Tuesday 7th April 2026

• Agden: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - A single male chasing a blue tit from a nest box
• Bowden Housteads Wood: Chiffchaff - 10 - Singing males ; Blackcap - 5 - 4 singing males and 1 female. ; Nuthatch - 7 - At least 4 territorial pairs - north section ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - Drumming - north section ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Pair displaying ; Buzzard - 2 - Pair displaying ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding on the Carr Brook. ; Woodpigeon - 100 - c100 ; Stock Dove - 2
• Carr Vale NR: Sand Martin - 14 - approximate
• Catcliffe Flash: Scaup - 1 - drake still present
• Coombs Dale: Blackcap - 1 - male
• Crosspool garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male singing
• Ecclesall: Jay - 3 - 3 jays in formation flying over Ecclesall garden ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling in vicinity of junction Silverdale Road/Millhouses Lane
• Firsby Res: Song Thrush - 2 - Sitting Female, singing Male. ; Blackcap - 4 - Singing Males. ; Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing. ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Loud call at top of sluice. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Single over calling. ; Mallard - 3 - Males. ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair still present. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 4 - Nesting started.
• Fulwood Head: Lapwing - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Curlew - 3
• Hollow Meadows: Oystercatcher - 2 - Pair in field by A57 opposite The Old School House
• Holmesfield: Red Kite - 1
• Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1
• Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 6 ; Nuthatch - 3 - Singing near middle reservoir ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing male near middle reservoir ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing in woodland between middle and top reservoir. First one this year
• Longstone Edge: Red Kite - 3 ; Raven - 1
• Middleton Moor: Red Kite - 1
• Moorgate Cemetery: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - 1 singing
• Morley Pond: Mallard - 10+ ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Common Gull - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - female ; Coot - 1+ ; Tufted Duck - 1+ ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5
• Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 7 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing males ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - on main lake ; Oystercatcher - 2 - pair, presumed incubating on island ; Redshank - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing
• Peat Pits: Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Lapwing - 19 ; Golden Plover - 60 - Circa
• Peter Fidler Reserve: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Willow Warbler - 3 - 3 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - pair, male singing ; Raven - 4 - circling over together
• Pingle Lane Tip: Lesser Redpoll - 8 - Feeding near pond just past edge of wood. ; Linnet - 8 ; Grey Partridge - 2
• Redmires: Meadow Pipit - 20 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Dunnock - 2
• Redmires conduit: Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 10+ ; Pheasant - 3 ; Skylark - 6+ ; Meadow Pipit - 8+ ; Swallow - 1 - Flying east ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male to East of conduit, in gulley close to old house ; Snipe - 1 - Flushed west of conduit
• Redmires Middle Res: Tufted Duck - 4
• Redmires Top Res: Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
• Rocher End: Redstart - 1 - male foraging in hawthorn scrub to north of Rocher End Plantation
• Rockingham Wood: Fieldfare - 4+
• Scholes Ground: Mallard - 5 - pair with at least 3 ducklings ; Skylark - 1 - singing
• Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 4 - Lots of calling and activity all around wood. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Pair in Gorse on the site or old Colliery baths/offices. ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Near pond along colliery branch line. ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male along disused railway. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 15:30PM.
• Stanage Edge: Snipe - 1 ; Stonechat - 6
• Tankersley - Black Lane: Avocet - 2 - assumed same pair that has visited over previous weeks.