Sightings Archive

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 3 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Goosander - 4 - Two pairs ; Dipper - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 6

Sothall: Mute Swan - 3 - 2 ad, 1 imm north 1620hr

Storrs Dike: Wigeon - 1 - female, present for a while now ; Mallard - 107 ; Moorhen - 1

Thorpe Hesley: Lapwing - 41

Wortley Hall: Kestrel - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Yellowhammer - c20 - Around what look like an old sun flower patch in the fields. ; Reed Bunting - c40 - With Yellowhammers in going sunflower patch. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Redwing - 1+ ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Common Gull - 1

Barlow Common: 319 - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+

Cross Hill, Ecclesfield: Goldfinch - 13 - Feeding in birch tree. ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - Feeding with Goldfinch.

Firth Park: Magpie - 2 - pair renovating last years nest.

Greystones garden: Pied Wagtail - 2 - 1st sighting in observer's garden for more than 2 years

Handsworth garden: Goldfinch - 24 - On and around feeders. ; Goldfinch - 24 - On and around feeders. ; Chaffinch - 7 - All day,under feeders

High Green: Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Goldfinch - 15 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Hurlfield garden: Nuthatch - 2 - to feeders on+off all day. ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 30 - up to 30 to feeders all day. ; Robin - 2 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 3

Killamarsh Meadows: 320 - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 110 ; Pied Wagtail - 20

Millhouses garden: Siskin - 1f - briefly with a small flock of Goldfinch; first for quite a while ; Goldfinch - around 20 ; Goldcrest - 1

Norwood Allotments: Skylark - 2 - Over east early morning. Presumably moving due to the snow. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - over east early morning.

Silver Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting high in tree tops. ; 319 - 1 - Perched at edge of wood.

Walkley garden: Starling - 45+ - Groups congregating in top of ash tree.

Woodseats: Goldfinch - 41 - Pre roost gathering which coincides with some Starlings and this creates a regular 'Charmuration'.

Worrall: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1F - Flew down Stockarth Lane, then back up to Worrall lower park

Agden Res: Pink-footed Goose - 100+ - reported feeding in field at side of Smallfield Hamlet and flying on to res ; Mandarin - 6 ; Mallard - 08-Oct ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 06-Oct ; Coal Tit - 08-Dec ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blackbird - 5 ; Redwing - 4 ; Magpie - 3 ; Rook - 22 ; Jackdaw - 8 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Robin - 04-Jun ; Woodpigeon - 5 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 7

Agden Rocher: Crossbill - 8+ - Feeding in pines behind. ; Fieldfare - 30 ; Starling - 30 ; Green Woodpecker - 2 ; Jay - 6 ; Lapwing - 17 ; Skylark - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Golden Plover - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1

Beauchief Gardens: Nuthatch - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1