Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Siskin - 4 ; Lapwing - 2

Freebirch: Starling - 400+ - Feeding on pasture

Hathersage: Barn Owl - 1 - Flew across road at 23:55

Longshaw: Brambling - 15 - Mixed group of brambling siskn and redpolll ; Siskin - 10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5 ; Redwing - 20

Loxley Valley: Peregrine - 1 - flew west up valley over Greaves Lane ; Redwing - c20 ; Goldcrest - 11 - counted in 2 hours in Loxley and Rivelin Valleys - more than in rest of year combined ; Mute Swan - 2 - on pond above Loxley Park care home, presumably from Hillsborough Park where adults were absent on 25th ; Tufted Duck - 2 - on pond above Loxley Park care home

Old Ravenfield: Kestrel - 1 - Call from old railway embankment. ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling in trees near Church gate. ; Skylark - 6+ - Calling and chasing over farmland in between village and Arbour Lane. ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - Over path from St James church.

Pebley Pond: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Mute Swan - 7 - Resident pair and 5 juveniles ; Black-headed Gull - c35 ; Long-tailed Tit - c20

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 2 - m & f calling briefly around 0610hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: Tawny Owl - 2 - very vocal in Hollings Lane sidings pre-dawn ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Coot - 20 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 8 - 6 juveniles now making their first unsteady flights ; Black-headed Gull - c.80 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Grey Partridge - 4 ; Siskin - 9 - in birches along main approach track ; Long-tailed Tit - 30 - two flocks ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Redwing - 10 ; Jackdaw - 10 - 7-1-1-1 north

Wadsley Common garden: Redwing - 30 - Feeding on hawthorn berries.

Wickersley: Tawny Owl - 1 - 19:45 - calling from Wickersley Woods

Fox Hill: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling near Shaw Hill Farm at 02:20

Hangingwater garden: Woodpigeon - 1 - juv on table

Kimberworth: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over Shepherd's Plantation

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 1 ; 320 - 28 ; Lapwing - 73 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1

Redmires: Dipper - 1 - At middle res outfall roadside.

Sheffield Centre: Starling - 30+ - Some singing; in trees, on roofs and feeding on ground in The Moor pedestrianised area.

Sothall: Redwing - 6 - nocmig recorded overnight 19/20th ; Golden Plover - 1 - nocmig recorded 19/20th

Barlow: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Rook - 16+

Orgreave Lakes: Dipper - 1 - Feeding downstream side of weir. ; Stonechat - 3 - 3 birds south side smaller lake.

Rockingham: Red-legged Partridge - 1 - On observer's front window sill

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Redwing - c70 - 16.00 appears to have been an influx during day ; Fieldfare - 1+ - 16.00 with Redwings

Wortley: Chaffinch - 19 - south ; Woodpigeon - 19 - south ; Redwing - 13 - 6 south ; Brambling - 1 - west ; Stock Dove - 2 - south ; Linnet - 1 - south ; Siskin - 2 ; Jackdaw - 900+ - Post roost, left SW ; 319 - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Jay - 1+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 40

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mandarin - up to 7 ; Siskin - 20+

Rawmarsh: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling distantly around 2225hrs

Redmires: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult on middle reservoir ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 30 - including adult colour-ringed bird HC71. Ringed in Germany in 2010 ; Herring Gull - 15 ; Black-headed Gull - 50 ; Lapwing - 80 ; 320 - 8

Silverwood Lagoon: Shoveler - 3 - f+2m

Ughill area: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over scrubby grassland in daylight

Dalton: Red Kite - 1 - Over Silverwood Miners Welfare mobbed by C Crows @ 15:15.

Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing on large Res. ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Most likely same pair from Ravenfield Park. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over set aside field. ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - Arrived at same time. ; Goldcrest - 1

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 5 - 5 redheads on the pond