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Barlow Common: Long-tailed Tit - 6+
Green Moor: Pheasant - 300+ - Feeding in fields - game related
Lodge Moor: Brambling - 1 - At garden feeder with usual Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Chaffinch, House Sparrows, Blue tit and Great tit, Funnocks, Blackbirds and Robin - (All within 5 minutes!)
Lodge Moor Road: Common Gull - 2 - one adult one 1st winter with about 150 black-headed ; Common Gull - 2 - photo of 1st winter bird
Millhouses Park: Grey Wagtail - 1
Redmires Res: Brambling - 2 - flew east ; Redwing - 2 - flew east ; Starling - 20 - flew west ; 320 - 6 ; Lapwing - 20 - c. ; Pied Wagtail - 1
Totley: Willow Tit - 3 - 2 colour coded and one (?) ring free bird feeding frequently at Moss Road feeders ; Greenfinch - 24 - Attending feeders ; Chaffinch - 8 - At feeders ; Fieldfare - 1 - Heard calling overhead, Moss Road ; Brambling - 1 - Moss Road
Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 6 - 1M. 5F ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 8 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Wren - 1

Brightholmlee: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - over east
Brownhills Lane: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting to South of Brownhills Lane at dusk ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting low towards Redmires at dusk
Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1
Crookesmoor: 324 - 1 - Badger walking along pavement outside Hallamshire House pub at closing time !
Freebirch: Lapwing - 180
Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - , across grounds of Roughwood School
Millhouses: Goldcrest - 2 - With a Long-tailed Tit by Tesco
Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 24 ; 320 - 4 ; Lapwing - 58 ; Golden Plover - 4 - arrived from E ; Siskin - 41 - flew SW ; Lesser Redpoll - 19 - flew SW ; Brambling - 21 - flew W ; Chaffinch - 12 - flew W
St Mary*s Church: Peregrine - 1 - on spire at 14:45, looked an ad female.
White Lee Moor ( Swan neck area ).: Redwing - c100 - feeding on rowan berries. ; Blackbird - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - heading west. ; Wren - 2 - alarm calling from undergrowth. ; Brambling - 3 - feeding on rowan berries. ; Stonechat - 3

Fox House: Raven - 5 - party flew low over main road
Handsworth garden: House Sparrow - 14 - under feeders in strong wind ,welcome
Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 38 ; Mandarin - 0 - None found on any of 3 res ; Moorhen - 13 ; Coot - 6 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1
Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 380 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1400 ; Lapwing - 82 ; 320 - 19 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 130+ - Counted on shoreline; more dropped into reeds ; Starling - 3500
Owlthorpe: FIRECREST - 1 - 15:00 - part of large flock of tits.
R Derwent, Chatsworth: 321 - 2
Ramsley Moor: Redwing - 150 - west ; Rook - 91 - Flew west 9.45-10.45 ; Greenfinch - 16 ; Chaffinch - 25 ; Woodpigeon - 143 ; Redwing - 53 ; Linnet - 2 ; Starling - 63 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
Rawmarsh: Pink-footed Goose - 35-40 - NW @ 0955hrs ; Redwing - 8 - W
Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting @ 0915hrs; headed S
Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 13 ; 320 - 4 ; Redwing - 20 - flew west ; Blackbird - 3 ; Brambling - 21 - flew SW ; Chaffinch - 12 - flew west ; Siskin - 41 - flew west ; Lesser Redpoll - 19 - flew south west
Summerley: Kestrel - 2 - M + F though not close to each other ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male ; Rook - 20 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 10

Dore: Goldfinch - c13 - Mixed finch flock - mainly Goldfinch, but at least 2 Greenfinch ; Jay - 1 ; Kestrel - 1
Kimberworth Park: Kestrel - 1 - high over Grey Hill, briefly hovering
Longshaw: Mandarin - 19 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 2