Welcome to the Website of the Nottinghamshire Birdwatchers
This page will be updated on a daily basis, to provide a convenient news service to scarce & rare birds found within the County Nottinghamshire.
The Sightings page and @Nottsbirders Twitter feed are intended to alert birders to scarcer species that they might be interested in seeing within the County.
Records of more common species are still very important, but should preferably be submitted to the county Recorder Andy Hall. These records will then be added to the Nottinghamshire Birdwatchers data-base, to be included in the monthly Newsletter and Annual Reports.
None of these reports have been verified or checked by the Nottinghamshire Birdwatchers' Records Committee.
"Records of certain sensitive species may not appear here during the breeding season, unless publicised by site managers or where records relate to what are likely to be passage migrants or wandering non-breeding individuals rather than breeders. Species that this generally applies to include (but are not necessarily limited to): Avocet, Bearded Tit, Bittern, Black-necked Grebe, Black Redstart, Cetti's Warbler, Garganey. Goshawk (except from Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint), Honey-buzzard (except from Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint), Marsh Harrier, Mediterranean Gull, Nightingale, Peregrine (except for Nottingham City Centre), Raven, Red Kite and Woodlark (except for Sherwood Forest NNR/Budby Common). For a range of other species, we will not include specific breeding information - this includes Barn Owl, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Little Ringed Plover, Nightjar, Turtle Dove and Willow Tit. Nevertheless, please submit your sightings anyway."
Please report your Latest Sightings to: nottsbirders@gmail.com or @NottsBirders on the Twitter feed.
Please remember to submit all sightings to Andy Hall each month, using the Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the Recording page.
Archived Sightings 2001 - 2019
Archived Sightings 2001 to 2019
Archived Sightings 2020
Species shown in bold Purple on this page are BBRC rarities or species recorded on less than ten occasions in the county. Bold Blue are rare and scarce county birds recorded less than annually that require a description or supporting details for the society’s archive. A full list of these species can be found on the Recording page. Red are species of interest. Bold GREY are unconfirmed sightings or a species of unknown origin.
Monday 31st August
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - TURTLE DOVE [Walters Tip site, 16:00], Pied Flycatcher [reported from Chainbridge Meadow, 10:20 and again 15:00]; also Green Sandpiper, Hobby.
Holme Pierrepont - Common Redstart [again in the ringing scrub, this afternoon]; also Hobby, Water Rail, Lesser Whitethroat.
Wollaton - Raven [on Parkside, adjacent to Wollaton park this afternoon].
Hickling - Hobby [through twice this afternoon], 50+ Pied Wagtail [on cricket field].
Idle Washlands - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [second-summer, hawking insects with BHGs Hagg Lane, 11.00 - 11.10 at least], 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 2 LRP, 8 Dunlin, 4 Ringed Plover [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Clumber Park - Whooper Swan [still on the main Lake].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Spotted Flycatcher, Common Redstart [Budby Common].
Besthorpe NR - Spotted Flycatcher [Mons Pool].
Thrumpton/Barton in Fabis - 3 Common Redstart, 2 Lesser Whitethroat [in hawthorns, SK 51624 32266, late morning], 3 Hobbies, 2 Raven [over fields off Manor Road].
Clifton Grove - Common Redstart [on the edge of the Rough Wood, 09:15], Hobby [Foxcovet Lane].
Langford Lowfields - LITTLE STINT [still Phase 3, 07:57], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Silt Lagoon, 09:59], Marsh Harrier [female, 11:43].
Cotgrave - Tree Pipit [over south, 07:48], 4 Crossbill [over west, 11:55], 2 Hobby.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Church Pond, 07:43 - 19:33 at least], GARGANEY [Clifton Pit, 10:04 - 19:28], Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow, 08:30], Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit].
Sunday 30th August
Langford Lowfields - LITTLE STINT [juvenile, Phase 3 this evening]; also GARGANEY, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 2 Ringed Plover.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [Clifton Pit, this evening], Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit], 2 Raven, Peregrine [over Branshill, Barton in Fabis, viewed from the reserve late morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Marsh Harrier [female, Chainbridge Scrape, 14:36], Hobby [over Chainbridge Scrape], Spotted Flycatcher [The Willows, 11:44], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Waterski Pit].
Sherwood Forest NNR - 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Common Redstart [female], 2 Stonechat, 5 Sand Martin [Budby South Forest, this afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - Common Redstart [in the ringing scrub, this afternoon].
Burton Joyce - Red Kite [over, 13:05].
Idle Washlands - PIED FLYCATCHER [in gardens at the bottom of River Lane, Misson this morning], 2 LITTLE STINT [Slaynes Lane, showing well early morning - 11.25, then flew off with the 5 RP], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 5 Ringed Plover, 3 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, juv Peregrine, 4 Swift [Slaynes Lane, Misson], 8+Yellow Wagtail [Newington Flash, S.York's].
Budby Pumping Station - Whinchat [this morning].
Saturday 29th August
Idle Washlands - 3 LITTLE STINT, 2 GARGANEY, 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 5 Ringed Plover, 4 Dunlin, 3 Ruff, 10+Swift, Hobby, Peregrine, Wheatear [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 juv Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Egmanton - Swift [single, over Kirton woods, 19:00].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 2 African Sacred Ibis, 16 Pochard, 31 Curlew, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Langford Lowfields - 3 Ruff [north-east through Phase 3, 10:11]; also 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Hobby, 2 Common Sandpiper.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - OSPREY [flew north over Chainbridge Pit, 09:17].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Spotted Flycatcher [on fencing in the ringing scrub, this morning].
Kilvington Lakes - Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper [West Lake, this morning].
Hoveringham - Whinchat [Railway Pit, this morning].
Annesley Pit Top - Hobby, juv LRP, Common Sandpiper [this morning].
Friday 28th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, this afternoon].
Beeston - Greenshank [over towards Attenborough NR, 15:11].
Netherfield Lagoons - GARGANEY [still present on the Slurry Lagoon, this morning]; also Common Sandpiper, 2 Raven.
Kilvington Lakes - Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin [West Lake, this morning].
Hoveringham - Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe, 4 Common Tern, Swift, 11 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake], Common Sandpiper [Railway Pit].
King's Mill Reservoir - Spotted Flycatcher [this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 COMMON SCOTER [Chainbridge Pit, 07:05].
Thursday 27th August
Idle Washlands - 2 WOOD SANDPIPER, 3+ Green Sandpiper, 3 Ruff, 2+ Ringed Plover, 4 Dunlin, 6+ Snipe, 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [Slaynes Lane], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 10+ Little Egret [Hagg Lane Flash].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY, GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Netherfield Lagoons - ARCTIC TERN [juvenile, this afternoon], GARGANEY, 2 Green Sandpiper [on the Slurry Lagoon], Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [New Workings].
Eakring - Common Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, 2 Tree Sparrow [Penny Pasture Common, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Green Sandpiper, Ruff , 7 Egyptian Geese, Marsh Harrier [Tiln North].
Hoveringham - 2 Hobby, Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe, 4 Common Tern, Wheatear, 10 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake, this morning].
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 8 Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 6 Curlew [West Lake, this morning].
Langford Lowfields - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Red-crested Pochard, Goosander, 10 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin [Phase 3, this morning].
Wednesday 26th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin [Clifton Pit, this evening], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Clifton Pit/Church Pond, 07:13 - late evening].
Langford Lowfields - 2 SANDERLING [Phase 3, late afternoon]; also 4 Ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper, possible Caspian Gull/possible hybrid.
Idle Washlands - 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 5 Ruff, 2 LRP, 3 Dunlin, KNOT, 6 Common Sandpiper, WOOD SANDPIPER, 11 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 4 Ruff, Whinchat [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Ruddington - Common Redstart [by railway off flawforth lane].
Coates - 4 Whinchat [this afternoon].
Cottam - GARGANEY.
West Bridgford - Raven [single over, 15:30].
Besthorpe NR - GARGANEY [eclipse drake and female/juv, on the western side of Mons Pool, early afternoon], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Mons Pool], Whinchat [Meering Marsh, along track next to the Trent, 16:12].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Whinchat [Blotts Pit, early afternoon]; also Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Snipe, 3 Swift.
Hoveringham - 4 Spotted Flycather, 200+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Warbler, 2 Swift, 200+ Sand Martin, Raven [Railway Pit], Curlew, 4 Common Tern, 10 Swift [Sailing Pit], 6 Pochard [Tipping Pond].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Red Kite [Clayworth Common, 09:48], Ruff, Green Sandpiper [Neatholme].
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Redstart [male, this morning].
Hucknal - Swift [single over the Ranges].
Tuesday 25th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - WOOD SANDPIPER [dropped into Clifton Pit, 18:41]; also 2 Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Goosander.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Whinchat, Wheatear [Tiln North, 12:30].
West Bridgford - Swift [over south, 12:30].
Hoveringham - Ringed Plover, 3 Common Tern, 4 Swift [Sailing Lake, this morning].
Annesley Pit Top - Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Hobby.
Monday 24th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Church Pond, again this evening], Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit].
Hoveringham - Whinchat, 2 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake, this afternoon]; also Greenshank [flyover].
Idle Washlands - 4 GARGANEY, 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 10 Ringed Plover, 6 LRP, 8 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, WOOD SANDPIPER, 6 Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 7 Ruff, 34+Snipe, Curlew, Wheatear, 3 Whinchat [Hagg Lane Flash/Slaynes Lane].
Everton - Wheatear [female, horse field, behind the church].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Spotted Flycatcher [on Neatholme Lane], Grasshopper Warbler [The Willows].
West Bridgford - 2 Spotted Flycatcher [The Hook Lady Bay, single from 12.50 - 13.25, with two seen later].
Langford Lowfields - GARGANEY [drake, Phase 1, this morning], 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2 White-fronted type Geese [Phase 3], CASPIAN GULL [possible adult, Phase 3], Raven [over the east side of the reserve, this afternoon].
Sunday 23rd August
Gotham - Marsh Harrier [cream crown, over Gotham Moor/Clifton Pastures, dropping down on the Clifton Pastures side of the Fairham Brook, 19:45].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Church Pond, this evening], Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit], Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow], Cuckoo [juvenile, 19:45].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - OSPREY [flew in from the north-west, circled the lake, then flew east, 17:20].
Kilvington Lakes - 540 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 27 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Herring Gull, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5 Ringed Plover [West Lake, this afternoon].
Idle Washlands - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, GARGANEY, WOOD SANDPIPER, 2 Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Ruff, 16 Ringed Plover, 10 Snipe [Slaynes Lane Misson, late afternoon].
Cotgrave Woods - Marsh Tit [in with Tit flock], also in same flock multiple Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Goldcrest, several Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREATER SCAUP [juvenile, Bellmoor Lake then flew north, 08:45], Spotted Flycatcher [Bunker Wood, 09:45].
Idle Stop - Spotted Flycatcher [this morning].
Holme Pierrepont - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Blotts Pit, 07:44], 2 Common Redstart, Grasshopper Warbler [in the ringing scrub].
Selston - BAR-TAILED GODWIT [heard circling/calling for approx one minute over Selston, 04:00].
Saturday 22nd August
Langford Lowfields - KNOT [juvenile, dropped into Phase 3, 11:25], GREAT WHITE EGRET, GARGANEY, Goosander, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper [all Phase 3, this morning].
Clumber Park - OSPREY [over south-east, 10:30], Whooper Swan [Main Lake], Common Sandpiper, 2 Hobbies.
Netherfield Lagoons - GARGANEY [still present on the Slurry Lagoon]; also Water Rail [feeding out in the open], 7 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3 Common Snipe, Little Egret [New Workings], single Swift and 3 Sand Martin over.
Budby Common - Raven [perched on Edge of the common].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Common Redstart [male, The Willows, this morning].
Holme Pierrepont - Swift [several feeding over the A52 Pit/Rowing Couse, this morning].
Friday 21st August
Langford Lowfields - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 juv KNOT, GARGANEY, Pintail, Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3, this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Harrier sp - [grey male, west through Clifton Pit, 15:38]; also Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit].
Idle Washlands - Cattle Egret, GREAT WHITE EGRET, 8 Little Egret, GARGANEY, 58 Shoveler, Swift [Hagg Lane Flash], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Ringed Plover, 9 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 8 Ruff, Greenshank, 24 Common Tern, 3 Swift [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Holme Pierrepont - 15 Common Tern, 8 Swift [A52 Pit, early afternoon], Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREATER SCAUP [Neatholme Pit]; also 2 Hobby, 17 Red-crested Pochard, Green sandpiper.
Thursday 20th August
Barnby in the Willows - OSPREY [flew low east, 15:08].
Idle Washlands - OSPREY [over Slaynes Lane, 11:45], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Hagg Lane Flash], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 16 Ringed Plover, 4 Ruff, 2 Greenshank, 5 Dunlin, Pintail [Slaynes Lane Misson], Cattle Egret [Newington Flash, S.York's].
Langford Lowfields - GARGANEY, 3+GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper [Phase 3, this morning]; also 2 White-fronted Geese [presumed feral origin, Phase 3].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Cuckoo [juvenile again near the Visitor Centre, this morning], Wheatear [in horse paddock, Barton Lane].
Hoveringham - Wheatear, 10 Yellow Wagtail, 5 Swift [Sailing Lake, this morning].
Keyworth - 2 Red Kite [circling over fields], good passage of Swift and Swallows moving south.
Kneesall - Red Kite [circling Kneesall woods, 09:45].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Spotted Flycatcher [The Willows, early morning].
Wednesday 19th August
Idle Washlands - 4 GARGANEY, GREAT WHITE EGRET, Cattle Egret, 15 Little Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 15 Snipe [Hagg Lane Flash], 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Pintail, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 6 Dunlin, 9 Ruff, Little Ringed Plover, 22 Ringed Plover, 13 Golden Plover [through west], Redshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4 Curlew [through north], juv Cuckoo [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK TERN [A52 Pit, briefly 13:00], Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still on Church Pond, 12:41], Marsh Harrier [probable over Branshill].
Kilvington Lakes - GREAT WHITE EGRET [over south-east, early afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WHIMBREL [over Tiln North, 09:12], Greenshank [around Chainbridge Lane, in flight], 2 Black-tailed Godwit [Neatholme Fen], Red Kite [The Willows].
Langford Lowfields - WHIMBREL [through south, this morning], GARGANEY, 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 3 Ringed Plover, Common Redshank [Phase 3].
Hoveringham - Common Redstart [female, in Hawthorns on the west side of the Sailing Lake, this morning].
Tuesday 18th August
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Spotted Flycatcher [in Willows on the north side of Bellmoor Lake, 19:45].
East Leake GP's - WOOD SANDPIPER [still present on the Quicksand Pit, 18:10].
West Bridgford - Swift [through south, this evening].
Collingham Pits - CASPIAN GULL [second-summer, German ringed X34E, 13:17].
Idle Washlands - GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Little Egret [Hagg Lane Flash], 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 4 Dunlin, 13 Ringed Plover, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Tern [Slaynes Lane Misson].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Conneries, 10:49 and then Church Pond, 14:11], Cuckoo [juvenile, near the Visitors Centre, 10:00].
Beeston - 2 BLACK TERN [fllew high over Beeston Weir, 09:45].
Langford Lowfields - 6 GREAT WHITE EGRET, GARGANEY [Phase 3, this morning], Whinchat [by the Phase 1 viewing screen, this morning], Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper [Silt Lagoon 5].
Hoveringham - Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 7 Swift, Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake].
Clifton Grove - 12 Swift [through south-east, 06:45], Hobby, 3 Yellow Wagtail [Branshill].
Monday 17th August
Woodborough - Bee-eater [heard calling six times over the north side of Woodborough, but not seen 16:45].
Langford Lowfields - 12 TURNSTONE [Phase 3, this morning with 5 still present this evening], 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, WOOD SANDPIPER, 11 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Ruff, 2 Dunlin, Greenshank, 2 Common Redhank, Common Sandpiper, 2 Goldeneye [all Phase 3 this morning], WHIMBREL, GARGANEY, Hobby, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3, early afternoon].
East Leake GP's - WOOD SANDPIPER [still present on the Quicksand Pit, this evening]
Langar - 9+Yellow Wagtail [feeding with pied wagtails by cattle, this evening].
Torworth - Red Kite [over Baulk Lane, 14:28].
Idle Washlands - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 15 Little Egret, 2 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin [Hagg Lane Flash], 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 10 Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 4 Ruff, GARGANEY [Slaynes Lane Misson].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Church pond in reeds, late morning], Ruff, 5 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, this morning]; also 8 Little Egret, 4 Wigeon, 2 Hobby, Water Rail, 20 Swift.
Costock - c.20 Yellow Wagtail [mobile in the grounds of the Holy Cross, late morning - 18:00].
Hoveringham - 2 BLACK TERN [juveniles, Sailing Lake 10:30 - 10:35], WHIMBREL [through the Sailing Lake, 10:45]; also 3 Common Sandpiper; Red-crested Pochard [Railway Pit], Willow Warbler/Chiffchaff [good numbers movinging through the Railway Pit, this afternoon].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 BLACK TERN [juveniles, dropped in on the deep pit at 10:00 for 10 mins before departing high south-east]; also 8+ Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover [2 adults & 1 juv], 5 Common Snipe [on the new workings].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BEARDED TIT [heard from the Chainbridge Scrape East viewing platform, this morning]; also Water Rail, Lesser Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler.
Annesley Pit Top - Green Sandpiper, Hobby [Bottom Lagoon, this morning].
Rufford Pit Top - SANDERLING [07:40].
Sunday 16th August
Holme Pierrepont - Long-tailed Skua [juvenile, flew low north through Blotts Pit, 12:10], TURNSTONE [Blotts Pit, this morning], Greenshank, Ringed Plover [through the A52 Pit, this evening]; also 6+ Ringed Plover, Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit].
Langford Lowfields - juv CURLEW SANDPIPER, 8 TURNSTONE [Phase 3, 17:13 - 19:00 at least], SPOTTED REDSHANK [dropped into Phase 2, 16:23], 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, GARGANEY, SANDERLING, 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 8 Ringed Plover, Dunlin [all Phase 3, this morning].
Netherfield Lagoons - SPOTTED REDSHANK [flew over to the east, 14:30], GARGANEY [still on the Slurry Lagoon, 13:13], Ringed Plover [New Workings].
Kilvington Lakes - LITTLE GULL [juvenile, West Lake, 14:40], SANDERLING, Greenshank, Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit [West Lake, this afternoon].
Besthorpe NR - Cattle Egret [Meering Marsh, on the eastern side, 14:25], TURNSTONE [flew south over Meering Marsh, calling 14:45], GARGANEY [Mons Pool, 11:30].
Collingham Pits - CASPIAN GULL [second-summer, German ringed X34E, Northcroft Pit, 12:27].
East Leake GP's - WOOD SANDPIPER [showing well all day, on the Quicksand Pit].
Rufford Pit Top - PIED FLYCATCHER [in scrub on steep bank east of the pond with reeds, 09:16].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 LITTLE GULL [juveniles, Coneries/Sailing Pit 08:43 - 09:16 at least; singles on the Sailing Pit, 10:32 and Tween Pond, 18:39], TURNSTONE [Clifton Pit, 11:24], 3 Ruff [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Hoveringham - BLACK TERN [adult, Sailing Lake].
Saturday 15th August
Langford Lowfields - 29 Black-tailed Godwit [Phase 3, this evening, then flew south-east]; also GARGANEY, 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 9 Ringed Plover, WOOD SANDPIPER, 6 Dunlin, 3 Ruff, Redshank, Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper.
Idle Washlands - 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET [2 Slaynes Lane, single Newington Flash, S.York's], 5 LRP, 2 Dunlin, 6 Ruff, Cuckoo [Slaynes Lane].
East Leake GP's - GARGANEY [female, on Crossroads Pit, 12:02].
Bulwell Hall Park - 2 Ring-necked Parakeet [near path to Hucknall, 11:45].
Holme Pierrepont - WOOD SANDPIPER [dropped into Blotts Pit, 09:41], LITTLE GULL [juvenile, A52 Pit, 10:30].
Gedling - Raven [low over calling, 10:30], Red Kite [over Gedling Country Park].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 40+Swift [Conneries, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET [single on Walters Lane Pit, 07:07].
Friday 14th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, Ruff, Common Gull [Clifton Pit, this evening], LITTLE STINT, 2 Ruff, 6 Yellow Wagtail [Clifton Pit, 15:20].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [single from the viewpoint, 15:43].
Cotgrave - 3+Common Crossbill [2+ over, 15:14, single over south, 17:58]; also 2 Yellow Wagtail.
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper.
Oxton - 1+Red Kite [present near Oxton village, 09:30, second sighting at the roundabout, 14:00].
Langford Lowfields - WOOD SANDPIPER, TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover, LRP, 2 Greenshank, Redshank, 3 Oystercatcher, GARGANEY, 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, BITTERN, Peregrine, 3 Swift, 8+ Yellow Wagtail [Phase 3, this morning].
Hoveringham - Hobby [over the village, amongst hirundines this morning].
Thursday 13th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - LITTLE STINT [juvenile, Clifton Pit, 06:58 - late evening at least], GARGANEY [Clifton Pit, eclipse drake late afternoon], 7 Swift [over Coneries, this morning]; also 6 Wigeon, Ruff, 4 Yellow Wagtail.
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [adult, Blotts Pit, 12:10]; also Wigeon, Shelduck, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Snipe.
Langford Lowfields - GARGANEY, WOOD SANDPIPER, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, GREAT WHITE EGRET [Phase 3, this morning], GREAT WHITE EGRET, Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper [on the Silt Lagoon].
Idle Washlands - 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 3 Wigeon, 2 LRP, 2 Common Sandpiper, 40 Common Tern [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Wollaton Park - 2 Raven.
Netherfield Lagoons - GARGANEY [still on the Slurry Lagoon, 10:11]; also Green Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Common Sandpiper.
Wednesday 12th August
Langford Lowfields - 2 WOOD SANDPIPER [Phase 3, 08:51], GARGANEY, 2 Ruff, Greenshank, Common Snipe, 2 Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3, this morning], 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET [Phase 3, 13:30], GREAT WHITE EGRET, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper [Silt Lagoon 5].
Hoveringham - Red Kite, Peregrine, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern, 3 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake, early morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Ruff, 12 Yellow Wagtail [Clifton Pit, 06:30], 3 Green Sandpiper, 16 Little Egret [Ridge and Furrow].
Tuesday 11th August
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [juvenile, Bellmoor Lake, this afternoon], Greenshank [south over Neatholme Pit, 19:10].
Langford Lowfields - 7 TURNSTONE [flew north over Phase 3, 09:16]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET, WOOD SANDPIPER, GARGANEY, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 LIttle Ringed Plover, 2 Goldeneye, 3 Yellow-legged Gull [all Phase 3 this morning].
Idle Washlands - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 4 Ringed Plover, Ruff,
Common Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine [Slaynes Lane], 29 Little Egret [Hagg Lane Flash, this morning]
Langford Lowfields - WOOD SANDPIPER [still on Phase 3, this evening], 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET [2 on Silt Lagoon 5 and 2 on Phase 2, this morning], BITTERN [flew over Phase 2]; also Ruff, Ringed Plover, LRP, Redshank, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper [Phase 3].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Ruff, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper [this evening].
Scrooby Top Quarry - Common Redstart [in Hedgerow, half way along track adjacent to the quarry, 16:00].
Stoke Bardolph - KITTIWAKE [juvenile, over towards Netherfield, 14:00].
Idle Washlands - 3 GARGANEY [Hagg Lane Flash], 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 31 Little Egret [Newington Flash, S.Yorks].
Netherfield Lagoons - GARGANEY [still on the Slurry Lagoon, late morning],
Lesser Emperor Dragonfly [on the east side of the large gravel pit, this afternoon].
Gotham - LITTLE GULL [flew over south calling, with a flock of c15 Black-headed Gulls, late-morning].
Aslockton - Red Kite [over between Aslockton and Scarrington just off Mill Lane, 11:00].
King's Mill Reservoir - GARGANEY [still present in the south-west corner, mid-morning].
Hoveringham - 2 Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Shelduck, 12 Swift [Sailing lake], 28 Northern Lapwing, 11 Pochard [Tipping Lake].
Eastwood - OSPREY [heading high south, this morning].
Wollaton Park - 2 Common Sandpiper [on the edge of the lake, this morning].
Holme Pierrepont - Red Kite, 3 LRP [Blotts Pit, early morning].
Langford Lowfields - WOOD SANDPIPER [Phase 3, this evening], TURNSTONE [2 adults, juvenile, Phase 3, 08:58], WHIMBREL [Phase 3, 09:10], GARGANEY [eclipse dr'k, Phase 2], MEDITERRANEAN GULL [juvenile, this evening],
9 Black-tailed Godwit [flew east over Phase 3, 10:57]; also 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Greenshank, 2 Redshank, 5 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, Golden Plover, 6 Yellow-legged Gull.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Ruff, 3 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Yellow Wagtail [this evening].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, Hobby, 2 Raven [this afternoon].
King’s Mill Reservoir - 10 Common Sandpiper [on the new wooden platforms at the sailing club end of the Reservoir, 15:30].
Netherfield Lagoons - WHIMBREL [over east calling, 07:30], GARGANEY, Green Sandpiper, juv Water Rail [Slurry Lagoons, this morning], WHIMBREL [over south-west calling, 16:20], 7 Green Sandpiper [New Workings].
Besthorpe NR - GARGANEY [eclipse dr'k, Mons Pool].
Collingham Pits - WHIMBREL [calling several times overhead, 09:51].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper [Neatholme Fen, 08:30], BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, Neatholme Scrape], Goldeneye [Neatholme Pit], Marsh Harrier [Clayworth Common].
Holme Pierrepont - 3 TURNSTONE [east through Blotts Pit, 07:59], SANDERLING [east through Blotts Pit, 08:16], ARCTIC TERN [juvenile, east through Blotts Pit, 08:50].
Idle Washlands - SANDWICH TERN [east through Slaynes Lane, early morning], 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 14 Dunlin, 2 Avocet, 18 LRP, 4 Ringed Plover, Redshank, 21 Common Tern, Swift [Slaynes Lane Misson], 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 34 Little Egret, 3 Shelduck, 30 Shoveler, 10 Teal, 40 Lapwing [Hagg Lane Flash], Cattle Egret, 13 TURNSTONE, 2 Dunlin, 3 Black-tailed Godwit [Newington Flash, S.York's, early morning].
Bunny - Harrier Sp [male, distantly quartering over fields just south of Bunny old wood, then
headed off west towards Costock, this morning].
Idle Washlands - Cattle Egret [Hagg Lane Flash/Newington Flash], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 7 Ruff, Cuckoo [Slaynes Lane].
Netherfield Lagoons - Spotted Crake [probable, briefly on the Slurry Lagoon then disappeared into the reeds at the northern end, 08:00 and probably again briefly at about 11:00 in the same general area]; also GARGANEY, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 male Lesser Emperor Dragonfly.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4 Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow, this evening].
Kirklington - Raven [heading east to west over the village, this afternoon]; also Yellow Wagtail.
King's Mill Reservoir - GARGANEY [shallow, south-west end to 11:20 at least].
Langford Lowfields - 3 CASPIAN GULL [third-summer, ringed second-summer X34E, probable adult, Phase 3]; also 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 BITTERN, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Golden Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Goldeneye, Wigeon.
Kilvington Lakes - Northern Wheatear [this morning].
Arnold - WHIMBREL [small group over calling, 21:45].
Netherfield Lagoons - GARGANEY, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper [Slurry Lagoon, this evening], 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper [New Workings]; also 3 Lesser Emperor Dragonfly [2 males and 1 female egg laying on the Slurry Lagoon].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard [showed briefly, 14:30].
Idle Washlands - 6 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Avocet, 4 Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 10+Common Tern, 2 Yellow Wagtail [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Holme Pierrepont - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Blotts Pit, 11:35].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Whinchat, Common Redstart [The Willows], Northern Wheatear [Conservation Lake], Green Sandpiper [Neatholme].
Kilvington Lakes - Greenshank, Common Sandpiper [this morning].
Keyworth - 2 Red Kite [circling over grass-land, this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - WOOD SANDPIPER [still present on Clifton Pit, 17:17 at least]; also Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Yellow Wagtail.
Netherfield Lagoons - Lesser Emperor Dragonfly [over waterweeds on the Slurry Lagoon, this afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Tree Pipit [The Willows, 08:25], BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, Neatholme Scrape].
Langford Lowfields - GREAT WHITE EGRET
, 2 Goldeneye, Greenshank, Redshank, 4 Dunlin, Yellow-legged Gull [this morning].
Hoveringham - Red Kite, Common Sandpiper [Sailing Lake].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREATER SCAUP [juvenile, Bellmoor Lake, sat on the main island, 19:40].
Farnsfield - Red Kite [flew over the A614, one mile north of the White Post, 11:15].
Clifton Grove - 3 Hobbies [hawking dragonflies over large field near the Beeston marina chalets, 11:15]
Budby Pumping Station - Marsh Harrier [cream-crown, through east, 10:30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - WOOD SANDPIPER [Ridge and Furrow, 07:00 and again on Clifton Pit, 15:50 - 19:00 at least]; also Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Common Snipe.
Langford Lowfields - 10 Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3, this evening], 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, BITTERN, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 10+Dunlin, Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, Goldeneye, Marsh Harrier, Hobby [all this morning].
Calverton - Red Kite [low over Calverton Church 16:30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green Sandpiper [still on Ridge & Furrow, 10:30].
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper.
Upper Broughton - Red kite [over towards the A46].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Tree Pipit [south-east over the Windsurf pit, 06:45], Northern Wheatear [Tiln North, 07:10].
Cotgrave - QUAIL [singing male,
still in first field west of the Sewage Works, 05:55 - 06:15], also Tree Sparrow.
Cotgrave - QUAIL [singing male, still in first field west of the Sewage Works, this evening].
Sutton in Ashfield - 43 Swift [Sutton town centre, this evening].
Bilsthorpe - Hobby [in from the south, then west, 17:30].
Idle Washlands - Cattle Egret [Slaynes Lane, winter plumaged different bird to last week, also near Newington Flash, S.York's in field with cows West of Ship Inn, 15:45 to 16:00], 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 3 Little Egret, 6 Common Snipe, 14 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, Ringed Plover, WOOD SANDPIPER, 2 Commonon Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [all Slaynes Lane].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - c.12 Black-tailed Godwit [Clifton Pit, 16:00].
Netherfield Lagoons - GREAT WHITE EGRET [on Slurry Lagoon mid afternoon - flew west about 15:35], GARGANEY [still present].
Hoveringham - Hobby, 2 Raven [Sailing Lake, this afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Blotts Pit, 16:15 - 17:00 at least], Marsh Harrier [cream-crown, flying around the back edge of blots, then drifted over the A52 Pit, 16:00].
Hodthorpe - 2 Corn Bunting [New Farm on Broad Lane off A60].
Church Laneham - Yellow-legged Gull [3cy on the river Trent].
West Ranskill - 2 Red Kite [flying overhead at approx 13:30].
Cotgrave - 2 QUAIL [singing males, still in first field west of the Sewage Works, 14:15].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 African Sacred Ibis[flying north-west over Neatholme Fen, 09:15].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard, GOSHAWK, Red Kite, 2 Hobby [between 08:30 - 11:00], 2 Raven, Mandarin [Welbeck Abbey].
Langford Lowfields - 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, GARGANEY [still on Phase 2, this morning], 2 Curlew, Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, Goldeneye, Marsh Harrier, 8+Curlew/Whimbrel [flew west], 2 TURNSTONE, adult CASPIAN GULL, 8 Yellow-legged Gull [this evening].
Idle Washlands - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew east over Slaynes Lane, 07:50], also 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, nearby 8 Common Snipe [Hagg Lane Flash].
Retford - PIED FLYCATCHER [female type, Kings Park, at the top of the hill north of the play area, 12:24 - 13:33 but no further sign between 17:00 - 18:00].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard [one displaying, 11:18].
Idle Washlands - Wigeon, 7 Pochard, 6 LRP, 2 Ruff, 2 Greenshank, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 20+Common Tern, c.300 Sand Martin, 2 Yellow Wagtail [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [juvenile, Blotts Pit, 08:57], GREAT WHITE EGRET [dropped into Blotts Pit, 12:30].
Bilsthorpe - Honey Buzzard - [over heading east to west, 08:10].
Langford Lowfields - 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Wigeon [Phase 3, this morning], GARGANEY [juv/female], BITTERN, Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Snipe, Hobby [Phase 2].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 2 African Sacred Ibis.
Hoveringham - Pochard, Common sandpiper, Hobby [Railway Pit this morning].
Cotgrave - 1+QUAIL [singing males, in barley field by path to Tollerton and down the side of the sewage works, 07:45 – 09:45].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still present roosting on Coneries, 07:00].
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