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Sunday 1st November 2026

  • Aldwarke: Rook - 2 - W over Waddington Way together
  • Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 1 - 'resident' bird in usual area ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling ; Skylark - 2 - singles, both S ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing; seen briefly ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Teal - 2 - drakes ; Coot - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on treatment works ; Gadwall - 2
  • Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1 - adult on chimney briefly
  • Barlow Common: Pink-footed Goose - 100 - max, skein flying SSW
  • Catcliffe Flash: Great White Egret - 1 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Wigeon - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Gadwall - 12 ; Teal - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2
  • Centenary Riverside: Mallard - 4 - 2 pairs on river ; Grey Heron - 1 - on river ; Moorhen - 1 - on river ; Greenfinch - 2 - singles, over ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - NW
  • Clifton, Rotherham: Blackbird - 10 - c10; foraging together, Badsley Moor Hospital ; Redwing - 4 - Badsley Moor Hospital
  • Crowhole: Fieldfare - 4+ - in a mixed flock of thrushes targeting yew berries ; Mistle Thrush - 5 ; Buzzard - 2
  • Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 6
  • Herringthorpe Playing Fields: Carrion Crow - 40-50 - foraging on amenity grassland in loose flock
  • Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 25 ; Pochard - 40 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 50 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 300+ ; Lapwing - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Wigeon - 16 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Herring Gull - 9 ; Meadow Pipit - 1
  • Redmires Res: Cormorant - 1 - on Bottom Res ; Canada Goose - 36 - arrived from the west and landed in fields on Soughley Lane ; Greylag Goose - 40 - c. in fields on Soughley Lane ; Wigeon - 2 - Pair arrived from west onto Bottom Res at 07:30 hrs ; Teal - 20 - c. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Snipe - 2 - on Middle Res ; Golden Plover - 220 - c. on Middle Res but often overhead ; Grey Plover - 1 - heard calling N of the Middle Res - assume still present in nearby fields ; Lapwing - 50 - c. ; Black-headed Gull - 80 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - flew SW ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Stonechat - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 15 - c. on Middle Res ; Water Pipit - 1 - on Middle Res ; Woodpigeon - 22,400 - flew S in 1.5 hrs ; Stock Dove - 2 - with Woodpigeons ; Fieldfare - 80 - flew SW ; Redwing - 40 - flew SW ; Yellowhammer - 1 - flew over Middle Res calling at 08:20 hrs - scarce here nowadays and the only record this year ; Skylark - 2 - flew S ; Pink-footed Goose - 80 - flew W at 08:00 hrs
  • Rother Valley CP: GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 - still present RVCP Main Lake, viewed from new cafe car park. Flushed by boat and flew N at 10:18
  • Ulley Res: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Little Egret - 1
  • Woodhouse Washlands: Mistle Thrush - 3

Saturday 31st October 2026

  • Big Moor: Whooper Swan - 3 - low W over old reservoir ; Merlin - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Kestrel - 1 ; Barn Owl - 1 ; Teal - 1 - female ; Fieldfare - 25 - inc flock of 15 over
  • Catcliffe Flash: Great White Egret - 1
  • Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Gadwall - 14 - 7 pairs. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male.
  • Middle Common, Scholes: Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Skylark - 12+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ ; Linnet - 20+
  • Midhope Res: Jay - 3 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Gadwall - 5 - Unusual here ; Tufted Duck - 10

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