Wednesday 24th December 2025

• Bassingthorpe Farm: Buzzard - 2 - active together around Bassingthorpe Farm ; Chaffinch - 20+ - feeding in cover crop
• Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 82 - c82 in roost after dark
• Broomhead Res: Black-headed Gull - 200 - c. in roost at 15.35 hrs
• Canklow Woods: Song Thrush - 3 - 3 singing ; Redwing - 10 ; Siskin - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - birds off roost 0745 to 0830
• Carr Vale NR: White-fronted Goose - 8 - flew north at 10:30
• Clough: Yellowhammer - 4+ - feeding in cover crop with Goldfinch
• Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 9 - To feeders with House Sparrows
• Langsett Res: Canada Goose - 64 ; Mallard - 92 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 1900 - c. roosted ; Common Gull - 48 - roosted amongst BHGs
• Longshaw Lodge: Siskin - 7 ; Greenfinch - 6
• Mayfield Valley: Siskin - 40 - c40; large flock near the old Mill View riding school ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20 - max
• Orgreave Lakes: Scaup - 1 - first winter drake this afternoon ; Red-crested Pochard - 1 - drake still with Pochard flock ; Goldeneye - 2 - a pair ; CASPIAN GULL - 2+ - at least 2, probably 3 first winters late afternoon. ; Raven - 1 - dropped into building site ; Lapwing - 74 ; Common Gull - 1 - 1w ; Scaup - 1 - 1st w drake early morning. ; Dunlin - 1 - Briefly circling site. ; Whooper Swan - 6 - Adults from 09:45 until 11:15 when left east. ; Lesser Redpoll - 50 - c50 feeding in riverside Alders ; Pink-footed Goose - 25 - East ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling along river.
• Pit-house West: Water Rail - 1
• R Sheaf, Broadfield Rd: Mandarin - 0 - None present here throughout December. Regular December counts of between 71 and 74 in 2024. ; Mallard - 2 - Maximum December counts this year around 12. Regular counts of over 40 in December 2024.
• R Sheaf, Millhouses Park to Saxon Rd.: Grey Heron - 5 - Five singles along a 3km stretch of the river.
• Shirebrook Valley: Kingfisher - 1
• Silverwood Lagoon: Woodcock - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Teal - 11 - very flighty ; Gadwall - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Coot - 14 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - c50 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing
• Thornseat Delf: Kestrel - 2
• Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 29 ; Mallard - 52 ; Gadwall - 9 ; Shoveler - 94 - Bird's back on but very flight'y ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Scaup - 1 - Female ; Pochard - 3 ; Goldeneye - 4 - 2M 2F ; Teal - 6 ; Goosander - 2 - Pair ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Lapwing - 140 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Kingfisher - 3 ; Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Linnet - 100 - Large mixed flock southern field's ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Chaffinch - 15 ; Song Thrush - 5
• Wales: Linnet - 200 - c200 feeding in set-aside fields ; Chaffinch - 125 - c125 in set-aside fields.