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AUGUST 2010
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Tue 31st Aug
King's Mill Reservoir - Pied Wagtail, 60+ Mallard, 20+ Tufted Duck, 3 Cormorant, 20+ Mute Swan, 70 Coot, 6 Little Grebe, 80+ Black-headed Gull, 6 Great Crested Grebe, 30 Common Pochard, 6 Moorhen, 6 Woodpigeon, Chaffinch, 15 Great Tit, 8 Blue Tit, Robin, 3 Common Swift, 30+ Goldfinch, 2 Collared Dove, 100+ Canada Goose, Greylag Goose, Mediterranian Gull, 3 Northern Shoveler [female and 2 immature females], 100+ Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Teal [1 adult female and 2 immatures], 7 Greenfinch, Yellow-legged Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull [adult attaining winter plumage], Blackcap [female], Willow Warbler, 8 House Sparrow, Sand Martin, Carrion Crow.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Common Snipe, c.20 Gadwall, 2 Common Pochard, 3 Little Grebe, 5 Common Buzzard, c.200 Northern Lapwing, 25 Eurasian Teal, 3 Common Kingfisher, Little Egret, 2 Little Tern, 3 Northern Shoveler.
Cotham Flash - 2 Common Greenshank, 7 Common Snipe, 4 Eurasian Teal, 2 Northern Shoveler.
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Ringed Plover, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Little Egret, 2 Common Swift , 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Greenshank, 8 Common Snipe, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Common Pochard, 1 Red-crested Pochard, c.5 Common Buzzard, 2 Common Kestrel, Swallow, House Martin, c.5 Sand Martin, c.45 Northern Lapwing, 1 Eurasian Teal.
Clumber Park - Mandarin Duck [eclipse].
Clumber - 5 Common Buzzard [soaring, being mobbed by corvids].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Hobby, 4+ Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel.
Mon 30th Aug
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Hobby, Bullfinch, Common Kingfisher, 2 Gadwall.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Hobby, 4+ Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Yellowhammer.
Colwick Country Park - 300 Sand Martin, 50 Swallow.
Welbeck Lakes - 2 Osprey [through east at 16:12], 2 Eurasian Curlew [to south], Hobby [hunting female], Marsh Harrier [male], Mandarin Duck, Sparrowhawk [female], Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin, 1 Common Swift.
Sun 29th Aug
Cotham Flash - 4 Common Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Snipe.
Sat 28th Aug
Clumber Park - 5 Hobby [2 adults and 3 juveniles].
Meden Pumping Station - 2 Common Buzzard, 1 Common Swift.
Aslockton - 2 Common Swift.
Woodthorpe Park - Osprey.
Clumber Park - 2 Eurasian Nuthatch, 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Stock Dove, Robin, 4 Carrion Crows, Common Kestrel, 2 Jays, 4 Greenwoodpecker, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Marsh Tit, Chaffinch.
Fri 27th Aug
Papplewick - Sparrowhawk [male unsuccessfully attacking House Martins before being mobbed].
Collingham Pits / Silt Pond - 5 Little Egret, 3 Dunlin, 4 Common Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe - Mons Pool: 3 Dunlin, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper.
Cotham Flash - 2 Ruff, 6 Common Snipe, 2 Common Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 1 Little Egret, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Northern Wheatear.
Ransom Wood Estate - Mallard, Woodpigeon, Black-headed Gull, Sand Martin, Meadow Pipit, Goldfinch, Pied Wagtail, Moorhen, Carrion Crow, White Wagtail [adult close to the edge of Ratcher Hill Quarry], Blue Tit, Great Tit, Common Buzzard, Green Woodpecker.
Gedling Pit Top - 4 Whinchat [around the small pool].
Cotham Flash - 2 Ruff [juveniles], 3 Common Greenshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 10+ Common Snipe, Coot, Reed Warbler, Northern Lapwing.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Little Egret, 2 Common Kingfisher [Clifton Pond].
Welbeck Lakes - Grey Heron [water dipping like a swallow].
Welbeck - 6 Common Buzzard [Robin Hood Trail - surrounded by swallows].
Meden Pumping Station - Common Buzzard , Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Reed Warbler, Common Kestrel.
Wed 25th Aug
Beckingham Marshes - 1 Northern Wheatear, 3+ Yellow Wagtail, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, c.100 Goldfinch.
Clifton Grove - Hobby, 10 Linnet, c.150 Goldfinch, Treecreeper, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Green Sandpiper, Common Kingfisher.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - c.50 Gadwall, 2 Eurasian Wigeon, 9 Northern Shoveler, 4 Little Grebe, 4 Common Snipe, 7 Eurasian Teal, c.350 Northern Lapwing, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Shelduck [tame individual near visitor centre], 2 Common Kingfisher.
Collingham Pits / Silt Pond - Silt Pond: - 4 Little Egret, 6 Common Greenshank, 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Turtle Dove, 1 Common Cuckoo [juvenile], 1 Common Swift.
Besthorpe - Mons Pool: - 2 Little Egret, 1 Common Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Cotham Flash - 2 Ruff, 1 Common Snipe, 4 Common Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 1 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Goosander, 1 Little Egret, 3 Ringed Plover, 3 Eurasian Curlew, 1 Green Sandpiper.
King's Mill Reservoir - Goosander [immature male], 2 Cormorant, 17 Mute Swan, 50+ Coot, 30+ Mallard, 22 Sand Martin, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 10 Moorhen, Great Tit, 3 Magpie, 10+ Common Pochard, 10+ Tufted Duck, 40+ Canada Goose, Robin, 7 Greylag Goose, 20+ Common Swift, 60+ Black-headed Gull, 30+ Goldfinch [adults and young], Mediterranean Gull, 6 Carrion Crow, Little Grebe, 40+ Northern Lapwing, Yellow-legged Gull [adult], 12 Woodpigeon.
Tue 24th Aug
Beckingham Marshes- 1 Hobby, 2 Yellow Wagtail.
Collingham Pits - 4 Common Greenshank, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 3 Little Egret, 5 Common Swift.
Cotham Flash - 4 Common Greenshank, 2 Green sandpiper, 4 Common Snipe.
Colwick Woods - Red Kite [single east over Colwick Woods].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Black Tern [Main Pond].
Clumber Park - 2 Grey Heron, 3 Robin, 3 Eurasian Nuthatch, Chaffinch, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit.
Mon 23rd Aug
Hoveringham - Small Railway Lake: 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Red-crested Pochard [1 juvenile], 6 Common Pochard, 50+ Coot, 30+ Tufted Duck, 2 Mute Swan, 3 Grey Heron.
Cotham Flash - 2 Ruff, 8 Common Snipe, 1 Common Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 1 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Goosander, 1 Little Egret, 8 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 2 Green Sanpiper, 1 Turtle Dove, 1 Northern Wheatear.
Bulwell - 2 Hobby [pair hawking for well over 10 minutes before drifting east from Rock Street].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Snipe, Black Tern [Main Pond platform].
Sun 22nd Aug
Samson Wood - 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Garden Warbler.
Hoveringham - Sailing Lake Hobby, Common Kingfisher, Goldcrest, 4 Green Sandpiper, 10 Egyptian Goose, 9 Tufted Duck [river], Great Spotted Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk.
Rufford Country Park - 1 Common Kingfisher.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Osprey.
East Leake Gravel Pits - 40 Northern Lapwing, 50 Black-headed Gull, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Bulwell - 2 Hobby [pair hawking Rock Street].
Clumber Park - 12+ Common Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk [female], 1 Common Kestrel [female], Yellowhammer, Blackcap, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Sat 21st Aug
Collingham Pits - Silt Pond: 4 Little Egret, 1 Eurasian Wigeon, 8 Common Greenshank, 11 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Ruddy Turnstone.
Besthorpe - Mons Pool: 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Kilvington - East Lake: 1 Caspian Gull [adult - flew off at 10:20], 3 Yellow-legged Gull [adults]. West Lake: 2 Goosander, 7 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 1 Common Greenshank, 1 Northern Wheatear.
Calverton Colliery Site - Northern Wheatear [female], Common Buzzard, 15+ Common Partridge, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Osprey.
East Leake - Ring-necked Parakeet [in garden].
Fri 20th Aug
Meden Pumping Station - 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Buzzard, Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Common Greenshank, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Nuthatch, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Coal Tit.
Woodborough - Grey Wagtail [Dover Beck].
Thu 19th Aug
Meden Pumping Station - Common Kestrel, Willow Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper.
Wed 18th Aug
Meden Pumping Station- Osprey.
Hoveringham - 1 Northern Wheatear, 2 Common Buzzard.
Martin's Pond - Red-crested Pochard [female], Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen, Canada Goose, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Willow Warbler, Robin, Great Tit, Magpie.
Collingham - 6 Little Egret, 2 Common Greenshank, 10 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper.
Clumber - Common Kestrel, Green Woodpecker.
Besthorpe Nature Reserve - Mons Pool: 5 Common Snipe, 1 Common Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper.
Cotham Flash - 2 Ruff, 7 Common Snipe, 1 Common Greenshank.
Kilvington Lakes - 1 Little Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Turtle Dove.
Tue 17th Aug
Besthorpe Nature Reserve - Mons Pool: 3 Little Egret, 6+ Green Sandpiper, 6+ Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, 3 Common Tern, Northern Shoveler, Gadwall, Eurasian Teal, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Cormorant, Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Willow Tit, Willow Warbler, Bullfinch.
Mon 16th Aug
Clumber Park - 1 Red Kite, 1 Hobby [juvenile], 6+ Common Buzzard, 2 Common Crossbill, 1 Green Woodpecker [juvenile], 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker [juvenile].
Collingham - 6 Little Egret, 1 Whimbrel, 6 Common Greenshank, 13 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe Nature Reserve - Mons Pool: 2 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Cotham Flash - 2 Common Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Kilvington - East Lake: 2 Goosander, 8 Red-crested Pochard [family]. West Lake: 1 Common Greenshank.
Sun 15th Aug
Nuthall - Hobby [hawking over Mornington Crescent then headed west].
Arnold - 1 Great Sotted Woodpecker [in garden all week].
Sat 14th Aug
Clumber Park- Osprey [through west at 14:41]. Old Bridge: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Marsh Tit, 2 Eurasian Nuthatch, Robin, Wren, Chaffinch, Stock Dove, Grey Heron, Cormorant.
Fri 13th Aug
Collingham - 8 Little Egret, 1 European Golden Plover, 1 Ruff, 14 Common Snipe, 9 Common Greenshank, 18 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe - Mons Pool: 2 Green Sandpiper , 1 Turtle Dove.
Meden Pumping Station - Hobby, Common Buzzard, Goldfinch.
Clumber Park - 2 Common Sandpiper.
Clumber - 2 Jay, 2 Green Woodpecker.
Arnot Hill Park - Pond Area: 1 Northern Shoveler, 34 Tufted Duck, 19 Red-crested Pochard, 1 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 3 Grey Wagtail, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Great Black Backed Gull, 3 Herring Gull, 11 Black-headed Gull, 6 Coot. Rear of Old House/ Rose Garden: 2 Jackdaw, 1 Jay, 14 Carrion Crow, 5 Magpie, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Pied Wagtail, 40+ Starling, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Blackcap, 8 Robin, 3 Wren, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, House Sparrow, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Blackbird, Dunnock. Old Railway Line: 1 Treecreeper, 3 Blue Tit, 5 Chaffinch.
Thu 12th Aug
Clumber Park - 1 Hobby [juvenile], 8+ Common Buzzard.
Collingham Pits - 5 Little Egret, 2 Dunlin, 1 Ruff, 2 Common Snipe, 11 Common Greenshank, 24 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe - Mons Pool: 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Tween Pond:- 85 Northern Lapwing, Common Shelduck. Clifton Pond: 3 Common Kingfisher, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Common Snipe, 8 Little Egret, Ross's Goose [escape], 6 Eurasian Teal, 3 Little Grebe. Northern Wheatear, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler.
Wed 11th Aug
Warsop Vale - Hobby [pit top].
Cotham Flash - 8 Common Snipe, 2 Common Greenshank.
Kilvington - West Lake: 1 Little Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Turtle Dove.
King's Mill Reservoir - 1 Common Tern, Willow Warbler, [including immatures], Chiffchaff, 7 Great Crested Grebe, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 40+ Goldfinch, 50+ Black-headed Gull, Grey Heron, Magpie, Carrion Crow, 30+ Northern Lapwing, 20+ Common Pochard, Sedge Warbler, House Sparrow, 50+ Coot, Moorhen, 30+ Canada Goose, 7 Greylag Goose.
Tue 10th Aug
Lound - Chainbridge Scrape: Baird's Sandpiper.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Clifton Pit: Common Greenshank, 3 Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Northern Lapwing, Grey Heron, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Northern Shoveler, Great Crested Grebe, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Tern, Carrion Crow, Starling, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Stock Dove, Canada Goose, Egyptian Goose, Greylag Goose, Mute Swan.
Mon 9th Aug
Collingham - 1 Mandarin Duck [Works Pit], 5 Little Egret, 2 Dunlin, 2 Common Snipe, 7 Common Greenshank, 22 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe Nature Reserve - Mons Pool: 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 3 Little Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull.
Lound - Chainbridge Scrape: Baird's Sandpiper.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Kingfisher, 4 Little Egret, Tree Sparrow, Green Sandpiper, Common Tern, Grey Heron, Cormorant.
Clumber Park - Grey Heron [fishing].
Sun 8th Aug
Hoveringham - Railway Lake: Common Crane [in from south-west at 10:15 to pylon closest to Gonalston Lane], 1 Little Egret, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Eurasian Nuthatch, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Eurasian Teal.
Clumber Park - Green Woodpecker, Common Crossbill, Common Whitethroat, Northern Wheatear, 2 Mandarin Duck [females], Yellowhammer, Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Linnet, 3 Common Tern, Hobby, Sparrowhawk [female].
Welbeck Lakes - Red Kite [through east], 7 Common Tern [4 adult & 3 young], Sparrowhawk [female], 47 Greylag Goose, 26 Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Eakring/Wellow - 3 Common Buzzard, 1 Hobby.
Sat 7th Aug
Clumber Park - Mandarin Duck [female near lake bridge], 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Marsh Tit, 6 Eurasian Nuthatch, 5 Treecreeper.
Radmanthwaite - c.100 Common Swift.
Lound - Baird's Sandpiper [Chainbridge Lane Scrape].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Yellow-legged Gull, Grasshopper Warbler, Common Tern, Little Egret.
Fri 6th Aug
Mansfield - Sparrowhawk [female - using fire station training tower to hunt from].
Budby Common - 1 Grey Partridge, 2 Common Pheasant, Common Kestrel, 9 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker. 15+ Carrion Crow. 1 Tree Pipit, 20+ Woodpigeon, 8 Goldfinch, 6 Chaffinch.
Lound - Baird's Sandpiper [Chainbridge Lane Scrape].
Thu 5th Aug
Collingham - 3 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier [juveniles], 2 Common Greenshank, 7 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe - Mons Pool: 1 Little Egret, 5 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper.
Kilvington - North Lake: 8 Little Egret. West Lake: 1 Yellow-legged Gull [adult], 1 Common Greenshank.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Little Egret, 60+ Northern Lapwing, 20+ Starling, 4 Grey Heron, 4 Common Pochard, 7 Common Tern, 2 Common Kingfisher, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Snipe, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Dunnock, 1 Hobby [Delta Hide], 3 Cormorants, 50+ Black-headed Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 8 Great Crested Grebe.
Hoveringham - Railway Pit: Common Crane [arrived at 20:10 to roost], Hobby, Northern Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Grey Heron, Canada Goose, Greylag Goose, Coot, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Tufted Duck, Pied Wagtail, Starling, Woodpigeon, Green Woodpecker, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Rook.
Wed 4th Aug
Farnsfield - Southwell Trail: 1 Little Owl, 2 Bullfinch.
Budby Common - 2 Common Buzzard, 30+ Meadow Pipit [in flock], 10+ Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10+ Yellowhammer, Skylark, 10+ Wren, 6 Swallow, 3 Corn Bunting, 6 Carrion Crow, 5 Goldfinch, 4 Chaffinch [all female], 2 Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Egret, Lesser Whitethroat, 227 Northern Lapwing.
Tue 3rd Aug
Clifton Grove - 4 Common Buzzard, Yellow Wagtail [juvenile], Reed Bunting, Sparrowhawk, Common Kestrel, Common Whitethroat.
Bennerley Marsh - 50+ Northern Lapwing, 10 Starling, 18 Black-headed Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Magpie, 20+ Swallows, 4 Goldfinch, 8 Woodpigeon, 2 Collered Dove, 1 Common Kestrel, 1 Greenfinch, 4 Tree Sparrow, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Pied Wagtail.
Hoveringham Gravel Pits - 1 Common Crane.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 5 Little Egret.
Mon 2nd Aug
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 6 Little Egret, Common Snipe, 2 Common Kingfisher.
Collingham Pits - 8 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier [male], 1 Common Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe Gravel Pits - 9 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper.
Cotham Flash - 1 Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 1 Little Egret, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 1 Common Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper.
Norton - Common Buzzard
Clumber - 1 Common Kestrel, 3 Green Woodpecker.
Arnold - 2 Bullfinch [pair in garden], Tawny Owl [Stewarton CLose then flew towards Hobbocks Nature Reserve].
Sun 1st Aug
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Bullfinch [Delta Gate], 2 Little Egret [Clifton Pit], Common Kingfisher [Clifton Pit], Yellow-legged Gull [Tween Pond], Green Sandpiper [Wet Marsh].
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