Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Great Tit - 10 ; Blue Tit - 13 ; Jay - 1 ; Brambling - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 50+ - feeding on ground in wood area ; Bullfinch - 10 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 2+ ; Lapwing - 40+

Brimington: Waxwing - c50 - Brimington Church at 11:40

Norwood Allotments: Waxwing - 15 - over NE at 14:10

Rivelin: Redwing - 3 - taking berries from holly tree in observer's garden

Sheffield Centre: Waxwing - 37 - Commuting between trees by Grosvenor Casino on Duchess Road, and Sheaf Gardens

Sheffield Manor Lodge: Stock Dove - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 17 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 10 - res.fam.8 and 2ad ; Greylag Goose - 12 - circled then dep. s 0845 ; Gadwall - 3 - mff ; Wigeon - 3 - mmf ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Moorhen - 17 ; Black-headed Gull - 140 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Dunnock - 19 ; Robin - 20 ; Blackbird - 18 ; Lesser Redpoll - 80+ - very flighty in silver birch ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Bullfinch - 9 - inc.2m3f at feed stat. ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 4m2f at feed stat

Blacka Moor: Snipe - 2+ - heard (flight) calling after dark

Cemetery Avenue: Waxwing - 25 - at 12:30

Kimberworth: Pheasant - 1 - Female pheasant at the bottom of the garden. Second visit within 5 days. ; Robin - 3 - Feeding on the fatballs most of the morning.

Normanton Springs: Waxwing - c50 - Normanton Spring Road nr. jn. with Hessey Street at 15:45

Parkgate: Barn Owl - 1 - sat on fence at the side of the station ph at 0545

Sharrow: Waxwing - 25 - c25 on Cemetery Ave at 11:15

Silverwood Lagoon: Short-eared Owl - 2 - up together briefly mid-morning then went back to ground

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 20 ; Little Grebe - 3 - singles ; Mute Swan - 10 ; Gadwall - 3 - mmf ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 60 - + ; Common Gull - 2 - ad ; Herring Gull - 3 - inc.1imm. past e ; Dunnock - 20 ; Robin - 25 ; Blackbird - 25 ; Great Tit - 11 ; Blue Tit - 13 ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Bullfinch - 4

Ulley CP: BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1 - Fairly close view amongst Greylags. and a single Pink Foot Goose

Birleyhay Dam, Moss Valley: Grey Heron - 8 - Also 1 by Moss Brook downstream of Ford, ie total 9.

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 7 - 2 ad, 5 imm ; Gadwall - 5+ ; 320 - 21+ ; Shoveler - 1 ; Pochard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 5+ ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 240+

Kimberworth: Long-tailed Tit - 6 - Family outing to the fatballs at the bottom of the garden. ; Coal Tit - 1 - Drinking from the edge of the large garden bird bath.

Leash Fen: Fieldfare - 250+ - Feeding in field at Far Lane/Unthank Lane junction

Millhouses Park: Dipper - 1 - Seen from Archer Rd bridge

Orgreave Lakes: 328 - 1 - Ferruginous x Pochard drake on main lake

Poolsbrook CP: Iceland Gull - 1 - 2nd Winter reported at Poolsbrook mid-morning

Rotherham Centre: Goosander - 1pr - N into strong wind, forced back W/SW @ 0832hrs

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Rotherham Lock: Redwing - c10 - leaving roost in bushes adjacent lock at 07:55

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 30+ - At feeding station

Thrybergh: Waxwing - 4 - Overhead going West towards Parkgate.

Thrybergh Tip: Gadwall - 32 ; 320 - c45 ; Shoveler - 6 ; 319 - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 - a few in birches along approach track otherwise almost total absence of small passerines

Ulley CP: BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1 - at 13:00

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 100+ - On roofs Warren Street ; Herring Gull - c150 - Warren St, inc 2cy York colour ring Y:788

Broomhall: Waxwing - c200 - in trees by playground on Gell Street, peeling off into smaller groups towards City Centre

Canklow to ickles: Song Thrush - 8 - 8 singing in 15 min walk 0445 to 0500

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2

Firsby Res: Long-tailed Tit - c20 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Unsuccessfully attacking Tit flock. ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Overhead calling. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; 319 - 1