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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.

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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.

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207 Species recorded so far in 2016. Full List Here

Wednesday 31st August

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Black-necked Grebe [Juv, still present at Clifton Pit, 18:00].

Kilvington Lakes - Garganey, 4 Whinchat, Ruff, 2 Yellow-legged Gull and 2 Red-crested Pochard.

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Osprey [over again this afternoon, viewable from eastern public footpath].

Besthorpe NR - Osprey [Juv, again present on Mons Pool, this morning].

Hoveringham - Arctic Tern (juv), Red Kite, Peregrine, Common Snipe and Common Sandpiper and 3 Hobbies [on the Sailing Lake, this morning].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 10 Little Egret, Greenshank, 4 Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover and Little Ringed Plover [Chainbridge Scrape, 09:30].

Tuesday 30th August

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Willow Tit [Delta Gate, 15:55], Black-necked Grebe [still present on Clifton Pit, 14:00]. Also 2 Raven and Hobby [over Branshill Wood, Barton in Fabis, viewed from the reserve].

Collingham Pits - Black Tern [Juv, on Ferry Lane Lake mid afternoon].

Besthorpe NR - Osprey [Mons Pool, this afternoon]. Also Whinchat [on the west side of Merring Marsh].

Hoveringham - Osprey [South through the Sailing Lake, 09:10]. Also Hobby, Peregrine and Common Sandpiper.

Monday 29th August

Hoveringham - Caspian Gull [Adult, present in the Sailing Lake roost this evening].

Barton in Fabis - Osprey [drifted over the village south-west towards the power station, 17:50. 2 Whinchat and 2 Northern Wheatear [along the flood-bank off Manor Rd, 13:30], Common Sandpiper and 3 Yellow Wagtail [A453 Balancing Pond].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Black-necked Grebe [still present on Clifton Pit, 18:30 at least], Osprey [through conneries heading towards Barton in Fabis, 17:40], Greenshank [Works Pond], Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Gull and 2 Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit]. Also 2 Raven and Hobby [over Branshill Woods viewed from Tower Hide].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Osprey [Juv, fishing silt lagoon 5 and perched in Oak by the east footpath 16:30 - 16:48 then flew off East].

Besthorpe NR - Osprey [Mons Pool, mid afternoon].

Wollaton Park - Mandarin [female on the lake this afternoon].

Kilvington Lakes - 4 Whinchat [still present in rough grass field, west of West Lake, 11:30 at least].

Idle Washlands - 3 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank and Whinchat [Slaynes Lane, this morning].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Little Stint, 3 Dunlin, 4 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Hobby and Marsh Harrier [Chainbridge Scrape], 3 Little Stint [Neatholme Scrape] and Whinchat [Clayworth Common].

Center Parcs - Spotted Flycatcher [this morning].

Holme Pierrepont - Hobby and Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit, this morning], 2 Common Sandpiper [ski tow] and Nuthatch [finger ponds].

Netherfield Lagoons - Raven [flew through and across the site, this morning], Lesser Whitethroat [singing along the Boundary Hedge] and 2 Yellow Wagtail [in the maize field]

Sunday 28th August

Kilvington Lakes - 4 Whinchat [in rough grass field, west of West Lake this evening]. Also 4 Red-crested Pochard [moved between East and West Lake], 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, and Peregrine [sat on a pylon].

Barton in Fabis - Northern Wheatear [river side fields, early afternoon] and 2 Raven [over Branshill Wood].

Ravenshead - Raven [drifted SW over 15:30].

Holme Pierrepont - Common Scoter [drk, on the A52 Pit, 11:40]. Also Bittern [flew up from works pond, and flew west].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Black-necked Grebe [still present on Clifton Pit, from tower Hide, 09:27].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Bar-tailed Godwit [Neatholme Scrape, 08:40].

Budby Pumping Station - Black Tern [Juv, 07:54 - 08:15 then flew North/East].

Saturday 27th August

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Black-necked Grebe [Clifton Pit, from Tower Hide 11:30 - 18:30 at least].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Common Redstart [in hedge by east footpath near stile but elusive]. Also juv Marsh Harrier, 2+ Hobby, 3 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper and Green sandpiper [on Phase 1].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 3 Little Stint, 2 Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Common Snipe, 4 Ruff, 8 Little Egret, and juv Marsh Harrier [Chainbridge Scrape, this morning].

Friday 26th August

Pleasley Pit CP - Hobby [hawking hirundines between headstocks and the small lake, early evening].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Pintail [eclipse drk, still on Clifton Pit this afternoon]. Also Ringed Plover.

Wollaton Park - Spotted flycatcher [in the gardens by Wollaton Hall, this morning]

Holme Pierrepont - Ruff and Little Ringed Plover [Blotts Pit, this morning]. Also good numbers of warblers with several mixed flocks, mainly Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps and Willow Warblers, with the odd Lesser Whitethroat and Garden Warbler.

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 3 Little Stint [Chainbridge Scrape East, early evening at least], Black-necked Grebe [Juv, Neatholme Scrape], Marsh Harrier [male],Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, 3 Common Snipe, 2 Dunlin, Greenshank and 7 Little Egret [Chainbridge scrape, 07:30].

Thursday 25th August

Wollaton - Rose-ringed Parakeet [flew over this evening].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Pintail [eclipse drk, still on Clifton Pit, early evening]. Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper and 3 Common Snipe [all Clifton Pit, from Tower Hide]. Also 25 Mistle Thrush [on the cricket pitch, this morning].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Osprey [flew over this afternoon].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 16 Turnstone [flew into neatholme fen for 2 minutes, 11:10]. Also 2 Little Stint [chainbridge scrape, this afternoon].

Hoveringham - 2 Arctic Tern [North through the Sailing Lake, this morning].

Kilvington Lakes - Turnstone [still present this morning].

Wednesday 24th August

Holme Pierrepont - Temminck's Stint [adult, Blotts Pit 17:45 to 19:25 at least].

Kilvington Lakes - Turnstone, 9 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Dunlin and Red-crested Pochard this evening. Also 3 Common Sandpiper [this morning].

Clifton Grove - 2 Spotted Flycatcher [Foxcovet Lane, near Burrows Farm this evening]. Also Hobby.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Pintail [Clifton Pit, from Tower Hide this evening].

Bestwood CP - Pied Flycatcher [14:05].

Newark - 4 Raven [drifting north/east this morning].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Wood Sandpiper [06:30].

Tuesday 23rd August

Besthorpe NR - Little Stint [still present on Mons Pool this evening].

Nott'm City - c700 Pied Wagtail [roosting in trees, outside the Hilton Hotel].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 7 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Dunlin and Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit from Tower Hide, this evening].

Holme Pierrepont - 2 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper and an Little Ringed Plover.

Bestwood Village - 2 Whinchat [Bestwood pit top, 17:45] and Red kite [over the village, 12:25].

Carlton - Common Swift and 7 Common Buzzard [drifting north].

Hoveringham - Common Redstart and 3 Greenshank [the Sailing Lake].

Kilvington Lakes - Osprey [flew over Kilvington, 10:00]. Also Northern Wheatear [North Lake this evening], 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Wagtail and Red-crested Pochard [East Lake].

Monday 22nd August

Netherfield Lagoons - Bittern [flew across the Slurry Lagoon and dropped into the eastern reed bed, 18:00].

Bulwell - Spotted Flycatcher and 9 Grey Partridge [top of low wood road, behind high wood cemetery, late afternoon].

Chilwell - Fulmar [flew low over Farm Road, heading south, 14:14].

Besthorpe NR - Little Stint [Mons Pool, 15:20 at least] Also 2 Avocet [adult and juvenile], Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper and Common Snipe.

Kilvington Lakes - Red-crested Pochard and 2 Yellow-legged Gull.

Idle Washlands - Garganey, 2 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper and 1 Swift south [this morning]. Also Glossy Ibis [back on Newington Flash, S.Yorks].

Hoveringham - 3 Arctic Tern [2 adults and juv, west through the Sailing Lake, 09:20].

Southwell - Osprey [through south, early morning].

Sunday 21st August

Idle Washlands - Garganey [Hagg Lane Flash, 17:00]. Also Greenshank, 3 Common Redshank and 5 Little Egret.

Holme Pierrepont - 2 Greenshank, 5+Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover and Hobby [all Blotts Pit this afternoon].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Greenshank, 100 Lapwing [Chainbridge Scrape], Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper and Ringed Plover [Neatholme Scrape], 15 Red Crested Pochard [Neatholme Pit], Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6 Common Terns ( 4 juvs) and 242 Lapwing [Neatholme Fen].

Netherfield Lagoons - Red-crested Pochard and Water Rail [on the Slurry Lagoon, this morning] and Raven [flew south across the Large Gravel Pit].

Saturday 20th August

Kilvington Lakes - Northern Wheatear [along the old railway line, this evening], 2 Common Sandpiper and Red-crested Pochard [East Lake].

Barton in Fabis - Red kite and Hobby [over Branshill, 12:50].

Besthorpe NR - Little Stint [Mons Pool, from the Southern viewing screens in Parish Field, this morning to 17:20 at least but no further sign this evening], Caspian Gull [2s, Mons Pool, 11:10], Dunlin, 3 Avocet, 4 Common Snipe, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper and Common Redshank [Mons Pool this evening].

Holme Pierrepont - Purple Sandpiper - [Juv, still on Blotts Pit, 10:30]. Also 3 Ruff, 3 Greenshank, 4 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper and Little Ringed Plover.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank and 4 Green Sandpiper [Beeston Marsh, 07:26, please view from gate only], Greenshank [Church Pond], 22 Lesser Black-backed Gull [Clifton Pit] and Raven [over Tower Hide].

Friday 19th August

Besthorpe NR - Marsh Harrier [through south, this evening] and Dunlin [Mons Pool].

Holme Pierrepont - Purple Sandpiper - [Juv, still on Blotts Pit, 16:30].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black Tern [moulting adult, over Chainbridge Pit, 16:15], 4 Green Sandpiper and 2 Greenshank on Neatholme Fen], Little Ringed Plover [juv, Chainbridge Scrape] and 3 Marsh Harrier [2 adult male and adult female, North].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Black-tailed Godwit and Curlew/Whimbrel sp [through Clifton Pit, 12:30]. Also Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin and Little Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit, this morning from Tower Hide].

Hoveringham - 15 Bar-tailed Godwit [south through the Sailing Lake, 08:20]. Also 2 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper and Hobby.

Idle Washlands - Glossy Ibis [for 10 minutes this morning and again at 14:30], 2 Curlew Sandpiper [Juv's flew onto Hagg Lane Flash, from Newington Flash, S.York's, 15:00]. 10 Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 8 Greenshank, 6 Common Snipe, 55 Lapwings [Hagg Lane Flash], fem Marsh Harrier and 2 Green Sandpiper [Slaynes Lane], Garganey, 3 Dunlin, 4 Greenshank, 7 Ruff (juvs) and 10 Common Snipe [Newington Flash, S York's].

Thursday 18th August

Holme Pierrepont - Purple Sandpiper - [Juv, Blotts Pit still on the East side, 18:20 tho distant and elusive].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank, Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper and several Common Snipe [Clifton Pit, 08:45]. Also 5 Green Sandpiper and Greenshank [Beeston Marsh, 13:45, when viewing this area, please only view from the gate].

Wednesday 17th August

Wollaton - Rose-ringed Parakeet - [female, again present in private gardens, 18:30 to 19:00].

Holme Pierrepont - Purple Sandpiper - [Juv, Blotts Pit still present but showing distantly from the east side, 15:45 at least]. Also 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper and 2+ Green Sandpiper.

Kilvington Lakes - Red Kite and 17 Yellow-legged Gull.

Cotgrave - Red kite [over Cotgrave Woods this afternoon].

Hoveringham - 11 Curlew [flock through], 2 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Hobby and female Common Redstart [Sailing Lake].

Nether Langwith - 8 Common Crane [flying west, 09:20].

Tuesday 16th August

Holme Pierrepont - Purple Sandpiper - [Juv, Blotts Pit showing well but distantly from the east side, 20:00 at least], Little Stint [Juv, still on the east side, 14:00 at least], 5 Sandwich Tern [from the northern viewing screen, 08:05. With one still present, 17:00]. Also 2+Greenshank, Common Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper.

Idle Washlands - Glossy Ibis and 2 Ruff [Hagg Lane Flash, this evening] and Garganey [still on Newington Flash, S Yorks].

Newark - 10 Green Sandpiper and Spotted Flycatcher [Newark sugar factory, this evening].

South Muskham - 2 Little Egret and Common Sandpiper [on the river, this evening].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Garganey [Bellmore Lake, Mid afternoon] and Black-necked Grebe [Adult winter, still on Neatholme Scrape, this morning].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - 3 Greenshank and Dunlin [Phase 1].

Barton in Fabis - Whinchat [Juv, on fence posts by Cottages Flash, 12:26]. Also 12+Yellow Wagtail [feeding around the cattle early evening].

Nott'm City - Red Kite [flew low above tax building, climbing in height to fly north above Nottingham castle with a good number of corvids following it, 11:45].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Bittern [Clifton Pit, dropped into the reed-bed this morning]. Also Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Hobby and Yellow Wagtail.

Sutton-on Trent - 18 Grey Partridge [2 adults and 16 Juv's, Branch Nurseries].

Monday 15th August

Hoveringham - Osprey [River Trent near Ferry Farm Park, 20:00].

Idle Washlands - Glossy Ibis [Hagg Lane Flash this evening] Also Garganey [Newington Flash, S Yorks].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Wood Sandpiper [still showing well on Church Pond, 20:00 at least]. Also 5 Greenshank [Clifton Pit and Tween], Black-tailed Godwit and Green Sandpiper.

Holme Pierrepont - Little Stint [Juv, still present on Blotts Pit, showing distantly from the viewing screen on the east side, 18:40 at least]. Also 4 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper and 2 Green Sandpiper].

Newark - Godwit sp [high over south] and 20 Swift [south].

Widmerpool - Red Kite [low over the Widmerpool roundabout, junction of the A606 and A46, 12:00].

Kilvington Lakes - 13 Little Egret, 1 Red-crested Pochard, Ringed Plover, 3 Greenshank, Yellow-legged Gull and 12+ Yellow Wagtail.

Sunday 14th August

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-necked Grebe [Neatholme Scrape, 19:15], Common Sandpiper and 3 Red-crested Pochard [Neatholme Scrape], Short-eared Owl, Northern Wheatear [Tiln North this evening] and 2 Willow Tit [near the river], 6 Little Egret, 7 Green Sandpiper and Yellow Legged Gull [Neatholme Fen].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Wood Sandpiper [Church Pond, 18:48 at least], 2 Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit], Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpiper and Water Rail [Beeston Marsh, please view from the gate only].

Clifton - Hobby [over Greencroft, 18:32].

Bestwood Village - Goshawk [female, over the village heading towards Linby, 18:30].

Newark - 12 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper and 37 Eurasian Teal [Newark sugar factory].

South Muskham - 2 Common Sandpiper [along the river].

Barton in Fabis - Honey Buzzard [pale morph, slowly drifted high N/W over Manor Road towards the river, 11:30].

Strelley - 2 Hobby, 10 Common Buzzard, 100+ Swallow and 45 House Martin [around Spring Wood].

Holme Pierrepont - Little Stint [Juv, still Blotts Pit, early morning to 12:35 at least]. Also 2 Mediterranean Gull [Juv's, Blotts Pit, this morning] and 5 Black-tailed Godwit [09.49 then flew east].

Wollaton - Rose-ringed Parakeet [female, in private gardens, 06:30].

Saturday 13th August

Strelley - Spotted Flycatcher [Old Moor Wood, 14:30].

Gotham - Hobby [Gotham Hills, 12:40].

Besthorpe NR - Little Gull [Juv, Mons Pool this morning then flew South].

Kilvington Lakes - 3 Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover, 6 Yellow-legged Gull, 15 Little Egret and 8 Yellow Wagtail.

Idle Washlands - Glossy Ibis [still present Hagg Lane Flash, this morning before moving to Newington Flash, S Yorks].

Holme Pierrepont - Little Stint [Juv, Blotts Pit, from the screen on the east side, 07:30 to 13:30 at least], Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Hobby [all Blotts Pit]. Also Raven [calling, heading towards the A52 Pit].

Friday 12th August

Holme Pierrepont - Little Stint [Juv, Blotts Pit, 16:40 to 19:00 at least]. Also Greenshank, 2 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper and Little Ringed Plover.

Langford Lowfields - 2 Knot [flew over Phase 2 towards Phase 3 this afternoon]. Also 3 Ringed Plover, Dunlin, and 2 Green Sandpiper.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Wood Sandpiper [again present, 09:50 to mid afternoon at least]. Also Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Green Sandpiper. Willow Tit [singing, North Path], Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Common Snipe and 5 Little Egret [Clifton Pit, from Tower Hide].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Hobby, Marsh Harrier, Green Sandpiper and 2 Little Ringed Plover.

Kilvington Lakes - 15 Little Egret, 3 Dunlin and 2 Common Sandpiper.

Idle Washlands - Glossy Ibis [Hagg Lane Flash, this morning].

Budby Common - Common Redstart [in small conifer copse east of fenced off area, this morning].

Thursday 11th August

Idle Washlands - Glossy Ibis [Hagg Lane Flash, went to roost, 21:00]

Holme Pierrepont - Greenshank and Common Sandpiper [Blotts Pit, this evening].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Wood Sandpiper [Beeston Marsh, late morning to 16:35 at least]. Also Black-tailed Godwit and 7 Green Sandpiper [Beeston Marsh], 3 Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper and Dunlin [Clifton Pit].

Barton in Fabis - 2 Little Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash [early afternoon].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 6 Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper [Neatholme Fen], 11 Little Egret [in one tree on Cross Lane Marsh]. Swift [still good numbers around feeding above Neatholme Fen Scrape].

Wollaton - Rose-ringed Parakeet [female, again in private garden this morning].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Marsh Harrier [female, over Phase 2 this morning, being mobbed by common terns].

Wednesday 10th August

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Dunlin and Little Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit, this afternoon].

Holme Pierrepont - 2 Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin and Greenshank [Blotts Pit this morning,l viewed from fisherman's side].

Wollaton - Rose-ringed Parakeet [heard briefly, in private garden].

Kilvington Lakes - Greenshank and 4 Dunlin.

Hoveringham - Red Kite, Peregrine, adult Yellow-legged Gull, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank and Raven [all the Sailing Lake].

Marton - Osprey [showing on the Nott's/Lincs border, early morning. Seen from Marton on Lincs side of the River Trent].

Tuesday 9th August

Idle Washlands - Glossy Ibis [flew onto Hagg Lane Flash this evening, from Newington Flash just over the county boundary S Yorks].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Juv Little Ringed Plover and 2 Dunlin [Clifton Pit from Tower Hide]. Also 2 Juv Yellow Wagtail.

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Spotted flycatcher [the willows, Clayworth copse this morning], Marsh Harrier [Tiln North/Chainbridge Pit, 11:20].

Cotgrave - Garden Warbler [in private garden].

Skegby trail - Grey partridge and 50 Lapwing 07:00.

Monday 8th August

Scrooby - Ruff and 7 Little Egret [on shallow floods east of railway].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Turnstone and 3 Common Sandpiper [Bellmoor, this evening] Also Black-necked Grebe [adult, Neatholme Scrape, viewed from Neatholme Lane bench, in front of the three islands, this morning].

Holme Pierrepont - 3 Black-tailed Godwit [Blotts Pit, this evening], 2 Black-tailed Godwit [Blotts Pit this morning, then flew towards Nottm at 10:40]. Also 2 Dunlin and Greenshank

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 11 Black-tailed Godwit [Clifton Pit from Tower Hide, 11:45]. Also 2 Greenshank, Common Redshank, Common Sandpiper and juv Little Ringed Plover [all Clifton Pit].

Kilvington Lakes - 12 Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper [this morning], Hobby and Green Sandpiper [this evening].

Hoveringham - 2 Northern Wheatear [Sailing Lake, this morning].

Sunday 7th August

Holme Pierrepont - Greenshank, Dunlin and Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit, this evening].

Cossall - Honey Buzzard [flew over Spring Wood, east of Cossall, 14:20].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Ruff, 2 Greenshank and 2 Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, from Tower Hide].

Newark - 10 Green Sandpiper and 2 Common Sandpiper [Newark Sugar Factory].

Idle Washlands - Greenshank [Slaynes Lane] and Garganey [Newington Flash, behind the Ship Inn, just over the county boundary in S Yorks].

Skegby Trail - 3 Grey Partridge.

Saturday 6th August

Barton in Fabis - 2 Ruff, 2 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper and 2 Little Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash, 19:15 - 21:00].

Bestwood Village - Hobby [over, 17:30].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Greenshank [Clifton Pit, this afternoon].

Holme Pierrepont - Mediterranean Gull [Juv, Blotts Pit, 14:00]. Also Greenshank and 2 Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit, this morning].

Langford Lowfields RSPB - Mediterranean Gull [Juv, Phase 2 briefly this morning], 2 Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Pintail and 4 Green Sandpiper.

Church Warsop - 2 Raven [flew west over church warsop plantation, early morning].

Friday 5th August

Holme Pierrepont - Wood Sandpiper and Knot [both still present on Blotts Pit this evening].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Greenshank [Clifton Pit, 11:50 then flew over the river towards Cottages Flash], 7 Green Sandpiper [Beeston Marsh, 13:50].

Hoveringham - Marsh Harrier [cream-crowned, through the Sailing Lake, 11:00]. Also 2 Dunlin through and Hobby.

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Marsh Harrier [male, Chainbridge Scrape, 07:45].

Thursday 4th August

Barton in Fabis - 3 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover and 5 Little Egret [Cottages Flash, 19:00 -21:00]. Also 10+ Yellow Wagtail [feeding under the cattle].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper and 3 Common Snipe [Clifton Pit, from Tower Hide, 17:15].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Ruff, Sub Adult Marsh Harrier, Yellow-legged Gull and 6 Little Egret [Chainbridge Scrape, this evening].

Holme Pierrepont - Knot [still Blotts Pit, this evening].

Wollaton - Rose-ringed Parakeet [female, in private garden, 09:50].

Wednesday 3rd August

Holme Pierrepont - Knot and Wood Sandpiper [both still present on Blotts Pit, this evening].

Barton in Fabis - Dunlin, Green Sandpiper and 2 Little Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash, this evening].

Calverton - Red Kite [low over the A614 near the Calverton turn off, just after the old tip entrance 14:30].

Netherfield Lagoons - Hobby - [flew over the Wader Scrape early afternoon].

Beckingham Marshes - Dunlin and 3 Black-tailed godwit [this afternoon]. Also 2 vocal peregrine over this morning.

Kilvington Lakes - 4 Little Ringed Plover [juv's] and 3 Common Sandpiper.

Tuesday 2nd August

Holme PierrePont - Knot [still present on Blotts Pit, this evening].

Barton in Fabis - 5 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4 Little Ringed Plover and 8 Little Egret [Cottages Flash this evening]. Also 7+Yellow Wagtail [feeding around the cattle].

Besthorpe NR - Osprey [through Mons Pool, early afternoon], Wood Sandpiper [still present on Mons Pool late afternoon, but elusive]. Also 2 Dunlin, Common Redshank, Common Sandpiper and Ringed Plover.

Kilvington Lakes - Whimbrel [West Lake, 10:45].

Monday 1st August

Langford Lowfields RSPB -2 Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Dunlin and 5 Green Sandpiper [this evening]. Also 7 Avocet [2 ads + 5 fledged juvs, now on site, following a successful breeding attempt].

Hoveringham - Fulmar [through the Sailing Lake, and followed the Trent south/west, up stream, 14.00. Observed for 5 minutes].

Holme Pierrepont - Knot [Blotts Pit this morning to 16:40 at least], Wood Sandpiper [still present on Blotts Pit, this morning]. Also 2 Dunlin and Spotted Flycatcher.

Besthorpe NR - Wood Sandpiper [still Mons Pool, 10:05], Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 9+ Little Egret [Mons Pool] and Common Snipe [Meering].

Collingham Lakes - 2 Avocet [Juv's, from this years successful breeding attempt, are growing apace on the Silt pond]. Also Curlew [Ferry Lane Lake].

Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Marsh Harrier and 12 little egret [Chainbridge scrape, 08:30]. Also 11 Green Sandpiper on site.

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