Woodseats: Snipe - 1 - Heading low to S. then suddenly dropped straight down, predator evasion behaviour, so it ended up hiding in a garden or headed onwards at lower level.

Calver weir: Kingfisher - 1 - On pond in Garden. ; Little Egret - 1 - On pond in garden. ; Cormorant - 1 - On weir

Catcliffe Flash: Pintail - 3

Damflask Res: Nuthatch - 1 ; Buzzard - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+

R Don, Ball St: Goosander - 1 - Redhead ; Little Egret - 1 - Feeding below the weir. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

R Don, Nursery St: Goosander - 1 - Redhead ; Kingfisher - 1+ - Calling

R Don, Oughtibridge: Little Egret - 1 ; Mandarin - 5 - 3males,4females on river ; Dipper - 2

Thrybergh Tip: Jack Snipe - 1 - Also 7 common snipe ; Great White Egret - 1 - Also 2 little egret

Wortley: Redwing - 20+ - 20-25; several groups around ; Meadow Pipit - 18 - South 07:10-08:10 ; Chaffinch - 68 - South ; Skylark - 3 - South ; Siskin - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 - South ; Greenfinch - 2 - South ; Starling - 1 - West ; Woodpigeon - 600 - S/SW/W ; Cormorant - 9 - South

Elsecar Res: Little Grebe - 1 - Winter plumaged / juvenile ; Great Crested Grebe - 3

Foxhill, Shaw Hill: Starling - 1 - Presence here now pitifully small

High Storrs: Snipe - 1 - in garden

Hillsborough Corner: Kingfisher - 1 - A little flash of blue in all the litter

Orgreave Lakes: Pochard - 91 - Most on small lake. ; Tufted Duck - 121

Oughtibridge: Common Buzzard - 4 - Two low over Coronation Park then soaring, joined by a third before a fourth appeared low down.

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 50 - c50 very mobile on south side of res.

Tankersley - Black Lane: Snipe - 2 - Openly feeding ; Lapwing - 42 ; Teal - 7 ; Grey Heron - 1

Woodseats: Peregrine - 1 - Male arrived from S. low over Bolehill Wood and dived at the resident Feral Pigeons which erupted out of the nearby gardens. Outcome unknown.