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From the Sightings Archive you are able to search for archived sighting records which are more than 3 years old and dating back to 2011.

Sunday 24th January 2021

  • Oughtibridge: Redwing - 50 - Feeding in muddy fields adjoining the Cemetery and Boggard Lane
  • Park Hill flats: Pied Wagtail - 2 - Feeding among leaf litter at the side of City Road ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Robin - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Goldfinch - c4 ; Blackbird - 3
  • Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 70 - inc 17 2cy ; Bullfinch - 1 - female ; Black-headed Gull - c30 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 7 - max together; bathing before returning to nearby recycling centre ; Herring Gull - c70 - max together; bathing before returning to nearby recycling centre
  • Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Siskin - 11 - all N/NE ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; 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

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