Sightings Archive

Redmires Top Res: Curlew - 1 - Calling overhead flying due east. ; Lapwing - 50+ - On shoreline

Rocher End Brook: Fieldfare - c30 - feeding in pasture along with Redwings ; Redwing - c20 - feeding in pasture

Rotherham; Northfield: Herring Gull - c100 - on recycling centre & adjacent rooftops; inc adult colour ringed Y:G23 (yellow) ; Great Black-backed Gull - c10

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 - low over wood ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls and song ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Sheffield Centre: Chiffchaff - 1 - Siberian Chiffchaff reported in "pocket park" area at top of Howard Street in the City Centre

Silverwood Lagoon: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling pre-dawn ; Snipe - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Jackdaw - 6 - 4-1-1 north ; Herring Gull - 2 - SW ; Siskin - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Siskin - 2

Stannington, west: 319 - 1 ; Starling - 30 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; House Sparrow - 3 ; House Sparrow - 3 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 - At Flash Farm ; Carrion Crow - 3

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Gadwall - 18 ; Tufted Duck - 44 ; Pochard - 12 ; Yellowhammer - 4 ; Brambling - 2 - in cemetery ; Herring Gull - 13 - Together on water ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Thurcroft: Coal Tit - 1 - On garden seed feeder. ; Great Tit - 3 ; Collared Dove - 2

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - c85 - on rotary filters, occasionally moving to field opposite ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Corvid - c100 - mixed Rook/Carrion Crow ; Pied Wagtail - 35 - c. on filter beds ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on filter beds

Treeton; Spa House Farm: Black-headed Gull - 35-40 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Troway: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Ulley Brook Bog: Kestrel - 1pr - hunting ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Snipe - 2 - flew from frozen marsh

Burngreave Cemetery: Red Kite - 2 - flying south quite low over the cemetery heading in the direction of town at 11:00.

Ecclesall Woods: Stock Dove - 4 - 4 singing in Woods 3 and 2. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing in Wood three. ; Bullfinch - 4 - One singing in Wood 3. ; Goldcrest - 5+ - One singing in Wood three.

Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male perched in tree, Cross Hill

Hathersage Moor: Red Grouse - 1

Langsett Res: 320 - 14 ; Mallard - 28 ; Greylag Goose - 7 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2

Longshaw: Treecreeper - 2 - singles

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 2 - individuals heard ; Bullfinch - 1m ; Redwing - c10 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Orgreave Lakes: Herring Gull - 288 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 31 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Black-headed Gull - c1500 ; Goosander - 49 - Came into roost.lots of display. ; Tufted Duck - 22 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; 320 - 1 ; Mallard - 15 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Goldeneye - 3 - 1m, 1f ; Coot - 39 ; Canada Goose - 116 ; Greylag Goose - 2

Totley Moor: SNOW BUNTING - 1 - On mound by ventilation shaft.

Tyzack*s Dam: Mallard - 38 ; Mandarin - 5 ; Wood Duck - 1

Unstone: Dipper - 1 - By the river behind the Sandpiper hotel.

Upper Midhope: Mistle Thrush - 2

Upper Padley: Long-tailed Tit - c10 ; Jay - 2 - 2 singles