Sightings Archive

Redmires Res: Reed Bunting - 10 ; Stonechat - 2 - by Bottom Res

Redmires Top Res: Reed Bunting - 6 - At least 6, very mobile along water edge ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Brambling - 4+ - with chaffinches feeding on the ground near car park ; Chaffinch - 15

Ringinglow: Brambling - 10 ; Nuthatch - 2

Sheffield Centre: Kingfisher - 2 - Pair of Kingfishers on river next to Metropolitan hotel

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 - female ; Kingfisher - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 6 ; Common Gull - 5 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c.90 ; Coot - 17 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Linnet - c.80 - in fields to west ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Skylark - 10+ - in stubble to west ; Woodpigeon - c.200 - in stubble to west ; Rook - 8 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - a few singles around pit top ; Pheasant - 25+ ; Pink-footed Goose - c.120 - ESE at 09.10 ; Jay - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 - three parties ; Jackdaw - 7 - 5-1-1 west ; Cormorant - 1 ; Starling - c.150 - in stubble to west

Sothall: Golden Plover - 1 - nocmig recorded overnight 0343hr ; Redwing - 9 - nocmig recorded overnight ; Blackbird - 1 - nocmig recorded overnight

Stocksbridge: Pink-footed Goose - 120 - c120 east over Stocksbridge at 08:25

Thrybergh CP: Pink-footed Goose - 140 - se ; Water Rail - 1

Thrybergh Tip: Goldcrest - 4 ; Jackdaw - 2 - S ; Siskin - 3 - SE ; Pink-footed Goose - c150 - E/SE @ 0857hrs (same as TCP & Silverwood birds) ; Herring Gull - 26 - all SW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Pheasant - 8 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Grey Heron - 2 - over from river, calling ; 320 - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Coot - 6 ; Mute Swan - 1pr - resident pair ; Gadwall - 11 ; Cormorant - 3 - 3 SW (one u-turned) ; Redwing - c30 - feeding on haws ; Bullfinch - 6 - inc party of 5 ; Jay - 4 ; Goldfinch - 30-40 - feeding ; Common Buzzard - 1 - on pylon

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Jay - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Song Thrush - 2

Ulley CP: Willow Tit - 1 - again resident in Morthen Arm.

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1

Abbeydale: Kestrel - 1 - Male over Abbeydale Golf Course ; Jay - 2 - AGC

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - c40

Edge Mount: Chaffinch - c60 - feeding on Beech mast on Lumb Lane in rain ; Brambling - c15 - feeding with Chaffinch flock

Foulstone Delph: Brambling - 100+ - Flock in flight over Beeches S of Strines Dike, looked to be largely if not all Bramblings.

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 7

Sothall: Redwing - 6 - nocmig recorded overnight ; Song Thrush - 1 - nocmig recorded overnight ; Blackbird - 2 - nocmig recorded overnight

Stubley Hollow: Blackbird - 20 ; Greenfinch - 11 ; Starling - 70 ; Redwing - 47 ; Kestrel - 2

Thrybergh CP: Brambling - 1

Brightside: Fieldfare - 1 - feeding in Rowan, President Park

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Flushed from sluice. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Call. ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Pair on telegraph pole.

Longshaw: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 2 (1 + 1)

Longshaw Lake: Mandarin - 20+ - Hard to count as in corner ; Tufted Duck - 1f ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 29+