Sightings Archive

The Moor, Sheffield: Starling - 20+ - Several singing

Walkley garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male fighting with blue tit over suet feeder

Wharncliffe Side: Waxwing - 13 - In birch and ash trees on School Lane, at 11:30 ; Raven - 1 - mobbed by crow

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 2 - SW + 1 on pylon briefly (SK4594) ; Mute Swan - 16 - SW between 0648-0805hrs ; Peregrine - 1 - adult on chimney briefly; Liberty Steel

Bar Brook: Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Fieldfare - 1

Big Moor: 324 - 40+ - Red Deer herd - 40+, on southern part of moor

Blackburn Meadows NR: Little Grebe - 1 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Jackdaw - 300+ - Left the roost at dawn. ; Water Rail - 3 - 2 calling on Ferham and 1 calling on Holmes Farm Flash. ; Reed Bunting - 3 - Singing males

Bramley: Common Gull - 1 - On top of lamppost on Flanderwell Avenue AM.

Brooks Bank Farm: Curlew - 1 - In field beside Mortimer Rd. on Brooks Bank Farm (a Yorks Water Fm) that is due to have some scrapes excavated to improve habitat for waders. ; Lapwing - 3 ; Red Grouse - 2

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 - Pair. ; Coot - 4 - Two squabbling pairs. ; Mallard - 4 - 2 pairs. ; Mute Swan - 1 - Main Res. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - over together ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; 319 - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair down on farmland with Winter Thrushes. ; Fieldfare - 5+ - In with large mixed flock of Redwings and Starlings. ; Redwing - 30+ - Down on farmland with Starlings. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - Singing. ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Bullfinch - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 4+ ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling

Flanderwell: Kestrel - 1 - Pair through village over end of Fleming Way causing Starlings to scatter.

Fulwood: Tawny Owl - 1 - in garden

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Howden Res: Mandarin - 17 - on W bank

Hudson*s Rough: Pheasant - 1 - male ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - 1 singing ; Goldfinch - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1 pair

Langsett Res: Lapwing - 1 - In a field opp the car park for Langsett Barn. ; Blackbird - 3 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Goldfinch - c6 ; Starling - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; Robin - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; Canada Goose - c8 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - flying low upstream along River Little Don where it enters Res.

Leash Fen: Stonechat - 2 ; 319 - 2

Listerdale Wood: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over together

Little Don Valley: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - A pair in tree by Cliff Wood/water treatment works. ; Wren - 1 ; Jackdaw - c40 - Flock regularly seen in this location. ; Starling - c40 - Flock. ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Magpie - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - Flying along valley ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Song Thrush - 2 - feeding in field with Redwings. ; Redwing - at least 9 - feeding in field ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Fieldfare - 100+ - Flock flying up from field ; Grey Heron - 1 - On river by water treatment works. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - on river by treatment works ; Moorhen - 2 - Feeding on concrete walkway between lagoons at water treatment works. ; Robin - 3 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 3 - males feeding in field

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - c15 ; Lapwing - c25 ; Starling - c15 ; Woodpigeon - c8 - Feeding in group in field. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Red Grouse - 2 - Sitting in field. ; Goldfinch - c12