Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female attacking small flock of starlings

R Don, Aldwarke: Cormorant - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Siskin - 01-Feb - over ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Moorhen - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 - calling ; Goosander - 6 - 4m; 2 redheads ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - adult on adjacent pylon briefly ; Song Thrush - 1 - in full song

R Don, Eastwood: Mute Swan - 2 - adult pair ; 320 - 12 - noisy display ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - c40 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Cormorant - 8 - 1 flew downriver; 7 loafing on gantry over river

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 5 - 4 RH + 1 Ad Male ; Mallard - 61

Redmires Top Res: Waxwing - c150 - Flew west over NW corner of top res. in 3 flocks at 15:40 ; Waxwing - 107 - W in 4 flocks between 15:30 and 15:50 (counted from photos) ; Crossbill - 3 - W late afternoon ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - W late afternoon

Scholes Village: Barn Owl - 1

Sheffield Centre: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from Park Hill area

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Coot - 15 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c.40 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Snipe - 2 ; Rook - 14 - in fields to west ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in Hollings Lane sidings at dawn

Smithy Wood: Snipe - 14 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Fieldfare - 8

Stocksbridge: Waxwing - 4 - briefly at The Venue, Manchester Rd, left SW at 15:50

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 23 ; Goldeneye - 2m/f ; Tufted Duck - c60 ; Pochard - 15 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 f

Totley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male flew across garden and perched in apple tree by feeders

Drakehouse: Mistle Thrush - 3 - together, Eckington Way

Gleadless Townend: Waxwing - 5 - circling above, presumably searching out rowan/berry trees

Graves Park: Goosander - 9 - On Boating Lake, 6 males and 3 redheads. ; Black-headed Gull - c50 - Total across all 3 ponds. ; Carrion Crow - c50 - Towards Charles Ashmore Road entrance.

Herringthorpe Valley Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - N along road, towards Aldwarke

Kimberworth Park: Collared Dove - 6 - on aerial at Shearman Avenue

Leash Fen: Barn Owl - 1 - Flying at dusk

Middle Common, Scholes: 319 - 2 - together on telegraph poles ; Kestrel - 1 - on telegraph pole, possibly eating prey? ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Wren - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - male and female ; Magpie - 2+

Millhouses: Waxwing - 30+ - Resting briefly in large ash tree at 12:15

Millhouses Park: Waxwing - 24 - Briefly at 10:05 before departing west

Nether Edge: Waxwing - 25 - on Albany Road at 09:50

Nether Edge garden: Blackcap - 1 - First of the winter

Ramsley Res: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - Mobile between Ramsley and Leash ; Waxwing - 19 - In rowan for short time then departed

Rockingham Wood: Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1

Scholes Coppice: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Pheasant - 1

Sheffield Centre: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing from large tree in Pounds Park ; Waxwing - 2 - In tops of bare trees on the Division Street edge of Devonshire Green.

Stocksbridge garden: Willow Tit - 1 - at feeders this morning - first here for 10+ years

Upper Common, Scholes: Woodpigeon - 70+ ; Linnet - 40+ - up from cover crop into adjacent Raspberry Plantation at Scholes Coppice

Wortley: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing 9.30am ; Pink-footed Goose - c50 - West 11.50