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Friday 16th January 2026

  • Canklow: Long-tailed Tit - 12 - to garden feeders
  • Canklow Woods: Song Thrush - 2 - 2 singing ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Redwing - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 24
  • Catcliffe Flash: Scaup - 1 - 1st winter male.
  • Ecclesfield: Buzzard - 1 - Mobbed by two Herring Gulls, High Street towards Hartley Brook.
  • Elsecar Res: Song Thrush - 2 - Both singing
  • Green Moor: Barn Owl - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 10+
  • Haywood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling
  • High Green: Blackbird - 1 - Singing 07.20 ; Robin - 3 - Singing
  • Hollow Meadows/Surrey Farm: Stock Dove - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1
  • Lawrence Field: Nuthatch - 1 - Trees near path above Lawrence Field
  • Little Moor: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Flew over into tree at edge of Whim Wood
  • Longshaw: Nuthatch - 1 - Trees by Woodcroft car park ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling
  • Low Bradfield: Little Owl - 2
  • Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 - Singing
  • Norton Lees: Redwing - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Flew into roadside tree
  • Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 113 - flushed by passing balloon ; Little Owl - 1
  • Porter Clough: Fieldfare - 45+ - flock of close to 50 birds, as well as 3+ birds in a tree ; Redwing - 9+ ; Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1
  • R Derwent, Leadmill Bridge to Grindleford: Dipper - 2 ; Mandarin - 7 ; Mallard - 6 ; Buzzard - 1 - Over ; Goosander - 2 - redheads
  • Stannington west: Tree Sparrow - 16 - Flash Lane. ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ - plus a colour ringed adult Black-headed x Mediterranean Gull hybrid Moorwood Lane.
  • Stannington, west: Common Gull - 4 - 2 ad, 2w and 1w
  • Thorpe Hesley: Pink-footed Goose - 240
  • Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 30 ; Gadwall - 9 ; Tufted Duck - 62 ; Pochard - 1 ; Goldeneye - 2 - F ; Shoveler - 16 ; Goosander - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 5 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male
  • Ughill Farm S&RWT: Lapwing - 30 - c30, flock in field ; Pheasant - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Raven - 1 ; Golden Plover - 20 - c20 in their "usual" field. ; Fieldfare - 4 - c. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Starling - 10 - c10, a mobile flock ; Grey Heron - 1 - on Loftshaw Quarry pool ; Robin - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 5
  • Ughill Moors: Red Grouse - 5 ; Stonechat - 4 - males and females perching on grouse shooting butts ; Merlin - 1

Thursday 15th January 2026

  • Attercliffe: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Passing over ; Song Thrush - 2 - foraging in workplace grassed area
  • Back Tor, Derwentdale: Kestrel - 1 ; Buzzard - 1 ; Red Grouse - 11 ; Golden Plover - 35
  • Bolehill Flash: Goldcrest - 5
  • Canklow Woods: Jackdaw - 150 - c150 east at 07:45 ; Lesser Redpoll - 24 ; Redwing - 6 ; Siskin - 1
  • Catcliffe Flash: Scaup - 1 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Teal - 51 - On the ice, flash still 50% frozen. ; Mallard - 4 ; Gadwall - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 16 ; Pochard - 11 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Coot - 20
  • Derwent Res: Brambling - 2 - 2 with Chaffinches above the dam ; Crossbill - 4 ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Jay - 2 ; Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
  • Ecclesall garden: Blackcap - 1 - Female still coming to feeders.

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