Sightings Archive

Tuesday 19th March 2019

• Harthill Res: 319 - 2 - pr ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pr
• High Moor A618 road: 324 - 1 - Peacock, strolling by the side of the road, my first in Sheffield !
• Keppels Field: Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Robin - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ ; House Sparrow - 5+ ; Dunnock - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing, W of Column. ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+
• Lodge Moor: Siskin - 2 - male and female visiting feeder.
• Low Hall Wood, Chapeltown: Kestrel - 1 - Fluttering wing display 8am
• Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - Male in reedbed and singing at 11:15 ; Water Rail - 1 - In reedbed calling ; Mallard - 6 - 4 drake. 2 fem. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Jay - 3 - Together seeing off male kestrel. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting then flew/chased to cemetery ; Linnet - 9 ; Greenfinch - 5+ - 3 displaying males ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 1 pair nest building. ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - flew over north calling ; Jackdaw - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Robin - 6+ - at least six birds singing across site 11:10-12:10
• Meadowhall Interchange: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Middleton Moor: Curlew - 96 - roosted on No.4 lagoon ; Lapwing - 7 ; 320 - 1 - male ; Raven - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 70 - c. roosted ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 1 ad with LBBs ; Common Gull - 35 - c. roosted ; Starling - 2000 - brief mumuration before roosting ; Magpie - 15 - c. roosting ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - flew SW ; Reed Bunting - 2 - calling
• Monsal Dale: Chiffchaff - 1
• Moscar House: Snipe - 2+ - drumming and chipping ; Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk
• Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 1 ; Jay - 5 - in same tree between river and railway bridges
• Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 2 ; Siskin - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2
• Owlthorpe: Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing
• R Don, Rutland Rd: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying low above the river, opposite Bickerton Skoda.
• Ramsley Moor: Woodcock - 2+ - Roding at dusk
• Ravenfield ponds: Great Tit - 8 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 8 ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 2 at ponds 1 on St James's Church ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; 319 - 1 - Mobbed by Crows. ; Blackbird - 05-Jun ; Magpie - 2 ; Skylark - 3 - Singing over oil seed field. ; Chaffinch - 4
• Redmires Middle Res: Linnet - c60 - very mobile, feeding in res basin
• Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 6 - 3 male 3 female also 2 oystercatchers ; Goosander - - demale ar fisk
• Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 7 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 4 - Drumming and chasing. ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Robin - 5
• Rotherham Centre; Central Road: Siskin - 1+ - over (heard only) @ 0800hrs
• Rotherham Centre; Main Street: Grey Heron - 1 - SW @ 0953hrs
• Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 3+ - sing ; Wren - 4 - sing ; Robin - 5 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ - inc sing ; Coal Tit - 1 - sing ; Great Tit - 1+ - sing ; Nuthatch - 2 - sing ; Chaffinch - 2 - sing ; Brambling - 2
• Scholes Lane: Lapwing - 3 - 1 Displaying,2 among spud? crop. Field adj to Keppels Field. ; Collared Dove - 2 - Prob pr, on telegraph pole. ; Blackbird - 1 - sing ; Dunnock - 1 - sing ; Chaffinch - 1 - sing ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Skylark - 2 - One either side of lane.
• Sheffield Parkway: Kestrel - 1 - On lamppost side of Parkway near Catcliffe.
• Shirebrook Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, near Carr Forge pond.