Recent news
23 December 2024
Carr Vale: BEARDED TIT - 1 - calling continuously 16:17-16:21 then moved unseen to the phrag at the north end of Meadow Flash but originally when it started calling it was in SBSG area ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - dropped in from north ; Chiffchaff - 2 - on the embankmentDarnall: Blackbird - 12 - Feeding on berry trees, Wilfrid Rd ;
, Redwing - 6 - Wilfrid Rd. ; 
, Redwing - 1 - Comparison shot, nominate iliacus ssp and presumed icelandic coburni ssp ; 
, Redwing - 1 - presumed Icelandic bird ssp coburni 2nd photo ; 
Greystones: Pink-footed Goose - 200+ - Flying West over observer's garden at 08.55 ; Blackcap - 1 - observer's garden
Handsworth: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden, eating guelder-rose berries
Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - female
Longshaw: Siskin - 3
Middle Common, Scholes: Skylark - 20+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Corvid - 100+ - mainly Jackdaws
Middleton Moor: Shoveler - 2 - Drakes ; Teal - 33 ; Tufted Duck - 17 ; Coot - 11 ; Common Gull - 11 ; Stonechat - 1
Orgreave Lakes: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Feeding on footpath beside small lake. ;
, Goosander - 7 - Feeding and displaying on river Rother. ; 
, Goosander - 7 ; 
R Don, Effingham St: Herring Gull - 28 - Sat on Wards roof including this aberrant bird ;
, Chiffchaff - 1 ; 
, Canada Goose - 11 ; Mallard - 31 ; Goosander - 4 - 3 males and 1 female Scholes Coppice: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls including ' rattle calls' ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 4
Smallfield Lane, Agden: Red Grouse - 1 - put-up from roadside grassland.
Whiteley Woods: Brambling - 1 - Still here in the garden!
22 December 2024
Dalton: Kestrel - 1 - hunting over S side of Doncaster Road in half-light @ 0800hrs ; Black-headed Gull - 25 - feeding on playing fieldGreen Moor: Greenfinch - 4 ; Tree Sparrow - 6
Kimberworth Park: Buzzard - 1 - harassed by 1 Black-headed Gull, over Roughwood Road then toward Shepherd's Plantation
Old Whittington Church: Treecreeper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ ; Goldfinch - 12 max
R Don, Aldwarke: Song Thrush - 3 - inc 2 in full song ; Mute Swan - 2 - adult pair ; Mallard - 8 - 4 pairs ; Cormorant - 3 - 1 on river; 2 SW ; Goosander - 2 - pair ; Stock Dove - 3 - disturbed from under bridge to Thrybergh bar mill
Walkley garden: Blackcap - 1 - single male on Mahonia flowers