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Blacka Moor:
Skylark - 6 ;
Curlew - 2 ;
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling and showing well above Strawberry Lee Pastures. No sign of second bird.
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Blackamoor:
Cuckoo - 1
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Burbage Valley:
Ring Ouzel - 2 - males ;
Stonechat - 1 - male ;
Reed Bunting - 1 ;
Cuckoo - 1 - calling ;
Whinchat - 1 - female ;
Whinchat - 1 - male
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Burncross, Chapeltown:
Greenfinch - 1 - Display flight from conifers ;
Swift - 4
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Canyon Pond, Treeton:
Pochard - 1 - Drake ;
Kingfisher - 1
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Chesterfield Canal, New Whittington:
Yellowhammer - 1 heard
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Hurlfield:
Tawny Owl - 3+ - 2 adults and at least 1 young this evening.
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Lodge Moor:
Tree Sparrow - 2+ - Pair feeding young in hedge by playground at SW corner of Lodge Moor estate
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Malin Bridge:
Oystercatcher - 1 - nocmig recording, calling 00:55
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Middleton Moor:
Shelduck - 1 ;
Oystercatcher - 2
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Moorland Fringe:
Nightjar - 5 - inc 4 males, from 3 sites
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Morehall Res:
Goosander - 1 - Female asleep on reservoir bank, very unusual for the time of year
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Moscar House:
Curlew - 2 - pair with 2 chicks
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Moscar Lodge:
Lesser Redpoll - 5
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Nether Handley:
319 - 1 - Being mobbed by crow
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New Stubbin colliery/tip:
Blackcap - 5 - 1 (SK4396); 4 (SK4296), all singing ;
Willow Warbler - 10+ - inc 9+ singing ;
Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ;
Yellowhammer - 7 - inc 3 singing ;
Bullfinch - 1pr ;
Song Thrush - 4 - inc 1 singing ;
Chaffinch - 2 - singing ;
Whitethroat - 1 - singing ;
Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ;
Great Tit - breeding confirmed - family party ;
Kestrel - 1 ;
Mistle Thrush - 2 ;
Long-tailed Tit - present - several noisy, mobile flocks with dependent juvs ;
Sparrowhawk - 1 - disturbed from woodland in same area as yesterday ;
Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling
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New Stubbin; Back Lane:
Common Buzzard - 1 - sat on pylon. Possibly same bird later over colliery tip ;
Woodpigeon - 60-70 - feeding in adjacent field
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New Whittington:
Yellowhammer - 1 heard
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New Whittington area:
Green Woodpecker - 1 heard
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Orgreave Lakes:
BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - large lake ;
Dunlin - 2 ;
BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1
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Oughtibridge:
Blue Tit - 2+ - feeding young at 2 active nest's..1 in stone wall, 1 in old woodpecker nest. ;
Nuthatch - 1+ - young being fed at entrance hole.
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Padley Gorge:
Wood Warbler - 1 ;
Treecreeper - 1 - entering nest hole ;
Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male
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Rawmarsh:
Common Buzzard - 1 - high to W @ 1105hrs
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Rawmarsh Cemetery:
Blackcap - 1 - singing ;
Chaffinch - 1 - singing ;
Sparrowhawk - 1 - calling excitedly from canopy; breeding possible ;
Song Thrush - 3 - inc 1 singing & 1 with nest material
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Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road:
Kestrel - 1
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Rawmarsh; Stubbin Incline:
Blackcap - 2 - singing ;
Whitethroat - 1 - singing ;
Chaffinch - 1 - singing ;
Song Thrush - 1 ;
Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling in adjacent field ;
Kestrel - 1 - male, on ground in adjacent field ;
Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ;
Bullfinch - 1 - singing
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Redmires:
Tawny Owl - 1 - also 3 young have fledged at this site, seen being fed by adult
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Redmires Middle Res:
Ringed Plover - 2 - looked to be a larger paler nominate bird, with a smaller darker tundrae ;
Greylag Goose - 25 - 23 flew in, plus pair with 2 chicks ;
Snipe - 3 - drumming, 2 over soft rush to S, 1 Hammonds Field
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Redmires Plantation:
Cuckoo - 2
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Roper Hill:
Oystercatcher - 2 - no longer incubating, field with Herring and LBBG's in.
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Shillito Wood:
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ;
Tree Pipit - 2
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Sothall:
QUAIL - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over the garden at 01:51 ;
Oystercatcher - 2 - nocmig sound recorded over the garden 0320hr
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Stanage Edge:
Whinchat - 1 - 200m below (south/South East) of Trig point ;
Ring Ouzel - 1 - Singing Male ;
Wheatear - 1 - female ;
Willow Warbler - 1 ;
Linnet - 2 ;
Meadow Pipit - 10+ ;
Lapwing - 3 ;
Swift - 2
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Stanage Edge, below:
Ring Ouzel - 1
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Stanage Plantation:
Pied Flycatcher - 1 ;
Willow Warbler - 4+ - one observed taking food to nest repeatedly ;
Garden Warbler - 1 ;
Robin - 3+ ;
Woodcock - 1
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Strines Moor:
Oystercatcher - 2 - in fields, Bents House ;
Lapwing - 2 - at least one chick in fields
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Unstone:
319 - 1 ;
Chiffchaff - 2 heard ;
Swallow - 2 ;
Pied Wagtail - 1
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Upper Haugh; Chapel walk:
Blackcap - 1 - singing ;
Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ;
Chaffinch - 1 - singing ;
Goldcrest - 1 - singing