Sightings Archive

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 5 - ad pr + 3 imm ; Gadwall - c20 ; Shoveler - 4 ; Pochard - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 6+ ; Cormorant - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - c70 ; Coot - c80 ; Blackbird - 5 - inc 4 feeding on hawthorn by lay-by ; Redwing - 2+

Crookes Valley Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Visible from path into woods down from Charles Ashmore Rd car park. In tree tops being harassed by 2 magpies.

Hangingwater: Tawny Owl - 1 - frequent calling every night for at least two weeks

Hudson*s Rough: Blackbird - 2+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Magpie - 1+

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 160 ; Herring Gull - 6 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - Adults ; Common Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 12 ; Goosander - 1 - Male dropped in at 16.15

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 85-90 - inc 8-9 1cy ; Whooper Swan - 1 ; Mallard - c60 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2

R Don, Eastwood: Cormorant - 5 - in from NE, circled several times & dropped towards river @ 0810hrs

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 1 - one solitary, no Lapwings

Roughwood Rec: Herring Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+ ; Common Gull - 1 ; Rook - 2 ; Jackdaw - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 1+

Sheffield Centre; Eyre Street: Peregrine - 1 - low over to N/NE @ 1350hrs

Sheffield Centre; Spital Hill/Saville Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over to S/SE @ 1335hrs

Shirebrook Valley: Willow Tit - 1

Silver Wood: Grey Partridge - 6 - in fields to north of wood ; Fieldfare - 20 - in fields to north of woods ; Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.50 - widespread in small flocks ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Moorhen - 4 - on Woodlaithes duckpond

Silverwood Lagoon: Goldeneye - 1 - female ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Mallard - 7 ; Mute Swan - 3 - pair + imm ; Coot - 6 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - c.80 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 5 - 3-2 SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Cormorant - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Fieldfare - c.60 - in southern paddocks ; Redwing - 20 - with F/F ; Woodcock - 1 ; Raven - 1 - SW at 09.30 ; Jackdaw - 2 - west ; Blackbird - c.50 ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 10 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 90 - one flock SW ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Weston Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Wigeon - 1 - female still present (according to council worker for it's third successive winter)

Wharncliffe Side: Redwing - 3 - In cherry tree in observers garden

Wyming Brook: Goldcrest - 4 ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2 male, 1 female ; Treecreeper - 1 - At feeders

Endcliffe: Blackbird - 3 - m close together in small tree near road, one singing full song vigorously ; Dunnock - 1 - singing near roadside

Greystones garden: Redwing - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 - Males seen at the same time

Morley Pond: Cormorant - 22 - high count, birds flying around Cascades area ; Mute Swan - 7 - family plus 1 juv ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 - Ad male. Poss same seen later grappling on ground with imm male ; Lapwing - 18 - above fields N W of lake. ; Grey Heron - 3 - in fields N of lake ; Mallard - 5+ ; Woodpigeon - 50+ ; Pheasant - 1+ - shoot in progress