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Saturday 1st August 2020

Treeton Dyke: Mute Swan - 14 - 2 pairs, each with 5 well grown cygnets at N and S end of dyke
Treeton Tip: Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing male
Wadsley: Swift - 10 - Only the second time in 20+ years that “our??? swifts have stayed until August.
White Stones (Redmires): Stonechat - 2 - pair still actively defending territory ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Wren - 1 + - Adult taking food into audible (pre-fledge) young ; Meadow Pipit - 4 + ; Goldfinch - 6

Friday 31st July 2020

Banner Cross: 319 - 2 - Presumed juvs circling and calling over observer's garden.
Barbrook Pools: Linnet - 20+ ; House Martin - 2
Barbrook Valley: Whinchat - 5 - 3 (1f + 2 juv) + 2 (1m + 1 juv) ; Whinchat - 5 - juv ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - cream-crown ; Stonechat - 1 - juv ; 319 - 1
Baslow: Hobby - 1 - West over observers garden at 6.20pm
Bradwell Edge: 319 - 1
Ecclesfield: Common Buzzard - 1 - Cross Hill - going south,intent on something, - wings swept back!
Greaves Road, Ecclesfield: Swift - 9+ - Group screaming above old chapel on High Street.
Greystones: Red Kite - 2 - reported over at 16:40
Offerton Hall: Corvid - 100+ - Mainly (if not all) Rooks
Orgreave Lakes: Greenshank - 1 ; Green Sandpiper - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Along railway line
R Don, Effingham St: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c30 - inc 4 juvs ; Herring Gull - 6 - 1 juv ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - 2s and 3s ; Stock Dove - 2 - drinking in river
Ramsley Moor: 319 - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 - f ; Carrion Crow - 4 - 2 ad + 2 juv ; Red Kite - 1
Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 2
Redmires: Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ ; Swallow - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male
Redmires Bottom Res: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - One adult among flock of LBG, HG and BHG.
Redmires Top Res: Crossbill - 2 - Over Low to the E
Shatton Moor: Kestrel - 2+ ; Wheatear - 2 juv ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Raven - 4 (2+2)
West Wood, Tankersley: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Seen and heard in ancient oak trees near A61
Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 3 - 1 eclipse male, 2 female ; Moorhen - 2+ - Pair with 3 well-grown juvs

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Thursday 30th July 2020

Bowden Housteads Wood: 324 - 1+ - Several Purple Hairsteaks on the northeastern edge.
Cortworth Lane: Jay - 1
Hangingwater garden: Woodpigeon - 1 - juv unaccompanied
Hathersage: Canada Goose - c38 - In fields between Hathersage & Leadmill Bridge ; Rook - 35+
Hoober Lane: Kestrel - 1 - male
Johnson Lane, Ecclesfield: Common Buzzard - 1 - Circling over. Mellor Lea Farm estate,1.30 pm.
Kimberworth Park: Swift - 20+ - Active low between Roughwood Rd and Shearman Avenue most of day numbers building from 5,10,12 then over 20.
Mayfield Valley: Little Owl - 2 - Adult and imm on walls along Foxhall Lane
Midhope Res: Willow Warbler - c10 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; 320 - 1 - fem ; Mandarin - 1 - fem
Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2
Padley Wood area: 324 - 2 - Red Deer stags in velvet
Parkgate; Greasbrough Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over @ 1200hrs
R Don, Attercliffe: Sand Martin - 1 - Went in pipe in riverside wall, came out with faecal sac, near Newhall Road.
R Don, Effingham St: Herring Gull - 6 - including the first juv
R Don, Hillfoot Bridge: Kingfisher - 1 - flew across standing traffic on bridge
Ravenfield: Redstart - 1 - moulting male dropped onto verge from hedgerow on Ravenfield Lane
Redmires Bottom Res: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult amongst LBG’s and B/H Gulls ; Stonechat - 1 - Juvenile in bracken
Redmires Res: Curlew - 5 - on Bottom Res in p.m. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 90 - c. ; Common Gull - 2 - ads flew W ; Black-headed Gull - 60 - c. on Bottom Res in a.m. ; Moorhen - 1 - ad on Top Res ; Mallard - 20 - c. on Middle Res ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm
Rivelin: Sparrowhawk - 02-Mar - calling and flying through trees at Walkley Bank Tilt
Silverwood Lagoon: Swift - c.80 - down in light shower at 06.45
Tinsley Locks: Moorhen - 4 - 2 adults and 2 tiny chicks

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Wednesday 29th July 2020

Burbage Valley: Raven - 2 ; Whinchat - 4 ; Stonechat - 3 ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Close to the road and Stanage Edge
Castle Dyke Playing Fields: Swallow - c. 30 - c.25 juvs on fencing around cricket nets, plus ads hunting over adjacent playing field
Derwent Dam: Jay - 1
Greystones: Swift - 5 - Over observer's garden
Grindleford: 337 - 1 - reported over Maynard Arms late morning, heading S to Curbar Gap then over towards Longstone Edge, with a further report near Baslow at 14:30.
Howden Res: Cormorant - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1
Kimberworth Park: 319 - 1 - soaring between Scholes Coppice and Shepherd's Plantation @ 13:30.
Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 240 ; 321 - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - Adults/near adults
Moscar: 319 - 2
Orgreave Lakes: Common Scoter - 1 - still present this morning