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Sunday 21st March 2021

  • Barlow Common: Pheasant - 02-Mar ; Long-tailed Tit - 3
  • Barnside Moor: Stonechat - 3 - 1 female 2 males ; Carrion Crow - 10 - Flying in flock from Earnshaw Ridge towards Midhope Res ; Red Grouse - 4 ; Curlew - 1 ; Skylark - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - Drumming ; Kestrel - 1 - Down on moor probably with prey then flew up being mobbed by two Meadow Pipits ; Lapwing - c3 - near disused targets
  • Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2
  • Blackburn Meadows NR: Canada Goose - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Coot - 4 ; Jackdaw - 900+ - Left the roost at 5.30
  • Bosville*s Piece: 319 - 1 - soaring/flying
  • Brownhills Lane: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - With about 40 greylag.
  • Burbage Valley: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2
  • Centenary Riverside: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair feeding near bridge 13.20 ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Wren - 2 - 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 1 - male singing
  • Cross Hill, Ecclesfield: Pheasant - 1 - Male again feeding under feeders.
  • Deepcar: Red-legged Partridge - 1 - At roadside of A616 and A6102 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - One carrying stick to pylon where it appears to be making a nest while the other perched on pylon.
  • Firsby Hall Farm: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing by brook
  • Firsby Lane to Hill Top: Yellowhammer - 6 ; Linnet - 10 - inc 2 singing ; Skylark - 7+ - inc 6 on short-grazed sheep pasture ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - N ; Stock Dove - 8 - 4 on sheep pasture (SK4996); 4 on roof of Hill Top Fm (SK495971) ; Common Buzzard - 1 - sat on chimney, Hill Top Farm ; Greenfinch - 6 - in conifers
  • Forge Dam: Dipper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Willow Tit - 1 - Heard in trees on north side of dam
  • Grange Park Golf Course: Grey Heron - 1 - N, pos from Thundercliffe Grange towards ponds on golf course @10:15. ; Pheasant - 1+ - calls ; Moorhen - 1 - pond @ Upper Kennel Wood. ; Stock Dove - 2 - singing, 1 from Gallery Bottom,1 from Upper Kennel ; Woodpigeon - 7+ - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - singing from Watson's Tip. ; Wren - 15 - singing ; Dunnock - 4 - singing ; Robin - 18 - singing ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing inc 1 from Thundercliffe Grange ; Mistle Thrush - 1+ - song and calls from Brown Spring. ; Goldcrest - 4 - singing,1 Gallery Bottom,1 Walkworth Wood,1Ockley Bottom,1 Brick Klin Pltn. ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - scattered across site. ; Coal Tit - 3+ - at least 3 singing ; Blue Tit - 6+ - at least 1 singing ; Great Tit - 3+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 3+ - at least 2 singing, 1 taking suet nibbles from fence post @ Brick Kiln. ; Treecreeper - 1+ - inc 1 singing near dismantled railway SK3993. ; Jay - 3+ ; Magpie - 3+ ; Jackdaw - 4 - feeding fields S of Barber Wood. ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 3 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing @ Thundercliffe Grange. ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1pair @ Far Bank SK3894, male singing close by to female.
  • Greystones: Blackcap - 2 - M&F in observer's garden ; Bullfinch - 2 - M&F in OG
  • Heeley, Saxon Road: 319 - 5
  • High Bradfield: Red Kite - 1 - circled up and headed W towards Broomhead Moor 12:35
  • Hillsborough: Common Scoter - 1+ - Sound recorded. Large group over Middlewood shops area at 22:30. Over 100 calls over a period of about a minute. Spectrogram attached. ; Oystercatcher - 1 - Flight calls recorded 23:30.
  • Hood Hill: Magpie - 8 ; Nuthatch - 1 - Entering poss nest site
  • Hooton Roberts; Back Lane: Stock Dove - 1 ; Linnet - c40 - on set-aside
  • Hooton Roberts; Hooton Brook: Common Buzzard - 2 - harassed by crows & Kestrels ; Kestrel - 1pr - harassing BZs
  • Hooton Roberts; Hooton Cliff: Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing
  • Hooton Roberts; The Wapping: Greenfinch - 1 - singing
  • Hurlfield: Raven - 1+ - on+off over obs house this afternoon with brief interaction with Buzzards. ; Common Buzzard - 5 - up to 5 birds over
  • Intake: Common Buzzard - 3 - north between 10:00 - 10:45 ; Common Buzzard - 3
  • Linacre Res: Chiffchaff - 2 - 2 singing ; Greylag Goose - 3 - flew over ; Moorhen - 1 - attending a nest
  • Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - 15 ; Curlew - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Peregrine - 1
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