Thursday 1st January 2026

• Beauchief Ponds: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Over ; Teal - 2 - A pair ; Mallard - 20 - c20 ; Mandarin - 17 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew low over pond & spooked the Mallards. Later seen soaring.
• Bowden Housteads Wood: Sparrowhawk - 2 - Displaying. ; Redwing - 41
• Burbage Valley: Raven - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Barn Owl - 2
• Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - 1 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 ; Redwing - 25 ; Raven - 2 - 2 west ; Siskin - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - 1 singing
• Firsby Res: Raven - 1 - Over calling. ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Calling from small Res Reed bed. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - Over. ; Water Rail - 1 - Squealing in small Res swamp. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Moorhen - 1
• Graves Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Wren - 1 - By the Cascades ; Buzzard - 1
• Green Moor: Common Buzzard - 2 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Rook - 2 ; Jackdaw - 30+ ; Tree Sparrow - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Redwing - 30 - c30
• Greystones garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male in observer's garden
• Hillsborough Park: Cormorant - 5 - On pond.
• Longshaw: Brambling - 1 - on the ground below feeder ; Siskin - 10+ - visiting feeders
• Middle Common Scholes: Reed Bunting - 1 ; Skylark - 6+
• Morley Pond: Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Mallard - 30+ ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 1
• Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 2+
• Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 2nd winter. ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Little Egret - 3 ; Red-crested Pochard - 1 - male ; Redwing - 44 - Between the bridges. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Female feeding on Guelder rose berries between the bridges. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling along river, Treeton side. ; Lapwing - 60 ; Snipe - 3 - Small Lake. ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Red-crested Pochard - 1 - Drake still.
• Poolsbrook CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 20+ ; Black-headed Gull - 110+ ; VARIOUS ESCAPED SPECIES - 1 - Chiloe Wigeon, last seen January 2025. Presumed escapee.
• Porter Valley: Dipper - 1
• Redmires Top Res: Goldeneye - 1 - Drake West side of top reservoir. ; Goldeneye - 1 - one male, distant.
• Rivelin Valley: Redwing - 5 - On Holly near Coppice Lane ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mandarin - 12 ; Mallard - 22 - On Wolf Wheel and Frank Wheel ; Fieldfare - 7 - Flying over Coppice Lane
• Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 3 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 - Calling. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Pair calling and chasing in tree tops. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting in large oak.
• Silverwood Lagoon: Goldfinch - 20 ; Jay - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - party of 4 flew west ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Gadwall - 3
• Thrybergh CP: Sparrowhawk - 1 - M ; Kestrel - 2 ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Goosander - 2 ; Pochard - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 55 ; Shoveler - 40 - C40 ; Goldeneye - 1 - F ; Scaup - 1 - Female still present ; Egyptian Goose - 3 - Flew off NE ; Whooper Swan - 1 - Came in from SE 09:00 ; Mute Swan - 31
• Wentworth, Low Common: Pied Wagtail - 10+ - over cover crop and some in ploughed area ; Buzzard - 1