Sightings Archive

Whiteley Woods: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Woodhouse Washlands: Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Canada Goose - 7 ; Greylag Goose - 1 - With Canada Geese ; Goosander - 1 - F ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Dunnock - 1

Crookes Valley Park: 320 - 1 - male

Crowhole: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1

Ecclesall: Tawny Owl - 2 - male calling from Ecclesall churchyard + distant female from infants school area

Handsworth Garden: Bullfinch - 3 - All males on sunflower heart feeders

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Male making frequent visits to the garden fatball feeder.

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - 28 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - heard ; Stock Dove - 1

Northern General Hospital: Redwing - c 40 - In trees and foraging in fresh wood chippings

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - 50+

Silverwood Lagoon: 320 - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 - trilling birds at either end of lagoon

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Staveley SF: Green Sandpiper - 1

Treeton Dyke: Song Thrush - 3 - Singing on Hemmingway Close 08.45

Walkley Cemetery: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Waverley: 319 - 1 - Over 08.30 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding near rapids near Bridge 10.10 ; Skylark - 4 - South end of Lake, brief song 10.20

Bingham Park: Dipper - 1 - feeding in stream ; Dipper - 1 - photo ; Dipper - 1 - final photo

Botanical Gardens: Carrion Crow - c50

Brinsworth: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Low west over Whitehill Lane. 09.55

Dore: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing at 17:50

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 6 - 4f and 2m around feeders ; Blackcap - 1 - female still ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; Siskin - 2 - including singing male

Harthill Res: Little Egret - 1 ; Goosander - 4 - 4 RH ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; 320 - 2 ; Fieldfare - 20 ; Siskin - 25

Kimberworth Park: Black-headed Gull - c40 - @ Roughwood Rec

Loxley Valley: Tufted Duck - 10 - 7 (5m,2f) Loxley park mill dam, 3 (2m,1f) Olive Wheel dam ; Coot - 2p - pairs on Loxley Park milpond, and Old Wheel Dam. ; 320 - 3 - drakes on Old Wheel Dam ; Greylag Goose - 1 - Old Wheel Dam ; Canada Goose - 53 - Old Wheel Dam ; Dipper - 1 - Storrs Bridge

Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 ; Magpie - 30 - Together on a clump of trees

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 11+ - small flock with some squabbling over the feeders, probably the best count in the sixth winter of feeding birds in this garden

Moorhall: Golden Plover - 20

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling occasionally, 0500-0600hrs; possibly a second, more distant bird responding

Silverwood Lagoon: Goosander - 4 - 4 'redheads' at 08:20, soon departed

Ulley Res: Kingfisher - 1 - In willow by overflow stream

Whiteley Woods: Treecreeper - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 - in 2 parties ; Siskin - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2

Agden Side: Peregrine - 1 - ad over Agden Rocher towards Strines Res

Aughton: Skylark - 1 - in field nr Burgoyne Park ; 319 - 3 - Over woods at back of Burgoyne Park ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female hunting ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+ - Feeding on garden nird feeders

Brinsworth garden: Blackcap - 1 - 1 male feeding and bathing, only 2nd time in 20+ years ; Greenfinch - 2 - on feeder

Chatsworth Park: Redwing - 30 ; Brambling - 4

Edge Mount: Redwing - c60 - feeding with Fieldfares. ; Fieldfare - c100 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Green Moor: Lapwing - 15 - Feeding in field together

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - m singing full song

Hassop: 319 - 4 ; Raven - 1

High Bradfield: Meadow Pipit - 2 - feeding in fields near brewery.

Low Common: Kestrel - 1 - male into N edge of Rockingham Wood.

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1 - male coming to fatballs for second day.

Meersbrook Park: Sparrowhawk - 1m

Middle Common: 319 - 3 - 2 together calling between Scholes Coppice and Shepherd's Plantation, joined by one from Cinder Hills.

Midhope Moor: Red Grouse - 6+ ; Red Grouse - 6+ - photo

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Mallard - 30+ ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 2 female

Orgreave Lakes: Lapwing - 54 ; Herring Gull - 166 - Pre roost ; Great Black-backed Gull - 26 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 - Calling at dusk

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c140 - highest count so far this winter but numbers well down on previous years.