Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Displaying ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Feeding on ground in sheep paddock with Redwings, Mistle Thrushes and.Starlings ; Redwing - 5+ ; Starling - 30+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Chaffinch - 2 - Males one singing. ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14

Green Moor: Brambling - 10+ - Still present feeding on lawn

Heeley City Farm: Cormorant - 1 - flying low to the west roughly along course of the R Sheaf.

Hillsborough garden: Brambling - 1 - male on feeder

Kimberworth: Greenfinch - 1

Kiveton Community Woodland: Willow Tit - 3 - 2 birds at SK4928 and 1 at SK4848 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Dunnock - 6+ ; Robin - 8+ ; Reed Bunting - 10+ ; Snipe - 1

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 35 ; Common Gull - 62 ; Curlew - 38 - 36 in fields between No 3 and No 4 lagoon

Poolsbrook CP: Iceland Gull - 1 - a juv, late morning

Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - plus about 20 Teal

Sheffield, East End: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - back on breeding territory

Silver Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in woodland at Hollings Lane end of disused r/way line. Earliest-ever for Silverwood area

Silverwood Lagoon: Shoveler - 1pr ; Linnet - 7 - 2 singing ; 319 - 2 - pair displaying over Round Wood and The Close ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Skylark - 4 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 7 - singing

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 15 ; Grey Heron - 21 ; Canada Goose - 36 ; Pochard - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 46 ; Pheasant - 2 - crow. ; Black-headed Gull - 200 - #NAME? ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Wren - 4 - sing ; Dunnock - 29 - 17sing ; Robin - 16 - 11sing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Chaffinch - 15 - 11sing. ; Brambling - 22 ; Reed Bunting - 17 - 5sing ; Yellowhammer - 2 - mf ; Water Rail - 3 ; Skylark - 5 - sing

Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 3 - On feeders. Present for over a month now.

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Attercliffe: Black-headed Gull - c120 - including J3K1 again, ringed Oslo in 2016, Warren St.

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 24

Ecclesall Woods: Grey Heron - 18 - minimum of 18 birds now in the heronry

Handsworth garden: Greenfinch - 9 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 7 - all on and around sunflower feeders.

Kelham Island: Goosander - 2 - males

Pit-house West: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - a pair - male singing

R Don, Beeley Wood: Goosander - 2

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 4 - 2m 2f ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults ; Herring Gull - 20

Redmires Top Res: Ringed Plover - 2

RVCP: Cormorant - 24 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - close to completing a nest in riverside brambles

RVCP, Main Lake: Mute Swan - 1 - DARVIC ring red left 296Y ; Oystercatcher - 2 - a pair mobile around the park ; Sand Martin - 6

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Goosander - 22 ; Goldeneye - 10

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - Next to nest box

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew downstream, also seen on Ibbotson Dam ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

The Wicker: Cormorant - 2 - flying downstream over the course of the Don over Nursery Street and The Wicker. Possibly one of the same going the opposite direction later

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mute Swan - 20 ; Greylag Goose - 29 - inc.9flew s ; Canada Goose - 13 - and 1 grey feral