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.
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.
Due to Nottinghamshire now in tier 4 restrictions for Corvid-19, it has been decided to once again revert back to weekly updates to discourage social gatherings.
Weekly updates will be put out each Sunday evening and will continue until government restrictions are lifted.
Thursday 31st December
Hoveringham - Great Northern Diver, 2w CASPIAN GULL [Railway Pit], 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [Sailing Lake].
Langford Lowfields - 5 GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew north at dusk], c.250 Pink-footed Geese [heading north, 15:45], Marsh Harrier.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF [along the river between the bend and Neatholme bridge, this afternoon], 6 GREAT WHITE EGRET [mayby more, in the area today], Whooper Swan [single, Neatholme Scrape], Marsh Harrier [female, Neatholme Pit], 6 Goosander, 15 Goldeneye, 10 Red-crested Pochard [Water-Ski Pit].
Thoresby - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew towards Budby from Thoresby Lake, 14:55]; also Red Kite, 22 Crossbill.
Kimberley - 2 Raven [over this afternoon].
Barton in Fabis - Merlin [male, flew through Trentside, off Rectory Rd, 13:53], 15+Golden Plover.
East Stoke - GREAT WHITE EGRET [by the river Trent, early afternoon], c.50 Golden Plover [Trentside fields by Eden Hall].
Budby Pumping Station - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still Budby Lash, 11:49].
Moorgreen - GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew south-west over Dicks Lane, 11:25].
Netherfield Lagoons - CASPIAN GULL [first-winter, Slurry Lagoon, 11:12]; also 2 Stonechat [in the reedbed].
Colwick CP - Smew [redhead], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Main Lake, this morning].
Stoke Bardolph - GREAT WHITE EGRET [over the Ferry Boat Inn, this morning].
Wednesday 30th December
Hoveringham - 3 CASPIAN GULL [2 adults and second-winter, Railway Pit roost].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Merlin [female, Chainbridge Scrape West, 12:30], 29 Snipe, 6 Pintail, Marsh Harrier [Neatholme Scrape].
Retford - BLACK REDSTART [female/imm Tiln Lane area this morning].
Colwick CP - Red-necked Grebe [juvenile still on the Main Lake, late morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [Church Pond, 09:49].
Tuesday 29th December
Hoveringham - 3 CASPIAN GULL, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [Railway Pit roost, this eveing], Great Northern Diver [now relocated onto the Railway Pit], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Sailing Lake], 70+Pink-footed Geese [heading south-west].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 7 BEWICK'S SWAN [Chainbridge Scrape, 15:15].
Hoveringham - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Pintail [Sailing Lake].
Clifton Grove - BITTERN [Holme Pit, briefly in flight then dropped into the reedbed, 11:30].
Kilvington Lakes - GREAT WHITE EGRET [West Lake]; also 3 Goosander, 2 Goldeneye.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [Church Pond, this morning].
Monday 28th December
Colwick CP - Red-necked Grebe [juvenile still on the Main Lake, late afternoon]; also 12 Goosander, 5 Chiffchaff.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [Church Pond, 09:40].
Kirklington - Pink-footed Geese [skien high over, heard only].
Bestwood Country Park - 2 Goosander [Mill Lakes], c.90 Lapwing [Goosedale Lane].
Sunday 27th December
Osberton - 5 Raven [into roost on the Osberton Estate, this evening].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [juvenile, still present on the Main Lake, viewable from the peninsula, 14:21].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [Clifton Pit, 12:04], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Church Pond, 13:20 then flew towards Long Eaton, 15:19].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 9 Russian White-fronted Geese [6 over Neatholme following Greylag flock, 13:40; 9 Neatholme Scrape, 14:15], 2 Green Sandpiper [on cleared wet area between CrossLane/Neatholme], 110 Whooper Swan [Clayworth Common].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads], GREAT WHITE EGRET [A52 Pit, this afternoon].
Hoveringham - Great Northern Diver [juvenile, still on the Carp Lake, late morning].
Langford Lowfields - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Phase 3, this afternoon]; also Marsh Harrier, 6 Pintail, Chiffchaff, Stonechat.
Collingham Pits - 3 Shelduck, 3 Stonechat [Ferry Lane Lake, this afternoon].
Bennerley Marsh - Stonechat [Chat Corner, early afternoon].
Markham - Stonechat [in scrub at Lay-by on A57, this morning].
Saturday 26th December
Thurgarton - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [adult, on flooded field adjacent A614 with other gulls and corvids].
Hoveringham - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Tipping Pond], Grey Wagtail, 4 Goldeneye, 2 Goosander [Sailing Lake], 17 Pintail [through low over Sailing Lake 12.30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 17 Pintail [13 dropped into Clifton Pit, 09:07 and 18 circling high over Clifton Pit, 10:59].
Friday 25th December
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [juvenile, still present on the Main Lake, 10:54].
Rainworth - 52 Golden Plover, 100+Northern Lapwing [in field next to Rainworth bypass].
Kirklington - 10 Mandarin [7 drk's, River Greet]; also 20+ Redpoll.
East Bridgford - 2 Raven [heard and seen between 10:15 and 10:45; Circled several times].
Bircotes/Harworth - Marsh Harrier [female over south-west].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads], GREAT WHITE EGRET [A52 Pit, this morning].
Arnold - Red Kite [Gedling Road, 09:15 drifting towrds Netherfield].
Skegby - 3 Ring-necked Parakeet [Skegby bottoms, 09:59].
Thursday 24th December
King's Mill Reservoir - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [adult, in the roost this evening]; also partial albinistic Black-headed Gull, 15 LBB Gull.
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads, A52 Pit, in west end bay nearest Adbolton lane].
Wednesday 23rd December
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still in hedge by car park].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads, still A52 Pit, 15:40].
Hoveringham - Great Northern Diver [juvenile, still on the Carp Lake, late morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [still Clifton Pit, 12:17], Red-necked Grebe [Clifton Pit, 10:04].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [juvenile, still present on the Main Lake, 10:08].
Gunthorpe - GREAT WHITE EGRET [on Pit by Gunthorpe bridge].
Wiverton - Chiffchaff [seen/heard calling on the south bank of the River Smite, 1/2 mile north-east of Wiverton Hall, this morning].
Tuesday 22nd December
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [Clifton Pit, from Kingfisher hide, early afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads, still A52 Pit, 12:53].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [juvenile, still present on the Main Lake, this morning], Whooper Swan [over towards Netherfield].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BITTERN, 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 30 Whooper Swan, 40 Golden Plover, 33 Goldeneye, 5 Goosander, 6 Shelduck.
King's Mill Reservoir - c.125 Northern Lapwing, 3 Common Snipe, Kingfisher, c.10 Redwing.
Budby Pumping Station - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still Budby Flash, 09:30].
Monday 21st December
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still in hedge by the car park, showing well 11:40].
Girton - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Sailing Lake], 6 Chiffchaff [old works].
Collingham Pits - 2 Russian White-fronted Geese [still at the far end of Carton Ferry Lane in field next to the Trent]; also 6 Whooper Swan, 2 Lesser White-fronted Geese/hybrids].
Sunday 20th December
Hoveringham - 3 CASPIAN GULL [2 adults and 3rd-winter/sub-adult Railway Pit roost, this evening], Great Northern Diver [juvenile, still present on the Carp Lake, 14:11 at least], Red Kite [over the Railway Pit, 10:30].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - c.50 Whooper Swan [Clayworth Common, late afternoon], 26 Whooper Swan [Neatholme Scrape, 13:00], 3 Goldeneye [displaying, Neatholme Fen], Pintail [drk, Parish Park Lake].
Stapleford Woods - 6 Crossbill [on the Nott's/Linc's border, flew over late afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads, A52 Pit, 14:07].
Walesby - Red Kite [over early afternoon].
Collingham Pits - 2 Russian White-fronted Geese [adult and juvenile, at the west end of Carton Ferry Lane in fields next to the Trent, 11:50]; also 6 Whooper Swan, 2 Lesser White-fronted Geese/hybrids].
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still present in the hedge by the car park, 10:59].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [still present on the Main Lake, this morning]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe, CASPIAN GULL, Pink-footed Goose [Clifton Pit, this morning].
Serlby Golf Course - Hawfinch, 5 Crossbill, c.70 Lesser Redpoll [this morning].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Hawfinch [female, feeding with Redwings by the Visitor Centre, this morning].
Budby - GREAT WHITE EGRET, 40 Lesser Redpoll [by the Pumping Station, this morning], 3 Stonechat, 4 Crossbill, Raven [on the Common].
Saturday 19th December
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CATTLE EGRET [single in the Coneries roost, 16:02], Red-necked Grebe [still Clifton Pit].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [still present on the Main Lake, this afternoon].
Burton Joyce - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Pintail, Brambling.
Holme Pierrepont - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still A52 Pit, 15:04].
Langford Lowfields - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Marsh Harrier, 9 Shelduck, 10+Tree Sparrow, 2 Stonechat, Short-eared Owl, c.500 Pink-footed Geese [heading north-west in three skiens].
Idle Washlands - c.400 Wigeon, 32 Redshank, 12 Ruff, Marsh Harrier [Hagg Lane Flash], c.100 Wigeon, 2 Pintail, 75 Pochard, 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET [Slaynes Lane].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 6 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Marsh Harrier [Chainbridge Scrape, early afternoon].
Beeston - 2 Peregrine [flew along canelside by the stone bridge, 11:30].
Friday 18th December
Burton Joyce - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [five adults/three juveniles, with Greylags in field near River Trent by allotments, 14:45 at least].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads, A52 Pit, 13:59].
Budby Pumping Station - Great Grey Shrike [still present this morning]; also Crossbill, Stonechat.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [still Clifton Pit, 10:49 at least], CASPIAN GULL [still Clifton Pit].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Woodcock, 16 Red-crested Pochard [Neatholme area].
Gunthorpe - GREAT WHITE EGRET, 4 Goosander.
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still showing in the hedge opposite the car park, 09:50].
King's Mill Reservoir - 8 Common Snipe, c.115 Lapwing, c.50 Goldfinch.
Strelley - Raven [heading south over the church, 09:05].
Thursday 17th December
Budby Pumping Station - Great Grey Shrike [in Boundary Plantation although elusive; follow path from flash south for c.800m, take the right at first crossroads through green barrier, early afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [Clifton Pit, showing well from Kingfisher Hide this afternoon]; also CASPIAN GULL, 2 Pink-footed Geese.
Hoveringham - Great Northern Diver [still present Carp Lake to 10.30 at least] 7 Russian White-fronted Geese [2 Juveniles, Sailing Lake with Grey Lags], Redshank [River Trent bank upstream of Sailing Lake], adult CASPIAN GULL, 4 Yellow-Legged Gull [Sailing Lake roost].
Budby Pumping Station - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still Budby Flash, 08:44].
Wednesday 16th December
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [still present on the Main Lake, 13:52].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [still on Clifton Pit, early afternoon], CASPIAN GULL [still present].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [redheads, A52 Pit, 13:36].
Caunton/Laxton - Red Kite [feeding on road-kill on the A616 between Caunton/Laxton].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape, this morning].
Tuesday 15th December
Hoveringham - 3 CASPIAN GULL [adults, Railway Pit roost this evening], Great Northern Diver [juvenile still present on the Carp Lake].
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still showing in the hedge opposite the car park].
Holme Pierrepont - Smew [redhead, still A52 Pit].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [still on Clifton Pit, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BITTERN [flew over Chainbridge Scrape, 11:32], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Wind Surf Pool], 7 Goldeneye [3 drk's, Neatholme Pit], Redshank, 16 Golden Plover, Little Egret [Neatholme Fen], 17 Red-crested Pochard [10 drk's, Linghurst lake].
Idle Washlands - Spoonbill [Slaynes Lane, left south-west, 11:05], 5 Whooper Swan, c.70 Pochard, 9 Grey Partridge, 4 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 3 Stonechat [Slaynes Lane], Dunlin, 15 Redshank, 9 Ruff [Hagg Lane Flash], 2 Whooper Swan [Idlestop].
Kilvington Lakes - GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Redshank, 2 Stonechat [all West Lake].
Budby Common - 4 Crossbill [3 females, single male].
Monday 14th December
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still showing in the hedge opposite the car park].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [Clifton Pit, 14:47].
Holme Pierrepont - Smew [redhead, still A52 Pit, early afternoon].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [still present on the Main Lake, midday at least].
Hoveringham - Great Northern Diver [juvenile still present on the Carp Lake], BLACK-NECKED GREBE [Carp Lake, then swam west and lost from view, 12:40], GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew over the Sailing Lake], Red Kite [Sailing Lake], CASPIAN GULL, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [Railway Pit roost, this evening].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, c.70 Lapwing, 2 Marsh Harrier [male and female], c.50 Teal [Chainbridge Scrape, this morning].
Kilvington Lakes - GREAT WHITE EGRET, redhead Smew [West Lake, this morning].
Sunday 13th December
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red-necked Grebe [Clifton Pit, 10:40 - 13:23 at least], CASPIAN GULL [4th-winter, Clifton Pit, 11:37], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Coneries, 10:39], Pintail [drake, Clifton Pit].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [still present on the Main Lake, 13:00].
Besthorpe NR - Russian White-fronted Goose [Mons Pool with Greylags and 2 Lesser White-fronted Geese/Hybrids, 12:39].
Kilvington Lakes - Smew [redhead, still West Lake, mid-morning].
Collingham Pits - 5 Whooper Swan [Carton Ferry Lane, 10:30].
Holme Pierrepont - Smew [redhead, still A52 Pit, 10:00]; also 543 Wigeon, 135 Pochard.
Girton Pits - GREAT WHITE EGRET [North Pit, 09:47], CASPIAN GULL [3rd-winter, yellow-ringed on the river Trent, 11:02]; also 10 Curlew.
Saturday 12th December
Langford Lowfields -Short-eared Owl [hunting over Phase One, 14:00], Little Bunting [showed briefly in the hedge by car park, 12:40], CASPIAN GULL [2nd-winter, German-ringed X34E again, on Phase 3, 10:33], GREAT WHITE EGRET [4 on site].
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [still on Main Lake, 14:00]
Holme Pierrepont - Smew [redhead, A52 Pit, late morning], GREAT WHITE EGRET, Marsh Harrier [Blotts Pit].
Kilvington Lakes - Smew [redhead still on West Lake, late morning], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 5 Goosander, 2 Goldeneye [West Lake],c.4000 Starling [murmuration and roost in the North Lake reedbed].
Hoveringham - Great Northern Diver [juvenile, still present on the Carp Lake, 10:45].
Budby Pumping Station - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Water Rail [Budby Flash, this morning].
Hickling - Water Rail [on the Dalby Brook, 08:30], Raven [over 10:00]. .
Friday 11th December
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Woodcock [in flight over the lagoons at dusk], CASPIAN GULL [adult, on the roof of Enva Recycling site, this afternoon], Green Sandpiper [New Workings], 2 Raven.
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [still on Main Lake, 12:29 at least].
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [showed in the hedge by car park, 11:00], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Silt Lagoon 7, 10:02].
Kilvington Lakes - Smew [redhead still on West Lake, late morning].
Hoveringham - Stonechat [Sailing Lake].
Thursday 10th December
Colwick Country Park - Red-necked Grebe [on Main Lake; viewable from near toilet block, 11:00 - 15:00 at least].
Hoveringham - Great Nothern Diver [juvenile, still present on the Carp Lake, late afternoon], CASPIAN GULL [adult], Mediterranean Gull [2nd-winter], 4 Yellow-legged Gull [Railway Pit roost], c.200 Pink-footed Geese [heading north-west, 08:44].
Holme Pierrepont - Smew [redhead, A52 Pit, early afternoon].
Gotham - 1500+Fieldfare [this afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [showed briefly in the hedge by car park, 11:00]; also Marsh Harrier [cream-crown].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Marsh Harrier [over north edge of Neatholme Fen], 60 Golden Plover [with large flock of lapwing on Neatholme Fen], 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET [singles on Wind Surf Pool, Chainbridge Scrape East and Chainbridge Pit] 8 Goldeneye [across the site], 7 Goosander [Water Ski Pit], Little Egret, 2 Redshank [Neatholme Fen].
Bunny - Brambling [on Allotments].
Wednesday 9th December
Hoveringham - 3 CASPIAN GULL [2 adults and sub-adult, Railway Pit roost, this evening], Great Nothern Diver [juvenile, still present on the Carp Lake, late afternoon], Smew [redhead, Railway Pit, early afternoon], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 4 Goldeneye, Grey Wagtail [Carp Pond] 65 Lapwing, 300+ Fieldfare, 50 Redwing, 40 Blackbird, 50 Chaffinch, 30 Goldfinch, 60+ Linnet, 40 Lesser Redpoll [Sailing Lake Bridleway morning]
Kilvington Lakes - Short-eared Owl [again this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [4th-winter, Clifton Pit mid-afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still in hedge by car park, 13:00].
Carlton in Lindrick - 3 Water Rail, Kingfisher, 2 Little Egret, 2 Goosander, Jay, 2 Green Woodpecker, 30 Siskin, 10 Lesser Redpoll, Gadwall, 2 Teal, Pintail [Carton Lake].
Ranskill - GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew north-west over North Road at Torworth, 12:25].
Budby Pumping Station - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Budby Flash, this morning].
Tuesday 8th December
Hoveringham - Great Nothern Diver [juvenile, on the Trent Valley Carp Fishery Lake, viewable from Gonalston Lane, 14:54], 3 CASPIAN GULL [2 adults and 3rd-winter, Railway Pit roost this evening], Smew [redhead, Railway Pit], 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, GREAT WHITE EGRET, Stonechat [Sailing Lake].
Langford Lowfields - Penduline Tit [showed in the reed mace on the eastern Agricultural area ponds, by the south-eastern boundary path, 09:00]. Little Bunting [showed well in hedge by car park, 11:36].
Beeston - Willow Tit [calling c600m west of Beeston Marina].
Basford - 3 Goosander, Cormorant [Vernon Park].
Monday 7th December
Langford Lowfields -1+ Penduline Tit [single showing at the back of Silt Lagoon 5 and 6, and possibly a second or the same showing on Phase 1 between the Viewing Mound and the start of the Seasonal Trail, 09:24 - 15:00 at least], Little Bunting [showing very well in the hedge by the car park, late afternoon].
Hoveringham - 1w Mediterranean Gull, 4 CASPIAN GULL [3 adults and sub-adult, Railway Pit roost, late afternoon], Common Sandpiper, 200 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing [Sailing Lake].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [4th-winter, Sailing Pit, 15:31].
Holme Pierrepont - Smew [redhead, A52 Pit]; also 5 Common Snipe, 4 Little Egret, Kingfisher,
Netherfield Lagoons - Raven [pylons next to River Trent, 10:40].
Sunday 6th December
Langford Lowfields - Penduline Tit [Third County Record, found in the small reed-bed pond by the cycle track between Holme and the reserve, 09:45, then relocated on the back edge of the Silt Lagoons, 12:53 - 15:15 at least], Little Bunting [showing briefly in the hedgerow bordering the Crop field 09:05 and again briefly 12:04], KNOT [Phase 3, then flushed by Peregrine], c.300 Pink-footed Geese [heading north-west]; also this morning 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Short-eared Owl, Marsh Harrier, 2 Stonechat, 5 Shelduck].
Hoveringham - 2 CASPIAN GULL [adult and fourth-winter, Railway Pit roost, this evening], 5 Russian White-fronted Geese [Railway Pit, briefly 11:15]; also 21 Goosander.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Russian White-fronted Geese [flew low west over Barton Lane calling, 16:05], CASPIAN GULL [3rd/4th-winter,, Sailing Pit, mid-afternoon], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Church Pond].
Netherfield - CASPIAN GULL [adult, feeding around the recycling centre, 12:19]; also Raven.
Girton Pits - GREAT WHITE EGRET.
Kilvington Lakes - GREAT WHITE EGRET [West Lake, now in its 4th week continuously every day].
Caunton - 220 Pink-footed Geese [two skeins of 120 and 100 moving west].
Thoresby - 129 Pink-footed Geese [briefly on the deck then flew west towards Welbeck, 11:30].
Gibsmere/Bleasby - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [present on the Fly Fishing Lake and Jubliee Ponds, 09:46].
Collingham Pits - KNOT [Ferry Lane Lake, 09:41].
Saturday 5th December
Hoveringham - CASPIAN GULL [adult, in the Railway Pit roost, this evening], 97 Pink-footed Geese [heading west, c.16:00].
Kilvington Lakes - Short-eared Owl [mobbed by corvids and flew off high, late afternoon], GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Goldeneye [West Lake].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [3rd/4th-winter, again on Tween Pond, this afternoon], 6 Russian White-fronted Geese [2 adults, Clifton Pit, 11:00], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Church Pond], Pintail, Shelduck [Clifton Pit].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] -180 Golden Plover, c.1000 Lapwing, Ruff, 2 Pintail [Neatholme Fen, early afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [showing well in the hedgerow by the crop field, 13:26], KNOT [Phase 3, 15:17], ; also GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Whooper Swan, 6 Pintail, Marsh Harrier, 3 Stonechat.
Gunthorpe to Shelford - Ruddy Shelduck [riverside field].
Beeston - Whooper Swan [flew along the Beeston Canal towards Nottingham, 10:50].
Bilsthorpe - c.100 Pink-footed Geese [heading north-west c.10:30].
Idle Washlands - 12 Whooper Swan, 3+Pintail, c.55 Pochard, 3 Stonechat [Slaynes Lane].
Friday 4th December
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - c.900 Lapwing, 50 Golden Plover [Neatholme Fen, late afternoon].
Gunthorpe/Burton Joyce - 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, Brambling [still this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [3rd/4th-winter,, again Sailing Pit, 14:25].
Idle Washlands - Spoonbill, 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 300 Lapwing, 18 small waders flew over and were thought to be Dunlin, 3 Peregrine [Slaynes Lane, Misson].
Thursday 3rd December
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 6 Russian White-fronted Geese [2 adults, Clifton Pit, 15:25 then flew over the river to Barton in Fabis, 15:50], CASPIAN GULL [3rd/4th-winter, briefly on Tween Pond then flew south, 15:07].
Bennerley Marsh - 6 Russian White-fronted Geese [15:26].
Collingham Pits - Russian White-fronted Goose [single still with feral geese in Trent-side field south of Carton Ferry Lane, early afternoon].
Idle Washlands - Spoonbill [still on Slaynes Lane, this morning]
Wiverton Hall - Blackcap [still along the main drive to Wiverton Hall].
Wednesday 2nd December
Idle Washlands - Spoonbill [Slaynes Lane, this afternoon]; also also 120 Pink-footed Geese, 3 Whooper Swan, Pintail, 2 Goldeneye, 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 5 Redshank, 4 Stonechat.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [Sailing Pit, late afternoon].
Collingham Pits - Russian White-fronted Goose [single with feral geese in Trent-side field south of Carton Ferry Lane, 13:47].
Annesley Pit Top - 5 Whooper Swan [heading south-east, 13:01].
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still in the hedge opposite the car park, this morning].
Thoresby Park - Raven [over, 10:30].
Wiverton Hall - Blackcap [male, along the main drive to Wiverton Hall, 09:45].
Budby Pumping Station - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still on Budby Flash, 07:28].
Tuesday 1st December
Langford Lowfields - Little Bunting [still showing intermittently in the Crop field, but generally elusive]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET.
Hawton Grasslands - 7 Jack Snipe, 10 Common Snipe [on hill left of cycle track, 15:00].
Gunthorpe - 3 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 27 Goosander.
Wollaton Park - Goosander [female on the lake this afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - GREAT WHITE EGRET [still A52 Pit, early afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BITTERN [still Chainbridge Scrape, 12:20], 2 Short-eared Owl [Tiln North, late afternoon], 78 Golden Plover, 3 Ruff, Pintail [Neatholme Fen].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Brambling [Clifton Pit viewing screen, 11:00], c.150 Pink-footed Geese [over east, 11:58], Stonechat [Sailing Pit].
Rufford CP - Hawfinch [single from the car-park, 10:10].
Osberton - Merlin, Red Kite, 15 Crossbill [on the Osberton Estate, this morning].
Worksop - Mandarin [drk, on the river through the Canch].
Many thanks to:
Saj Ahmad, Robin Brace, Ruth Brown,
Sean Browne, Paul Buxton, Darren Chapman, Lizzie Chapman, Mick Clay, Alan Clewes, Miles Cluff, Rich Collis, Carl Cornish, Ian Cowgill, Nick Crouch, Mark Dawson, Rod Dean, Lance Degnan, David Entwisle, Pete Freeman, Robert Fuge, Steve Furber, Josh Fusiara, John Gallagher, Peter George, Tom Greenhill, Jill Hannah, Rajiv Hasan,
Elizabeth Henwood, Paul Hobson, John Hopper, Andrew Kerridge, Jonathan Lloyd, Martin McCallum, Graeham Mounteney,
Suzanne Nelson,
Nigel Oram,
Peter Playle,
John Purrington, Keith Rainford, Dave Read, Phil Read, Simon Roberts, David Rose, Alan Scrimshaw, Lee Scudder, Tom Shields, Andy Shooter, Jane Smith, Jacqueline Spindley, Edmund Staunton, David Suter,
Simon Thompson, Geoff Tindsley, David Tyldesley, Tony Wardell, Rob Woodward.
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