Sightings Archive

Grange Park Golf Course: Skylark - 1 - Brief song ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c5 ; Blue Tit - c20 - Several singing ; Great Tit - c10 - Several singing ; Coal Tit - c5 ; Greenfinch - 1+ ; 319 - 02-Mar ; Lesser Redpoll - 01-Feb ; Song Thrush - 1 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 singing

Kimberworth Park: Black-headed Gull - 50+ - on Roughwood Rec

Malin Bridge: House Sparrow - 20+ - 20+ coming on to feeders for several months now, some looking for nesting material

Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - 2

R Don, Effingham Road: 320 - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Flying upstream ; Goosander - 2 - Heading upstream

R.Don,Effingham Road: Cormorant - 1 - Flew upriver towards wier ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Goosander - 5 - 4 Redheads+1 male.

Rawmarsh; High Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - low to SW @ 1245hrs

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 4 - Two pairs

RVCP, Main Lake: Herring Gull - 400+ - loafing

Sheffield Centre: Chiffchaff - 1 - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF reported still on Howard Street, outside student accommodation office

Thornbridge Hall: Raven - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; 320 - 2

Tyzack’s Dam: Goosander - 3 - two male, one female

Agden Res: Mallard - 7 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; 319 - 1 - calling from conifers ; Lapwing - 30+ - in field at side of road ; Woodpigeon - 5 ; Robin - 7 ; Stonechat - 1 - same area as lapwings ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing from conifers ; Blackbird - 05-Jun ; Wren - 2 ; Great Tit - 05-Jun - on newly filled feeders ; Coal Tit - 07-Oct ; Blue Tit - 04-Jun ; Nuthatch - 3 - feeding on peanuts ; Magpie - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 11+ ; Rook - 20+ - in field with sheep ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Starling - 15/20 - in field with geese at smallfield ; House Sparrow - 3 ; Chaffinch - 1

Beauchief Golf Course: Mandarin - 2 - M/F pair on middle pond ; Goosander - 1 - Male on top pond

Bentholme: Skylark - 12 - Lumb Lane - much chasing and full display flight and song from some birds then all birds settled among the vegetation and went quiet

Cowley Bar: Barn Owl - 1

Crabtree Pond: Redwing - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Blue Tit - 4+ ; Great Tit - 4+ ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Mallard - 3

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 9 - 8m , 1f in Ughill bay. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - male feeding on dam wall.

Green Moor: Bullfinch - 3 - 2 f & 1M ; Greenfinch - 5

Greystones: Magpie - 8

Greystones garden: Redwing - 1 - In observer's garden ; Blackcap - 1 - Male

High Bradfield: Stonechat - 1 - Onesacre Rd

Keppels Field: Song Thrush - 1 - singing from adjacent gardens @ W edge along with Dunnock and Great Tit

Kimberworth Park: Magpie - 8 - on Grey Hill ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - on pavement @ Oaks Lane shops

Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - First returning birds ; 319 - 3 - Display type behaviour ; Fieldfare - c100 ; Redwing - c10 ; Starling - c80 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 1 singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Mallard - c20

Millhouses Park: Grey Wagtail - 1

Mousehole Forge: Treecreeper - 1

Oaks Piece: Raven - 3 - 3 birds flying towards Agden Side

Onesmoor: Fieldfare - 150+ - feeding in surrounding fields.

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 1 - 1st returning bird present early morning. ; Kingfisher - 1 - On rocks on northern shore. 1st record this year.

Oughtibridge garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male feeding on bird table

Peat Pits: Lapwing - 20 - At rest in field

Redmires conduit: Red Grouse - 7

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 1 - On far shore from road

Shillito Wood: Fieldfare - 40+ - In trees, then flew into surrounding fields ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - 3+ - With fieldfare & starlings in fields ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Tyzack*s Dam: Wood Duck - 1 ; Mandarin - 2