Sightings Archive

Green Moor: Chaffinch - 10+ ; Yellowhammer - 2

Hangingwater winter garden: Blackbird - 3 - m fighting over food ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Robin - 3 ; Redwing - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - m

Hathersage: Siskin - 20 - At feeding stations in garden ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 ; Brambling - 4

High Green: Collared Dove - 4 - Hall Wood Road

Lodge Moor: Common Gull - 1 - Adult on its own in fields ; Tree Sparrow - 2 - Apparent pair on Lodge Moor Rd

Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - c6

Millhouses: Blackcap - 2 - Male and female in Stowe Avenue garden ; Starling - 11 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 14 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Moss Road Totley: Willow Tit - 3 ; Stonechat - 3 - Single adult female and male plus 1st winter male ; Dunnock - 13 - Came to feed on seed provided ; Blackbird - 16 - Came to seed provided ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 - Feeding on fat balls ; Carrion Crow - 4 - Feeding on fruit provided

Norton Lees garden: Blackbird - 4+ ; Chaffinch - 1m ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - fem low over garden

Rawmarsh: Fieldfare - c40 - flock SE @ 1100hrs

Redmires: 319 - 2 - Feeding in fields from stone walls ; Fieldfare - 40 - In rough fields

RVCP, Main Lake: Little Egret - 1 - Roosting on island

Thorncliffe Woods, High Green: Goldcrest - 7+ - Across 3 mixed tit groups ; Redwing - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Robin - 6 - Incl 3 singing in close proximity near street lighting ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Siskin - 2 ; Common Gull - 4

Barley Hall: Redwing - 90+ - Feeding in field ; Goldfinch - 20 - Feeding in field ; Nuthatch - 1

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 1 - male with tit flock

Green Moor: House Sparrow - 25+ - A good count for the lawn ; Tree Sparrow - 7

Hall Wood, High Green: Bullfinch - 10 - 2 separate groups of 5 ; Jay - 2 ; Redwing - 6 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Goldcrest - 5 ; Treecreeper - 4 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Woodpigeon - c70

Handsworth garden: Goldcrest - 1 ; House Sparrow - 14 - On and around feeders . ; Goldfinch - 13 - On and around feeders ; Greenfinch - 9 ; Chaffinch - 3 - Under feeders.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - In with 73 Greylag, not the limping bird.

Millhouses Lane garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in the late evening in the neighbourhood

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 2 ; 321 - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 - Feeding flock near the "S" bend ; Mandarin - 6 - Wolf wheel dam ; Goosander - 3 - Wolf wheel dam

Thorpe Hesley: Bullfinch - 2 ; Fieldfare - 200+ - Mixed flock feeding in fields between Thorpe Hesley and Wentworth, disturbed by Sparrowhawk ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female

Totley Rise: Siskin - 2

Walkley garden: Jay - 2 - Pair around ivy covered tree.

Blackamoor: Stonechat - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Fieldfare - 8 ; Redwing - 2

Ecclesall: Blackbird - 16 - roosted in garden on Ansell Road

Forge Dam: 320 - 1 - male above cafe

Frecheville: Goosander - 3 - Frecheville pond

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 7 ; Blackbird - 9 - Lawn count ; Yellowhammer - 4