Sightings Archive

Clough stream(Indian War Path): Redwing - 1+ ; Dunnock - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1+

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 - Flew from willlows. ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male on wires. ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Fieldfare - 30+ ; Redwing - 10+ ; Starling - 40+ - Mixed flock with Fieldfare. ; Lesser Redpoll - 5+ - Feeding in treetops with Siskin. ; Siskin - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 11 - On seed heads. ; Pheasant - 6 ; 324 - 1 - Roe Buck.

Fulwood: Brambling - 1 - female at feeders in observer's garden - scarce this autumn/ winter ; Herring Gull - 3 - N

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 112 - roosted ; Common Gull - 1 - adult roosted with BHGs

Sheffield Centre: Pink-footed Goose - c80 - SE at 13:40

Sothall: Pink-footed Goose - c170 - North at 1030hr

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Greylag Goose - 46 - single flock feeding in fields ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting from wires

Wardlow: Pink-footed Goose - 70 - WNW at 10.35 in low cloud/drizzle

Wharncliffe Wood: 319 - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Brinsworth: Pied Wagtail - 3 - Around Sam's sandwich shop, looking for food scraps 10.30

Calver: Fieldfare - 30-40 - feeding on hawthorn by road to Hassop ; Stonechat - 2 - pr above Coombesdale

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 3 ; Mallard - 2 - Pair. ; 320 - 2 - First record this winter. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Cottage roof. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male in woodland. ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male low through sheep paddock. ; Stock Dove - 4 - On old farm building. ; Jackdaw - 10 - Down on sheep paddock. ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 - Avoiding shooting party. ; Pheasant - 1 ; Fieldfare - 25+ - Over. ; Jay - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling

Fulwood: Common Gull - 1 - first winter flew N

Gillfield Wood: Kestrel - 1 - Hovering by roadside at west end of wood

High Rake: Mallard - 40+ - on and around pond at eastern end of the quarry

Kimberworth Park: Pied Wagtail - 2 - On roof of flats @ Roughwood Way.

Longshaw: Treecreeper - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 6 ; Jay - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 3+ - Feeding on holly berries

Oakes Park: 319 - 2 - soaring

Rockingham Wood: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Rother Valley CP: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - "bubbling" with Long-tailed Tits ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Redwing - 1 - with Blackbirds ; Goosander - 6 - 2m and 4 redheads

Stanage Edge, below: Reed Bunting - 1 - around plantation by Hollin Bank car park - one of very few birds about

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 - S low over fields toward Shepherd's Plantation, ; Linnet - c100 ; Chaffinch - c20

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 1

Wharncliffe Side: Redwing - 1 - in observers garden, more frequently recorded this year

Wingfield: Feral Pigeon - 80+ - @ flats NE of Roughwood Rec.

Aldwarke: Kestrel - 1 - Four unsuccessful attempts at taking prey from bird feeder Liberty Steels. 12.00-1300 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female on feeder 15.10 ; Goldfinch - 10 - On and around feeder

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w again at Warren St ; Herring Gull - c130 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 10 ; Black-headed Gull - c80 - inc bird with near full hood

Dore: Blackcap - 1 - 1 male in observers garden

Elsecar Res: 320 - 6

Firsby Res: Herring Gull - 8 - Down on farmland. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 10 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Both down worming. ; Jackdaw - 6 ; Jay - 1 ; Fieldfare - 40+