Sheffield Bird Study Group

Annual Review of the Birding Year + AGM

Weds 11th March 7.15pm, Online via Teams
(Joining Link will be shared via E-Newsletter)

Join us for Andy Deighton's review of 2025s birding highlights and our Annual General Meeting

Thank You Dan 🙂

This came today & for anyone interested in birds from the North of our County, or simply Sheffield area, it’s a must. Superbly bound & quality images and art work. A few highlights from glancing through. Well played @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social you should be very proud 👍 #PeakDistrict #Birds

Thanks Alex 👍🏻🙂

My copy arrived today, a fantastic regional avifauna - which marginally intersects with my patch. Favourite page so far details an amazing one-off seabird displacement; illustrated with a potentially unique UK agonistic encounter... #UKBirding

Hi Alex. The first batch went out yesterday and the rest should go tomorrow. Could be with you as early as tomorrow. Thank you for your patience

Hi there Colin. The first batch went out yesterday and the rest should go tomorrow. Could be with you as early as tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.

Annual Review of the Birding Year + AGM

Weds 11th March 7.15pm, Online via Teams
(Joining Link will be shared via E-Newsletter)

Join us for Andy Deighton's review of 2025s birding highlights and our Annual General Meeting

Excellent turnout for our annual Derwentdale raptorwatch on Saturday. Sadly not many of the birds got the memo: Buzzard, Kes, Sparrowhawk + the disappearing rump of a probable harrier were augmented by Whooper Swan, Crossbills, 8 Cormorants and the usual quackers 🦆
Same time, same place next year!

my only RLBU in the Peaks was in 1998 at Windy Corner

Sadly my earliest birding notebooks were lost but I believe that I saw Rough-legged Buzzard before Common Buzzard in the Sheffield area back in the 1980’s.

Latter species is now widespread (even over the city’s suburbs) with RLB a scarce migrant to the @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social recording area.

If you look at early C20th records for Yorks/NE coastal districts, Rough-leg was *the* regular buzzard in autumn, sometimes in "great flights" according to Nelson's Birds of Yorkshire (1907). Common Buzzard was noticeably less frequent. Nelson suggests influxes were predominantly immature birds.

No UK eBird records of Rough-legged Buzzard from 2026 yet (below); this species will likely be rarer nationally than Black-winged Kite in future. Both very visible signs of climate (and land-use) driven range shifts #UKBirding #Ornithology

Thanks Sam

‘The New Birds of the Sheffield Area:’
pre-orders have been handed over to Royal Mail today and are on their way to buyers

Not purchased yet? Order your copy at sbsg.org
£32 + postage for non-members
£25 + postage for members

(Membership is £15 individuals/£17 Households)

Derwentdale Field Trip
This Saturday, 28th Feb 8am Windy Corner (just north of Howden Dam Wall)

Weather looks reasonable but wrap up warm. Static obs! Usually finished by 11am. Carshare if possible.

More details at SBSG.org

Greno Wood walk with the little one (can be quiet for birding at this time of year) produced two pairs of Crossbill. Not seen them at this site before. @wildsheffield.bsky.social @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

Little Owl and Tawny Owl heard this evening (High Green/Westwood) @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

Launch Night tomorrow!

Weds 11th Feb 26, 7.15pm
LT2
Diamond Building
Leavygreave Rd
S3 7RD

#ukbirding

Lots of lovely books:

‘The New Birds of the Sheffield Area’ - published this week!

#ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

The books have arrived!

‘The New Birds of the Sheffield Area’ - Launch Night is this Wednesday 7.15pm

LT2
The Diamond Building
Uni of Sheffield
Leavegreave Road
S3 7RD

#ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

‘The New Birds of the Sheffield Area’
The proof copy back from the printers, before it went to the bookbinders 😍

sbsg.org

gomerprinting.co.uk

Lecture Theatre 2
The Diamond Building
Leavygreave Rd
(Off Broad Lane)
S3 7RD

Park at Devonshire Green or at
Q-Park Durham Rd

Tram Stop: University (3 min walk)

7.15pm 11/2/26

#ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

'The New Birds of the Sheffield Area'
Indoor Meeting: Weds 11th Feb 7.15pm

Join us to celebrate the launch of our fabulous new 440 page book detailing all 300 species ever sighted in our area. Editors Richard & David will talk us through the project.
Copies for sale + complimentary fizz!

Great to see Redpoll on the feeders this morning. 1m and 1f. @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

1 Lesser White-fronted Goose in with Greylag flock at Ingbirchworth reservoir @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

@orgreavebirder.bsky.social ⬆️

A Peregrine over the New York Stadium in Rotherham just before kick off. Hopefully not the only highlight this afternoon!
@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

2/ Until the 1980s Little Egrets were a rare sight in the UK but they’ve been on the up since they first bred in Dorset in 1996. Population estimates have, however, proven tricky to assess, with birdwatchers contributing data to @ukrbbp.bsky.social and BTO’s Heronries Census.