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Sunday 21st February 2021

  • Greasbrough Dam,Wentworth: Skylark - 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2
  • Handsworth: Siskin - 14
  • Handsworth garden: 319 - 1 - circling at low level over housing estate, 2 gulls drove it away.
  • Hangingwater garden: Goldcrest - 1 - record shot
  • High Bradfield: White-fronted Goose - 1 - 1w albifrons with Greylag flock late afternoon ; Greylag Goose - c180 - in fields below Nether House Farm
  • Loxley: Barn Owl - 1 - Flying in bright sunshine early afternoon
  • Mayfield Valley: 319 - 7 - Circling together over top of David Lane early afternoon with some calling and interaction; quite a sight
  • Meersbrook Park: Redwing - c20 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1
  • Millhouses Lane garden: Redwing - 2 - perched briefly in a bordering tree
  • Nether Edge - St Andrew’s Road: Bullfinch - 1m
  • Orgreave Lakes: Goosander - 15-20 - Two groups split between both ponds. Roughly 50/50 split male to female. ; Skylark - 6 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Goosander - 32 ; Goldeneye - 6 - 3F, 2M + 1 imm Male ; Great Black-backed Gull - 17 - In pre roost ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Herring Gull - 166 ; Black-headed Gull - 2000 ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter in pre roost.
  • Oughtibridge: Curlew - 1 - Single bird flying North heard and seen
  • Peat Pits: Yellowhammer - 10 ; Golden Plover - 250+ ; Skylark - 4
  • Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - pair on Top Res ; Greylag Goose - 8 - in fields ; Canada Goose - 21 ; Fieldfare - 15 - flew W ; Crossbill - 4 - feeding in conifers by Bottom Res - 2 prs ; Curlew - 1 - flew NE at 08:00 hrs ; Lapwing - 60 - c. on Middle Res ; Chaffinch - 4 - flew W
  • River Rother, Oregreave Lake: Mandarin - 2 - 1m & 1f
  • River Sheaf, Saxon Road: Dipper - 1 - 1st record this year
  • Rocher End Brook woods: Blue Tit - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Robin - 2
  • Rocher Head area: Carrion Crow - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 6 ; Nuthatch - 1
  • Rod Side: Stonechat - 2 - Courtship behaviour
  • Rollestone Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 6+ ; Magpie - 8+ - inc pair nest building ; Jay - 2+ - poss 4 birds ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - a pair drumming/calling ; Song Thrush - 5+ - singing throughout wood. ; Wren - 6+ - singing ; Robin - 5+ - singing ; Coal Tit - 4 - 2 pair ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ ; Blue Tit - 8+ ; Great Tit - 6+ - min 3 pair ; Cormorant - 1 - flew high south 09:09
  • Roper Hill: Skylark - 1 - Singing
  • Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 9 ; Greylag Goose - 35 ; Canada Goose - 187 ; 321 - 3 ; Cormorant - 11 ; Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Mallard - 160 ; Gadwall - 13 ; Wigeon - 152 ; 320 - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Pochard - 7 ; Goldeneye - 17 - Including much display involving a party of 12 on Meadowgate Lake ; Goosander - 7 ; Lapwing - 21 ; Oystercatcher - 1 - Meadowgate Lake ; Herring Gull - 42 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - 85 ; Coot - 139 ; Moorhen - 18
  • Sheffield Centre; Bramall Lane: 319 - 1 - soaring overhead
  • Silverwood Lagoon: Stonechat - 1 - male in reeds at northern end of lagoon
  • Skye Edge Playing Fields: Stonechat - 3 - Rough ground behind pigeon lofts
  • Stanage: Carrion Crow - 1 ; Red Grouse - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 11 ; Skylark - 4 - Singing. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male.
  • Stanage Edge: Skylark - 4 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1
  • Stannington, west: Skylark - 4 - 4 singing birds - my first of the spring here
  • Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 74
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