Sightings Archive

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 24

Ecclesall: Red Kite - 1 - Flying approximately parallel to Ringinglow Rd over High Storrs School and heading towards Bents Green at 14:53

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 12 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2

Handsworth garden: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - First record for garden. Chased off by a Crow.

Hathersage: Brambling - 2 - At feeding stations in my garden

Leadmill Bridge: Canada Goose - 35 ; Mandarin - 30 ; Goosander - 2 - 2m, 2f ; Red-legged Partridge - 2

Limb Valley: 319 - 1 ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Fieldfare - 5 ; Redwing - 60 ; Song Thrush - 1

Loxley Common: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting in daylight between car park and driving range

Loxley Valley: Goosander - 1 - male on river Loxley just above Loxley Park home

Orgreave Lakes: Grey Partridge - 2 - On north facing bank of tip ; Grey Partridge - 5 - By mound ; Lapwing - 69 ; Wigeon - 65 ; Meadow Pipit - 23 ; Stonechat - 1 - By inlet

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blackbird - 6 - all males, squabbling over remaining ivy berries

Ringinglow: Redwing - 25+ - In field with Starlings & Mistle Thrush ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Starling - 100+ ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Shirebrook Valley: Kestrel - 1 ; Willow Tit - 1 - On feeders ; Water Rail - 1 - Flushed on edge of Carr Forge Dam ; Redwing - 24 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Jay - 1

Totley Moor: SNOW BUNTING - 1 - still present by ventilation shaft

Wadsley Common garden: House Sparrow - 19 - By far the largest count here. ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - on feeders. ; Blackcap - 1 - female back on feeders. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming. ; Blue Tit - 19 ; Siskin - 11

Whiteley Woods: Stock Dove - 8

Woodthorpe, Sheffield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - in back garden grinding it’s beak on tree until spooked by a Woodpigeon.

Agden Res: Greylag Goose - 208 - in fields to W of resr

Brightholmlee: Barn Owl - 2

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1100

Chapeltown Park: 319 - 1

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - By Hunter's Bar at 07:55 ; Kingfisher - 1 - upper pond at 15:45

Firsby Res: Grey Wagtail - 1

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 6

Handsworth garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male feeding in crab apple tree

Kimberworth Park: Kestrel - 1 - W over Forty Martyr's, then toward Shepherd's Plantation. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - @ Grey Hill ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - @ Grey Hill.

Leadmill Bridge: Redwing - 60

Mayfield Valley: Grey Heron - 1 - in fields behind Mill Farm animal sanctuary ; Kestrel - 1

Millhouses Park: Dipper - 2 - Two, one singing. That's better. Only two records in over 200 visits during 2020.

Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - second winter again in pre-roost, 16:15-16:40 then left NW ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 2nd Winter

Peat Pits: Grey Plover - 1 - with about 100 golden plovers ; Grey Plover - one - single bird with about 70 golden plover 15:00

Rawmarsh; fields to W: Common Buzzard - 1 - hanging in wind @ 1125hrs; drifted W

Redmires Middle Res: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - At roadside feeders

Rivelin: Starling - 42 - 2 flocks near Wood Bank - the largest number counted during Jan-Mar

Silverwood: Tawny Owl - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 2

Sothall: House Sparrow - 50 - in garden

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Pochard - 14 ; Tufted Duck - C40 ; 320 - 2 pair ; Shoveler - 3 males ; Gadwall - 6 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Kingfisher - 2 - Pair ; Kestrel - 1 m ; Grey Partridge - 3

Waverley Estate: Stonechat - 3 - near estate play area on Leopold Way 08:55

Aldwarke: Peregrine - 1 - From North to South over Liberty melting shop 09.50.

Aldwarke SF: Redwing - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 - cocks ; Magpie - 15+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Stock Dove - 3 - on treatment works, inc song & aerial display

Baslow SF: Black-headed Gull - 75