Sightings Archive

Redmires Top Res: Stonechat - 2 - Male and female

Sheffield Centre: Pied Wagtail - 50+ - Roosting in bushes on Commercial Street ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - Corporation Street roundabout - flying from Millsands direction over Derek Dooley Way towards Pye Bank

Walkley Bank: Blackcap - 1 - male in the garden being chased off by a Robin.

Whiston Meadows Flash: Raven - 4 - 2 pair displaying alongside M1. One bird clearly showing a leg ring. ; Raven - 4 - Second picture. ; Raven - 4 - Close up of leg ring.

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Castleton: Stock Dove - 1 ; Collared Dove - 2 - Pair on chimneytop ; Redwing - 25 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Above pool at outdoor centre (record shot) ; Mallard - 20 - On conduit ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Dore: Pink-footed Goose - c180 - heading SE at 08:04

Greystones: Sparrowhawk - 2 - Over observer's garden - together

Hope: Pied Wagtail - 1 - By primary school ; House Sparrow - 8+ - At feeders near primary school ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Soaring ; Feral Pigeon - 12 - Scattered by Sparrowhawk

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1

Middleton Moor: Shoveler - 1 ; Wigeon - 13 ; 320 - 19 ; Mallard - 9 ; Canada Goose - 47 ; Lapwing - 89 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 51 ; Black-headed Gull - 13 ; Stonechat - 2

Millhouses Park: Mistle Thrush - 3 - One singing.

Oakes Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - c12

Orgreave Lakes: Raven - 1 - calling loudly over main lake whilst being mobbed by 6 carrion crows.

Redmires Middle Res: Peregrine - 1 - Sat on North West bank of middle reservoir ; Barn Owl - 1 - Quartering along grassy bank between trees and road

Redmires Res: 320 - 15 - on Middle Res ; Merlin - 1 - hunting over Top Res ; Pink-footed Goose - 410 - c. flew E in 3 skeins between 07:59 and 08:20 hrs ; Lapwing - 25 - arrived from north and onto Middle Res ; Golden Plover - 3 - over Middle Res ; Woodpigeon - 5850 - flew south in one hour ; Starling - 340 - flew west in one hour ; Chaffinch - 322 - flew west in one hour ; Brambling - 109 - flew west in one hour ; Goldfinch - 21 - flew west ; Siskin - 3 - flew west ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - flew south-west ; Bullfinch - 1 - flew west ; Linnet - 17 - flew south in one hour ; Meadow Pipit - 11 - flew south-west ; Pipit sp (Rock/Water) - 1 - heard calling over Middle Res at 07:50 hrs - sounded more like a Water than Rock but not seen subsequently ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew west ; Redwing - 115 - flew west in one hour ; Fieldfare - 8 - flew west with Redwings

Rotherham Centre: Grey Wagtail - 1 - active around Chantry Bridge

Silverwood Lagoon: Tufted Duck - 2 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 15 ; Mute Swan - 8 - resident pair and 6 juvs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c.60 ; Herring Gull - 9 - party south ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Siskin - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Redwing - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Skylark - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 30 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Rook - 1 - north

Totley Bents: Greenfinch - 27-30 - roosting in roadside laurels at Moss Road ; Willow Tit - 1+ - 9 visits to feeding station at Moss Road in 13 minutes

Fulwood garden: Redwing - 1 - on lawn

Handsworth garden: House Sparrow - 25 - at least 25 under feeders and on crushed fat-balls

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - juv/f attempt at House Sparrow entering roost @ 16:25

Redmires Top Res: Dipper - 1 - At conduit outfall. ; Tufted Duck - 24 ; Black-headed Gull - 440 - roosted ; Common Gull - 5 - roosted with BHGs

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - juv

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Gull - 2 - On water with BHGs. ; Jay - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 - .

Barlow Common: Brambling - 3 - with a flock of Chaffinches ; 319 - 2 - both in fields hunting for worms ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Redwing - 12+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4