Sunday 19th April 2026

• Bar Brook: Whinchat - 1 - On the path to the west side of the A621
• Bolsterstone: Lapwing - 11 ; Willow Warbler - 2+ - Many heard singing ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - Many heard singing ; Swallow - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Carrying food ; Greenfinch - 2 - Singing ; Curlew - 1 - Calling
• Canklow Woods: Whitethroat - 3 - 3 singing
• Cinder Bridge Field; Back Lane: Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Skylark - 6 - inc 4 singing ; Linnet - 2 - pair ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - pair, disturbed from field edge ; Common Buzzard - 1 - tried to take food from crows on ground but driven away to SW
• Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Lapwing - 4 - lots of display ; Skylark - 6 - inc 3 singing, SK4295 & SK4296
• Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops to Cinder Bridge Road: Red-legged Partridge - 2 - pair, disturbed from field edge ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, Cinder Bridge Road
• Crowhole: Swallow - 10+ ; Buzzard - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; House Martin - 1
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 4 - 1 pair with newly built nest. ; Greylag Goose - 2 - Noisy pair arrived down onto large Res. ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair. ; Mallard - 5 - All Males. ; Little Grebe - 2 - Pair now present in front of Reed bed. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Early morning. ; Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Perched on small holding barn roof. ; Swallow - 2 - Over sheep paddock calling. ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Continuous singing from Bramble patch. ; Whitethroat - 5 - Numbers increasing. ; Blackcap - 8 - Lots of singing. ; Willow Warbler - 4 - Singing. ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male singing from top of hedge. ; Linnet - 10 ; Chiffchaff - 7 ; Chaffinch - 5 - Singing males plus 1 Female on road gathering nesting material. ; Goldfinch - 10 - Several pairs prospecting for nesting sites. ; Goldcrest - 1 - In branches over road. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Full song from top of Willows. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Over calling.
• Heeley: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Still present in scrub beside Virgin Active. Brief bursts of song competing with the ‘music’ from the Abbeydale Live festival.
• High Green: Swallow - 2
• Nether Haugh: Pied Wagtail - 2 - pair in field to E ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - pair, Back Lane ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing, Back Lane ; Pheasant - 8 - 5m; 3f, fields to E ; Skylark - 2 - singing, field adjacent Roman Ridge ; Wheatear - 1 - female, field adjacent Roman Ridge ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - field adjacent Roman Ridge ; Lapwing - 2 - field adjacent Roman Ridge ; Rook - 3 - field adjacent Roman Ridge
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Siskin - 2 - 2+, heard over ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2 pairs ; Linnet - 5 - inc 3 over ; Yellowhammer - 3 - all males, only one singing ; Willow Warbler - 8 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singles singing, SK4396 & SK4296
• Orgreave Lakes: Sedge Warbler - 5+ ; Wheatear - 2
• Orgreave Tip: Grasshopper Warbler - 1
• Parkgate: Greenfinch - 1 - singing from tall conifers, Mangham House Farm ; Blackcap - 1 - singing, adjacent Asda car park ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing adjacent Asda car park
• Parkgate; Glossop Lodge to Scrooby Lane: Chiffchaff - 3 - 2 singing; inc pair giving anxiety calls ; Reed Bunting - 1 - in wet area ; Blackcap - 1 - calling ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing, Scrooby Lane
• Porter Clough: Redstart - 1 - female
• Rawmarsh: Chaffinch - 1 - singing from roadside tree, Barbers Avenue
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Nuthatch - 2 - pair, around nest site ; Tawny Owl - 1 - adult, sat out in open in treetop, mobbed by tits ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - one singing
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Rook - 2 - foraging in adjacent field ; Carrion Crow - 14+ - foraging together in adjacent field ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock
• Redmires Plantation: Redstart - 1
• Renishaw Hall Golf Course & surrounding fields: Greenfinch - 4