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Tuesday 20th January 2026

  • Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 32 ; Song Thrush - 2 - 2 singing ; Redwing - 7 ; Bullfinch - 4
  • Elsecar Res: Mute Swan - 2 - Sub adults ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 4 males ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Grey Heron - 9 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1+ - Heard only
  • Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 13+
  • Kelham Island: Water Rail - 1 - Calling at Mill Run off Cotton Mill Walk
  • Rockingham Wood: Buzzard - 1 ; Robin - 4+ - singing ; Redwing - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+
  • Tankersley - Black Lane: Buzzard - 4 - Circling together calling ; Linnet - 25 - c ; Gadwall - 11 - 10 in flooded field (5m,5f) plus separate male on main lagoon. ; Shoveler - 1 ; Common Gull - 2 - over ; Mallard - 4 - separate pairs ; VARIOUS ESCAPED SPECIES - 2 - Ringed Teal, both males ; Black-headed Gull - 30 - c. over ; Teal - 56 - 32 females, 24 males ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Redwing - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1000+ - Impossible to count, multiple skeins, heard before seen. Flew NW over the site at 11:40. Never seen such an impressive movement at an inland location. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Snipe - 5+ ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard only ; Herring Gull - 3 - Over ; Kestrel - 2
  • Upper Common, Scholes: Buzzard - 1 - low across fields toward Rockingham Wood ; Skylark - 10+ ; Linnet - 50+ ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Jackdaw - 100 - c.
  • Wentworth Dog Kennel: Mute Swan - 1 - Adult ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 2
  • Wentworth Morley Pond: Mallard - 50+ - Much reduced when the ‘country’ folk started blasting them out of the sky.
  • Wentworth, Dog Kennel: Cormorant - 11 ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ - some following Cormorants fishing ; Herring Gull - 1

Monday 19th January 2026

  • Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 2 - 2 x 1st winters one at Warren street and 1 at Effingham street.
  • Barlborough: Waxwing - 1 - reported with photograph from garden this afternoon
  • Calver Mill: Grey Heron - 1
  • Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 14 ; Song Thrush - 3 - 3 singing ; Bullfinch - 3
  • Ecclesall: Blackcap - 1 - Female still coming to garden feeder
  • Elesecar Res: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing
  • Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Female at upper pond ; Kingfisher - 1 - Top pond fishing
  • Fulwood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 5 - 5 in flight and then settled in trees at junction of Whiteley Lane and Brookhouse Hill
  • Gleadless: Blackcap - 1 - Male in garden on Charnock estate
  • Green Moor: Barn Owl - 2 ; Little Owl - 1
  • Grindleford: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mandarin - 7 - c.
  • Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - male on seed feeder
  • Ibbotson's Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Male, showing well
  • Kelham Island: Chiffchaff - 2 - The pale bird and a typical Collybita actively feeding in the cut behind the Fat Cat. Collybita calls heard, unsure which one of birds was calling.
  • Longshaw Estate: Brambling - 30+ - flock of 30+ foraging for beech mast, near Granby Barn; then a mixed flock of 40+ Bramblings and Chaffinches further up the path. ; Coal Tit - 8 - up to 8 ; Mandarin - 2 - 2 m ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Other Species - 1 - 1 Stoat (partly still in ermine), showing very well.
  • Meersbrook Park: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 - Heard
  • R Derwent, Calver Bridge to Froggatt Bridge: Mallard - 22
  • R Don, Effingham St: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goosander - 20 - Eight males ; Kingfisher - 1 - Male ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - T W Ward roof ; Cormorant - 1+
  • R Don, Salmon Pastures: Chiffchaff - 2 - Collybita ; Grey Heron - 1
  • Rivelin Valley: Raven - 1 - flying west, calling.
  • Sheffield University: Peregrine - 1 - Female on nest platform at St George's late afternoon
  • Silverwood Lagoon: Rook - 7 - small flock west at 09.15 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - brief burst of song ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - over ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 2
  • Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 32 ; Teal - 2 ; Wigeon - 5 - 3M2F ; Shoveler - 16 ; Tufted Duck - 50 - C50 ; Pochard - 6 ; Goosander - 3

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