parkgate bridge.

Grenoside: Linnet - 30+

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - 13+

Ponderosa: Canada Goose - 5 - Flew low N - first site record

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 1 - breeding plumaged adult on river above weir