Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Linnet - 28 ; Chaffinch - 18 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Bullfinch - 10 ; Goldfinch - 25 ; Kestrel - 1m ; Treecreeper - 2 - In caravan park

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - in sheep paddock. ; Fieldfare - 30+ - In tree tops. ; Redwing - 2 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair

Graves Park: Tufted Duck - 17 - 14 male, 3 female ; Goldcrest - 1 singing

Handsworth: Merlin - 1 - chasing a small bird

R Don, Effingham St: Black-headed Gull - c80 - inc white colour ringed Norwegian bird ringed as a chick S of Oslo in 2019

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 2 ; Grey Heron - 4 - Inc 3 together in a tree. ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Perched on stone wall. ; Siskin - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1+ - Call only. ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1

Redmires: Stonechat - 1 - female along Long Causeway

Redmires conduit: 319 - 1 - perched in tree near the "plughole"

Redmires Plantation: Coal Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Goldfinch - c5 ; Moorhen - 2 - flew across road to reservoir ; Robin - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - flew over from east towards direction of bottom res.

Sheffield Centre: Chiffchaff - 2 - SIBERIAN and Common Chiffchaff still present, Howard Street ; Chiffchaff - 1 - ssp. tristis (photo) still present on and off at the top of Howard Street, often accompanying a 'collybita'. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - ssp. tristis, another photo ; Redwing - c12 - On Arundel Street feeding on rotting Rowan berries with 4 Mistle Thrush ; Mistle Thrush - 4

Silverwood Lagoon: Grey Partridge - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over

Stanage Edge: Carrion Crow - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting over edge ; Red Grouse - c8

Thrybergh: Common Buzzard - 1 - sat in tree in field W of Country Park

Thrybergh Cemetery: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Linnet - 9 - inc singing male, in boundary trees ; Chaffinch - c50 - in boundary trees; dropping into adjacent field to feed (no Brambling seen) ; Reed Bunting - 1+ - with Chaffinch flock

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - c300 - on dam at dawn (presumably roosted) ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Lapwing - 133 ; Gadwall - 16 ; Canada Goose - 59 ; Pochard - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Greylag Goose - 126 - inc 15 SW ; Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with Greylags ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 52 ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Gadwall - 7 - 3prs + 1m ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Pochard - 3 - drakes ; Bullfinch - 11 ; Grey Heron - 4 - 3 on dam; 1 S end ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Black-headed Gull - c60 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 14 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Herring Gull - 4 - adult, dyed bright blue on underparts + 3 2cy ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Sparrowhawk - 1m ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Cormorant - 2 - W, then S ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 50-60 - pond field; left S/SE ; Reed Bunting - 5+ - at S end ; Yellowhammer - 2 - males, S end ; Greenfinch - 6 - together, S end ; Water Rail - 1 - calling from dense cover, S end

Totley Moor: SNOW BUNTING - 1

Agden Res: Greylag Goose - 93 ; Tawny Owl - 3 - calling ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling