Sightings Archive

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Greenfinch - 1 - NW

Parkgate; fields to W: Red-legged Partridge - 34

Parkgate; Scrooby Lane to Glossop Lodge: Greenfinch - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 21 ; Black-headed Gull - 15 - feeding in field ; Common Gull - 1 - 2cy, with BH flock ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

R Don, Eastwood: Mute Swan - 1 - WSW, towards canal basin ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 320 - 15+ - noisy display ; Mallard - 70-80 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 4 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Goosander - 1 - drake ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Grey Heron - 1 - over to SE

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Redwing - 5 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Blackbird - c30 - feeding amongst leaf litter ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from tower of St Mary's church

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 1 - over to W ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Redmires Res: Mallard - 32

Sheffield Centre; Haymarket: Feral Pigeon - c30 - feeding on bird seed ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Sheffield Centre; Park Square: Feral Pigeon - 40+ - feeding on ground where food is regularly left, several males courting. ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Herring Gull - 3 - One on roof of Ponds Forge the others flying over.

Sheffield University: Redwing - 2 - feeding on Cotoneaster berries in front of Octagon Centre/A57 ; Blackbird - 2 - Feeding on Cotoneaster berries by Octagon Centre ; Magpie - 1 - By Octagon Centre

Silver Wood (Pit Wood): Tawny Owl - 3 - Pair and single bird in usual roosting spots. ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12

Silverwood Lagoon: Goosander - 1 - male WNW at 08.50

Stanage Edge: Stonechat - 1 - male near Cowper Stone

Stubley Hollow: Raven - 1 - one tumbling

Summerley: Redwing - 10+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Starling - 12

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Pochard - 8 ; Tufted Duck - C40 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Lapwing - C80 ; Fieldfare - 41 ; Blackbird - C20 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Goldfinch - C20 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Lesser Redpoll - 31 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Skylark - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1

Wentworth: Meadow Pipit - 4 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Redwing - 1 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Weston Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - on pond ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Mallard - c50 ; Feral Pigeon - at least 50 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Westwood CP: Dipper - 1 - Seen on stones dipping at Blackburn Brook

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 70+ - flock

Chapeltown: Woodpigeon - c500 - NNW in small groups 3-3.30pm ; Collared Dove - 3 ; Goldfinch - 3

Dore: Blue Tit - 3 - feeding from the inside of yellow flowers on a mahonia shrub, presumably on nectar

Ecclesall: Stock Dove - 2 - Pair copulating in church yard

Ecclesall Woods: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Wood Two. Yaffling.

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Kestrel - 2

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1 - Present for last two days. ; 320 - 1 - Female. ; Mallard - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1