Sightings Archive

Rivelin Valley: Pheasant - 1 ; Jackdaw - 2 - All garden observations ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Over fields below Hopwood Lane

Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 2+ - at least 2 singing ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 5+ ; Linnet - 40+ - NE edge @ Raspberry Plantation.

Southgrove Road: Blackcap - 2 - garden adj to Botanical Gardens. 1 male now regular visitor to feeders. 1 female today first sighting this winter

Walkley garden: Wren - 2 - Pair foraging below bird feeders ; Blackbird - 10 - largest count this year. ; Redwing - 14 - Intermittent feeding on cotoneaster.

Aldwarke: Sparrowhawk - 4 - displaying together overhead in sunshine; 2 birds disturbed from trees by river later

Aldwarke SF: Stock Dove - 5 - inc aerial display

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1pr - male over complex, chasing FPs & 'buzzing' Ravens before settling on chimney, soon joined by female ; Raven - 1pr - sat on roof briefly around 1030hrs, 'buzzed' by Peregrine

Attercliffe; Sheffield Arena car park: Mistle Thrush - 4 - feeding on berries on shrubs ; Carrion Crow - c3 - flying overhead ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - being mobbed by crows ; Robin - 1

Barbrook Res: Stonechat - 1 - On fencing and feeding on ground

Barley Hall: Redwing - 25+

Bingham Park: Jay - 2

Brightholmlee: Barn Owl - 2

Brightside: Common Buzzard - 1

Brincliffe Edge: Jay - 2 - in Chelsea Park

Dalton: Jay - 1 ; Rook - 18 - noisy party around pylon rookery site ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 2 - W, then SW (different to Thrybergh birds)

Darnall: Redwing - 14 - Feeding on berry trees at the side of the road.

Dore Burlington Rd: Siskin - 2 - 2 female, first records in garden this winter

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Pink-footed Goose - c125 - East @ 09.41 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Moorhen - 24 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Firsby Res: Mallard - 12 - Main Res. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 2 - Feeding under the willows. ; Rook - 20+ - Over. ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Pair - copulation and courtship feeding

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 6

Hesley Wood: Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; 319 - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - With L.T.Tit party

Holmebrook Valley Park: Mallard - 40 ; Coot - 12 ; Moorhen - 8 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 231 - 161 on lake/70 on playing field

Mayfield Valley: Jackdaw - c100 - feeding in roadside fields ; Little Owl - 1

Meersbrook Park: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - heard

Mount Darnall: Rook - 76 - Feeding in castle fields ; Carrion Crow - 95 ; Magpie - 14 ; Jackdaw - 21 ; Lesser Redpoll - C40 ; Siskin - 12 ; Redwing - 23

Orgreave Lakes: Lapwing - 78 ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Wigeon - 12 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 92 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 ; Herring Gull - 122 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - C600

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Mistle Thrush - 1pr ; Fieldfare - 1 ; 327 - 1 - NE ; Siskin - 1 - over

R Don, Aldwarke: Grey Heron - 1 - adult; flew downriver & returned ; Mallard - 5prs ; Moorhen - 3 ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Cormorant - 5 - SW ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult; flew upriver later

R Don, Attercliffe: Kingfisher - 1 ; Blackbird - 2