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Monday 20th October 2025

  • Barbrook Pools: Teal - 2 - Landed in pools from north ; Stonechat - 1 ; Fieldfare - 60+ - Grounded in hawthorns by shower ; Redwing - 20+ - Grounded in hawthorns by shower
  • Canklow: House Sparrow - 13 - to garden feeders
  • Catcliffe Flash: Great White Egret - 4 ; Great White Egret - 1
  • Ecclesfield: Grey Heron - 1 - Flying south calling at 18:17, Cross Hill
  • Firsby Res: Skylark - 10 - c10 in adjacent field ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Raven - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 ; Mallard - 7 - 5 male 2 female. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female on Powerline post, calling. ; Buzzard - 4 - In air together. ; Jay - 2
  • Middleton Moor: Pintail - 1 ; Wigeon - 11 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Shoveler - 16 ; Teal - 20 ; Lapwing - 51
  • Moss Road, Totley: Fieldfare - 130 - single flock flew SW ; Redwing - 40+ ; Starling - 80 - flew south ; Lesser Redpoll - 15+ ; Goldcrest - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 1
  • Stocksbridge: Oystercatcher - 1 - Heard only, flying down the valley.
  • Thrybergh CP: Pochard - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 80 ; Goldeneye - 3 - Two on water one flyover ; Gadwall - 5 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Common Scoter - 1 - Female ; Lapwing - 40 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 8 ; Meadow Pipit - 25 ; Mistle Thrush - 5 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Linnet - 60

Sunday 19th October 2025

  • Barlow: Buzzard - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 3
  • Catcliffe Flash: Great White Egret - 4 - Feeding just below layby at 15:05
  • Ecclesfield: Redwing - 10 - High St, flock south, calling.
  • Fatty Boyns Ponds: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock ; Redwing - 3+ ; Goldcrest - 2+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Teal - 7 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Siskin - 1 - over ; Skylark - 5+ - over adjacent fields inc 2 singing ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting over adjacent field ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - mobbing Kestrel over adjacent field
  • Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male low through site at speed. ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - Singles still singing on each Res. ; Redwing - 40 - Paddock hedge. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Feeding in hedge bottom. ; Stock Dove - 1 - Over. ; Raven - 1 - Over site low. ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 - Over calling. ; Siskin - 12
  • Gleadless Common: Kestrel - 1
  • Green Moor: Barn Owl - 1 - Entered box briefly
  • Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 11 ; Teal - 57 ; Lapwing - 130 ; Golden Plover - 4 ; Redwing - 100+ - with Fieldfares at top of Coombs Dale ; Fieldfare - 100+ - With Redwings at top of Coombs Dale
  • Orgreave Lakes: Pintail - 4 - Dropped in at 09:55. ; Goldeneye - 4
  • Rivelin Valley: Little Grebe - 1 - on pond near double bend in road. Caught a fish. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2
  • Silverwood Lagoon: Raven - 2 - west at 09.20
  • Tankersley - Black Lane: Teal - 23 - Total of birds on the main and railway flash. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Buzzard - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2
  • Thrybergh: Red-legged Partridge - 2 - in ex-Foster's car park @ dawn ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - flock, in ex-Foster's car park
  • Thrybergh Tip: Lesser Redpoll - 17+ - over in small parties ; Redwing - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Jay - 3 - 2 (SK4595); 1 (SK4695)

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