Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 1pr ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+prs

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Goldcrest - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing male

Tinsley Golf Course: Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Wren - 2 - singing ; 319 - 1 - over woods 14.50 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - alarm call and observed. ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Goldfinch - 1 - male ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 10 + ; Great Tit - 3 - 2 singing

Wardsend Cemetry / Parkwood springs: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - all singing along riverside ; Bullfinch - 1 - male in buddleia . ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - displaying over cemetery ; 319 - 2 - pair drifting west ; Greenfinch - 2 - singing near Bassetts . ; Goldcrest - 2 - calling from cemetery.

Abbey Clough: Ring Ouzel - 6

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 3 - on pylons @ 1215hrs

Aldwarke Lane: Kestrel - 1 - perched by roadside

Attercliffe: Stock Dove - 1 - Building a nest in a wall at Norfolk bridge.

Barlow Common: 319 - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 02-Mar

Blackburn Meadows NR: Mute Swan - 2 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - Including a female flushed from nest with 12 eggs ; Green Sandpiper - 1 - Ferham Lake. ; Snipe - 8 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing male ; Chiffchaff - 9 - Singing males ; Linnet - 1 - Singing male

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 3 - Pair plus I Male

Calton Houses: Nuthatch - 1 - On garden feeder

Calton Pond: Coot - 4

Chatsworth Park: Mandarin - 22 - 12m, 10f ; Goosander - 3 - Redheads ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 4 ; Sand Martin - 4+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1

Edensor: Fieldfare - 50+ - Flying over, a few settling briefly in trees occasionally ; 319 - 1 ; Brambling - 2+ ; Treecreeper - 1

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 8 - Increased from 3 earlier this week.

Graves Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female drumming

Hillfoot (Totley): Willow Tit - 1 - singing male, confirming 3rd territory in Totley Bents area

Leash Fen: Willow Warbler - 1

Linacre Res: Chiffchaff - 9 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Siskin - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Song Thrush - 7 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 27 ; Grey Wagtail - 4 ; Mallard - 33 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mandarin - 6

Morley Pond: White-fronted Goose - 1 - reported

Morthen; Royds Moor: Common Buzzard - 3 - sparring with crows ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - c50 ; Swallow - 1 ; Short-eared Owl - 1 - over rough area between AMRC and Sheff Parkway ; Little Egret - 1 - big lake ; Sand Martin - 65 - Passing through towards Rother Valley at 15:45 ; Sand Martin - C.150 - Early evening ; Golden Plover - 35

Owler Bar: Red Kite - 1 - Heading south low over fields approximately quarter of a mile north of Owler Bar

Ramsley Moor: Willow Warbler - 2

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male

Rivelin Valley: Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk over Reaps Wood and adjoining land

Rotherham Centre: Sand Martin - 6 - 6 Rotherham raiway station at 1300

RVCP, Main Lake: Blackcap - 2 - 2 singing males and fem ; Swallow - 1 ; Wigeon - 2 - pr ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Redshank - 1

Sheffield Airport: Wheatear - 1 - 1 female

Shepherd Wheel: Dipper - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - male