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Sheffield Bird Study Group

Thursday 23rd April 2026

  • Bole Hill Wood, Woodseats: Treecreeper - 1
  • Canklow Woods: Sparrowhawk - 3 - 3 in the air together at 1600
  • Edale (Grindsbrook): Redstart - 1 - male singing in small copse in field
  • General Cemetery, Sharrow: Coal Tit - 2 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - Male singing
  • Graves Park: Blackcap - 2 ; Mandarin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Dunnock - 6 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Coal Tit - 7 ; Stock Dove - 8 - Relating to song heard plus some paired at possible nest site ; Blackbird - 15 - Males ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Great Tit - 18 ; Nuthatch - 9 ; Blue Tit - 33 ; Robin - 20 ; Wren - 37
  • Howden Res: Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 6 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - Seen at 06.30 and 14.15
  • King Tree: Crossbill - 1 - Male ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Siskin - 25
  • Middleton Moor: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Redstart - 1 - singing ; Whinchat - 1 ; Ruff - 6 ; Shelduck - 4 - 2 prs ; Red Kite - 1
  • Slippery Stones: Cuckoo - 1
  • Tankersley - Black Lane: Skylark - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 2 pairs ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Both singing ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Gadwall - 8 - 4 pairs ; Lapwing - 5 ; Teal - 10 - 5 pairs ; Yellow Wagtail - 1
  • Tankersley - opp. Evri: Lapwing - 4
  • Whirlow Park/Limb valley: Wheatear - 2 - Pair ; Lapwing - 3 - 2 displaying ; Curlew - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 4 - Singing ; Blackcap - 8 - 6m, 2f ; Song Thrush - 8 - 1 carrying food ; Buzzard - 1 ; Mandarin - 6 - Males

Wednesday 22nd April 2026

  • Beighton Marsh: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Heard 4 times between 10 and 2. Glimpsed once.
  • Cutthroat Bridge: Sand Martin - 1 - over NE ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - pair ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - mobbed by Mistle Thrush pair ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing.
  • Heeley: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - still singing (adjacent to My Fathers Heart/railway embankment) this morning
  • Ladybower Res, North arm: Red Kite - 1 - circling
  • Middleton Moor: Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Ruff - 5
  • Morley Pond: Mallard - 11+ - including female with 10 ducklings crossing track from Dog Kennel ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pair at nest, swapping over egg-sitting
  • Orgreave Lakes: Sedge Warbler - 6+ ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Singing male. ; Sedge Warbler - 8+ - At least 8 Singing males. ; Carrion Crow - 6 - One took a Black headed Gull mid air and ate most of it . ; Yellow Wagtail - 6 - 2 north and 4 between the lakes., ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 6 ; Swift - 14+ - A minimum of 14 with some birds screaming.
  • Orgreave Tip: Lesser Whitethroat - 1
  • Padley Gorge: Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

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