Sightings Archive

R Don, Effingham St: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - adults ; Kingfisher - 2 - chasing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over mobbed by Gulls ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - 2cy birds ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c50 - inc good nos of juvs ; Herring Gull - c15 - sev juvs ; Mandarin - 1 - presumed feral female, with thin purple metal ring. ; Kingfisher - 2 - chasing and calling, one flipped over wall to road at car bumper height, narrowly avoiding being hit

Redmires Bottom Res: Cormorant - 1

Thrybergh CP: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - In filterbed area

Tyzack*s Dam: Swallow - 22 - Feeding high over and then drifting SSW ; Moorhen - 5 - Two adults. one fully fledged juv and two very small young.

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 6 - 5 ads, 1x2w Warren St

Foxhill: Swallow - c10 - Circling over Hagg Farm in drizzle.

Ladybower Res, North arm: 321 - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Siskin - 1 - On feeders near car park ; House Martin - c30 - c16 + c14 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 6 - in a rowan

Langsett Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - juvenile ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - 15.45

Meersbrook Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 - At bottom of stream

Midhope Res: Yellow Wagtail - 3+ ; Goosander - 6 - Low west 7.15, looked to be all females/juvs. ; 320 - 14 ; Pied Wagtail - c20 - incl several juvs ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; House Martin - 70-100 ; Meadow Pipit - c70 ; Swallow - c20 ; Black-headed Gull - c400 - Slowly ESE leaving Langsett Res roost 7-7.30am ; Yellow Wagtail - c20 - Feeding group by dam wall at 16.00 before they all left NW. ; Pied Wagtail - c30 - Feeding along dam wall and western shore. ; 319 - 5 ; Little Grebe - 15 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - Appeared at 16.20.

Norfolk Park: Mistle Thrush - 1+ - feeding on Sorbus berries in amenity planting in Park Grange Rd along with 1 Blackbird ; Blackbird - 1 - feeding on Sorbus berries

Orgreave Lakes: Shoveler - 5 ; Dunlin - 4 ; Redshank - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - Over ; Hobby - 1 - South at 0837 ; Swift - 6 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Greylag Goose - 147 ; Redshank - 2 ; Dunlin - 1

Ramsley Moor: Redstart - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Brief bursts of song ; Snipe - 3 - High to N-W ; Swallow - 20+ - Feeding low over bracken in mist

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 10 ; 320 - 6 ; Lapwing - 26 ; Ringed Plover - 3 - Juvs on Middle Res ; Chiffchaff - 9 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Starling - 120 - in fields - inc leucistic bird ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 45 - c ; Herring Gull - 12 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 75 - c. In fields

Sheffield Centre: Starling - c30 - Flock flying over road from New Era Square to land on St Mary's Church along with 2 feral pigeons.

Silver Wood: Mistle Thrush - 9 - on wires and in stubble adjacent to western edge of woods

Thrybergh CP: Ruff - 1 - On front with lapwings ; Sparrowhawk - 1m ; Linnet - C50 ; Lapwing - 32

Wadsley Common garden: Swallow - 5 - 3 young fledged from nest in outbuilding this morning and returned to roost this evening-second successful brood.

Burncross: Swift - 12+ - At least 12 feeding relatively low over housing estates in overcast conditions at 19.25.

Ecclesall: Peregrine - 2 - male and female circled low over a Ansell Road at 17:45 hrs

Longshaw: Swallow - 8 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - calling and singing for a short time ; Redstart - 1 - female

Malin Bridge: Kingfisher - 1 - one of many sightings at the pond below our garden from late July to late November up to 2 birds

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 650 - Roosting ; Black-headed Gull - 285 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2

Midhope Res: Yellow Wagtail - 5 - Fly catching around dam wall. ; Swallow - c50 ; House Martin - c70 ; Pied Wagtail - c30 - Abundant along dam wall fly catching. ; Mallard - 67 ; 319 - 2 ; Linnet - 2+ ; Meadow Pipit - c30 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Little Grebe - 14 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing 13.45 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ - Part of mixed tit flock ; Blue Tit - 10+

Orgreave Lakes: Black-tailed Godwit - 3 - 2 adults at 06:30, juv in at 07:30 ; Redshank - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Still present