My first Singing Lesser Whitethroats of the year near Barrow Hill. Love those smokey grey & earthy brown hues. #ukbirding
@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

Wharncliffe Heath today - 4 Redstart, 8 Tree Pipit, 8 Fieldfare, 3 Mistle Thrush, 4 Swallow. Plenty of Mipit, Skylark and Linnet about. @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

The public launch of ‘The New Birds of the Sheffield Area' will take place at 1pm, Weds 15th April, Weston Park Museum

Join editors Richard Hill & David Wood for a 45min talk about the history & current status of our local birdlife

Copies available for purchase after presentation

#ukbirding

Richard will recount how he cultivated his small garden in Flamborough to turn it into a mecca for migrants and rarities, many viewed from the comfort of his kitchen window. His journey will take us through a 365 day diary of birding highlights recorded over 10 years

"Imagine staring out of your window as a rare bird or butterfly lands in your garden, for a moment, time stands still. If such sightings are rare, you have a Rarity Garden. Rich’s talk & book are a personal account of a decade observing wildlife in a small garden perched on the Flamborough cliffs”

April Indoor Meeting once again welcomes our conservation colleague Richard Baines to SBSG, celebrating all things Flamborough as documented in his lovely new book 'The Rarity Garden’ @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social

Weds 8th April 7.15pm
Lecture Theatre 2
Diamond Building
Leavygreave Rd
S3 7RD

Great day out in the Peaks - 3 Ring Ouzel were my first of the year and included a colour ringed male. 5 sp. of wader back on territory included calling Golden Plover, 6+ Curlew, 2 chipping Snipe, plenty of Lapwing & a pair of Oystercatcher @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social

Fourth and Final? The fourth egg was laid around 13.22 on Tuesday 24th – a gap of 58 hours since egg 3 and a couple of hours earlier than predicted here…. Proof if ever it was needed that predictions of any kind are…

New Peregrines blog post
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You’re not too late to the party Helen, plenty more to look forward to 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Two, Three…. Our falcon laid her second egg at lunchtime on Thursday 19th March, standing up to reveal it at 12.29pm when it was only minutes old.  Not quite 60 hours had elapsed since egg 1. Her third egg arri…

More Eggs!
Sheffield Peregrines blog.

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@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social @1chrisgreenwood.bsky.social 4th egg 13:22 best I can tell #sheffield #peregrines #birds

@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social @1chrisgreenwood.bsky.social
2nd egg laid around 12:23:25
#sheffield #peregrine #birds

Earliest Hour Welcome to the Sheffield Peregrine’s blog 2026.  We already have our first egg! The egg arrived in the middle of the night, around 00.45 Tuesday 17/3/26.  The seventeenth of March is prov…

First Sheffield Peregrines blog for 2026

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Sheffield Peregrine with its first egg of 2026

@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social @1chrisgreenwood.bsky.social #sheffield #peregrines first egg of 2026 00:46:48
#birds

400 million years old and very, very weird Why lichens are the rock stars of the natural world

Latest piece for full subscribers to @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social - primeval creatures are monitoring our air quality: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/400-million-...

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)