Sightings Archive

Redmires Res: Lapwing - 80 - c. on Middle Res ; Curlew - 132 - roosting - despite being flushed by dog walkers

Sheffield Centre: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing in Fargate/Cathedral area 13.30

Smallfield: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - In among a group of 20 Greylags.

Stubley Hollow: Green Woodpecker - 1 - First for 2 yrs ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - First for 2 yrs

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1

Walkley garden: Carrion Crow - 5 - Courtship and one pair copulating in lime tree ; Stock Dove - 1 - under seed feeders

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 6 - 3 male and 3 female in observers garden ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - on feeders in observers garden

Norfolk Heritage Park: 319 - 2 - "worming" on the football pitch.

Orgreave Lakes: Barnacle Goose - 1 - Present since 25th Feb

Silverwood Lagoon: Curlew - 1 - WSW at 08.35

Wadsley Common garden: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Uncommon here. ; Stock Dove - 8 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Walkley Bank: Blackcap - 1 - singing in shrubs on Walkley Millennium Green

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 1 - Male feeding on sunflower hearts in observers garden

Bingham Park: 319 - 2

Broomhead Res: Goosander - 3 - M and two F ; Tufted Duck - 2 - (pair)

Crowhole: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Goldcrest - 1

Fulwood: Carrion Crow - 1 - leucistic, living dangerously

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 3 - 1m, 2f

Killamarsh: Stonechat - 1 - female behind Comberwood Farm

Kimberworth Park: 319 - 6 - over Roughwood Rd/Remount Rd @ 10:25, 3 peeling away N toward Shepherd's Plantation.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - 57 - 57 in wet field late afternoon

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 475 - At 17.30 ; Golden Plover - 34 ; Curlew - 47 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 32 ; Black-headed Gull - 24 ; Wigeon - 1 - male

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 - South

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 2 ; Curlew - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair - photo of female ; Stonechat - 2 - pair - photo of male ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - My first back on the uplands ; Lapwing - 60 - including some in territorial squabbles ; Curlew - 1 - bubbling ; Golden Plover - 2 - calling and 'singing' overhead ; 319 - 3 - much interaction

RVCP, Main Lake: Herring Gull - 405 - flew north

Scholes: Blackbird - 13 - in field ; Redwing - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Spinkhill: Stonechat - 1 - male on fields to the rear of Park Hall Farm ; Snipe - 1 - arable field to rear of Park Hall Farm ; Fieldfare - 20 - fields to rear of Park Hall Farm

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - in scrub near top of Hunshelf Road ; Grey Partridge - 1 - flew across Stocksbridge Bypass and landed in field to south of road.

Walker Edge: Tree Sparrow - 1 ; House Sparrow - 6 ; Brambling - 1 ; Siskin - 3 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Curlew - 1 ; 319 - 1

Wentworth Estate: Fieldfare - c60 - Flew from copse

Wentworth Lakes: Skylark - 1 - singing, S of Dog Kennel, between Rockingham Wood and Squirrel Castle.

Wentworth, Morley Pond: Tufted Duck - 25

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - 2 - feeding in roadside fields

Catcliffe: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over Parkway 12.50

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 15+ - Top pond at Endcliffe Park. mixture of plumages.

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 2 - Pair at feeders ; Siskin - 2 - Pair at feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair at feeders

Ladybower Res, North arm: Oystercatcher - 1 - reported from Bridge End car park

Millhouses: Blackcap - 1 - Male in the observer’s garden.

Orgreave Lakes: Jack Snipe - 1 - Flushed from side of path behind small lake. ; Shoveler - 3 - 2 drakes and 1 duck. First record this year. ; Ringed Plover - 1 - South

Porter Brook: Dipper - 2 - Pair back on territory after therir nest site was inundated by flood water last week. ; Goosander - 2 - Pair on Wire Mill Dam m + f ; Mandarin - 10 ; Song Thrush - 3 - 3 singing males in the 4 regular territories between Shepherd Wheel and Wire Mill Dam

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 12 - in horse fields with c80 lapwings

Redmires Middle Res: Herring Gull - 32 - blogging mid-morning ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - loitering around feeders

Silverwood Lagoon: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Shoveler - 6 - 4 males

Thorpe Hesley: Lapwing - 59 - 51 & 8 in 2 fields

Wadsley Common garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male on feeders-first of the year, presumably an overwintering bird. ; Stock Dove - 6 ; Goldfinch - 15+

Walkley garden: Stock Dove - 2 - Pair under bird feeders, multiple visits.

Wharncliffe Chase: Red Kite - 1 - In kennels/res area 08:30-08:40. Settled briefly in trees before drifting towards southern end of Chase. ; Red Kite - 1 - Another pic

Agden Side: Skylark - 2 - flew low E

Aldwarke SF: Kestrel - 1 - female, hunting ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 - breeding plumage; trilling ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 1pr