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Saturday 1st December 2018

  • Middleton Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3
  • Orgreave: Chiffchaff - 1 - Between bridges ; Long-tailed Tit - 7
  • Ulley CP: Willow Tit - 1 - Morthern Arm, near feeders. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Mandarin - 1 - m

Friday 30th November 2018

  • Baslow: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
  • Birchen Edge: Kestrel - 1
  • Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c 40
  • Curbar: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
  • Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - Near Hunters Bar at 7:20 ; Kingfisher - 2 - 15:10, lower pond. Appeared to be some chasing.
  • Middleton Moor: 320 - 51 ; Goosander - 21 - 6 males 15 redheads. All flew in at 11.10
  • Oughtibridge garden: Blackcap - 1
  • RVCP, Main Lake: Lapwing - 54 ; Red-crested Pochard - 1 - female
  • RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: 322 - 1 - Harris Hawk ; 322 - 2 - Black Swan
  • Shepherd*s Plantation: Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 2+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Brambling - 10+ - inc 6 feeding on one beech. ; Goldfinch - 4+

Thursday 29th November 2018

  • Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 28
  • Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 170 - On recreation area ; Kingfisher - 1 - Flew upstream
  • Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 1 - Female
  • Meersbrook Park: Grey Wagtail - 1
  • Middle Common: Fieldfare - 20+ - W @ 14:20
  • Millhouses Lane garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - male mid-morning; female visited twice, early and mid-afternoon
  • Morley Pond: Grey Heron - 4 - SE toward Rockingham Wood, prob disturbed by shoot. ; Mute Swan - 4 - resident family @ small pond behind boathouse seamingly undisturbed by shoot. ; Mallard - 100+ - put up by guns most moved E toward Dog Kennel.
  • Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Jay - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Brambling - 1 - calling
  • Shepherd Wheel Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Regularly using the fishing perch someone has fixed on the north bank of the dam.

Wednesday 28th November 2018

  • Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Wigeon - 50+ ; Gadwall - 65+ ; 320 - 15 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Pochard - 3 - 3 males ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 3M, 1F ; Goosander - 2 - 2M left south @ 13:20 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 40+
  • Holbrook Marsh: Willow Tit - 1
  • Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from lamp post @ 0800hrs
  • Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 18 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 120+ ; Canada Goose - 70+ ; Gadwall - 4 ; 320 - 4 ; Pochard - 11 - 2f ; Tufted Duck - 100+ ; Goldeneye - 3 - f ; Goosander - 2 - m ; Kestrel - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 3 ; Moorhen - 14+ ; Coot - 100+ ; Lapwing - 75+ ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 4 - 3 down, 1 south ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 23+ - around site ; Fieldfare - 7 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Goldfinch - 30+ ; Bullfinch - 3
  • Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 10 - Record count for garden, previously just 2.

Tuesday 27th November 2018

  • Blackburn Meadows NR: Goosander - 4 - Flew west following the canal ; Snipe - 7
  • Brownhills Lane: Snipe - 1 - dropped into roadside field then immediately flew off
  • Canklow Woods: Goldfinch - 24 ; Lesser Redpoll - c 30 ; Brambling - 1 - 1 south at 1230
  • Firsby Res: Mallard - 5 ; 320 - 4 - 3M 1F.
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