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New Stubbin colliery/tip: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Fieldfare - 7 - with Redwing flock ; Bullfinch - 3 - 1m; 2f
Norfolk Heritage Park: Tawny Owl - 1 - hooting
Norfolk Park: Grey Heron - 1 - Landed on roof and mobbed by 1 or 2 very vocal Herring Gulls.
Orgreave Lakes: SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - Continuing to deplete Orgreaves fish stock at 0830. ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - On the main lake with the Canada's, flew towards Bolehill at 0920. ; Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 - Associating with the Lapwing flock then appeared to head north at 0940, doubled back and headed south at 0950. ; Pink-footed Goose - c250 - South at 13:45. ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - Adult
Rawmarsh Cemetery: Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c12 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - feeding in Holly ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Blue Tit - c10 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Goldfinch - 5+ - feeding in birches ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Woodcock - 1 - disturbed from beneath Hawthorn scrub
RVCP: Cormorant - 63
Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 32 ; Shelduck - 3 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 35 ; Goosander - 3 ; Lapwing - 28 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Shelduck - 3 ; Goldeneye - 3 - 1M, 2F
Upper Common, Scholes: Blackbird - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 2+ ; Reed Bunting - 2 - moving through gorse and hawthorn above ditch ; Linnet - 10+ - in cover crop ; Woodpigeon - 30+ - up from cover crop into Scholes Coppice

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 10 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - c120
Bolehill Flash: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - Single alongside 40+ Canada Geese near oxbow lake on opposite side of river ; Water Rail - 1
Crosspool: Waxwing - 18 - on Manchester Rd at 08:40
Drakehouse; Crystal Peaks: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over Sainsbury's car park, flushing pigeons
Guilthwaite: Kestrel - 2 - hunting verge of Pleasley Road ; Common Buzzard - 1 - circling over
Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 2 ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - On east bank main lake. Catching plenty fish.
Queens Park, Chesterfield: Goosander - 4 - Male and 3 Redheads.
R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 10
R Rother, Catcliffe: Goosander - 1
R Sheaf, Duchess Rd: Grey Wagtail - 1
Sharrow: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden Ventnor Place
Sheffield Centre: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Flew up from the River Porter Viewing Area near Waitrose
Totley Brook: Kingfisher - 1 - By Totley Scout Hut
Totley Moor: PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - still present and showing well ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - showing very well near its main puddle, 14:40-15:00 ; 324 - 4 - 4 Red Deer ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - still present at dusk ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - Images ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - photo ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - photo ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1 - adult on rooftop of before disappearing & returning soon after with FP which it carried to chimney to pluck. Left to N part of complex with prey. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over N part of site chased by crow
Barkers Park: Pied Wagtail - 3 ; House Sparrow - c10 - around car park - entrance ; Robin - 1+ ; Dunnock - 1
Bingham Park: Goosander - 1 - female hanging out with the mallards on Ibbotson Wheel
Blacka Moor: Raven - 4 - east over Lenny Hill
Bolehill Flash: Water Rail - 1 ; Kestrel - 2
Broom Lane, Rotherham: Brambling - 1 - Feeding in observers garden.
Canklow Woods: Raven - 1 - west seen virtually daily now
Crosspool: Waxwing - 10 - Up to 10 reported still at Manchester Rd ; Waxwing - 18 - photo ; Waxwing - 18 ; Waxwing - 18 ; Waxwing - 18 - feeding on berry trees on Manchester Rd mid-afternoon
Hallam Head: Crossbill - 6 - On golf course ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1
Kimberworth Park: Goldcrest - 1 - at Hampstead Green, in privet hedge
Meersbrook Allotments: Woodcock - 1 - in flight
Middleton Moor: Shoveler - 21 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Lapwing - 21 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 - below dam
Millhouses: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing
Millhouses garden: Redwing - 1 - first of season ; Chaffinch - 1 - male, infrequent visitor
Orgreave Lakes: SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - Winter adult on big lake late morning ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - 2nd photo