Sightings Archive

June 2008

Mon 30th Jun

• Hoveringham - Railway Lake: 9 Oystercatcher [adults with young], 2 Common Redshank [plus young], 2 Common Shelduck, Great Crested Grebe [several broods], 7 Eurasian Wigeon.
• Stoke Bardolph - Back of Sewage Farm: 3 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher, 73 Black-headed Gull [plus 1 fresh juvenile], 3 Lesser Whitethroat [in surrounding hedgerows], 1 Little Owl.
• Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Grasshopper Warbler [reeling], 33 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Argentine Blue-bill, 1 Sparrowhawk [female, seen to fly under railway bridge at Swallow colony and mobbed by 40+ Swallow]. Plus insects: 1 Comma, 2 Red Admiral, 2 Large Skipper, 6 Meadow Brown, 5 Ringlet, 1 Cinnabar Moth, 4 Spotted Chaser, 8 Black Tailed Skimmer, 1 Emperor Dragonfly.

Sat 28th Jun

• Clifton Grove - 2 Northern Wheatear.
• Colwick Country Park - 3 Grey Heron, 3 Common Tern, Reed Bunting, c.200 Canada Goose, 45 Greylag Goose, 10 Tufted Duck, 1 Black Swan, 4 Mute Swan, 5 Pied Wagtail, Coot, Moorhen, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Black-headed Gull, 1 Grey Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, Bullfinch [pair], Chaffinch [pair], Goldfinch (Adult & juveniles), Great Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, Willow Tit, House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird [pair], Herring Gull, Jackdaw [numerous], Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon.
• Attenborough Nature Reserve - Clifton Pit and Wheatear Field observations: 3 Common Pochard [male], 1 Eurasian Wigeon [male], 3 Northern Shoveler [eclipse plumage], 2 Eurasian Teal, 30 Gadwall, 70 Tufted Duck, 65 Northern Lapwing, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Common Sandpiper, 45 Common Tern, Black-headed Gull, c.20 Tree Sparrow, 1 Yellow-legged Gull [roosting on Wheatear Field scrape].

Thu 26th Jun

• Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Nuthatch.

Tue 24th Jun

• Cossall - 2 Lovebird Parakeet [escapes on Awsworth Lane. Shorter tailed than Ring-necked, red/orange face, green body, vivid on the back. Thought to be Lovebird Parakeet - Agapornis roseicollis. Voice like a rusty gate hinge or wheelbarrow. Not seen or heard in the area previously].

Mon 23rd Jun

• Brierley - Grasshopper Warbler [Brierley Branch of the Silverhill Trail].

Sat 21st Jun

• Clumber Park - 1 Mandarin Duck [female, very close to Clumber Bridge].

Fri 20th Jun

• Moorgreen - Beauvale Priory Woods: 7 Common Buzzard [adults and juvenile birds], 2 Common Kestrel.

Thu 19th Jun

• King's Mill Reservoir - Barn Owl [with prey].

Sun 15th Jun

• Bennerley Marsh - Little Egret.

Sat 14th Jun

• Kilvington - New Lake: 1 Dunlin.
• Beeston - Green Woodpecker [cemetery, Wollaton Road].

Fri 13th Jun

• Kilvington - New Lake: 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull [2nd summer].

Thu 12th Jun

• Kilvington - New Lake: 13 Knot.
• Teversal - Silverhill Trail: Bullfinch, 1 Willow Tit.

Wed 11th Jun

• Rufford Country Park - Blackbird [albinistic individual].

Tue 10th Jun

• Kilvington - New Lake: 1 Little Stint.

Mon 9th Jun

• Hucknall - 1 Little Owl [just off Whyburn Road.
• Netherfield Lagoons - 1 Red Kite [briefly over Radcliffe side around 15:30, drifted slowly South], 1 Grasshopper Warbler, Sand Martin [good numbers].

Sun 8th Jun

• Bestwood Country Park - Mill Lakes: 1 Rose-ringed Parakeet [flew over calling - probable escape]. Broad Valley Stables: 2 Common Buzzard [over - circling together].
• Cresswell - Great Spotted Woodpecker [juvenile].

Sat 7th Jun

• Attenborough Nature Reserve - Oystercatcher, Eurasian Wigeon.

Thu 5th Jun

• Kilvington - New Lake: 2 Dunlin.

Sun 1st Jun

• Sherwood Forest - Country Park: 1 Tree Pipit [singing], 1 Common Redstart [singing], 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker [calling from nest site, with the young calling too].
• Budby Common - 4 Tree Pipit [all singing], 2 Yellowhammer, 1 Jay, 1 Mistle Thrush.
• Epperstone - Spotted Flycatcher [Cross Keys car park].
• Cresswell - Spotted Flycatcher [pair].
• Attenborough Nature Reserve - 1 Avocet [on Clifton Pit from 06:40 until 07:13 before flying of high North].

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Many thanks to:

Sandy Aitken, Steve Armson, Simon Barsby, Mervyn Bartle, Robin Brace, Phil Corbett, Stewart Harrison, Robert Hoare, John Lomas, Darren Matthews, Ben Moss, James Owen, Bob Pacey, Tony Parker, Bill Peet, James Shergold, Alan Stretton, David Viles, Tony Wardell, David Winnett.