Sightings Archive

Friday 24th March 2017

• Firsby Res: 319 - 3 ; Chaffinch - 04-May ; Linnet - 2 - Male and female ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Males ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Willow Tit - 1 - Calling ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Siskin - 12 - Feeding in Alders. ; Goldfinch - 6 - With Siskin.
• Graves Park: Whooper Swan - 2+ - A small group flew north calling loudly at 20:05
• Handsworth: Whooper Swan - 60 - over towards Orgreave at c18:25
• Hillsborough Park: Mute Swan - 1 ; Coot - 14 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Canada Goose - 6 - Plus Canada/Barnacle hybrid still ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Redwing - 2
• Longshaw: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Male & female in pond ; Mandarin - 2 - Male & female in pond
• Longshaw Lodge: Siskin - 2 - Male & female ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 2
• More Hall Resevoir: Whooper Swan - 6
• Norwood Allotments: Whooper Swan - c58 - Passed to the east heading north at 18:30 ; 321 - 1 - over several times apparently checking out nearby gardens and landing for a minute on a TV aerial whilst mobbed by a crow.
• Orgreave Lakes: Barnacle Goose - 1 - 1 clearly off-course bird on island early morning until 06:40 when it left high northwest. A new species at this site. ; Rock Pipit - 1 - north end of main lake from 0940 ; Curlew - 1 - east at 08:25 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 2 - On the tip. ; Grey Wagtail - 2
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Mistle Thrush - 3 - inc singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Magpie - 10-Dec - in general area ; Greylag Goose - 4 - 2 W @ 0638 & 2 W @ 0759hrs ; Meadow Pipit - 24 - all moving N ; Canada Goose - 4 - 2 SW @ 0646 & 2 W @ 0742hrs ; Siskin - 6 - N/NE ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - NE ; Herring Gull - 5 - N ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - NE ; Stock Dove - 1 - NE
• R Don, Attercliffe: Chiffchaff - 6 - East Coast Rd - Hawke St, 5 singing.
• R Don, Newhall Rd: Sand Martin - 1
• R Don, Stevenson Rd: Stock Dove - 2
• Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 80 - 100 - flock flying round with a few birds singing ; Curlew - 10+ - 1 or 2 birds calling and chasing over the moorland
• Rod Moor: Sparrowhawk - 1 - chasing meadow pipits
• Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Siskin - c10 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing male ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing male ; Goldcrest - 1
• Sheffield Airport: Skylark - 1 - singing over ; Lapwing - 4 - Flight display. ; Lapwing - 4 ; Skylark - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Goldfinch - 32 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Linnet - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1
• Sheffield Centre: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing opposite Washington pub ; Whooper Swan - 2+ - small party heard heading north at 00:40 ; Mallard - 2 - 1m+1f flying down Moorfoot at 17:30 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 - singing in St Mary's churchyard
• Silverwood Lagoon: Ringed Plover - 1 ; Short-eared Owl - 2 ; Shoveler - 1pr ; Gadwall - 3 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Chiffchaff - 8 - singing ; Siskin - 2 - north
• Stubley Hollow: 319 - 4 - ; Little Owl - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Moorhen - 2 - Pair, first for site!
• Sunnybank: Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling from tree
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 42 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 39 - 22m17f ; Scaup - 1 - m ; 319 - 4 - 2e2se soaring ; Water Rail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 400 - arriving in small parties ; Common Gull - 1 - ad ; Herring Gull - 3 - imm.