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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 species will not appear here during the breeding season - but please send in your reports regardless.

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Wednesday 30th April

Kilvington Lakes - Whimbrel.

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Whimbrel [over], Mandarin Duck [male].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Garganey on Clifton Pit from Kingfisher hide.

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, Common Cuckoo, Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbelr, Sedge Warbler.

Kings Mill Reservoir - Common Pochard [numerous], Gadwall, 1 Eurasian Teal, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Common Sandpiper, Blackcap, Chiffchaff [numerous].

Kilvington Lakes - 1 Common Greenshank.

Netherfield Lagoons - Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Oystercatcher, Northern Lapwing, Northern Shoveler, Mallard, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, Common Pochard, Coot, Cormorant, Common Tern.

Newington Flash - 1 Common Greenshank.

Misson - 1 Wood Sandpiper.

Ruddington - 1 Red Kite.

Tuesday 29th April

Gedling Pit Top - 30 Meadow Pipit, 70+ Skylark, 20 Willow Warbler, 5 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Common Whitethroat, 2 Common Snipe, 1 Common Cuckoo.

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Hobby, Common Cuckoo, Common Tern.

Monday 28th April

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Tree Sparrow, Red-crested Pochard, Common Swift, Sand Martin, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Sedge Warbler, Chiffchaff.

Retford - 2 Little Egret [East Drayton area].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Garganey.

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Water Rail [calling briefly Chainbridge Pit], Whimbrel [over], Mandarin Duck [male].

Newstead & Annesley Country Park - Common Cuckoo [calling], Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler.

Brackenhurst - Red Kite [over Brackenhurst Estate].

Besthorpe NWT - Meering: 1 Northern Wheatear. Mons Pool: 1 Whimbrel, 1 Arctic Tern.

Barton-in-Fabis - 3 Whimbrel [near cottages flash].

Sunday 27th April

Maun Valley Trail - Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat.

Barton-in-Fabis - 3 Whimbrel [still in fields near cottages flash].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Northern Wheatear, Common Swift, Grasshopper Warbler.

Farnsfield - Greaves Lane: 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Northern Lapwing, Linnet, 1 Yellow Wagtail, Rook, Common Kestrel, Pied Wagtail, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Skylark.

Beauvale - 1 Red Kite.

Sherwood Forest NNR - 10+ Common Crossbill, 7+ Tree Pipit, 2 Common Redstart, 1 Common Cuckoo, 1 Marsh Tit, 1 Barn Swallow, 1 Garden Warbler, 4+ Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff.

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - 1 Little Tern, 1 Black Tern [16:45], 2 Whimbrel, 2 Dunlin, c.7 Oystercatcher, 3 Ringed Plover, 5 Ruff, Osprey, 4 Common Shelduck, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, 2 Mediterranean Gull [Chainbridge Scrape], Eurasian Teal, Gadwall, Barn Swallow, House Martin.

Bentinck Void - 2 Northern Wheatear.

Holme Pierrepont - A52 Pit: 6 Eurasian Wigeon, 4 Arctic Tern, 10 Common Tern, 2 Northern Wheatear, 6 Blackcap, 2 Garden Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 8 Common Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Reed Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting, 7 Barn Swallow. Blott's Pit: 3 Common Tern, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 3 Commn Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler. Skylarks NR: 3 Reed Warbler, 2 Blackcap.

Harlow Wood - 1 Tree Pipit [singing].

Saturday 26th April

South Muskham - 1 Arctic Tern, 2 Common Tern, 1 Eurasian Nuthatch, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler.

Bentinck Void - 7 Northern Wheatear, Whinchat, Whimbrel, 2 Grasshopper Warbler.

Netherfield - Wood Warbler singing along railway embankment.

Clipstone Forest - 1 Woodcock, 10 Tree Pipit, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 1 Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Song Thrush.

Rainworth Bogs - 1 Tree Pipit, Common Whitethroat, 10+ Barn Swallow, 1 House Martin.

Kings Mill Reservoir - 14 Bar-tailed Godwit, Hobby, Ringed Plover, Garden Warbler, Gadwall, Blackcap.

Barton in Fabis - Bar-tailed Godwit and 3 Whimbrel in fields near Cottages Flash .

Hoveringham - Black Tern.

Collingham Lakes - Little Gull.

Holme Pierrepont - Little Tern.

Friday 25th April

Newstead & Annesley Country Park - 5 Arctic Tern

Hoveringham - 14 Arctic Tern

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Whimbrel, Common Sandpiper. 3 Dunlin on Tiln North, 2 Northern Wheatear & Whimbrel [Old Willow Coppice with black sheep in]

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Hobby, 2 Ringed Plover

Thursday 24th April

Holme Pierrepont - Lesser Scaup [female] in area with no general access

Collingham Lakes - Garganey.

Attenborough Nature Reserve -2 Common Crane circling over the reserve at 14.45

Kinoulton - 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat.

Mansfield Woodhouse - Turtle Dove.

Cotham Flash - 4 Northern Wheatear.

Kilvington Lakes - West Lake: 1 Common Greenshank

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Lound: 9+ Willow Warbler, 5+ Chiffchaff, 7+ Blackcap, 4+ Common Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4+ Garden Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler [reeling], 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Osprey [north-east over Chainbridge Pit], 1 Common Cuckoo, 1 Whimbrel [east over Chainbridge Scrape], 1 Yellow Wagtail.

Gonalston - Glossy Ibis in field opposite Carr Beck farm.

Wednesday 23rd April

Holme Pierrepont - Lesser Scaup [female] in area with no general access

Silverhill Country Park - 1 Grasshopper Warbler [reeling].

Beckingham Marshes RSPB - Tree Sparrow, 32 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Whimbrel, Eurasian Curlew, Common Greenshank, Northern Lapwing, Northern Shoveler.

Besthorpe NWT - Meering: 1 Northern Wheatear. Mons Pool: 1 Common Greenshank, 1 Common Redshank.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Whinchat, 10 Northern Wheatear, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Sand Martin, Common Tern, Common Shelduck, Northern Shoveler.

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Lound: 2 Whimbrel, 1 Eurasian Curlew.

Tuesday 22nd April

Vicar Water - 1 Common Cuckoo.

Kings Mill Reservoir - 8 Arctic Tern [late morning].

Clifton Grove - 2 Ring Ouzel.

Kings Mill Reservoir - Arctic Tern.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Little Gull, 2 Whimbrel, 10+ Arctic Tern, Yellow Wagtail, Green Sandpiper.

Newstead & Annesley Country Park - Arctic Tern.

Monday 21th April

Hoveringham - Little Gull, Whimbrel.

Gonalston - Glossy Ibis.

Bassingfield - Northern Wheatear [single female - edge of crop field above back of golf course].

Sherwood Forest NNR - 8 Common Crossbill, 7 Common Redstart, Tree Pipit, 1 Common Cuckoo, 2 Blackcap, c.20 Lesser Redpoll.

Bennerley Marsh - 1 Common Redshank, 9 Barn Swallow, Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler. Chat Corner: 3 Reed Bunting, 5 Barn Swallow.

Kilvington Lakes - 2 Little Egret, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Common Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Northern Wheatear.

Bentinck Void - 3 Northern Wheatear, Grasshopper Warbler, Ringed Plover

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - 2 Whimbrel, Northern Wheatear.

Rainworth - Heath and Sewage Works: 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Common Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Common Cuckoo, 2+ Tree Pipit, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 30+ Sand Martin, 2 Barn Swallow, 1 House Matrin, 1 Common Swift, 1 Northern Wheatear [paddock], Blackcap.

Holme Pierrepont - 11 Arctic Tern [moving rapidly north-east on Blott's Pit at 15:45], 7 Eurasian Wigeon, 2 Oystercatcher [pair], 2 Eurasian Teal [pair], 6 Common Goldeneye, 3 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 23 Gadwall, 4 Common Tern, Greylag Goose [brood on rowing course], 1 Snow Goose [feral], 1 Northern Shoveler, 1 Common Snipe.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Black Tern [Coneries], 3 Little Gull [from Sand Martin hide], Pink-footed Goose [over river with greylags], 2 Common Shelduck [Tween Pond & Clifton Pond], Northern Wheatear, 8 Red-crested Pochard [around visitor centre].

Sunday 20th April

Gedling Pit Top- 1 Ring Ouzel, 1 Northern Wheatear.

Sherwood Forest NNR - 1 Common Cuckoo, 2 Blackcap.

South Muskham - 30 Barn Swallow, 50 Sand Martin, 3 House Martin, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 White Wagtail [amongst Pied Wagtails in field next to A1 lakes].

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - 13 Arctic Tern [Bellmoor Lake].

Clumber Park - Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Sedge Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler [reeling], 3 Mandarin Duck [males], Barn Swallow, Sand Martin.

Collingham Lakes - Bar-tailed Godwit.

Newstead & Annesley Country Park - Arctic Tern.

Holme Pierrepont - Arctic Tern.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 25+ Arctic Tern.

Girton - 15 Arctic Tern.

Hoveringham - Arctic Tern.

Gonalston - Glossy Ibis.

Clifton Grove - 2 Ring Ouzel

Saturday 19th April

Sherwood Forest NNR - Tree Pipit, Brambling [male], Common Redstart.

Clumber Park - Common Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtail, Grasshopper Warbler [reeling], Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler.

Budby Pumping Station - 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Grey Partridge, 2 Mandarin Duck [pair], Common Shelduck.

Welbeck Watchpoint - Feeding Station: 8 Mandarin Duck [4 pairs], 1 Common Tern, Blackcap.

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - 1 Common Swift, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 4 Common Whitethroat, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Common Goldeneye, 5 Red-crested Pochard.

Newington - Hagg Lane Flash: 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Greenshank, 10+ Sand Martin.

Clifton Grove - 2 Ring Ouzel [Branshill between the Rough Wood & Branshill Wood].

Friday 18th April

Gringley Pumping Station - 6 Whooper Swan, 1 Greenshank, 2 Ringed Plover.

Collingham Lakes - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Maun Valley Trail - 4 Barn Swallow, 3 Sand Martin, , 1 House Martin.

Hickling - Common Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Blackcap.

Newstead & Annesley Country Park - 3 Northern Wheatear, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Yellow Wagtail [in flight - calling].

Gonalston - Glossy Ibis.

Bentinck Void - 7 Northern Wheatear, Osprey [north-west], Common Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler.

Clifton Grove -2 Ring Ouzel [top right corner of Branshill, near Branshill Wood].

Clifton Pastures - Hen Harrier [female - stayed to roost].

Harlow Wood - Common Cuckoo.

Thursday 17th April

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green-winged Teal, Common Swift.

Kinoulton - Common Cuckoo, 4 Barn Swallow, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Red-legged Partridge, Blackcap, c.3 Chiffchaff.

Skegby Trail - Willow Tit, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 1 Eurasian Curlew [over to south-west].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - 1 Whimbrel [over at 12:00 - headed north].

Wednesday 16th April

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green-winged Teal briefly on Beeston Marsh this am.

Scrooby Quarry - Grasshopper Warbler & 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Cuckoo over Scrooby Top wood 2-20pm.

Langford RSPB - First Reed Warblers in this morning with 2 singing on site. Also, 8 Blackcap, 12 Wilow Warbler and 13 SedgeWarbler.

Collingham Pits - 2 Common & 3 Lesser Whitethroats, Sedge Warbler, Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Goldeneye.

Tuesday 15th April

Welbeck Watchpoint - 3 Mandarin Duck [2 male, 1 female].

Barton-in-Fabis - Pink-footed Goose and Northern Wheatear on the riverside fields

Sherwood Pines - 2 Brambling, Tree Pipit & Willow Warbler

Southwell - Red Kite over Brac'k Collage 13.30

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Dunlin [Clifton Pit]

Monday 14th April

Barton-in-Fabis - Common Sandpiper [Cottages Flash] , 2 Northern Wheatear & Little Egret

Oxton - Oakmere Park Golf Club: 2 Red Kite [mobbed by crows], 2 Common Buzzard [later, with kite].
New Basford - Red Kite [circling above NG7 7DR at 13:50].
Besthorpe NWT - Mons Pool: 1 Ringed Plover.
Collingham Lakes - 2 Common Goldeneye, 1 Dunlin, 1 Common Redshank, 1 Green Sandpiper.
Meadows - Treecreeper.
Bassingfield - House Martin.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Common Tern, 2 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Gadwall, Common Shelduck, Tree Sparrow, 8 Red-crested Pochard.
Holme Pierrepont - Common Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Barn Swallow. Finger Ponds: 2 Common Tern. Skylarks: 2 Green Woodpecker.
Langford Lowfields RSPB - 2 Sedge Warbler, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 8 Northern Pintail, Common Goldeneye, 6 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Netherfield Lagoons - 4 Barn Swallow, 20+ Sand Martin, 3 Common Tern, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Common Whitethroat, 4 Sedge Warbler, 5 Willow Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 11 Blackcap, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Merlin.

Sunday 13th April

Newark - Black Redstart [female] on roof of 54 William Street at 1425 but no further sign after.

Budby Heath - Cuckoo, 3 singing Tree Pipit, c20 singing Willow Warbler & c70 Lesser Redpoll through.

Rufford Country Park - 1 Barn Swallow, 1 House Martin, Blackcap, 1 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker [drumming], Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit, 2 Common Buzzard.

Collingham Pits [ Mons Pool] - Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover & Dunlin

Besthorpe NR - Black-tailed Godwit
Colliers Wood - 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blue Tit, 5 European Robin, 1 Chaffinch.
Bennerley Marsh - 8 Northern Lapwing, 2 Grey Heron, 4 Greylag Goose, 2 Canada Goose, 1 Barn Swallow, 2 Bullfinch, Common Redshank.
Cossall - 6 Northern Lapwing, 2 Chiffchaff, Common Buzzard, Grey Heron, Common Pheasant.

Lowdham - Glossy Ibis
Old Moor Wood - Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Spring Wood - 2 Common Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Meadow Pipit, 5 Skylark, 2 Yellowhammer, 2 Grey Partridge, 6 Common Pheasant.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Blackcap, Bullfinch, 5 Common Buzzard [together], Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Jay, Common Kestrel, Marsh Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Stock Dove, Treecreeper, Common Whitethroat, 3 Yellowhammer.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Scoter, Whimbrel, 2 Common Shelduck, Common Tern.
Maun Valley Trail - Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Common Buzzard, Common Redstart.
Kinoulton - Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Bullfinch [pair], 2+ Linnet, 2 Yellowhammer, Common Buzzard, Wren.
Vicar Water - Barn Swallow.
Bilsthorpe - 1 Barn Swallow.
Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve - Budby South Forest: 3 Tree Pipit, Cuckoo, c.20 Willow Warbler, Lesser Redpoll.
Newstead & Annesley Country Park - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Saturday 12th April

Collingham Pits - Common Redstart, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat & 15 Swallow.

Girton GPS [Spalford Pit] - Green Sandpiper,2 Oystercatcher, 8 Shelduck, 30+ Sand Martin and singing Willow Warbler

Girton GPs - 2 singing Lesser Whitethroat, 6 singing Willow Warbler, 7 singing Chiffchaff & 4 singing Blackcap

Bentinck Void - Lesser Whitethroat, Northern Wheatear.
Newstead & Annesley Country Park - Turtle Dove.
Welbeck Lakes - Feeding Station: Osprey [through at 11:25], 12 Mandarin Duck [6 pairs], Green Woodpecker, 1 Common Shelduck, 2 House Martin.
Kinoulton - Garden Warbler [singing], c.3 Barn Swallow.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Scoter.

Friday 11th April

Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby South Forest: 1 Tree Pipit [singing], Mandarin Duck [male in to north-east corner at dusk], 1 Woodcock [roding].
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Osprey.
Collingham Lakes - 8 Common Goldeneye, 4 Common Buzzard, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Grey Wagtail.
Mansfield Woodhouse - Maun Valley: 3 Common Buzzard, Garden Warbler, Pied Wagtail, Chiffchaff, Long-tailed Tit, Common Kestrel, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Chaffinch.
Newark - Sugar Factory: 8 Eurasian Teal, 2 Common Shelduck, 15 Sand Martin, 1 Oystercatcher, 5 Common Buzzard, 1 Green Sandpiper.

Thursday 10th April

Hoveringham - Railway Lake: Red-crested Pochard
Collingham Lakes - c.10 Common Goldeneye, 1 Little Egret, 5 Common Redshank, 2 Common Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 White Wagtail.
Kings Mill Reservoir - 20 Barn Swallow.
Gedling Pit Top - Cuckoo.
Mansfield - 1 Blackcap [in song - Sunny Bank].
Langford Lowfields RSPB - 1 Oystercatcher, 4 Little Egret, 1 Common Buzzard, 4 Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Common Shelduck, 1 Meadow Pipit.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Greenshank [Barton Flash].
Calverton - Golf Club: Barn Swallow [east from the 5th].
Ravenshead - 1 Raven.

Wednesday 9th April

Norwood Park - Golf Club: Common Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler.
Wellow - Barn Swallow, Common Whitethroat.
Barton-in-Fabis - Ruff [female on Cottages Flash], Yellow Wagtail, 7 Northern Wheatear

East Bridgford - 2 Raven, 4 Barn Swallow.

Tuesday 8th April

Newstead and Annesley Country Park - Common Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, Eurasian Curlew.
Hickling - Barn Swallow, Blackcap, Stock Dove, Sedge Warbler, Skylark, Reed Bunting.

Monday 7th April

Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Sandwich Tern, Greenshank.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4 Oystercatcher, 2 Common Tern, Common Goldeneye, Northern Shoveler, Green Woodpecker.
Newstead and Annesley Country Park - Common Redstart.
Arboretum - Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Magpie.

Kings Mill Reservoir - Little Gull.

Sunday 6th April

Clumber Park - Bullfinch, 7 Mandarin Duck, 2 Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Common Goldeneye, Goldcrest, Chiffchaff, Gadwall.
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Barn Swallow, 5 Sand Martin, 2 Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, Common Tern.
Eakring Meadows - 1 Garganey [drake - flew towards flash], 5 Common Snipe, 4 Reed Bunting, Yellowhammer, 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Common Kestrel, 3 Stock Dove.
Hickling - Willow Warbler, Blackcap.
Langford Lowfields RSPB - 16 Mute Swan, 3 Greylag Goose, 6 Canada Goose, 2 Common Shelduck, 7 Gadwall, 8 Eurasian Teal, 10 Mallard, 2 Northern Shoveler, 4 Common Pochard, 40 Tufted Duck, 2 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Common Buzzard, 5 Moorhen, 15 Coot, 5 Oystercatcher, 1 Eurasian Curlew 10 Sand Martin, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Wren, 2 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 1 European Robin, 10 Chaffinch, 5 Greenfinch, 4 Reed Bunting.
Skegby Trail - Song Thrush, 2 Fieldfare, Green Woodpecker, 2 Willow Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, Willow warbler, Skylark, Common Buzzard.
Eakring Meadows - 1 Fieldfare.
Hoveringham - River: 8 Oystercatcher, 9 Sand Martin, 4 Common Buzzard [2 pairs], 2 Egyptian Goose [pair], Common Redshank, Common Kingfisher, Common Kestrel.

Sunday 5th April

Moorgreen Reservoir - 1 Black-throated Diver.
Colwick Woods - Garden Warbler [singing], Blackcap [singing], Treecreeper.
Clipstone Forest - 4 Brambling, 8 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff [numerous], 50+ Lesser Redpoll, 1 Yellowhammer, Eurasian Jay, Goldcrest, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10+ Siskin, 1 Meadow Pipit, 2 Stock Dove, Linnet, 1 Common Buzzard.
Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve - Budby South Forest: 1 Brambling [male], 5 Common Buzzard, 6 Common Crossbill, 1 Barn Swallow, 4 Willow Warbler, 2 Goldcrest.
Kinoulton - Red Kite, 2 Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Blackcap,, Common Wren, Mute Swan, Moorhen, 3 Greenfinch, c.6 Goldfinch.
Barnby in the Willows - Reed Bunting, Yellowhammer, Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel.
Clumber Park - Barn Swallow, 3 Whooper Swan, Sedge Warbler.
Budby Pumping Station - Common Snipe, 2 Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 3 Barn Swallow, Sand Martin, 2 Common Shelduck
Hodsock - 2 Marsh Tit, 15 Yellowhammer, 2 Oystercatcher, c.500 Fieldfare, 4 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Barn Swallow.
Whitwell - 1 Barn Swallow [fields near Station Road].
Newark - Barn Swallow.
Welbeck Lakes - Common Buzzard [numerous], 2 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, 4 Mandarin Duck [3 males, 1 female].

Friday 4th April

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Common Goldeneye, Little Gull.
Farnsfield - 2 Common Shelduck.
Southwell - Red Kite [Norwood Park].
Langford Lowfields RSPB - Black-tailed Godwit, Grey Plover, Barn Swallow.
Beckingham Marshes RSPB - Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Oystercatcher, Northern Lapwing, 2 Common Shelduck, Tree Sparrow.
Hickling - Little Egret, 4 Bullfinch, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Gringley Pumping Station - 150 Whooper Swan, 3 Dunlin, 2 Ringed Plover, Common Snipe, 3 Common Redshanks, 2 Oystercatcher.
Cuckney - Barn Swallow.
Moorgreen Reservoir - 1 Black-throated Diver, Barn Swallow, Grey Wagtail, Little Grebe, Song Thrush.
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - 3 Common Shelduck, 1 Little Egret, c.200 Eurasian Wigeon, 6 Whooper Swan, 1 Common Kingfisher, Sand Martin, 1 Red-crested Pochard [drake].

Thursday 3rd April

Hickling - Blackcap [singing].
Calverton Pit Top - 1 Short-eared Owl, 15+ Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit, 1 Northern Wheatear.
Gonalston - 1 Glossy Ibis [also reported from Lowdham - may be around the border of these two villages].
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe.
Moorgreen Reservoir - Black-throated Diver.
Hoveringham - 1 Red Knot.

Wednesday 2nd April

West Bridgford - Red Kite [Loughborough Road].
Farnsfield - 2 Common Shelduck.
Hickling - 3 Lesser Redpoll [garden feeder], 6+ Chiffchaff, 8+ Reed Bunting, 8+ Yellowhammer, 10+ Tree Sparrow.
Holme Pierrepont - Barn Swallow, Sand Martin [numerous].
Besthorpe NWT - Mons Pool: 7 Common Redshank, 1 White Wagtail.
Collingham Lakes - 15+ Common Goldeneye, 1 Glossy Ibis [adult still on Ferry Farm lake], 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Eurasian Curlew, 1 Green Sandpiper, 5+ Sand Martin, 1 Willow Warbler.
Stoke Bardolph - 2 Oystercatcher [river].
Southwell - 1 Red Kite.
Hoveringham - 1 Red Knot, Common Redshank, Oystercatcher.

Tuesday 1st April

Clumber Park - Mandarin Duck [from bridge and at opposite end, by stables], Common Goldeneye.
Southwell - Red Kite [Norwood Park].
Netherfield Lagoons - Siberian Chiffchaff.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Scoter, 2 Little Gull.
Maun Valley Trail - Warren Farm: Barn Swallow.
Hoveringham - 1 Red Knot.

Langford Lowfields - 1 Smew.

Many thanks to:

David Allison, M R Bartle, Graham Beeley, A Bell, Chris Bell, Michael Blount, Dave Bonser, Nigel Bosworth, R M Box, Robin Brace, Mark Brown, David Brydon, Andy Capstick Andrew Chick, Jim Clarke, Mark Clay, Alison Davidson, Jack Aldridge Deacon, Steve Doxey, Les Fisher, Andy Franklin, David John Freeman, Sheila Freeman, Chris Golightly, Catherine Goundry, Judith Harrison, Mark Harrison, Tom Hibbert, Robert Hilton, Dave Jones, Julie Jones, Peter Jones, John Kenton, Andy Mason, Josse McMahon, Cameron Moody, Philip Norris, Robert Norris, Chris Overton, James Pam, Kitty Parker, Peter Playle, Susan Purdy, Harry Robinson, Alan Scrimshaw, Keith Smith, Kenny Stevenson, Chris Tansley, Gary Telford, Jan Thompson, Mark Tyler, Mark Wilde, John Wilson, David Wood.