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Saturday 24th October 2026

  • Catcliffe Flash: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Great White Egret - 1 ; Cormorant - 9 ; Gadwall - 38 ; Mallard - 8 ; Wigeon - 16 ; Pintail - 2 - Male hidden in reeds for much of the time. ; Shoveler - 28 ; Teal - 10 ; Pochard - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 78 ; Cetti's Warbler - 2
  • Ecclesfield: Redwing - 3 - Calling, High St, flying west. ; Siskin - 3 - Calling flying south ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling Whitley Lane, flew towards dam
  • Ecclesfield Dam: Cormorant - 1 - My first one here.
  • Forge Dam: Cormorant - 1
  • Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 1 - First for a while ; Sparrowhawk - 1
  • Redmires Top Res: Jay - 1 - Very vocal in beech tree

Friday 23rd October 2026

  • Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 7 ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - colour ringed 3rd winter on Warren Street roofs, green H7 ringed in the Netherlands in 2024 and also seen here in Nov 2025. ; Herring Gull - 50 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 15 ; Common Buzzard - 2
  • Barbrook Pools: Pink-footed Goose - 110 - c110 in single skein heading SE at 11.00
  • Big Moor: Fieldfare - 8 - feeding in rowans
  • Fatty Boyns Ponds: Wigeon - 1 ; Blackbird - 15 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 3 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Chaffinch - 8
  • Graves Park: Great White Egret - 1 - circling over boating lake in misty conditions
  • Langsett Res: Teal - 39 ; Mallard - 130 - c ; Tufted Duck - 1
  • Meadowhead: VARIOUS ESCAPED SPECIES - 12 - Alexandrine Parakeets regularly feeding on Common Lime seeds, a problem for the future?
  • Midhope Res: Wigeon - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Redwing - 5 ; Teal - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 9 ; Canada Goose - 53 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
  • Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 9 ; Whooper Swan - 9 ; Whooper Swan - 9 ; Whooper Swan - 9
  • R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 5 - 4 redhead and imm/eclipse drake ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Cormorant - 2
  • Rawmarsh Cemetery: Long-tailed Tit - 20 - 20+; most numerous sp. in mobile mixed flock ; Common Buzzard - 1 - in from N; left back N calling shortly after ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 - 2+ in mixed flock ; Coal Tit - 1 - in mixed flock ; Treecreeper - 1 - in mixed flock
  • Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 - 5+ in mixed flock ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in tit-flock ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock
  • Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 25
  • Soughley Lane, Redmires: Greylag Goose - 106 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; Lapwing - 40
  • Tankersley - Black Lane: Grey Heron - 3 ; Buzzard - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Starling - 310 - NW - 2 groups of 100+ ; Gadwall - 4 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Brambling - 1+ - Calling bird within a high flying group of 7 that may all have been Brambling. ; Cormorant - 1 - West ; Stock Dove - 10 - NW
  • Thrybergh CP: Pink-footed Goose - 160 - SW 110 then 50 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Gadwall - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Pochard - 2 ; Lapwing - 60 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Grey Partridge - 6 ; Blackbird - 60 - Influx this morning ; Goldcrest - 3
  • Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 3 ; Whooper Swan - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Pochard - 2 ; Shoveler - 6 ; Mallard - 50 ; Teal - 11 ; Grey Heron - 3

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