Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: 319 - 2 - singles hover. ; Kestrel - 2 - singles inc.1m disp. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 7 - m call. ; Common Sandpiper - 3 - 02-Jan ; Swift - 3 ; Sand Martin - 10+ ; Swallow - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 14 - 13sing ; Dunnock - 12 - sing. ; Robin - 12 - 5sing. ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing. ; Blackbird - 10 - 7sing. ; Blackcap - 6 - sing. ; Whitethroat - 1 - sing. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - sing. ; Willow Warbler - 12 - sin.g ; Chiffchaff - 8 - sing. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing. ; House Sparrow - 6 - 04-Feb ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr. ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 2sing. ; Wigeon - 2 - mf circled .flew w

Tyzack*s Dam: Grey Heron - 2

Ughill Moors: Oystercatcher - 2 - pair on Loftshaw pond

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Singing male to the south east of heath ; Willow Warbler - 51+ - 51 singing, a site record count ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Singing ; Treecreeper - 4+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 4+ - 4 singing birds ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Robin - 26 - Singing ; Crossbill - 2 - Flew over calling ; Canada Goose - 5 - Flew low over crags ; Great Tit - 10+ - Singing ; Mallard - 2 - No ducklings left at dam pond ; Linnet - 4+ ; Woodcock - 1

Brightholmlee: Willow Tit - 2 - presumed pair, male singing, at junction of Brightholmlee Lane/Storth Lane at c.SK2930695052

Butterthwaite: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing in scrub near railway bridge on Butterthwaite Lane.

Canklow Woods: 319 - 1 - Over woods near KFC 16.45 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying at 1915

Fulwood garden: Woodcock - 1 - Roding over house at dusk - first such record

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Wren - 1

Manor Fields Park: Mallard - 2 - pair (male with left foot missing)

Orgreave Lakes: Swift - 1 - first one this morning ; Little Ringed Plover - 4 ; Redshank - 9 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Wheatear - 4 ; Swallow - 11

Parkgate; Retail World: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1015hrs

R Don, Effingham St: Iceland Gull - 1 - 2w landed on Tesco roof at 18:30

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Ring Ouzel - 1 - m flushed from Hawthorn @ 08.10. Flew onto playing field & flew NW @ 08.13

Redmires: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Golden Plover - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Redmires Bottom Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 - seen together ; Reed Bunting - 2 - males ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - male ; Wheatear - 3 - In field adjacent to bottom reservoir

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 11 ; Golden Plover - 13 ; Meadow Pipit - 7 ; Red Grouse - 4 - males ; Curlew - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Redmires Top Res: Willow Warbler - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male

Ringinglow: Kestrel - 1

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - Foolish wood pigeon on S side of tower lost a lot of feathers in unsuccessful stoop.

Silver Wood: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing from railway line pond

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling in Hollings Lane 'meadows'.

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 7+ ; Raven - 2

Thorpe Hesley: WRYNECK - 1 - garden mega - stayed a minute then flew off towards fields at back

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 30 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Canada Goose - 3 - plus 1canada/glag hybrid ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 10 - 7m3f ; Kestrel - 1 - in se ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swift - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 8 - sing