Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Jay - 1 - scolded by Blackbird. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing Males. ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Flock over calling. ; Redwing - 15+ - In treetop over Dam wall. ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - All singing. ; Goldcrest - 2 - Pair chasing around tree trunk calling. ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 8 - 5m (some singing), 3f

Heeley: Common Buzzard - 1 - low over Heeley Bank at 17:40

Hillsborough Park: 320 - 1 - Lovesick male teal vigorously pursuing much larger female Mallard on pond ; Coot - 4 - 2 sitting on separate nests on pond

Limb Valley: Wren - 1 ; 320 - 2 - a pair on lake at bottom of Valley

Lodge Moor garden: Grey Heron - 1 - 2nd visit at 17:00 to pond with frogs and spawn

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1

Redmires Top Res: Stonechat - 2 - Male and female below Top Res dam at 11:30

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1+ - 4th egg laid this evening

Woodhouse Washlands: Mallard - 1 - female on nest with 9 eggs ; 320 - 4 - pair and two males ; Snipe - 72 - across the site ; Jack Snipe - 5 - across the site ; Jack Snipe - 5 - another photo ; Water Rail - 1 - calling

Arbourthorne: Moorhen - 2 - a pair on pond 17:30. ; Mallard - 8 - 6 males 2 females ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - around pond ; Chiffchaff - 2 - in trees by pond ; Starling - c95 - in trees and on adj fields ; Carrion Crow - 2

Birley Edge: Starling - 80+

Greystones garden: House Sparrow - 2+ - Mating in observer's garden

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 17 - North at 0715 ; Little Egret - 1

Redmires: Siskin - 2 - coming to sunflower hearts at feeders ; 324 - 2 - Bank Vole at roadside feeders

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 2 - display flight in blizzard!

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Swallow - 5 - first here this year

Silver Wood: Blackcap - 1 - singing in strip of woodland south of Hollings Lane

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - 500+ - Huge flock in the air, and many alighted in field

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1+ ; Mallard - 10+ ; Coot - 5+ ; Moorhen - 2 - 1 pair chased by Coot ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing, N side ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Jackdaw - 2 - 1 pair nest building, S side

Dore: 319 - 1 - Circling over centre of village calling

Fulwood garden: Jackdaw - 6 - gathering nest material ; Starling - 1 - gathering nest material ; Brambling - 10+ - 10-12 at feeders; best count of the spring

Hagg Lane Allotments: Fieldfare - 12 - Over Den Bank Woods from West. Winter is coming. ; House Sparrow - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing from Den Bank Wood

Hurlfield: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - a pair in garden using feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - a pair in garden ; Greenfinch - 1+ - male on feeders and display flight ; Goldfinch - c10

Manor Fields Park: Red Kite - 1 - over south end of park 16:14 drifted towards Norfolk Park ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - male hunting ; Mallard - 2 - a pair on pond. ; Cormorant - 2 - flew over SW 16:18.

Middleton Moor: Avocet - 1 - Still present at 17:20 ; Grey Heron - 2 - Dropped in, constantly mobbed by Lapwing and Black headed Gull ; Tufted Duck - 5

Midhope Res: Whooper Swan - 1 - Still present 7.30 - Yorks Swan Rescue aware ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Oystercatcher - 2 - a pair ; Little Grebe - 1

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1+ ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; 319 - 1 ; Coot - 1 - @ nest, E end, in reeds ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 6+ - probably feeding on fishing bait ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - pair copulating ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults loafing ; Herring Gull - 4 - adults loafing

Redmires Top Res: Little Grebe - 2 - including one trilling

Rivelin Valley: Goosander - 1 - male on Rivelin Corn Mill Dam (near Rails Road car park).

RVCP, Main Lake: Carrion Crow - 54 - usual spring gathering on the lawns

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1+ - 3rd egg laid this morning

Stannington: Starling - 20 - Over fields below Oldfield Rd ; Rook - 6 - 3 pais nesting in trees by stables just off Long Lanr ; Starling - 12 - On wires above paddocks

Walkley garden: Stock Dove - 2 - Pair in fruit trees and under seed feeder

Bamford Edge: Ring Ouzel - 2 - A pair prospecting suitable breeding sites

Bassingthorpe Spring: Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls