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 should be submitted to Andy Hall the County Recorder, to be included in the monthly Newsletter and Annual Reports.
None of these reports have been verified or checked by the Notts Birdwatchers' Records Committee.
Records of certain species will not appear here during the breeding season - but please send in your reports regardless.
Please report your Latest Sightings to: Rob Hoare or @NottsBirders on the Twitter feed.
Friday 31st January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Clifton Wood - 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
Collingham Lakes - 1 Bar-tailed Godwit [Silt Lagoon], 8 Common Redshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 6 Whooper Swan.
Newstead & Annesley Country Park - 1 Common Snipe, 6 Jack Snipe, [on the plateau], 1 Grey Partridge, 15 Common Pochard, 8 Tufted Duck, 15 Coot, 5 Mute Swan.
Rufford Country Park - 4 Hawfinch [Lime Tree Avenue - 100m from abbey at 10:50 - remained for at least 40 minutes].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Barnacle Goose [single with Greylags and Lapwing on far bank], Common Kingfisher [over river], Kingfisher Hide: c.15 Common Snipe [flushed by crow].
Clumber Park - Red Kite [circling over Carburton Lodge].
Thursday 30th January
Hucknall - Garden: 1 Blackcap [male], 1 Goldcrest [feeding on peanuts].
Langford Lowfields RSPB - 2 Smew [male and female].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Clifton Pond: 1+ Bittern [over and in reed-beds at 12:20 & 15:35], 2 Water Rail, 4 Common Snipe.
Holme Pierrepoint - 1 Common Kestrel, Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, 3 Common Goldeneye
Wednesday 29th January
South Muskham - 1 Mediterranean Gull [adult in roost], 3 Yellow-legged Gull, c.6000 Black-headed Gull, 1 Smew [redhead on A1 pits], 1 Willow Tit, 1 Lesser Redpoll.
Tuesday 28th January
Clayworth Common - 30 Whooper Swan, 10 Egyptian Goose.
Ruddington - Golf Club: 2 Little Egret.
Hucknall - Garden: Blackcap [male], Yellowhammer, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Coal Tit, Bullfinch [female].
Monday 27th January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill
Sunday 26th January
Barnstone - 1 Brambling [female].
Saturday 25th January
Bentinck Void - 2 Jack Snipe.
Center Parcs - 1 Brambling.
Cotham - Landfill site: 1 Glaucous Gull [adult], Iceland Gull [1st winter].
Bingham - 1 Siberian Chiffchaff [probable].
Retford - Hallcroft Fisheries: 1 Siberian Chiffchaff, 1 Common Chiffchaff [singing].
Gringley Carr - 1 Marsh Harrier [female, probably juvenile], 1 Little Owl.
Dorket Head - 1 Raven.
Collingham Lakes - 1 Green Sandpiper.
Friday 24th January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Clumber Park - 4 Hawfinch [ornamental bridge], 15 Goosander.
Cotham - Glaucous Gull [landfill site].
Thursday 23rd January
Cotham - Landfill site: 2 Iceland Gull.
Clumber Park - 5 Hawfinch [ornamental bridge], 15 Goosander, 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
West Leake - 5 Pink-footed Goose [to east].
Beeston - c.300 Pied Wagtail [roosting at bus station].
Wednesday 22nd January
Retford - Hallcroft Fishery: Lesser Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, 5 Goldcrest.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Clifton Pond: 1 Bittern [into reed-bed], 3 Water Rail, 5 Common Snipe, Egyptian Goose, Goosander, Common Goldeneye, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Tree Sparrow.
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Smew [Blott's Pit].
Nottingham - Lilac-breasted Roller [escaped - photographed on Valley Road].
Cotham - 3 Glaucous Gull [at landfill site].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill
Tuesday 21st January
Newark - The Park: Blackcap [female].
Langar - 1 Little Egret.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Goosander, 2 Water Rail [from Tower Hide].
Moorgreen Reservoir- 5 Eurasian Nuthatch, 4 Treecreeper, 2 Coal Tit, 40 Siskin, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 11 Goldcrest, 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker [male].
Bennerley Marsh - 21 Eurasian Teal, 150 Eurasian Wigeon, 10 Northern Shoveler, 6 Grey Heron, 350 Black-headed Gull, 10 Common Gull, 57 Northern Lapwing.
Monday 20th January
Dorket Head - c.500 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Raven.
Hoveringham - 4 Iceland Gull [roost].
Nottingham - Blackcap [male, Chippenham Road].
Clayworth Common - 9 Egyptian Goose.
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - 27 Whooper Swan, Common Goldeneye.
Eakring Meadows - 2 Common Snipe, 1 Woodcock.
Penny Pasture - 4 Jack Snipe, 27 Common Snipe.
Sunday 19th January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Smew [female still on Clifton Pond], Barnacle Goose [with Egyptian Geese on Tween Pond], Water Rail [2 showing well on grass in front of Tower Hide], Reed Bunting, Bullfinch, Goosander, Fieldfare, Redwing, c.800 Northern Lapwing, Song Thrush, Goldcrest, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Wigeon. Erewash Fields: Stonechat.
Hucknall - Garden: 1 Blackcap.
Rufford Country Park - 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Hawfinch.
Clumber Park - 4 Goosander [all female], 3 Little Grebe, 25+ Mandarin Duck [ornamental bridge], 40+ Brambling, c.25 Goosander, c.100 Siskin [2 flocks], 4 Common Crossbill.
Barnby in The Willows - Yellowhammer [huge flock].
Saturday 18th January
Hoveringham - Sailing Lake - gull roost: 1 Iceland Gull [1st winter], 1 Glaucous Gull [second winter].
Rufford Country Park - 4 Hawfinch [near car park], 8 Goosander [4 males, 4 females], 11 Common Gull, 18+Siskin.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Friday 17th January
Holme Pierrepont - 1 Smew [drake on Works Pond].
Rufford Country Park - Hawfinch [Lime Avenue next to main car park],
Cotham - 2 Glaucous Gull [adult and 1st winter at landfill site].
Thursday 16th January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 2+ Parrot Crossbill.
Collingham Lakes - 22 Whooper Swan, 7 Common Redshank, 2+ Little Egret, 2 Chiffchaff.
Bassingfield - 2 Whooper Swan [with Mute Swan herd - along Grantham Canal].
Cotham - 1 Glaucous Gull [field opposite landfill site entrance].
Mansfield Woodhouse - Maun Valley: 3 Little Egret.
Inkersall Grange - 3,000+ Eurasian Starling, 2 Raven.
Bassingfield - Polser Brook: Little Egret.
Wednesday 15th January
South Muskham - 5000 Black-headed Gull, 5 Yellow-legged Gull,100 Northern Lapwing.
Attenborough Nature Reserve- 2 Meadow Pipit, 12 Goosander, Red-crested Pochard [pair], C. 500 Northern Lapwing,Tree Sparrow, Water Rail, Eurasian Wigeon, Eurasian Teal, Common Goldeneye [pair].
Tuesday 14th January
Rufford Country Park - 4 Hawfinch [3 from car park], 4 Eurasian Nuthatch
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 7 Brambling.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Clifton Pond: 1 Smew [redhead], 2 Water Rail, 1 Chiffchaff [into reed-beds at 15:50]. Tween Pond: 1 Common Shelduck.
Clumber Park - 34 Goosander, Common Kingfisher
Monday 13th January
Langford Lowfields RSPB - Chiffchaff.
Woodthorpe - Blackcap [female in garden].
Watnall - Red Kite [over farmland].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Red Kite [south-east over Barton Lane at 15:00].
South Muskham - 1 Eurasian Nuthatch [first site record], 1 Common Chiffchaff, 1 Mediterranean Gull [adult In Roost], c.5000 Black-headed Gull, 251 Great Black-backed Gull, 39 Herring Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull [intermedius race], 1 Green Sandpiper.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Rufford Country Park - Hawfinch.
Sunday 12th January
Woodthorpe - Blackcap [female in garden].
Misterton - c.250 Pink-footed Goose [over].
Clumber Park - Water Rail, , c.80 Brambling.
Pleasley - Meden Trail: Coal Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 1 Red Kite.
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Common Shelduck, Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, 2 Common Goldeneye, Redwing, 100+ Northern Lapwing [over], Little Egret.
Manfield Woodhouse - Maun Valley: Little Egret [near sub-station].
Saturday 11th January
Rufford Country Park - 5 Hawfinch.
Huthwaite - Water Rail [Wood End Fishery - viewed down to 8 feet and taking food].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Bittern, 1 Smew, Chiffchaff, 1 Water Rail, Gadwall, Eurasian Teal, Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Common Goldeneye, Goosander, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Yellow-legged Gull.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill, 3 Common Crossbill, Marsh Tit, Green Sandpiper.
Friday 10th January
Kings Mill Reservoir - Black-headed Gull [an aberrantly plumaged individual there]
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Glauacous Gull.
Thursday 9th January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Retford - Hallcroft Fishery: Red Kite [towards Retford].
Lowdham - 2 Little Egret.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 1 Bittern [Clifton Pond - over reed-beds], 1 Water Rail [front of Tower Hide], 1 Little Egret.
Wednesday 8th January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Langford - c.11 Grey Partridge.
Maun Valley Trail - 2 Little Egret.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 1 Bittern [from Tower Hide], 1 Smew [Clifton Pond].
Retford - Hallcroft Fishery: Firecrest, Siberian Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat.
Tuesday 7th January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill.
Besthorpe NWT - Mons Pool: 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Redshank, 1 Water Rail, 1 Little Egret, 4 Common Shelduck, 1 Northern Pintail [male].
Worksop - Thievesdale: 60 House Sparrow
Monday 6th January
Pleasley - Meden Trail: Common Kingfisher, Willow Tit.
Retford - Hallcroft Fishery: Firecrest, Lesser Whitethroat.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14+ Parrot Crossbill.
Sunday 5th January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Tree Sparrow, Smew, Water Rail, Common Snipe.
Retford - Hallcroft Fishery: Firecrest, Lesser Whitethroat.
Rufford Country Park - 3 Hawfinch.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 16 Parrot Crossbill.
Lowdham - Glossy Ibis [14:15 usual field adjacent garage].
Clumber Park -3 Hawfinch, 7 Common Crossbill, Marsh Tit, Grey Wagtail, 11 Mandarin Duck, 1 Common Shelduck.
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Firecrest, Lesser Whitethroat, Siberian Chiffchaff [possible], Common Chiffchaff.
Saturday 4th January
Clumber Park - 3 Hawfinch, 16 Mandarin Duck [11 males, 5 females at feeding station by bridge at first light], 1 Marsh Tit.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: 14 Parrot Crossbill, Great Grey Shrike.
Cotham Flash - Iceland Gull [1st winter], Glaucous Gull [adult].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Smew, 3 Water Rail, Tree Sparrow
Friday 3rd January
Cotham Flash - Iceland Gull [1st winter], Glaucous Gull [adult].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: Parrot Crossbill, Great Grey Shrike.
Farnsfield - c.5000 Eurasian Starling [over A614 and A617 - Lockwell Hill - roundabout].
Clifton Grove - 2 Marsh Tit.
Barton in Fabis - 4 Whooper Swan.
Thursday 2nd January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Smew.
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: Parrot Crossbill.
Kings Mill Reservoir - 1 Caspian Gull [adult], 4 Kittiwake [adults].
Holme Pierrepont - Finger Ponds: Greater Scaup [female with Tufted Ducks]. Ski Pond: c.400 Gadwall, c.60 Eurasian Wigeon, 1 Barnacle Goose [presumed feral bird with Canada Geese].
Retford - Hallcroft Fishery: Firecrest, Lesser Whitethroat.
Monday 1st January
Sherwood Forest NNR - Budby Forest South: Parrot Crossbill.
Rufford Country Park - Hawfinch.
Hoveringham - 1 Iceland Gull.
Many thanks to:
Mervyn Bartle, Chris Bell, Ian Bollen, Sue Bollen, Paul Bennett, Dave Bonser, Lyndsey Bowley, R M Box, Robin Brace, Alan Bradley, Greg Bramley, Neil Brown, Phil Burnham, Adam Carlton, Chris Carr, Jim Clarke, Richard Dakin, Mike Downing, Les Fisher, Fred Fowler, Andy Franklin, Sheila Freeman, Pete George, Nigel Grice, Rae Harrington, Tom Hibbert, Robert Hilton, Mike Leatherland, Mick Leivers, Andy Lidgett, Ken Lomas, Neil Matthews, Nigel Mill, Richard Murfin, Philip Norris, Martin Russell, Alan Scrimshaw, Lorna Sheppard, Tom Shields, Keith Smith, Jan Thompson, Tony Wardell, Brian Wilde, Mark Wilde, John Wilson, David Wood, Nigel Wood.
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