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17 May 2025

Bradfield Moors: Red Kite - 3 - 3 Flying NE
Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 6 - M&F feeding 1 Juvenile ; View Picture, Stonechat - 6 - Male ; View Picture, Stonechat - 6 - Juvenile ; View Picture, Willow Warbler - 1+ - Singing ; View Picture, Willow Warbler - 1+ ; View Picture, Meadow Pipit - 1
Canklow Woods: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing
Chapeltown: Swift - 4 - Screaming over nest sites
Featherbed Moss: Golden Plover - 2 - adult with medium sized chick. ; Red Kite - 1
Firsby Res: Coot - 3 - Pair and single bird. ; Mallard - 4 - Pair and 2 ducklings. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Stood on reeds. ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Singles over. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Juv fly catching on sluice. ; Buzzard - 1 - Sat on telegraph pole near small holding. ; Swallow - 3 - Dog fighting over small Res. ; House Martin - 10+ - Over Arbour Lane. ; Swift - 3 - Over site. ; Skylark - 2 - Singing. ; Stock Dove - 10+ - Down on farmland. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing Male. ; Blackbird - 6+ - Family party on path. ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - Separate birds calling from each Res. ; Reed Warbler - 3 - Possibly 4. Calling from each end of large Res and 1 from small Res. ; Blackcap - 5 - Singing. ; Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing. ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Chaffinch - 3 - Singing Males. ; Linnet - 5 - Over. ; Goldfinch - 15+ - Inc active nest. ; Blue Tit - 2+ - Chicks in rotten fence post nest near to fledging. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - Flock moving through undergrowth.
Green Moor: Starling - 10+ - Two family parties, young out of nest, confirmed breeding
Holling Dale: Curlew - 4 - adult with 3 chicks. ; Lapwing - 4 - 2 adults with a single chick, each of different sizes. ; Cuckoo - 2 - 1 calling in plantation , other from moor. ; Hobby - 1
Longshaw: Garden Warbler - 1 - Seen singing ; Siskin - 2 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 ; View Picture
Orgreave Lakes: Mute Swan - 21 - On large lake. ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; View Picture, Redshank - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 5 - Singing males around the large lake. ; View Picture, Reed Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Lapwing - 3 ; Stock Dove - 1 - Drinking from main lake.
R Don, Rotherham Centre: Little Grebe - 1 - Seen near new Arc Cinema ; Little Grebe - 1 - Seen near new Arc Cinema ; Grey Heron - 1
Round Hill: Curlew - 2 - adult with small chick.
Scholes Coppice: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1+ - female carrying food and visiting nest hole, chicks calling
Silver Wood: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing on railway line pond
Silverwood Lagoon: Shoveler - 1 - Male. ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 ; Swift - 3 - Low over lagoon. ; House Martin - 1 - Single over. ; Reed Warbler - 3+
Tankersley - opp. Evri: Lapwing - 10 - Incl. 5 juveniles of varying ages ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - All adults
Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 48 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Shoveler - 2 pair ; Gadwall - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; View Picture, Pied Wagtail - 5 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; View Picture, Swift - c50 ; Swallow - 11 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; House Martin - 3 ; Kestrel - 1M ; Buzzard - 3
Thrybergh Tip: Canada Goose - 6 - Main lake ; Mute Swan - 3 - 1 on main lake plus flew west ; Shoveler - 2 - M & f on main lake ; Gadwall - 2 - M & f on main lake ; Mallard - 7 - Main lake and river don ; Grey Partridge - 1 - 1 on left field heading down the concrete path ; Pheasant - 4 - In several locations ; Stock Dove - 2 - 1 calling bottom of concrete path plus 1 at iron bridge ; Woodpigeon - 37 - All around the area ; Collared Dove - 1 - Top of concrete path ; Swift - 3 - Over main lake then again on concrete path ; Water Rail - 1 - Only hear ; Moorhen - 3 - 2 In willows main lake plus 1 on original silver lake ; Coot - 7 - On main lake some on nests ; Lapwing - 1 - Flew over from steelworks ; Black-headed Gull - 16 - 2 on river 14 on original silver lake ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 1 flew west ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - 1 on nest 1 on lake ; Cormorant - 1 - Above main lake