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30 December 2024
Bents Green: Ring-necked Parakeet - c7 - Over Bents DriveGreen Moor: Tree Sparrow - 10 - To feeders
Middle Common, Scholes: Skylark - 12+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Linnet - 40+ ; Linnet - 40+ ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Jackdaw - c100 - in and out of fields, between Cinder Hills and Shepherd's Plantation
Rawmarsh: High Street: Blackbird - 1 - male, on roof of Earl Grey PH carrying food & dropped down towards presumed nest site. Lots of early morning song over past two weeks. Nesting behaviour first noted on 21/12.
Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - c100 - in trees at N end of Wood
Scholes Coppice, Raspberry Plantation: Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Magpie - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Linnet - 4+
Silverwood Lagoon: Woodcock - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - brief call in eastern seedbed ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Jackdaw - 3 - west ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Coot - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - c.60 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1
Woodhouse Washlands: Mallard - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Magpie - 5 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Robin - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 5 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Starling - 6 ; Woodpigeon - 6
29 December 2024
Aldwarke: Pied Wagtail - c25 - left roost on roof of Asda @ 0750hrsBrightholmlee: Pink-footed Goose - 120 - Flying over
Canklow Woods: Song Thrush - 1 - 1 singing
Dog Kennel Pond: Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Herring Gull - 4
Fatty Boyns Ponds: Chaffinch - 6 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Teal - 6 - unusual here these days ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Raven - 1 - circled briefly, calling before heading off towards Liberty Steels @ 0950hrs
Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Over calling. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting in willows. ; Buzzard - 1 - Over set aside field calling. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling high over site. ; Pheasant - 2 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Calling In undergrowth. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Mal. ; Goldfinch - 3+ - Feeding in tree tops above sluice. ; Pink-footed Goose - 60+ - Over east
Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 9 - To feeders ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male
Handsworth garden: Goldfinch - 30+ - On sunflower heart feeders
Kimberworth Park: Greenfinch - 1 - in grounds of Roughwood School ; Black-headed Gull - 8 - low over Remount Road
Malin Bridge: Pink-footed Goose - 80 - c80 flew over west at 11:25
Middle Common, Scholes: Buzzard - 1 ; Skylark - 5+ ; Woodpigeon - 300+ ; Jackdaw - 100+ ; Linnet - 20+
Middleton Moor: Pintail - 2 - males ; Shelduck - 2 ; Wigeon - 12 ; Teal - 11 ; Shoveler - 16 ; Tufted Duck - 13 ; Coot - 10 ; Lapwing - 157
Morley Pond: Grey Heron - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair ; Mallard - 50+
Napier Street: Peregrine - 1 - low over flats then headed NE over Waitrose
Old Ravenfield: Greenfinch - 1 - Male on hedge near Pingle Lane Tip gate.
R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Stock Dove - 1 - singing from Thrybergh Bridge
R Sheaf, Heeley, Broadfield Road: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 juv ; Mandarin - c68
Ravenfield Park: Lesser Redpoll - 3+ - Over.
Scholes Coppice: Buzzard - 1 - calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+