Sightings Archive

Leash Fen: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - Around the W side of the Fen 14:00 before flying back over to Ramsley Moor

Middleton Moor: Snipe - 3 - flushed

Moss Valley: Goosander - 3 - Carter Hall fishing ponds. 2 males, 1 redhead. ; Cormorant - 1 - Flying over Robin Brook Lane

Orgreave Lakes: GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 - Still feeding in middle of main lake. ; Wigeon - 25 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Stock Dove - 6

R Rother, Bolehill: Goosander - 2 ; Canada Goose - 175 - Feeding beside ox-bow. ; Wigeon - 42 - Feeding beside ox-bow.

Ramsley Moor: Great Grey Shrike - I - viewed from Fox Lane east of Ramsley Res.still showing at 15:30.

Ramsley Res: Waxwing - 8 - perched up briefly before continuing south ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Siskin - 2 ; Raven - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Water Rail - 1 - Calling from reed bed ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Gadwall - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Linnet - 1

Silverwood Pit Top: Kestrel - 4 - Female observed feeding on a vole ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 05-Jun ; Jay - 2 ; 319 - 1

Thorpe Hesley: Grey Wagtail - 1

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 30 ; Canada Goose - 80+ ; Greylag Goose - 50+ ; Pink-footed Goose - c300 - West late morning ; Wigeon - 2 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Pochard - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 111 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Male ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Coot - 40 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 ; Siskin - 2 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Chaffinch - 20+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 15 ; Redwing - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Wortley: Pink-footed Goose - c300 - NW 11.50, maybe the ones seen over Thrybergh? ; 319 - 5 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 3

Blackburn Meadows NR: Water Rail - 1 - Calling from reedbed on Ferham Lake. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Feeding in willows on Canal Walk.

Brownhills Lane: Starling - 120 - feeding in fields, including partially leucistic bird with largely white tail

Crosspool: Waxwing - 32 - Mobile around Manchester Road early afternoon ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - Manchester Road ; Waxwing - 1 - colour ringed, photo by Ian Unwin; ringed Kincorth, Aberdeen on 04/11/2023 - 420km

Kimberworth Park: Long-tailed Tit - c10

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Fieldfare - c100

Middle Common,Scholes: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Red-legged Partridge - c20 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2+ ; Linnet - 10+ ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1

Midhope Res: Tufted Duck - 11

Ramsley Moor: Red Kite - 01-Feb - over towards Unthank and Nelson;s monument.

Rivelin Valley: Stonechat - 1 ; 320 - 6

Roundwood Golf course: Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/imm ; Common Buzzard - 1

Sheffield Centre: Waxwing - 6 - In trees around park Gell Street and Hanover Way at 10:50

Upper Common,Scholes: Blackbird - 6+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting through scrub, causing blackbirds to scatter ; Magpie - 12

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - c120 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c50 - 2 juvs, rest adults inc colour ringed bird ringed in Notts in 2012 and first seen here in 2015. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad ; CASPIAN GULL - 2 - both second winters Warren Street, the bird seen at Orgreave recently, and a second bird (photo).

Crosspool: Waxwing - 65 - c. feeding in roadside bushes on Manchester Road