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Friday 2nd November 2018

  • Ecclesall: Blackcap - 1 - female in Ansell Road garden
  • Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; 320 - 12 ; Mallard - 6 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 3 - Chasing each other and calling. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 - In old farm building. ; 319 - 2 - Low together over site. ; Carrion Crow - 4 - On wires together. ; Magpie - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - Over. ; Chaffinch - 6+ - Mixed flock with Linnets. ; Linnet - 8+ ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Siskin - 3 - Over calling. ; Lesser Redpoll - 1+ - Heard only. ; Red-legged Partridge - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Greenfinch - 3+ - With Chaffinch and Linnet flock. ; Fieldfare - 1 - Calling from top of tree. ; Redwing - 40+ ; Song Thrush - 2
  • Forge Dam: Mandarin - 2 pairs
  • Freebirch: Lapwing - 27
  • Greystones: Blackcap - 1 - Female in observer's garden ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female in garden
  • Listerdale: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over, mobbed by corvids @ 0920hrs
  • Manor Fields Park: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over site 12:00-12:30 but harassed by magpies+Herring Gull. ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - In hedge by allotments 12:00-12:50&16:00-16:30 ; Brambling - 2 ; Goldfinch - 50+ - single flock present onsite ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Mallard - 8 ; Moorhen - 6+ - minimum 6 on top pond 16:00 ; Black-headed Gull - 20 - around top pond 16:00 then left.
  • Middleton Moor: Cormorant - 2 - Juvs
  • Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 80-85 - inc 1 1cy; already anticipating feeding time! ; Mallard - c60 ; Black-headed Gull - c200 ; Common Gull - 1 - adult ; Herring Gull - 1 - adult
  • Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Siskin - 2 - low to SW ; Herring Gull - 1 - N ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults, N
  • Parkgate; Forge Way: Song Thrush - 2 ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
  • Pebley Pond: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 2 - still present this morning - and still present this evening ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 2 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Female ; Snipe - 3 ; Cormorant - 6 - One on island, five over ; 320 - 10 ; Mute Swan - 21
  • Redmires Res: Cormorant - 3 - sub-ads ; Canada Goose - 43 - on Top Res ; Greylag Goose - 39 - in fields ; Pink-footed Goose - 30 - flew low the E calling at 07:45 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - large female ; Lapwing - 100 - on Middle Res ; Woodpigeon - 850 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Fieldfare - 100 - c. flew S in 2 hrs ; Redwing - 25 - c. flew SW in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 65 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Lesser Redpoll - 5 - flew SW
  • Rotherham; Northfield, Primrose Hill: Carrion Crow - 9 - at recycling centre ; Magpie - 5+ - at recycling centre ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - over ; Herring Gull - 42 - on roofs of industrial units ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults, with HGs ; Black-headed Gull - c10
  • Roundwood Golf course: Lesser Redpoll - 3
  • Soughley Lane, Redmires: Greylag Goose - 35 - Grazing on the hillside near the elbow of Soughley Lane
  • Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Little Grebe - 9 ; Cormorant - 8+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 49 ; Canada Goose - 100+ ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Shoveler - 5 - 3m2f ; Pochard - 9 - 6m3f ; Tufted Duck - 61 ; Goldeneye - 2 - r/h ; Red-legged Partridge - 2+ - calling ; Water Rail - 2 ; Coot - 100+ ; Lapwing - 50+ ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Skylark - 53+ - many south inc party of 35
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