Sightings Archive

Rivelin Valley: Fieldfare - 200+ - Several flocks of 50+ flying from south east over Oldfield Road

Walkley: Lapwing - 7 - high E, then N over Shirecliffe. ; Common Buzzard - 2 - mobile Walkley/Shalesmoor/Shirecliffe ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 - over E

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Crossbill - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - in flight below Wharncliffe Crags ; Redwing - 20 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - flew over calling ; Nuthatch - 1

Wharncliffe Side: Cormorant - 1 - Over village

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 71 ; Shoveler - 14

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 1 - One calling

Handsworth garden: Collared Dove - 6 - Under feeders, a new record.

Harthill Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Little Egret - 1

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 150++ - nocmig: Big movement overnight, 6 calls 00:16-06:56, 250 calls 19:02-00:00 ; Blackbird - 2 - nocmig 20:13 and 22:50

Mayfield Valley: Swallow - 3 - headed W up valley ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - W

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Lapwing - 37 ; Wigeon - 4 ; Swallow - 2 ; Fieldfare - 72 - moving through to SW ; Stonechat - 2

Owler Bar: Fieldfare - 60 - moving through to SW

Ramsley Moor: Brambling - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1

Roughwood Rec: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Over Hudson's Rough and field, then N. ; Swallow - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Corvid - 20+

Roughwood Way: Redwing - 2 - E

Shirecliffe: Pink-footed Goose - c150 - distant skeins of c80 and c70 at 09:50 and 10:50 heading SE from Ringinglow to S of city. ; Redwing - c10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over calling ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Fieldfare - c40 - over NW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - fem on goalposts ; Skylark - 9 - over E ; Meadow Pipit - c8 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair at N end of old tip ; Hawfinch - 1 - in flight, near top of old ski slopes. Looked to be dropping in, but no further sign. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - over S

Sothall: Barn Owl - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0500hr

Thrybergh CP: Pintail - 3 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Pochard - 1 ; Little Grebe - 12 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Goldfinch - c50 ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 - At least 6 birds in with goldfinch ; Fieldfare - 30 ; Redwing - 10 ; Mute Swan - 33 ; Skylark - 12

Thrybergh garden: House Sparrow - 20 +

Totley Hall Fields: Redwing - c 10

Wharncliffe Wood: Crossbill - 1 ; Redwing - 10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5

Wortley Park: Snipe - 1 - West 14.00 ; Siskin - 100+ - Large roving groups ; Lesser Redpoll - 60+ ; Redwing - 500+ - Numerous large groups ; Goldfinch - 50+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Goldcrest - 3+

Canklow Woods: 319 - 1 - Over 14.15

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 96

Green Moor: Redwing - 3

Jordanthorpe: Kestrel - 1 - Sitting on goal post in field by Jordanthorpe Parkway

Kimberworth Park: Starling - 10 - On tel.wires Ashworth Drive

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 10+ - nocmig: 00:17-05:04 (14 calls) ; Blackbird - 3+ - nocmig 00:55-01:57 (6 calls)

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Goosander - 7 - redheads arrived late afternoon ; Tufted Duck - 1 - female ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Moorhen - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 480 - c. roosted ; Black-headed Gull - 280 - c. roosted ; Common Gull - 1 - ad