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 Keith Rainford Bullfinch194@gmail.com 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 and obvious wondering/passage birds), 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 Keith Rainford Bullfinch194@gmail.com each month, using the Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the Recording page.
Archived Sightings 2001 - 2020
Archived Sightings 2001 to 2020
Archived Sightings 2021
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.
Tuesday 31st August
Idle Washlands - Pratincole sp. [seen briefly in flight on a couple of occasions this morning in the Hagg Lane area of the site but extreamly elusive], 4 GARGANEY, 5 Great White Egret, 10+Little Egret [including the grey bird], 5 Black-tailed Godwit dropped in briefly], 2 Ruff, 1+Common Tern, Marsh Harrier, Hobby [Hagg Lane Flash], 2 CURLEW SANDPIPER, Ringed Plover, 8 Ruff, 4 Greenshank, 6 Pintail [Slaynes Lane].
Collingham Pits - GARGANEY [still Northcroft Pit, this evening].
Holme Pierrepont - GARGANEY [still Blotts Pit, early evening].
Netherfield Lagoons - CASPIAN GULL [Deep Water Pit, 16:45]; also 4+ Yellow-legged Gull, Hobby, 6 Common Snipe.
Monday 30th August
Idle Washlands - Pratincole sp. [seen briefly, alighted twice at west end of Slaynes Lane near the Mushroom factory, late afternoon], 4 LITTLE STINT, 2 CURLEW SANDPIPER, SPOTTED REDSHANK, Ringed Plover, 10 Dunlin, 10 Ruff, 2 Great White Egret [Slaynes Lane], CATTLE EGRET, 3 GARGANEY, 5 Great White Egret, 2 Hobby, Greenshank [Hagg Lane Flash, early afternoon], Golden Oriole [Female type in flight over Hagg Lane towards the Ship Inn, 08:25].
Compton Acres - Hobby [over north-west, 16:15].
Blidworth Woods - 4 Raven [over 13:45].
Barton in Fabis/Clifton Grove - 2 Hobby, Raven [Branshill area, early afternoon], 20+Yellow Wagtail [in stubble, corner of Barton Lane/Nottingham Rd Junc, mid-afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - BITTERN [flew from Silt Lagoon 7 to Phase 1, early morning], 14 TURNSTONE [Phase 3, through north in groups of 12 and two 11:07 - 11:17].
Sunday 29th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, 25 LBB Gull, 4 Herring Gull, 5 Red-crested Pochard [this evening].
Collingham Pits - CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E, again on Northcroft Pit then flew south, 16:15].
Sherwood Forest NNR - 5+Spotted Flycatcher, 7 Stonechat, Tree Pipit, Common Redstart.
Thrumpton - 18 Yellow Wagtail [feeding under cattle, late morning].
Saturday 28th August
Hoveringham - ARCTIC TERN [juvenile, Sailing Lake this morning].
Holme Pierrepont - GARGANEY, 2 Pintail [Blotts Pit, this morning], also 7 Wigeon, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Northern Wheatear.
Rufford Pit Top - Raven [over west calling, 10:00].
Friday 27th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Pintail, Hobby, 3 Swift [Clifton Pit, this afternoon], Great White Egret, 27 Little Egret [left the Coneries roost, 05:50], Hobby [Ridge and Furrow].
Hoveringham - Snipe, Common Sandpiper [Tipping Pond], 2 Ruddy Shelduck, Hobby [Sailing Lake].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Marsh Harrier [cream crown], Peregrine, 37 Red-crested Pochard [Neatholme Pit, this morning], 12 Swift [Chainbridge Scrape West].
Harworth Pit Top - Northern Wheatear.
Collingham Pits - WOOD SANDPIPER, Pintail [Northcroft Pit, early morning].
Thursday 26th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Garganey [Tween Pond, from first screen 19:20], Pintail [eclipse drake, Clifton Pit, 18:11]; also 70 Teal, Great White Egret, 150 Lapwing, 2 LRP, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Hobby, 6 Swift [Clifton Pit].
Holme Pierrepont - Whinchat [this evening].
Idle Washlands - 4 Great White Egret, 25 Little Egret [Hagg Lane Flash], 2 Great White Egret, Dunlin, 3 Ruff, Redshank, SPOTTED REDSHANK, 8 Snipe, Peregrine [Slaynes Lane].
Collingham Pits - WOOD SANDPIPER, Pintail [Northcroft Pit, early morning].
Wednesday 25th August
Idle Washlands - CATTLE EGRET, 5+Great White Egret , LITTLE STINT [Slaynes Lane].
Epperstone/Gonalston - CASPIAN GULL [adult on ploughed field, Gonalston Lane between Epperstone and Gonalston mid-afternoon].
Collingham Pits - CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E, Northcroft Pit early afternoon]; also GARGANEY, 3 Pintail, WOOD SANDPIPER, Greenshank, 3 Ringed Plover.
Sherwood Forest NNR - 12+Spotted Flycatcher.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SPOONBILL [still Clifton Pit, 09:45].
Hoveringham - ARCTIC TERN [juvenile, Railway Pit this morning].
Langford Lowfields - 12 Pintail, Greenshank, Curlew, Dunlin, 3 LRP, 4 Ringed Plover, CASPIAN GULL [1st-summer], 3+Yellow-legged Gull, Marsh Harrier [Phase 3, this morning].
Tuesday 24th August
Annesley Pit Top - Pratincole sp. [Probably Black-winged, Middle Lagoon 07:54 - 08:07 then flew high north]; also Merlin, Peregrine.
Kirklington - 2 Raven [heading south-east midday].
Collingham Pits - WOOD SANDPIPER, GARGANEY, 2 Great White Egret, Dunlin, 2 Redshank, Common Sandpiper [all Northcroft Pit, early morning], Greenhank [Ferry Lane Lake], OSPREY [south-west through Northcroft Pit, 13:01], 11 Curlew, 4 Ringed Plover [Northcroft Pit, this evening].
Idle Washlands - 6 Great White Egret, GARGANEY, 6 Pintail, 7 Ringed Plover, 9 Black-tailed Godwit [through north-west], LITTLE STINT, 26 Dunlin [16 through east], 2 WOOD SANDPIPER, 10 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 9 Ruff, KNOT [flew over], SANDERLING [briefly then flew east], 3 TURNSTONE [left east] , juv Cuckoo, Hobby, 12 Yellow Wagtail [Slaynes Lane], 2 GARGANEY, CATTLE EGRET, 39 Little Egret [Hagg Lane Flash].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, 6 Snipe, 15 Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Whinchat [Tiln North, this morning], Raven [over Alans Meadow].
Langford Lowfields - Greenshank, 5 Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Snipe, Goldeneye, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Yellow-legged Gull [this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SPOONBILL [still Ridge and Furrow, 06:30], 2 GARGANEY [Clifton Pit].
Monday 23rd August
Langford Lowfields - 4 CURLEW SANDPIPER, LITTLE STINT, 5 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin [Phase 3, dropped in briefly 11:20, then all flushed by Hobby and flew high west], 6 Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Marsh Harrier, Hobby [Phase 3, this evening].
Kilvington Lakes - OSPREY [circling high overhead carrying a fish, this afternoon].
Idle Washlands - CURLEW SANDPIPER [possibly 4 but all lost to view], LITTLE STINT, 9 Black-tailed Godwit [through east], 10 Ruff, 10 Dunlin, 5 Greenshank, 5 Ringed Plover, 3 TURNSTONE [Slaynes Lane, this morning].
Collingham Pits - WOOD SANDPIPER, 3 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, adult/near adult CASPIAN GULL [Northcroft Pit, this morning], 7 Curlew, Great White Egret [Northcroft Pit, this evening], 2 Greenshank [Ferry Lane Lake, this evening].
Hoveringham - Ruddy Shelduck, Goldeneye, 2 Whimbrel [flew north], Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 35 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake/Trentside Pit].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Common Redstart [The Willows].
Holme Pierrepont - Hobby [Blotts Pit], Common Redstart.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SPOONBILL, Great White Egret [still present on Clifton Pit, this morning/evening].
Sunday 22nd August
Idle Washlands - CATTLE EGRET, GARGANEY, 2 Greenshank [Hagg Lane Flash].
Collingham Pits - CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E, early afternoon], WOOD SANDPIPER, 6 Curlew [Northcroft Pit].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Merlin [adult male], Woodlark.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BITTERN [flew from Tiln North to Hayton Fisheries, this morning], Common Redstart [The Willows], Hobby [juvenile, Chainbridge Pit], Raven [south-west over the village].
Holme Pierrepont - WOOD SANDPIPER, 2 Great White Egret [Blotts Pit, this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SPOONBILL [still Clifton Pit/Ridge and Furrow, 06:16 - evening], Great White Egret, 2 GARGANEY, 2 Ringed Plover, LRP [Clifton Pit, this morning], 2 Ring-necked Parakeet [flew over Church Pond], 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Wigeon [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper [West Lake, this morning].
Besthorpe NR - Marsh Harrier [female, Meering Marsh, this morning].
Saturday 21st August
Idle Washlands - Golden Oriole [female type, in flight over Hagg Lane 11:50 and again on Slaynes Lane, 14:30], BAR-TAILED GODWIT [circled over Slaynes Lane this morning], SPOTTED REDSHANK [Slaynes Lane South, 12:08], 2 GARGANEY [still Hagg Lane Flash], CATTLE EGRET [Newington Flash, S.York's]; also 10 Curlew over, 4 Black-tailed Godwit over, 7 Dunlin, Peregrine, Raven.
Holme Pierrepont - WOOD SANDPIPER [still on A52 Pit this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SPOONBILL [Clifton Pit, 16:00 at least]; also GARGANEY, 2 Great White Egret, Ringed Plover, LRP, Green Sandpiper.
Hoveringham - 2 Pochard [Tipping Pond], 400+ Sand Martin, 21 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake].
Langford Lowfields - Whimbrel, Curlew, 17 Ringed Plover, 4 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Great White Egret, Hobby, 4+Yellow-legged Gull.
Besthorpe NR - Common Redstart [male, still Mons Pool].
Collingham Pits - WOOD SANDPIPER [Northcroft Pit, this morning].
Friday 20th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SPOONBILL [Clifton Pit/Ridge and Furrow, 08:00 - 19:30 at least], 2 GARGANEY, Great White Egret, 2 Ringed Plover, LRP Snipe, 2 Kingfisher [Clifton Pit], 4 Snipe [Ridge and furrow].
Holme Pierrepont - WOOD SANDPIPER [still on the A52 Pit, early evening].
Idle Washlands - GARGANEY, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Snipe, 3 Common Tern, 5 Little Egret, Great White Egret, 16 Yellow Wagtail [Hagg Lane Flash], GARGANEY, 8 Ringed Plover, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 13 Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, Greenshank, 38 Snipe, Curlew, 3 Great White Egret [Slaynes Lane], CATTLE EGRET [Newington Flash, S.York's].
Besthorpe NR - 2 Common Redstart [males, Mons Pool].
Hoveringham - 2 Red Kite, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper [Railway Pit], 10 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake].
Kilvington Lakes - 12 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Ringed Plover, LRP.
Budby Pumping Station - Whinchat, Hobby, Green Sandpiper [this morning].
Barnby in the Willows - Hobby [hunting hurundines early morning].
Thursday 19th August
Holme Pierrepont - SPOONBILL [still present Blotts Pit, this evening], WOOD SANDPIPER [flew from A52 Pit to Blotts Pit, 18:00].
Collingham Pits - 3 Greenshank, adult Yellow-legged Gull [Ferry Lane Lake].
Kilvington Lakes - Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [adult and 1st winter], Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe NR - Common Redstart [male, Mons Pool].
Langford Lowfields - 23 Ringed Plover, 6 Dunlin, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3, early morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY, Great White Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit, early morning].
Wednesday 18th August
Netherfield Lagoons - 4 Whimbrel [through west in with flock of 16 Curlew, 15:25], Common Redstart [along fence line on southern perimeter of Enva Centre], Northern Wheatear [on posts on the southern side of the Deep Pit]; also Green Sandpiper, Hobby.
Idle Washlands - 3 TURNSTONE, 4 Black-tailed Godwit [Slaynes Lane, this morning].
Holme Pierrepont - SPOONBILL [still Blotts Pit 10:58 at least], Tree Pipit [through south, 06:42].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY [Clifton Pit, early morning - evening]; also Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper [this morning], 3 Ringed Plover, LRP [this evening].
Hoveringham - 2 Teal, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin [Railway pit islands], 2 Pochard, Golden Plover, 19 Northern Lapwing [Tipping Pond field].
Tuesday 17th August
Netherfield Lagoons - Common Redstart [on fence posts near the slurry Lagoon, this evening], CASPIAN GULL [2nd-summer], Baltic Gull [putative near adult], 3 Yellow-legged Gull [Enva Recycling Centre].
Collingham Pits - Whimbrel [over south, this evening].
Idle Washlands - 4 GARGANEY, 2 juv ARCTIC TERN, 2 WOOD SANDPIPER, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 3 Ruff, 4 Whimbrel, 12 Curlew, Peregrine [Slaynes Lane/Hagg Lane Flash].
Holme Pierrepont - SPOONBILL [still on Blotts Pit, 07:00].
Langford Lowfields - juv TURNSTONE, 14 Ringed Plover, Curlew, two 1st summer CASPIAN GULL, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3, this morning], CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E], 17 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 3 Greenshank [Phase 3, this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY, Great White Egret, 2 juv LRP [Clifton Pit, early morning], 2 Hobbies [over Ridge and Furrow].
Monday 16th August
Holme Pierrepont - SPOONBILL [adult, still Blotts Pit, 14:44 at least].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 4 Greenshank [Neatholme Fen].
King's Mill Reservoir - Great White Egret [still present], c.40 Swift.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow], 2 Snipe [Clifton Pit].
Sunday 15th August
Holme Pierrepont - SPOONBILL [Blotts Pit, late morning to early evening at least], WOOD SANDPIPER [mobile between the A52 Pit and Blotts Pit, this morning] also Ringed Plover.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Hodsock - WOOD SANDPIPER [eight again on flooded field at SK603867].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Common Redstart [still present, The Willows, this morning].
Selston - 2 SANDWICH TERN [over high south calling, 09:46].
Idle Washlands - CATTLE EGRET [Hagg Lane Flash, 08:45]; also Common Redstart.
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E, Phase 3 this morning]; also 5 Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover.
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Ringed Plover, 4 LRP [including 2 juv].
Saturday 14th August
Langford Lowfields - Temminck's Stint [Juvenile on the west side of Phase 3, 10:00 - 14:43 at least], 2 CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E and 1st-summer, Phase 3]; also 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 9+Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover [all Phase 3].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [still on Clifton Pit from Tower Hide, 15:34].
Idle Washlands - 3 GARGANEY [Hagg Lane Flash], 2 Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 6 Greenshank [Slaynes Lane].
Eakring - GARGANEY [Eakring Flash].
Holme Pierrepont - WOOD SANDPIPER [briefly on the A52 Pit, then lost to view this morning; reported on Blotts Pit this evening], Ruddy Shelduck [Blotts Pit].
King's Mill Reservoir - Great White Egret [still south-west corner].
Friday 13th August
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - GOSHAWK, Red Kite, 3 Hobby, 4 Raven, Harris Hawk with Jesse's.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Common Redstart [single still present, The Willows], 778 Gadwall [including counts of 396 on Neatholme Pit and 350 Neatholme Scrape].
Kilvington Lakes - 7+Yellow-legged Gull, Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Common Sandpiper [West Lake, this afternoon].
Hoveringham - Northern Wheatear [Tipping Pond], 5 Common Snipe, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine [Sailing Lake].
King's Mill Reservoir - Great White Egret [still south-west corner].
Kimberley - 2 Raven [over calling to the west of Kimberley, 10:30].
Idle Washlands - WOOD SANDPIPER, 2 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Whimbrel [Slaynes Lane, this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [still on Clifton Pit from Tower Hide, 07:17].
Thursday 12th August
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Great White Egret [Walters Lane, this evening], 2 Common Redstart [female and juvenile The Willows], Spotted Flycatcher [Neatholme Fen outfall ditch].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [Two very brief distant sightings in 6hrs].
East Leake - Hobby [hawking dragonflies over Rushcliffe golf course].
King's Mill Reservoir - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile still], Great White Egret.
Langford Lowfields - Whimbrel [flew south over Phase 3, early morning]; also 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Ringed Plover.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [still on Clifton pit early morning]; also Great White Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 juv LRP, juv Redshank.
Wednesday 11th August
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E again on Phase 3 this evening]; also 7 Yellow-legged Gulls.
Kilvington Lakes - OSPREY [late afternoon], Ruddy Shelduck [drake on West Lake, 10:51].
Collingham Pits -WOOD SANDPIPER [still Northcroft Pit, 11:55].
Burton Joyce - 2 Red Kite [high over drifting south-west, 11:00].
Tuesday 10th August
Collingham Pits - SANDERLING, WOOD SANDPIPER [Northcroft Pit, this evening]; also 7 Curlew, 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 5 LRP.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [still present on Clifton Pit, this evening]; also 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 LRP, 3 juv Lesser Whitethroat, juv Water Rail.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [barred male, showed several times this morning]; also Hobby, Red Kite, Raven.
King's Mill Reservoir - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile still norh-east end, this morning], Great White Egret [still south-west corner].
Idle Washlands - 2 WOOD SANDPIPER, Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, Snipe [Slaynes Lane].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 9 Black-tailed Godwit [Neatholme Fen, this morning].
Monday 9th August
Langford Lowfields - 18 Black-tailed Godwit [Phase 3, then flew south this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [still present on Clifton Pit, 13:00 - 16:00]; also Great White Egret, 2 Hobby, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 5 Yellow-legged Gull [in with LBBGs, this afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Cuckoo [juvenile, this afternoon].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Hobby, Red Kite, Cuckoo, Common Tern [07:30 - 13:00]
Hodsock - 12 WOOD SANDPIPER [Twelve in flooded field this morning at SK603867, then eight flew south].
King's Mill Reservoir - Great White Egret [still in south-west corner].
Sunday 8th August
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 GARGANEY [Clifton Pit, this evening], Whimbrel [over heading west, 17:48]; also 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 LRP, Hobby.
Hodsock - 11 WOOD SANDPIPER [Eleven in flooded field 11:00 at SK603867, then eight flew off; six still present 16:42 at least].
Saturday 7th August
Langford Lowfields - Whimbrel, 3 Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, Goldeneye, 5+Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WOOD SANDPIPER [Tiln North], 2 Curlew [Neatholme Fen].
Idle Washlands - 2 Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2 Great White Egret [Slaynes Lane].
Burton Joyce - 2 Common Sandpiper [opposite Nelson Pub footpath Railway crossing].
King's Mill Reservoir - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile still north-east end], Great White Egret [still south-west corner].
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake still on Blotts Pit, 07:28].
Friday 6th August
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [pale male] Hobby, 4 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Marsh Harrier [juvenile], 16 Mandarin, 50 Swift, Grey Wagtail [18:00-19:30hrs].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 33 Black-tailed Godwit [13 Clifton Pit 13:24 then flew high east 13:36], 20 Clifton Pit, 18:54],Great White Egret [Clifton Pit this morning]; also 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 LRP.
Idle Washlands - 2 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, 3 Great White Egret [Slaynes Lane].
King's Mill Reservoir - Great White Egret [again in south-west corner].
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake still on Blotts Pit, 07:30 - 15:52].
Thursday 5th August
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [two from the watchpoint, barred male and female 11:20, 12:30 and 14:10 and two over the feeding station lay-by heading towards Budby, 12:45].
Kirklington - Raven [heading east, 14:00].
Hoveringham - 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Oystercatcher, 20+ Northern Lapwing [Tipping Pond midday], Pochard, 5 Common Tern [Railway Pit this morning].
Idle Washlands - CATTLE EGRET [Hagg Lane Flash, 11:44].
King's Mill Reservoir - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile north-east end early morning].
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake still on Blotts Pit, 06:30].
Wednesday 4th August
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [nine sightings between 09:30-16:30 of both males and the single female, all showing very well on occasions with all three birds up together mid-afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BLACK TERN [Juvenile still Neatholme Fen, 14:08].
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E still on Phase 3, 11:13].
Idle Washlands - GARGANEY, WOOD SANDPIPER, Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 3 LRP, Peregrine [Slaynes Lane].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Great White Egret, Common Sandpiper, 2 juv LRP, 10 juv Common Tern [Clifton Pit], Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow, this morning].
King's Mill Reservoir - Great White Egret [still present in south-west corner].
Tuesday 3rd August
Idle Washlands - LITTLE STINT [Slaynes Lane North, 20:00], GARGANEY [fem/juv], 5 Great White Egret, 2 Egyptian Geese, 3 Wigeon, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4 LRP [all Slaynes Lane], CATTLE EGRET [Newington Flash, S.Yorks].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BLACK TERN [Juvenile still Neatholme Fen, 17:25 at least]; also Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, Redshank.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [three, from watchpoint between 14:45 and 15:10].
Netherfield Lagoons - SPOONBILL [dropped into the slurry lagoon 11:35 and flew off high east at around 12:00], CASPIAN GULL [2nd-summer, present on the Enva Recycling Centre all afternoon], 10+ Yellow-legged Gull [8+ adults, 3rd-summer, 1 fresh Juv, Enva Recycling Centre]; also 2 Hobby.
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still Blotts Pit, 12:24].
Langford Lowfields - Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, Common Sandiper, Yellow-legged Gull [all Phase 3 this morning], CASPIAN GULL [German-ringed 3rd-summer X34E still on Phase 3 this evening].
Hoveringham - Common Redstart [male, in hedgerow to rear of Trent View Carp Fishery].
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull.
Ratcliffe on Soar - Red Kite [near the Power Station, 09:35].
Barton in Fabis - 2 Raven [in paddocks off New Road].
Monday 2nd August
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still Blotts Pit this evening]; also 2 Green Sandpiper, juv LRP.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BLACK TERN [Juvenile Chainbridge Scrape West, 15:00], BITTERN [Chainbridge Scrape East, 14:00 - 14:15], Peregrine [over Cross Lane Marsh].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [two males still showing on and off between 10:00 and 14:10].
Kilvington Lakes - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [Juveniles, West Lake this morning].
Hoveringham - Green sandpiper, Kingfisher [Tipping Pond], Peregrine [Sailing Lake].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Great White Egret [Coneries, early morning], Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow], Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Snipe [Clifton Pit].
Sunday 1st August
Clumber Park - Honey Buzzard [Hardwick, through low over tree canopy]; also Hobby.
Idle Washlands - WOOD SANDPIPER, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Snipe, 5 Great White Egret, 14 Little Egret [Slaynes Lane, this evening], CATTLE EGRET [with 2 little Egret perched in dead Tree behind Ship Inn, Newington Flash, S.Yorks 16:00].
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake, Blotts Pit, early morning to evening at least].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BLACK TERN [Juvenile still Neatholme Fen, 15:00], Common Redstart [juvenile, The Willows].
Langford Lowfields - 2 Whimbrel, 16 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin, Redshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [Phase 3, this morning].
Collingham Pits - 7 Curlew, Common Sandpiper, colour-ringed Lapwing.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4 LRP, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Snipe.
Many thanks to:
Arron Paul Adams, Laurence Archibald, Mervyn Bartle, Bob Beck, Adrian Blagden, Scran Bosun, Robin Brace, Andrew Buckley, John Burdall, Paul Buxton, Phil Cheesbrough, Alan Clewes, Miles Cluff, Paul Coombes, Peter Cottam, Ian Cowgill, Nick Crouch, Stu Davenport, Mark Dawson, Rod Dean, Jacquline Dennison, Richard Doan, John Ellis, Richard Ellison, David Entwisle, Keith Fisher, Ade Fox, Josh Fusiara, Vic Giles, Neil Glen, Rae Harrington, Robert Hilton, Paul Hobson, John Hopper, Chris Huges, Andy Hurst, Scott Linacre, Martin McCallum, Ged Morley, Paul Morris, Paul Naylor, Justin Parker, Steve Payne, Martyn Perkins, Craig Pitchford, John Pitchford, Clive Prescott, John Pressley, Simon Roberts, Neil Rotherham, Tommy Salt, Keith Short, Katie Smith, Simon Spavin, Mark Speck, Jacqueline Spindley, Edmund Staunton, Paul Thomas, Mick Tring, David Tyldesley, Mike Vickers, Dave Viles, Ben Ward, James Wilkinson, Mark Wilde.
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