Sightings Archive

Overstones Farm: Lapwing - 8 - In pairs near previous nest sites ; 324 - 4 - Large brown hares feeding in group

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 400+ ; Lapwing - 10 + - Lots of display flying ; Skylark - 6+ - Some singing ,others feeding amongst Golden Plover

Pingle Lane Tip: Lapwing - 6 - 3 pairs displaying.

Ravenfield Park: Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing in shallows. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Along stream. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - In dead tree near fisherman’s car park. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Singing Males. ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Siskin - 50+ - Large flock feeding In tree tops. ; Lesser Redpoll - 10+ - In Siskin flock. ; Goldfinch - 3 - With Siskin flock. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Both singing. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Brief call.

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 120 - Roosted ; Oystercatcher - 5 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at dusk

Roper Hill: Fieldfare - 70 - in fields, then headed W to roost

Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 17 ; Greylag Goose - 67 ; Canada Goose - 193 ; Grey Heron - 9 ; Cormorant - 17 ; Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Mallard - 112 ; Gadwall - 13 ; Wigeon - 159 ; 320 - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 47 ; Goldeneye - 15 - Meadowgate Lake, Much display. ; Goosander - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Herring Gull - 26 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 130 ; Chiffchaff - 6+ - Six plus singing

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 16

Shepherd*s Plantation: 319 - 1 - Over W end of wood, pos one of 3-4 seen later over Middle Common @10:50. ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 4 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - 1 from Holly, onto branch and calling. ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing

Silverwood (Pit Wood): Tawny Owl - 2 - 2 Single birds roosting. ; Tawny Owl - 2 - 2 Single birds roosting. ; Meadow Pipit - 30+ - Flock flew out of stubble field.

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Mute Swan - 66 ; 319 - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Ughill: Curlew - 73 - single flock Wet Shaw Lane ; Woodcock - 1 - flew over

Upper Common, Scholes: Lapwing - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 20+

Walkley garden: Goldcrest - 1 - On fat ball feeder and in fruit trees. ; Wren - 1 - Foraging in undergrowth, seen most days.

Wharncliffe Wood: Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Jay - 1

Agden Side: Peregrine - 1 - flying/hunting along escarpment

Barlborough Low Common: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting adjacent to Sheffield Road

Blacka Moor: Wheatear - 5 - 4 Males 1 Female on Strawberry Lee pasture

Botanical Gardens: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 drumming

Bramley: Robin - 2 - Pair have built nest in Observers garden in a conifer.

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Cinder Bridge Field: Yellowhammer - 2 - singing ; Jackdaw - c40 - feeding ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 ; Lapwing - 3 - displaying ; Rook - Oct-15 - feeding ; Carrion Crow - c20 - feeding ; Skylark - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 5 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over ; Fieldfare - c10 - The Whins ; Redwing - c5 - The Whins ; Goldfinch - c20 - The Whins

Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Sluice. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Flew from stream onto sluice. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female through willows. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting Male. ; 319 - 2 - Display flights over sheep paddock. ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 2 adults down on farmland. ; Fieldfare - 5+