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25 April 2025

Clod Hall Lane, A621 crossroad: Red Kite - 1
Greave's Piece: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing
Little Barbrook Res: Whinchat - 1 - Singing male.
Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Teal - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 3
Millhouses Park: Moorhen - 3+ - First chicks emerging from underneath the brooding adult in a nest that has more or less occupied the same location for the last 20 years. ; Treecreeper - 3 - A pair in the customary breeding territory near Archer Road and a single bird near the southern entrance to the park.
Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 - moulting in to summer plumage. ; View Picture, Sedge Warbler - 4 - Singing males.
Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 6 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 3 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing in Hollings Lane meadows ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing in Hollings Lane meadows ; Whitethroat - 12+ - good numbers of this species and all other common warblers singing around pit top from Flanderwell end to Hollings Lane
Tankersley - Black Lane: Ringed Plover - 1
Upper Newbold: Chiffchaff - 3 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Jay - 2 ; Other Species - 1 - 1 Red Fox

24 April 2025

Abbey Brook: Redstart - 3 - SK177921, SK180923, SK181923 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - SK177921 & SK181923 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - & SK179921 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Skylark - 1 ; Whinchat - 4
Agden Rocher: Ring Ouzel - 3 - 2 Female ,1 Male ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Male + Female
Aldwarke: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over Liberty Steels @ 1255hrs ; Cormorant - 3 - all S/SW
Aldwarke Lane: Sand Martin - c20 - over roundabout & adjacent areas. Probable colony in nearby railway embankment
Barbrook Bridge: Whinchat - 1 - male ; Stonechat - 1
Baslow: Common Buzzard - 4 - Circling over observer’s house
Big Moor: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Cream crown
Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 6+ ; Gadwall - 2 - 1 pair ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Coot - 1+ ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Sand Martin - 10+ - active around arches, at W end ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - still carrying food to nest site ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Goldfinch - 2 - 1 pair? into copse between lakes
Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Cross Hill
Ecclesfield Dam: Buzzard - 2 - Mobbed by crows. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 - Inc.the usual abberent white individual. ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Swallow - 2
Fairholmes: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Singing below Dam wall
Featherbed Moss: Hobby - 1 - Adult. ; View Picture, Dunlin - 2 ; View Picture, Dunlin - 2 - Second photo. ; View Picture
Hagg Side: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard not seen
Howden Dam: Cuckoo - 1
Lawrence Field: Cuckoo - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Swallow - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Jay - 1
Longstone Edge: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Redstart - 2 - Singing ; Other Species - 1 - Dingy Skipper
Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 1 pair displaying ' head shake' ; Mute Swan - 2 - female still on eggs, male chasing off geese ; Greylag Goose - 14 ; Canada Goose - 2 - chased from water by Mute Swan ; Mandarin - 1 - male on island with several Mallard ; Wigeon - 1 - male, near island then seen feeding in long grass at W end ; Mallard - 20+ ; Tufted Duck - c10 ; Coot - 6+ - nest building continues at 2 nests ; Moorhen - 1 - harassed by Coots ; Swallow - 1+ ; Sand Martin - 1+ - from Dog Kennel ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing