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Crowhole: Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Siskin - c. 20 - flock flew overhead.
Dennis Knoll: Brambling - 30+ - In mixed flock with chaffinches at car park
Firsby Res: 319 - 2 ; Starling - 10 ; Blackbird - 15 - 10m & 5f ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 2
Fulwood: Brambling - 1 - over calling
Hillsborough Corner: Cormorant - 1 - flew west to river
Moss Road Totley: Woodcock - 2 - Near feeders
Norton Lees: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Flying high over
Rawmarsh; High Street: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on top of Methodist Church steeple
Redmires Top Res: Cormorant - 1
Tinsley Golf Course: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - By the club house 9.45am ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - Including one singing briefly by the 16th tee 13.30. ; Skylark - 1 - Over east towards Orgreave ; Redwing - 10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1

Agden Res: Mandarin - 14 - 12 male and 2 female
Agden Side: Fieldfare - 80 - approx
Bolehiill Flash: Water Rail - 1
Catcliffe Flash: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling from scrapyard end of the flash.
Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mallard - 150+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting N side, failed attempt ; Grey Wagtail - 2
Orgreave Lakes: Raven - 2
Orgreave Tip: Stonechat - 1 - Single bird just off footpath south of tip.
Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over, calling ; Peregrine - 1 - adult male circling overhead @ 1045hrs; left E/SE ; Peregrine - 1 - adult male circling over @ 1045hrs; left E/SE ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Goldfinch - 7 - visiting gardens
Treeton Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Waverley: Golden Plover - 65 ; Lapwing - 8 ; Grey Partridge - 17 - in fields on other side of railway line

Back Tor, Derwentdale: Golden Plover - 6 - Party on ground just below trig point
Barlow Brook: Grey Wagtail - 1
Denaby Common: Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Red-legged Partridge - 48 ; Goosander - 5 - on river ; Snipe - 1 ; Stonechat - 1
Handsworth garden: House Sparrow - 20+ - on crushed fat-balls ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on flat garage roof
Holbrook Marsh: Snipe - 1
Middleton Moor: Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - left to S as mist lifted ; Snipe - 6 ; Lapwing - 136 ; 320 - 26 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 300
Middlewood: Golden Plover - 1 - Sound recorded over garden ; Redwing - 51 - calls recorded o/n ; Blackbird - 8 ; Song Thrush - 1
Millhouses: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling on Springfield Rd at 04:00
Millhouses Park: Dipper - 1 - Flew downstream.
Old Denaby: 320 - 42 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1
Pears House Clough: Red Kite - 1 - Over clough ; Red Grouse - 1 - Very dark bird calling from drystone wall ; Skylark - 7 - Flew south
Strines Res: Whooper Swan - 7 - Flew south towards Redmires Res
Tyzack*s Dam: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - Still present. ; Goosander - 1 - Harassed by Black-headed Gulls ; Black-headed Gull - 40+
Water Grove: Wigeon - 6 ; Mandarin - 1 - a male ; Greylag Goose - 2
Waverley: Snipe - 1
Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 55 ; Water Rail - 2 - calling ; Jack Snipe - 9

Hillsborough: Kingfisher - 1 - at Hillsborough corner
Hillsborough Park: Mute Swan - 5 - 3 imms and pair of adults ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Goosander - 2 - male and redhead ; Mandarin - 2 - m & f ; Moorhen - 8 - 2 juvs ; Coot - c10
Kimberworth Park: 319 - 1 - S, low over Roughwood School @ 10:55, heading toward Hudson's Rough
Longshaw: Raven - 2
Longshaw pond: Mandarin - 19 - 10m,9f.Displaying.
Loxley Valley: Little Grebe - 1 - on Olive House Pond - my first here for years ; Kingfisher - 1 - by one-man bridge
Moorhall: Kestrel - 4 ; 319 - 3
Oughtibridge: Pink-footed Goose - c60 - flying high heading west @ 09.50.
Owlerton: Siskin - c50 - mobile flock drinking from river at the rear of Bassets.
Redmires Middle Res: Peregrine - 1 - adult perched on rocks in res basin
Redmires Res: Moorhen - 2 - ads still braving the Top Res ; Lapwing - 36 - roosted on Middle Res ; Curlew - 1 - roosted on Middle Res amongst Lapwings - late here ; Woodcock - 1 - arrived from the south at dusk and flew over Middle Res, along the dam wall and then into Redmires Plantation