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Request For Summer Ring Ouzel Sightings

As part of the ongoing monitoring of the local Ring Ouzel population across the Eastern Moors Partnership (EMP) and Stanage, the team of staff & volunteers at RSPB EMP are this year taking a closer look at post-breeding dispersal and feeding patterns across our area. Reports and records o…

Greenmoor Barn Owls

It was nice to see our very own Pete Garrity featured on the local ITV News show Calendar this week. As some of you know Pete has been fortunate enough to have a pair of Barn Owls take up residence in a nest box, in his garden. Pete's thriving Tree Sparrows also make a cameo role during the i…

New Website Launched

If you're reading this then it's more than likely that you aware of the new look SBSG website. However, what you're probably not aware of is some of the new features that are available to members in the sightings archive. Alongside the ability to download all annual reports from 1973, and bulletins…

LIVE TREE SPARROW CAMERA

In the 1970s Tree Sparrows used to be fairly abundant in the 1200 square km of the Sheffield region. They were present in over 60% of the area and sometimes seen in large flocks - in 2024 draft data shows only 27 birds were seen at only three sites; with 20 of them visiting my garden - this is the…

The Incompleat Birder

Martin Hodgson is the latest SBSG member to author a book It’s a light-hearted account of his struggle over the years to gain some competence in birding. In short, a story without a happy ending! Printed by the University Press in the same style as the Annual Report, Martin hopes tha…

Peak District Raptor Monitoring Group

The Peak District Raptor Monitoring Group are fund raising to buy some Satellite tags to go on Short-eared Owls, this year and next. Below is the link to their Go Fund Me page. The details of who Raptor Aid are are included, along with details about NERF. Raptor Aid Grant Fund & Sho…