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.
Have you seen any Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers at Sherwood Forest this year?
The RSPB are trying to map their territories to understand population size and protect them during the breeding season.
Please email any information on sightings to: sherwoodforest@rspb.org.uk
[9th March 2020]
Swarovski ATX objective module added to the Sales Page
HOVERINGHAM SAILING LAKE: The Sailing Club have closed the site to all visitors. Bird watchers should not drive/walk down the access road and walk to 'the tree', along to the club house, or around the Annexe Pit.
Due to Government covid-19 regulations on social distancing, it has been decided that the sightings page will now be updated on a weekly basis rather than daily to discourage social gatherings.
Hopefully normal service will resume soon but for now weekly updates will be every Sunday evening.
Please ONLY submit your sightings that conform with Government regulations; your once daily exercise walk, vizmig from your garden etc.
Rob Hoare
Thursday 30th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BAR-TAILED GODWIT, WHIMBREL, Northern Wheatear, 10 Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North], Cuckoo, c.150 Swift [Bellmoor].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Common Tern.
Beeston Sidings - Hobby [through, 09:44].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - ARCTIC TERN [single on Clifton Pit, 09:27], Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still Main Pond].
Wednesday 29th April
Netherfield Lagoons - LITTLE TERN [feeding over the Slurry Lagoon, 17:04], 19 ARCTIC TERN [circled over the Deep Pit, then flew off south-west towards Holme Pierrepont, 16:25].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 25 ARCTIC TERN [21 briefly on the Sailing Pit, 18:00; 4 Clifton Pit, 09:36], Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still Main Pond], White Wagtail [Ridge and Furrow].
Barton in Fabis/Clifton Grove - Hobby [hunting hirundines over Branshill early evening], 4 Shelduck, 5 Barnacle Geese [Cottages Flash]; also Garden Warler, Lesser Whitethroat.
Bestwood Country Park - Hobby [hawking over Pit Tip, 13.15].
Newark - 2 KITTIWAKE [heading east, 13:00].
Burton Joyce - 3 WHIMBREL [flew east over the river, 10:09].
Tuesday 28th April
Holme Pierrepont - 15 ARCTIC TERN [on the Rowing Course, 19:30 - 20:10 at least].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - c.60 ARCTIC TERN [eight east through Clifton Pit, 09:12; twelve Sailing Pit 10:18; thirty one, Sailing Pit this evening then flew high east, 18:57], Curlew [sout-east through Clifton Pit, 08:08], Hobby [through, 08:54], also 2 Shelduck, Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit].
Scrooby - GREAT WHITE EGRET [on the fishing lakes, 08:20].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Cuckoo, 2 Garden Warbler [Neatholme area], 8 Common Tern [across the site].
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper [this morning].
Barton in Fabis/Clifton Grove - Little Ringed Plover, 2 Northern Wheatear [Beeston Weir, 06:35], 2 Ringed Plover, 5 Barnacle Geese, 2 Yellow Wagtail [Cottages Flash, 09:47].
Monday 27th April
Holme Pierrepont - 5 Hobby [hawking South side of A52 pit, this evening]; also Cuckoo [around Skylarks reserve].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 4 Hobby [hawking over Chainbridge Pit, 14:51].
Bennerley Marsh - 5 Swift, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Yellow Wagtail [midday].
Netherfield Lagoons - 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Oystercatcher [Works Area], 2 Common Tern [over Deep Pit].
Barton in Fabis - Little Ringed Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 5 Barnacle Geese [Cottages Flash, mid-morning].
Annesley Pit Top - Dunlin, 3 Little Ringed Plover [early morning].
Skegby - 3 Swift, 2 Swallow [over, 16:15].
Sunday 26th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Yellow-legged Gull [first-summer, Bellmoor Lake, early afternoon], Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover [Bellmoor Lake, this morning], Cuckoo [River Idle], 3/4 Lesser Whitethroat [singing, Chainbridge area].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still present Main Pond, 10:20], Cuckoo [Wet Marsh area].
Netherfield Lagoons - Cuckoo [singing from the Slurry Lagoon reedbed].
Sherwood Forest NNR - 2 Tree Pipit [Budby Common].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo [Blotts Pit, this morning].
Strelly - 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler [this morning]
Barton in Fabis - 2 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash, 07:15].
Lambley - Raven over.
St Anne's - Tree Pipit [north over the St Anne's Allotments, 06:17].
Saturday 25th April
Harwell and Everton Carrs - TURTLE DOVE [purring, this afternoon], Cuckoo [heard], Sedge Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, 3 Redshank, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Swallow.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WOOD SANDPIPER [still Tiln North], 2 ARCTIC TERN [Chainbridge Pit, this morning], 2 Hobby [over Chainbridge Pit], Lesser Whitethroat [Hawthorn Lane].
Clifton Pastures - Hobby, 3 Yellow Wagtail [early afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - LITTLE GULL [first-summer, Clifton Pit, 15:55], 2 Hobby [over Clifton Pit], 2 Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit, Gull island, 10:10].
Holme Pierrepont - BAR-TAILED GODWIT [A52 Pit].
Netherfield Lagoons - 3 Yellow Wagtail [Works Area], Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler, 4 Common Tern.
Barton in Fabis - 2 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash, this morning].
Hickling Standard - 5 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler.
King's Mill Reservoir - c.40 Swallow.
Friday 24th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WOOD SANDPIPER [still Tiln North this afternoon, but elusive], 2 Northern Wheatear, 7 Yellow Wagtail [Clayworth Common, 13:40], 2 Hobby [Water Ski Pit], Northern Wheatear [over Tiln], Lesser Whitethroat [Bellmoor].
Dunham Pools - LITTLE GULL [adult over small lake then flew north along River Trent, 12:30].
Holme Pierrepont - Garden Warbler, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Yellow Wagtail.
Bulwell - Lesser Whitethroat [singing, Bulwell Forest, 12:30].
Bunny - 4 Common Whitethroat, 2 Yellowhammer, Grey Partridge [Fairham Brook].
Netherfield Lagoons - 3 Yellow Wagtail [Works Area]
Stoke Bardolph - Cuckoo [calling, Stoke Lock, 08:30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [both drakes, still Clifton Pit, 08:08], Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still Main Pond, early morning].
Thursday 23rd April
Eakring - NIGHTINGALE [Eakring Flash, still singing in hedgerow south-east of Flash, this evening].
Besthorpe NR - 2 Common Crane [over].
Holme Pierrepont - 6 Hobby [hawking over reeds on A52 Pit, this evening], 2 Goldeneye [females, A52 Pit), Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern [Blotts pit], 2 Grasshopper Warbler [reeling]
Kilvington Lakes - GARGANEY [drake], LITTLE GULL, 2 Swift.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] -WOOD SANDPIPER [Tiln North, this afternoon], WHIMBREL [Chainbridge Pit, 11:00 then flew North], Cuckoo, Reed Warbler [Neatholme], Ruff [Tiln North].
King's Mill Reservoir - 11 Swift, Raven.
West Bridgford - 3 Swift.
Lady Bay - Sedge Warbler [singing the Hook NR].
Brinsley - Whinchat [farmland behind Brinsley Garage].
Newark - 2 Swift [Beacon Hill, 10:00].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still Main Pond, this morning].
Budby - Cuckoo.
Wednesday 22nd April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still Main Pond, this evening].
Eakring - NIGHTINGALE [Eakring Flash, heard briefly several times and glimpsed very briefly mid-morning, in hedgerow south-east of Flash], 2 Snipe, Common Whitethroat [Penny Pasture Common].
Kilvington Lakes - 2 ARCTIC TERN, LITTLE GULL, Curlew.
Holme Pierrepont - Merlin [through], 3 Ruff [Blotts Pit]; also Common Sandpiper, Grasshopper Warbler, 4 Swift.
Hoveringham - BLACK TERN, 2 ARCTIC TERN [through this morning, viewed from the public footpath].
Ruddington Moor - Northern Wheatear [male, on the old railway line].
Newark - 3 WHIMBREL [feeding on sports pitches on the outskirts of Newark, this morning], Common Redstart [male, in garden on Beacon Hill Road].
Hickling - Reed Warbler [singing in reedbed], 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 4 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap.
Skegby Trail - Swallow, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap.
Tuesday 21st April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still on Main Pond], 3 LITTLE GULL [adults Main Pond, then moved to Clifton Pit, this evening].
Barton in Fabis - 20+Yellow Wagtail, 5 White Wagtail, 2 Northern Wheatear [still in field along Barton Lane, this evening].
Elkesley - BLACK REDSTART [female in paddock].
Hoveringham - 10 adult LITTLE GULL, ARCTIC TERN, 2 Swift [viewed from the river path].
Kilvington Lakes - 2 ARCTIC TERN, Greenshank.
Clifton Grove - Whinchat [in hedgerow by the Beeston Marina Chalets, this afternoon].
Bassingfield - Northern Wheatear [in the horse paddocks].
Burton Joyce - Hobby [heading south-west, 14:10].
Bennerly Marsh - 5 Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 5 Linnet, Lapwing with 3 young [midday visit].
Kilvington Lakes - 3 Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, Swift.
King's Mill Reservoir - Swift [late morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 ARCTIC TERN, Common Tern [over Bellmoor Lake, 09:43], Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North], 2 Hobby, Cuckoo, 10 Swift [Chainbridge area].
Holme Pierrepont - SPOTTED REDSHANK [Blotts Pit, dropped in for five minutes, c.09:00], 3 Hobby [hawking over A52 Pit, mid afternoon].
Netherfield Lagoons - 4 Yellow Wagtail [Works Area], 2 Shelduck [ on the Woks Area main pond].
Aslockton - Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail [in a flooded corner of field].
Monday 20th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 13 LITTLE GULL [through Chainbridge Scrape and Neatholme Scrape between 14:50 - 18:15], 2 BAR-TAILED GODWIT [Neatholme Fen, 16:00]; also 4 ARCTIC TERN, c.7 Swift.
Holme Pierrepont - LITTLE GULL [A52 Pit, this evening], Cuckoo [heard], 2 Hobby [hawking over reeds on A52 pit].
Kilvington Lakes - KNOT, Greenshank, Ruff, 2 Little Ringed Plover.
Thorneywood - 2 ARCTIC TERN [through east towards Colwick, 17:47].
Elkesley - Tree Pipit, Cuckoo [Elkesley Woods].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - c.80 ARCTIC TERN [through this morning, with 40 together on the Sailing Pit, 12:30], 3 LITTLE GULL [all adult summer, Clifton Pit 08:00], Whinchat [Wheatear Field].
Hoveringham - WHIMBREL [from the river path], 16 ARCTIC TERN [through]; also 30 Yellow Wagtail.
Netherfield Lagoons - 4 Yellow Wagtail [Works Area], 2 Shelduck [Slurry Lagoon].
Ravenshead - Northern Wheatear [field off Chapel Lane].
Orston - Northern Wheatear.
Barton in Fabis - Curlew [calling, high east towards Clifton Pastures, 07:15], 2 Whinchat [A453 Balancing Pond, 07:40; single along the flood-bank off Manor Rd, 08:45], 5 Northern Wheatear [3 still present along Barton Lane, 07:30; 2 in horse paddock off Manor Rd], 8+Yellow Wagtail [Barton Lane, 07:30].
Sunday 19th April
Cotgrave - Arctic Skua [through south, 18:38].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY [drk, Clifton Pit, this evening], Marsh Harrier [through east, 18:50].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BLACK TERN [Conservation Lake, 17:23], HEN HARRIER [male, over Neatholme Fen towards Wild Goose Farm, 16:10], Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Herring Gull [Bellmoor Lake].
Netherfield Lagoons - 1+LITTLE GULL [adult, feeding over Deep Pit for some minutes before flying high west, 17.23; second adult or same bird flying high through site west to east, 17:58].
Barton in Fabis - 5 Northern Wheatear, 25+Yellow Wagtail, 3 White Wagtail, 5 Grey Partridge [in field along Barton Lane, 20:30].
Holme Pierrepont - WHIMBREL [Blotts Pit], 2 LITTLE GULL, BLACK TERN [A52 Pit].
Hoveringham - LITTLE GULL [adult summer, Railway Pit, this morning]; Common Redstart [female, Railway Pit].
Worksop Sewage Farm - Hobby.
Osberton Estate - Willow Warbler, Corn Bunting.
Hickling Standard - Northern Wheatear, Willow warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap [this morning].
Ravenshead - 2 Northern Wheatear [field off Chapel Lane].
Colwick Park - 2 ARCTIC TERN [flew up river, this morning].
Nott'm East to North-West - White-tailed Eagle [Satellite tracked bird G393 from the Isle of White reintroduction scheme movements through the county 19th April].
At 13:18 G393 was flying a north at an altitude of 395 metres over Holme Pierrepont beside the River Trent on the east side of Nottingham. With a stiff easterly wind for encouragement, he continued north-west through Nottinghamshire and then Derbyshire, passing over Sutton-in-Ashfield at an altitude of 1051 metres at 14:30 and then skirting around the east of Chesterfield half an hour later at a lower altitude of 255 metres. He continued on across the Peak District, passing over Ladybower reservoir at 15:45, and then over Glossop 40 minutes later at an altitude of 421 metres. He continued flying until 18:50 when he eventually settled to roost on a wooded hillside in the north of the Peak District, having flown 188 km (117 miles). He has remained in the Peak District since, and his satellite data provides a fascinating insight into his minute-by-minute movements. It will be very interesting to see how long G393 remains there. If the past few weeks are anything to go by, it may not be that long."
(Map showing the route taken north-west through Nott's by G393).
Saturday 18th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 3 LITTLE GULL [Hallcroft fisheries 12:25, then flew towards Bellmoor Lake], Northern Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail [in fields north-east, Tiln North, early morning].
Annesley Pit Top - Northern Wheatear.
Kirklington - 2 Shelduck [on small lake on the River Greet], Swallows and House Martins [over the village].
Netherfield Lagoons - 6 Yellow Wagtail [works area].
Hickling Standard - Lesser Whitethroat [in hedgerow just outside the village].
Barton in Fabis - Dunlin, 3 Yellow Wagtail [Cottages Flash].
King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Common Snipe, 10+ Swallow, House Martin, 50+ Sand Martin.
Skegby Trail - Willow Tit, 2 Yellowhammer, Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 2 Mandarin [pair].
Arnold - Common Whitethroat [Bradman Gardens].
Friday 17th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 15+LITTLE GULL [Neatholme Scrape, through north-east, 15:50 - 16:57], WHIMBREL [Neatholme Fen], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape], 2 Ruff, 14 Oystercatcher [Conservation Lake], Yellow Wagtail [Clayworth Common], Curlew [Tiln North], Grasshopper Warbler [reeling, Cross Lane], Cuckoo, 2 Sedge Warbler [Neatholme Scrape].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still present on Main Pond], Swift [over Clifton Pit].
Colwick Park - Swift, 2 Oystercatcher, Common Tern, Pochard, Reed Warbler, 6+ Willow Warbler, large mixed flock of Hirundines.
Broxtowe CP - Grasshopper Warbler [reeling, 10:30].
Coddington - 3 WHIMBREL [in field then flew off towards Balderton, 08:35].
Hoveringham - LITTLE GULL [adult, Sailing Lake], WHIMBREL [Railway Pit, this morning].
Harworth Pit Top - Willow warbler, Skylark, Meadow Pipit [numerous], Yellow wagtail, 2 Sand Martin [this morning].
Skegby - Swallow, House Martin.
King's Mill Reservoir - 2 House Martin
Clifton Grove/Barton in Fabis - 3 Yellow Wagtail [Branshill, 07:30], Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail [Cottages Flash].
Thursday 16th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - OSPREY [through towards Neatholme Scrape, 10:34].
Harwell - 2 Shelduck, 2 Redshank, Cuckoo [River Idle].
Everton Carrs - 3 Common Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Willow warbler [Heard], Blackcap, 2 Grey Partridge, 2 Swallow.
King's Mill Reservoir - Water Rail, Willow Warbler.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 SANDWICH TERN [through Tween, 08:35].
Netherfield Lagoons - Green Sandpiper [flash over the river].
Newstead Village - White Wagtail.
Wednesday 15th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Common Crane [Clayworth Common, vewable from the Chainbridge Lane bridge, 08:52 - 20:34 at least]; also Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler,Willow Warbler.
Burton Joyce - Common Redstart [male, still in hedgerow on Trent riverside, between Burton Joyce and Bulcote], 2 Curlew [through].
Hoveringham - RING OUZEL [female, Sailing Lake, this morning]; also Lesser Whitethroat
Bennerley Marsh - 4 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher.
Netherfield Lagoons - 3 Common Whitethroat.
King's Mill Reservoir - Water Rail, 3 Common Snipe.
Lady Bay - Reed warbler, Willow warbler, Chiffchaff [The Hook Nature Reserve].
Netherfield Lagoons - Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler [early morning].
Osberton Estate - 2 Corn Bunting [this morning].
Tuesday 14th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Common Crane [Tiln North, this evening], LITTLE GULL [sub-adult, Neatholme area, 15:15], 4 Ruff, Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North], 1+Cuckoo [calling, Tiln North, Chainbridge Scrape, Neatholme area], Great White Egret [Chainbridge Scrape].
Burton Joyce - Common Redstart [male, briefly in hedgerow on Trent riverside, between Burton Joyce and Bulcote, 17:28]; also 15 Yellow Wgtail, White Wagtail, Common Sandpiper.
Netherfield Lagoons - 8 Yellow Wagtail [seven Works Area plus single across river].
Monday 13th April
Hoveringham - 3 Cattle Egret [Sailing Lake, this morning]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET , Goldeneye, 4 Fieldfare [Sailing Lake].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 LITTLE GULL [through high west, 18:30]; c.500 mixed Hirundines [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WHIMBREL [Walters, early evening], 3 Swallow, c.20 Sand Martin.
Netherfield Lagoons - 3 Little Ringed Plover [flash across river].
King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Common Snipe, 4 Swallow, c.60 Sand Martin.
Sunday 12th April
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - White-tailed Eagle [Tiln North, altitude of c.500 feet mobbed by 4 Common Buzzard directly above the river Idle; then headed south-east climbing to c.1000 feet chased all the way by the same buzzards, 13:00]; also Lesser Whitethroat [Bellmoor], Common Whitethroat [Neatholme area].
Sutton in Ashfield - White Stork [circling high, before drifting off east, 15:02].
Barton in Fabis/Clifton Grove - 14 Yellow Wagtail [12 Barton Lane, this evening, 2 near Barton Island, early morning], 10 Swallow [through north, 07:00], Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler [Holme Pit].
Bulwell - Willow Warbler [singing Bulwell Forest, 16:15].
Kirklington - Swallow, House Martin [this afternoon].
Osberton Estate - 6 Corn Bunting [singing males].
Woodthorpe - OSPREY [drifting south 11:00 hrs over private garden].
Sibthorpe - Cuckoo [singing, 09:09].
Newark - Little Egret, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Swallow, Yellow Wagtail [Middlebeck].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY [drk, Tween Pond, 07:30 - 18:00], Common Tern [Clifton Pit, 08:30].
King's Mill Reservoir - 3 Blackcap.
Retford - COMMON SCOTER [Nocmig sound recording, over 00:15, 01:58, 02:19]; also Oystercatcher [over 00:55].
Saturday 11th April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [still on Church Pond, 14:00], Common Tern [Clifton Pit].
Netherfield Lagoons - Reed Warbler [singing in Slurry reed bed], Sedge Warbler.
Newark - 3 Blackcap, 4 Willow Warbler [singing], Swallow [Middlebeck].
Hoveringham - Cattle Egret [Sailing Lake, 09:40].
Worksop - c.70 mixed flock Redwing and Fieldfare [Manor Estate, 09:00].
Friday 10th April
Sutton in Ashfield -White-tailed Eagle [probable, dark/imm heading south, 10:05].
Holme Pierrepont - RING OUZEL [east of A52 Pit], Long-tailed Duck [still, A52 Pit], Reed Warbler [single singing on Works Pit], 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull [pair].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Little Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher [Clifton Pit, Gull Island, this evening], Reed Warbler [Wet Marsh reed-bed, 17:09], White Wagtail.
Barton in Fabis - White Wagtail [on wet area off Manor Rd, early afternoon].
Clifton Grove - 5 Swallow, House Martin [Branshill, mid-morning], Reed Warbler [Holme Pit].
King's Mill Reservoir - 12 Sand Martin.
Newark - 2 Grey Partridge, Swallow, White Wagtail, 2 Common Whitethroat [Middlebeck].
Skegby Trail - Willow Tit, 9 singing Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap.
Hoveringham - ARCTIC TERN, 4 Goldeneye, Redshank, 4 Fieldfare, Sedge Warbler [Sailing Lake], ARCTIC TERN [flew upriver between Hazelford/Hoveringham, 09:40].
Osberton Estate - Common Redstart [female], 3 singing Corn Bunting, 20 Tree Sparrow [this morning].
Thursday 9th April
Pleasleyhill - OSPREY [flew north over Penniment Lane, 16:50].
Worksop - 2 House Martin [Mansfield Rd, 16:50].
Netherfield Lagoons - Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler [this evening].
Skegby - 5 House Martin [over at approximately, 16:25].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Tern [Clifton Pit, 16:23].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Swallow, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Little Egret [Neatholme area].
King's Mill Reservoir - c.15 Sand Martin.
Hickling Standard - Willow Warbler, Common Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap, 10+ Chiffchaff, 12 Linnet.
Newark - Green Sandpiper, Swallow, 4 Sand Martin, 2 White Wagtail, Common Whitethroat [Middlebeck].
Wednesday 8th April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - HEN HARRIER [male, flying low south over the Wheatear field towards the river, midday], Slavonian Grebe [still present on Church Pond, this evening]; also Grasshopper Warbler [reeling near the Tower Hide], White Wagtail [Ridge and Furrow], Common Tern, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler [Clifton Pit], Ring-necked Parakeet [Beeston Marina end of the reserve, 08:15].
Holme Pierrepont - Long-tailed Duck [still, A52 pit], Raven [flew over A52 pit], Willow Warbler [at least 6 singing], Common Sandpiper.
Caythorpe - 2 Yellow Wagtail [on the east bank of the Trent, 15:52].
Southwell - Northern Wheatear [Brackenhurst Campus].
Newark - Common Sandpiper, 2 Sand Martin [Middlebeck].
Netherfield Lagoons - Green Sandpiper [Works Area main pond], 3 Oystercatcher [ Muddy island main pond].
Skegby - Swallow [over farmland, 08:40], Willow Tit, 9 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap [Skegby Trail].
Tuesday 7th April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [still present on Church Pond]; also Sedge Warbler [Wheatear field], Willow Warbler [singing beeston marina end], 4 Shelduck, Swallow [Clifton Pit].
Ordsall - 8 House Martin [mid-afternoon].
Chillwell - 2 House Martin.
Worksop - 2 Swallow [through south-west].
Netherfield Lagoons - Sedge Warbler, Green Sandpiper [Flash across river].
Clifton Grove - 3 Swallow [2 Burrows Farm, 1 through Branshill].
Kirklington - 2 House Martin [inspecting last years nest site], Oystercatcher [Paradise Hill].
Colwick Park - 2 Common Tern [this morning].
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper, Willow Warbler [this morning].
Annesley pit top - Little Ringed Plover.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 5 Willow Warbler, Sand Martin [Tiln North].
Holme Pierrepont - SANDWICH TERN [Rowing Course, 07:30], Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Sand Martin, 2 Oystercatcher [Blotts Pit], 52 Goldeneye [50, on A52 pit, 2 on Blotts Pit].
Newark (backgarden) - Blackcap, 2 Shelduck over.
Strelly - 20 Golden Plover [still in same field, 07:25], 40 Fieldfare [through north].
Monday 6th April
Retford - OSPREY [drifting high north-east, 14:29].
Burton Joyce - 2 OSPREY [single drifted north-east 12:45, followed by a second heading north, 14:56].
Newark - OSPREY [over, 13:10].
Ordsall - 4 House Martin.
Bennerley Marsh - 110 Golden Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Swallow, 6 Sand Martin, 3 House Martin.
Netherfield Lagoons - 4 Little Ringed Plover [New Workings], 2 Willow Warbler [singing on the lagoons].
King's Mill Reservoir - 14 Common Snipe, 2 Blackcap.
Hickling Standard - Swallow, 2 Blackcap [singing], 15 Chiffchaff [singing plus at least seven other foraging] .
Idle Washlands - Common Sandpiper [Hagg Lane Flash].
Hoveringham - Curlew, Common Redstart, 40 Fieldfare, Redwing [Sailing Lake].
Newark- Willow Warbler, Blackcap.
Sunday 5th April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - LITTLE GULL [adult, Sailing Pit, 18:39], 2 SANDWICH TERN [Sailing Pit, flew in and briefly landed up on bouy, then flew off east, 18:43], Slavonian Grebe [still Church Pond, 15:58], Swallow, Sand Martin [over the Visitor Centre].
Bilsthorpe - 2 House Martin [this afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 10+ Sand Martin, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, pair Kingfisher, Little Ringed Plover [Neatholme area].
Nottingham City -Peregrine [the Newton buiding pair have now laid a third egg, Peregrine Nest Cam].
Clifton Pastures/Gotham Moor - c.80 Golden Plover, 2 Northern Wheatear [early afternoon].
Clifton Grove - Swallow [through Branshill, 09:35].
Hoveringham - ARCTIC TERN [Railway Pit, 09:30].
Holme Pierrepont - ARCTIC TERN [through the A52 Pit, early morning], Long-tailed Duck [still on A52 pit], Ruddy Shelduck [flew onto Blotts Pit, 08:10], Willow Warbler [Rowing Course, single singing in willows near the 1500m mark], 10+Common Snipe, 2 Common Redshank, Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit].
Colwick Park - FIRECREST [singing male, this morning]; also Willow Warbler, 2 Swallow.
Bennerly Marsh - 70 Golden Plover.
Skegby Trail - 2 Willow Tit, 8 Chiffchaff, 3 Yellowhammer, Blackcap, single Herring Gull over
Strelly - c.180 Golden Plover [still in same field, 07:45], Northern Wheatear, 16 Fieldfare.
Saturday 4th April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [still present on Church Pond, this morning], 100+Fieldfare, 30 Shoveler [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Clifton Pastures - 87 Golden Plover, Northern Wheatear.
King's Mill Reservoir - 9 Common Snipe, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Chiffchaff [singing].
Newark - Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher [Middlebeck], Redwing and 11 Chiffchaff [singing along cycle track].
Netherfield Lagoons - 4 Ringed Plover/LRP [very distant on the New Workings], Sand Martin [along the river].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Avocet [Blotts Pit, this morning]; also Redshank.
Netherfield Lagoons - 3 Common Snipe [flushed from Works Area].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Fieldfare [heading east].
Strelly - 180+Golden Plover [still in same field, 07:50].
Friday 3rd April
Worksop - COMMON SCOTERS [two small groups over 22:25 and 23:30].
East Bridgford - WATER PIPIT [on the bank of the River Trent at Trent Lane], Ruddy Shelduck [still present].
Hoveringham - 3 Pintail [riverside, in flight near the Sailing Lake, this evening], 6 singing Chiffchaff, single Blackcap.
Barton in Fabis - Oystercatcher, Barnacle Goose [Cottages Flash].
Holme Pierrepont - Long-tailed Duck [still on A52 pit], Curlew, Little Ringed Plover, Common Snipe, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Goldeneye [Blotts pit], 4 Sand Martin [over the rowing course], 4 Blackcap [singing around the site], Goldeneye, Common Snipe [A52 Pit].
Bilsthorpe - 2 Redwing.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Great White Egret, Curlew [Tiln Fishing Lake, late morning].
Clifton Grove - Northern Wheatear [Branshill, mid-morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [still present on Church Pond, 09:30], Whooper Swan [adult, Sailing Pit], 42 Goldeneye, 13 Goosander, GBBG [Clifton Pit, this evening]; also Cuckoo [Birdguides report].
Strelly - 204 Golden Plover [present in the ploughed field, this morning].
Burton Joyce - Ruddy Shelduck [drake, this morning].
Retford - COMMON SCOTERS [high west over Carr Hill school, flight call, 08:22].
Bulwell - COMMON SCOTERS [flock heard overhead, 00:16].
Thursday 2nd April
South-West Nott'm - White-tailed Eagle [Satellite tracked bird G393 from the Isle of White reintroduction scheme, headed east over south-west Nottinghamshire flying at altitudes of less than 200 metres, by 15:50 it was directly over Melton Mowbary and half an hour later arrived in the North Arm at Rutland Water.
(Map showing the route taken east through Nott's by G393).
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [Church Pond, 17:46].
Farnsfield/Kirklington - 2 Willow Warbler [along the Farnsfield to Kirklington trail].
Nottingham City -Peregrine [the Newton buiding pair have laid a second egg, 18 days after the first; Peregrine Nest Cam].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 20 Sand Martin, 9 Goldeneye, Goosander, 3 Red-crested Pochard, GBB Gull [Bellmoor Lake].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Common Snipe, Goosander, 2 Goldeneye, Little Egret [Blotts Pit].
Arnold - Ring-necked Parakeet [in private garden].
King's Mill Reservoir - 3 Sparrowhawk, 11 Common Snipe
Colwick Park - Swallow [this morning].
Strelly - 108 Golden Plover [still in the ploughed field, 07:47].
Retford - COMMON SCOTERS [movement over early morning, nocmig sound recording].
Newark - COMMON SCOTERS [flock over 01:37, nocmig sound recording].
Wednesday 1st April
Newark - COMMON SCOTERS [flock over 23:40, nocmig sound recording].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [Church Pond, now looking very smart in almost full breeding plumage], c.12 Sand Martin [over the river].
Holme Pierrepont - Red-necked Grebe [still present A52 Pit], 2 Little Ringed Plover [Blotts Pit].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Yellow-legged Gull [second-winter, Bellmoor Lake] 5 Goosander, 3 Goldeneye, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 20+Sand Martin, 10+ Chiffchaff , 3-4 Blackcap [Belmore Lake], Goosander [female, on River Idle], Egyptian Goose [pair with 5 young], Little Owl [between Sutton cum Lound and Lound].
East Bridgford - Ruddy Shelduck [drake].
Stoke Bardolph - Ruddy Shelduck [associating with three Egyptian Geese].
Hickling Standard - 2 Redwing, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Chiffchaff.
Strelley - 30 Golden Plover [on ploughed field, early morning].
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Sajidah Ahmad, David Allison, Roger Bennett, Nigel Bosworth, Allison Boyle, Robin Brace,
Kevin Hector Brown, Andrew Buckley, Phil Burnham, Paul Buxton, Don Cameron, Chris Carr, Paul Charlesworth,
Alan Clewes, Miles Cluff, Paul Coombes, Mark Cottingham, Lorraine Creamer, Nick Crouch, Martin Cutler, Jacqueline Dennison,
Amanda Lewis-Evans,
Paul Evans, Ade Fox,
Josh Fusiara, Indy Kiemel Greene, Darren Hall, Jill Hannah, Kev Hawksridge, Mike Hill, Paul Hobson, John Hopper, Don Hustings, Mark Jones, Peter Jones, David Kirman, Mike Leatherland, Mike Lee, David Lumb, Martin McCallum,
Suzanne Nelson, Hugh Nicholson, David Parkin, Steve Payne, Martyn Perkins, Peter Playle, Clive Prescott, John Pressley, Andrew Przeslak,
Phil Read, Jason Reece, Anthony Reed,
Colin Roberts, Simon Roberts, Steven Robins, Sylvia Ross, Pete Saunders, Alan Scrimshaw, Lee Scudder, Tom Shields, Andy Shooter, Edmund Staunton, Alec Thomson, Simon Thompson, D G Tomlinson, Mick Tring, Alex Turnbull,
David Tyldesley, Mike Vickers, Jonathan Waite, David Walters, Trevor Watson, Rob Whiteley, Morag Whitworth.
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