Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Skylark - 60+ - Large flock between graveyard and Reservoir ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 4

Thrybergh Tip: Gadwall - 22 ; 320 - 4 ; 319 - 2 ; Jay - 2

Unstone: Nuthatch - 2

Barley Hall: Redwing - 20 - with Blackbirds in fields ; Blackbird - 6

Catcliffe Flash: 328 - 1

Dore back garden: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - 1st seen here since lockdown started, at feeders

Ecclesall: Whooper Swan - 1 - first-winter flew E at 13:00 hrs

Firsby Res: Siskin - C50 - Feeding in alders ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Handsworth garden: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Female Grey Wagtail and male Pied Wagtail fighting. 50 Starlings 9 Blackbirds ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - photo of wagtails

Hangingwater garden: Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Blackbird - 5 - 3m + 1 1st winterer m + 1f ; Blackcap - 1 - m chasing off all-comers ; Chaffinch - 1 - f ; Robin - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over mobbed by Jackdaws ; Jackdaw - 2 - over

Hillsborough Garden: Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; House Sparrow - 15+ - Colony roosting in eaves of House being renovated ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Robin - 2 - Territory squabbles ; Great Tit - 1 ; Magpie - 2 - Collecting twigs from Sambuca Elderflower tree ; Grey Heron - 1 - Passing over towards Hillsborough corner weir ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Flyover towards Malin Bridge

Millhouses garden: Greenfinch - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Starling - 2 ; Jackdaw - 2

Norfolk Park: Starling - c10 - singing in tops of trees behind medical centre ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming in tree top, Park Grange Road

Norfolk Park - garden: Blue Tit - 3

Norfolk Park garden: Blackbird - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Collared Dove - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Goldfinch - 9

Norton Lees: Goldfinch - c18 - landed in tree for a while.

Orgreave Lakes: Ringed Plover - 4 - Round the main lake mid-afternoon ; Dunlin - 3 - With the Ringed Plovers

Rawmarsh Manor Farm: Red Kite - 1 - single bird low over houses hunting food in gardens at 08:30

Rivelin Valley Garden: Blue Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Blackbird - 5 - Lots of squabbling ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Also drumming in adjacent wood ; Pheasant - 2 ; Jackdaw - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Flew over

Thorpe Hesley: Red-legged Partridge - 12 ; Lapwing - 100 ; Fieldfare - 12 - in field with Starlings ; Starling - 150+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew over ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 63 ; Bullfinch - 10 ; Goldfinch - C30 ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1m

Totley Rise: Finch sp - 25+ - Mainly Goldfinch, few Greenfinch, one or two Siskin. Flying between trees and feeders in garden.

Wadsley Common garden: Blackcap - 1 - female again. ; 327 - 2 - 2 lesser on nyger feeder. ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Pheasant - 4 - In and out of the garden for weeks-I'm not sur they're entirely welcome. ; Stock Dove - 2