Sightings Archive

Fulwood: Goldfinch - 7 - at feeders ; Chaffinch - 5 - at feeders ; Collared Dove - 1 - at feeders ; Blue Tit - 6 - at feeders ; Great Tit - 3 - at feeders ; Coal Tit - 2 - at feeders

Handsworth: Stock Dove - 7 - Feeding under bird feeders

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female hunting over back gardens on Shearman Avenue @ 13:55.

Meersbrook: Pink-footed Goose - 90+ - 2 flocks over, c.90 at 22:25 low enough to see. Smaller flock hear 10 minutes later followed by a lone straggler

Millhouses garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - fem

Moss Road, Totley: Fieldfare - 10 - Feeding in roadside bushes in driving snow ; Blackbird - 12+ - Feeding in roadside bushes

Orgreave: Peregrine - 1 - Ad female ; Snipe - 1 - East Shore

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting at 07.35 before the snow but in pretty unpleasant conditions, so it must have been hungry

Wadsley Common garden: Woodpigeon - c50 - Repeatedly flying through garden-record number here. ; Pheasant - 6 - Feeding on fallen seed under feeders-record number. ; House Sparrow - 8 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female.

Wharncliffe Side: Collared Dove - 26 - In observers garden, a record count ; Reed Bunting - 1 - female in observers garden, first of the winter ; Brambling - 1 - male feeding on sunflower hearts in observers garden ; Chaffinch - 14+ - in observers garden, one male ringed ; Greenfinch - 6+

Whirlow: Mandarin - 8 - On Whirlowbrook Hall pond

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - ad male on Bernard Road incinerator building

Barbrook Plantation: Stonechat - 1 - On moor just before plantation ; Kestrel - 1

Baslow: 321 - 1

Blacka Moor: 321 - 1 - Standing quietly in Blacka Dike at entrance to reserve

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 44

Chatsworth Park: Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - heard

Chatsworth, Emperor Lake: 321 - 1 ; Goosander - 13 ; 320 - 8

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Kestrel - 1 - female, on wires ; Red-legged Partridge - c25 - single covey

Ecclesall: Blackcap - 2 - male & female in garden on Ansell Road

Fulwood: Brambling - 1 - Male at feeders in observer’s garden (different to yesterday’s bird)

Lodge Moor: Goldfinch - 30

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Lesser Redpoll - 2 - over ; Jay - 3 ; Blackbird - c20 - in Hawthorns ; Redwing - c10 - in Hawthorns ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting

Norton Lees: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 3+ - Still feeding on holly berries, along with Blackbirds ; House Sparrow - 14+ ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Starling - c16

Owlthorpe: Blackcap - 2 - 1 male and 1 female on bird feeder ; Greenfinch - 1 - 1 male on bird feeder

R Don, Effingham St: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st-winter on weir for 20 minutes at 13:00 before flying off downstream ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - another photo ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - photo of partly extended wing ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 ; Goosander - 3 - redheads ; Kingfisher - 1

Rawmarsh: Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew E to W over Rawmarsh Hill in half-light @ 0755hrs

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Redwing - c25 - in Hawthorns ; Blackbird - c25 - in Hawthorns ; Bullfinch - 3 - females, feeding together ; Goldfinch - c5 ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 ; Herring Gull - 2 - SW ; Kestrel - 1 - male, on wires

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 48 - in fields

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - Perched up by nest platform on St George's at lunchtime

Tyzack*s Dam: 321 - 1

Bassingthorpe Spring: Kestrel - 2 - Male and female (pair)? Hunting around SW edge of wood, female making several attempts into brambles and other vegetation. ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Dunnock - 2+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+

Broomhead Res: Willow Tit - 1 - at MIll Lane/Dwarreden.

Clough stream(Indian War Path): Blackbird - 1+