Sightings Archive

Sunday 21st March 2021

• Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Snipe - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Starling - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - pair in field ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - sitting still in field, perhaps sick or injured
• Loxley: Barn Owl - 1 - Sat on wall
• Loxley Common: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing between golf course and Myers lane.
• Manor Fields Park: Kestrel - 1 - male hunting site. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing at 08:30.
• Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1
• Mickleden Beck: Meadow Pipit - 2 - males scrapping low down then both flying up with singing display ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Wren - 1
• Mount Darnall: Jackdaw - 11 ; Magpie - 24 ; Carrion Crow - 96
• Norfolk Park: Dunnock - 2 - in garden for at least half an hour alternating between cloaca pecking and feeding on soil. ; 319 - 2 - Soaring/calling
• Orgreave Lakes: Curlew - 1 ; Shoveler - 1 - Drake ; Snipe - 2
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 6 - 4 over from NW, joined by 2 more; much interaction/calling; gained height & 'lost '
• Pike Lowe, Midhope: Red Grouse - 2 ; Golden Plover - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; 324 - 1 - Mountain Hare in distance
• Porter Brook: Mandarin - 2 ; Dipper - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Heard in trees by Whitely Wood Road
• Potter Hole Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• R Don, Aldwarke: Goosander - 1 - drake flew upriver @ 0645hrs
• Railway pond: Water Rail - 1 - 1 bird calling ; Little Grebe - 2 - 1 pair lots of trilling ; Greylag Goose - 2 - 1 pair
• Redmires Middle Res: 324 - 2 - at least 2 bank voles coming out of wall
• Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 40 - c. in fields ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with Greylags ; Canada Goose - 16 - in fields ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 4 m + 1f on Middle Res ; Mallard - 8 ; Curlew - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - on Top Res dam wall - flew along shoreline. Earliest arrival here ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Stonechat - 2 - male singing south of Middle Res + female ; Meadow Pipit - 120 - c. flew N in 2 hrs ; Skylark - 5 - 4 singing + 1 N ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 2 singing + 1 west ; Crossbill - 3 - flew W
• Rivelin Hagg: Common Buzzard - 3 - circling
• Rotherham Centre: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Masbrough, c14:00 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 - Calling in grounds of St.Bede’s Church, Masbrough
• Roundwood Golf course: Coal Tit - 1 - singing
• Rud Hill: Lapwing - 8
• Sheffield airport: Carrion Crow - 96 ; Magpie - 14
• Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2 - 2nd egg laid overnight
• Stanley Hill: Yellowhammer - 1 ; Linnet - 6 - At least 2 singing ; Skylark - 1 - Song flight
• Strines Corner: Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Curlew - 4
• Strines Res: Whooper Swan - 64+ - Still present at 06:30 ; Whooper Swan - 61 - still present at 07:15 but left at 07:38 heading low over W Derwent Edge calling as they went
• Sugden Clough: 324 - 1 - Common Lizard ; Robin - 2 ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1
• Tankersley: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Thickwoods Brook: Curlew - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 - males ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Wren - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - One singing
• Thorpe Hesley: 319 - 1
• Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 78 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - C600 - Still good numbers feeding on fly hatch on the water ; 319 - 6+ ; Sparrowhawk - 5 - 5 birds in air together over south of Reservoir ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Bullfinch - 6 - The odd plumage bird still present ; Robin - 18 ; Tufted Duck - 44 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - 13:30