Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 25 ; Wigeon - 72

Cinder Hills: Buzzard - 3 - close together

Ecclesall Woods: Treecreeper - 1

Ecclesfield: Little Egret - 1 - Flying low east over High St, towards Hartley Brook ; Pied Wagtail - 7 - High Street, flock going to roosting site south, (city centre)?

Fulwood: Buzzard - 1 - seen from observer's living room window, being mobbed by corvids

High Green: Buzzard - 3

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 2 - circling high over Lane Head, interacting & drifting slowly E @ 1100hrs

Redmires Res: Crossbill - 26 - 22 strongly W and 4 blogging by top res ; Siskin - 27 - W ; Redpoll sp (Common/Lesser) - 29 - W ; Raven - 1 ; Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Lapwing - 88 - flushed off middle res ; Chiffchaff - 3 - including 1 singing ; Teal - 17 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 ; Skylark - 3 - W

Rivelin Dams: Whooper Swan - 2 - ad + juv

Upper Common, Scholes: Stonechat - 1 - male, above ditch lined with gorse ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting over cover crop near ditch

Wortley: Jackdaw - 450 - Leaving roost 07:00-07:30 ; Meadow Pipit - 223 - SW 07:00-08:30 ; Chaffinch - 17 - SW ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Full display, circling high then into steep dives followed by swoop back upwards. Female. ; Yellowhammer - 13 - Great count, feeding in fields. ; Pied Wagtail - 42 - SW 07:00-08:30, largest group 16 ; Siskin - 38 - SW ; Stock Dove - 50 - Approx. Single group in fields ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Flying over fields ; Linnet - 1 ; Greenfinch - 11 - 10 west ; Redpoll sp (Common/Lesser) - 9 - SW ; Starling - 3 - West ; Redwing - 2 - West ; Crossbill - 6 - 4+2 SW ; Skylark - 17 - 15+2 SW ; Goldfinch - 3 - SW

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 2 - one singing ; Kingfisher - 1 - calling ; Cormorant - 2 - imms, on river ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - SW ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - SW ; Grey Heron - 1 - on river ; Goldcrest - 2+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+

Damflask Res: Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Goldcrest - 2 - Together ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - Together

Eastwood, Rotherham: Mute Swan - 2 - SW/S @ 0855hrs

Firsby Res: Mallard - 8 - Main Res. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Over. ; Buzzard - 1 - On telegraph pole in set aside field. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting in wind. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting In willows. ; Jay - 1 - Over main Res. ; Water Rail - 1 - Calling from Reed bed In front of sluice. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Female near gate. ; Linnet - 4 - Over. ; Coal Tit - 1 - Calling in woodland. ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - Calling. ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 - Calling In undergrowth. ; Skylark - 3 - Together over farmland. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Along path. ; Stock Dove - 9 - Down on farmland with Woodpigeons. ; Siskin - 9 - Calling in treetops near road.

Orgreave Lakes: Rock Pipit - 1 - Between lakes ; Green Woodpecker - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - 18 ; Mute Swan - 3 - adults ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 25 - c25

Parkgate; Forge Way: Coal Tit - 1 - unusual here ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - over to NW

R Don, Rotherham; Grafton Bridge: Cormorant - 7 - circling over @ 0715hrs

Rotherham: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Marsh Street; over towards Centenary Riverside

Rotherham; Holmes/Ickles: Common Buzzard - 2 - circling over, calling @ 0720hrs; one left N, followed soon by second

Rotherham; Northfield: Herring Gull - 5+ - on roof of recycling centre (improved security makes viewing poor) ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults, on roof of recycling centre

Rotherham; Thorn Hill: Great Black-backed Gull - 8+ - loafing on rooftop, Glasshouse Street ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 - c10 loafing on rooftop, Glasshouse Street ; Herring Gull - 20 - c20 loafing on rooftop, Glasshouse Street

Silverwood Lagoon: Whooper Swan - 4 - birds from TCP. Still present at 11:15. Looked exhausted ; Raven - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing occasionally

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 30 ; Whooper Swan - 4 - Departed south 08:55 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Mallard - 100 ; Tufted Duck - 41 ; Pochard - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Buzzard - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1