Sightings Archive

Silverwood Pit Top: Tufted Duck - 4 ; Pochard - 2 ; Little Grebe - 4 - A lot of trilling. ; Coot - 6

Stocksbridge: Waxwing - 11 - briefly on Manchester Road, left south

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 12 ; Greylag Goose - 11 ; Canada Goose - 9 ; Gadwall - 7 - 4m3f ; Pochard - 11 ; Tufted Duck - 30+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - singles call. ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 13 - 4pr disp. ; Black-headed Gull - 150+ ; Common Gull - 1 - 2nd wint .came in ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1st wint. ; Skylark - 7 - sing ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Wren - 12 - 10sing ; Dunnock - 25 - 17sing ; Robin - 25 - 14sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 20 ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; Tree Sparrow - 2+ ; Bullfinch - 12 - 4--2-4-2

Ulley: BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1 - Tundra Bean Goose still in fields at Ulley today

Aughton, Treeton Ln: Starling - c200 ; Skylark - c20 ; Linnet - c20 ; Fieldfare - 50+ - feeding in fields in large mixed flock

Bannerdale Centre/Abbeydale Grange: Waxwing - 42 - briefly ; Redwing - 85

Canklow Woods: 319 - 2 - Over woods. 10.30

Ecclesall: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling from gardens on Highcliffe Rd at 17:25

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 2 - Close to Hunters Bar. Interacting / chasing

Handsworth: Waxwing - c25 - Handsworth Asda roundabout.

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 32 - my highest count this month. ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Mandarin - 3

Millhouses garden: Goldfinch - 20+

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goldeneye - 15 - mostly departed. ; Goosander - 14 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Lapwing - 70+ ; Shelduck - 1 - On small lake early morning

Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Goosander - 3 - 2m; 1f SW @ 0810hrs

Sheffield University: Waxwing - 31 - in treetops by Goodwin sports centre 08:20; gone by 09:15

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 2

Ulley CP: Willow Tit - 1 - Calling in alder trees, NE arm ; 327 - 10 - NE arm ; Yellowhammer - 1

Aldwarke SF: Pheasant - 4 - cocks ; Pied Wagtail - 9 - feeding together ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - one with PW flock; one on treatment works ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc singing male ; Magpie - c25 ; Mute Swan - 2 - SW @ 0935hrs ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 2 - high to N ; Coot - 6 ; Gadwall - 9 - 6m; 3f ; Herring Gull - 3 - SW ; Common Gull - 1 - 2cy SW ; 320 - 5 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Mallard - 1pr

Aldwarke; Tata Steel: Peregrine - 1pr - adult pair perched on various roofs/chimneys on complex, with occasional forays from 0740hrs

Blackburn Meadows NR: Song Thrush - 2 - Singing 07.55 ; 321 - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - Over ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 5 - 2 pair, 1 single. ; Wren - 2 - Pair. ; Dunnock - 3 - 2 singing

Bolsterstone: Skylark - 1 - singing over field off Heads Lane ; Little Owl - 1 - on fence post near Waldershaigh

Bolsterstone Stonemoor: Lapwing - c50 - approx 50 in field off Stone Moor Road, plus 2 displaying nearby (SK266972)

Canklow: Stonechat - 1 - male in field below boston castle at 1030

Don Valley, Thrybergh to Aldwarke: Black-headed Gull - 300+ - many hundreds streaming SW down Don valley on a broad front in first 90mins after dawn, slowing to a trickle later

Handsworth: Waxwing - 7 - at Asda ; Waxwing - 26 - Sat on the Asda roundabout at 15.30

Holling Dale Plantation: Brambling - 20 - In beeches ; Crossbill - 2 - pair coming down to drink.

Hooton/Denaby Common: Lapwing - c200 - wheeling over

Hunger Hill: Golden Plover - ? - calling overhead but unseen

Leash Fen: Skylark - 4 - 1 singing

Meersbrook Allotments: Waxwing - 30 - heading east at 10:15

Middleton Moor: 320 - 6 ; Wigeon - 1

Moss Valley: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 2

Moss Valley, upper: Barn Owl - 1 - Seen from Robinbrook Lane late afternoon

Mount Darnall: Carrion Crow - 158 - Feeding in fields