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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.
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.
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Archived Sightings 2001 - 2020
Archived Sightings 2001 to 2021
Archived Sightings 2022
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.
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Tuesday 31st January
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [1st-winter, Bellmoor Lake 15:30]; also Oystercatcher, 11 Goosander.
Idle Washlands - Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 4 Great White Egret, 6 Pintail [Slaynes Lane, this morning], 8 Ruff [Hagg Lane].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead still on Coneries, 10:46].
Hoveringham - Oystercatcher [River Trent Ferry Farm, late morning], Cetti’s Warbler, Raven, 4 Lesser Redpoll [Railway Pit Wood, this morning].
Newark on Trent - 500+ Northern Lapwing [field next to A46 bypass near Lord Ted].
Monday 30th January
Westwoodside - 6 BEWICK'S SWAN [at least six still in field north of Sanderson's Bank with Whooper Swans].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead still on Coneries from pond dipping platform mid-morning], CASPIAN GULL [adult, still Clifton Pit].
Kilvington Lakes - SMEW [redhead, East Lake this morning].
Netherfield - 2 CASPIAN GULL [adult and 1st-winter, Enva Recycling Centre this morning]
Rufford CP - 2 Hawfinch [09:15], 26 Goosander, 2 Little Egret, 2 Grey Wagtail, Sparrowhawk, Goldcrest, 12 Redwing.
West Bridgford - Ring-necked Parakeet [on garden feeders, 08:00].
Sunday 29th January
Scrooby - TUNDRA BEAN GOOSE [with c.250 Pink-footed Geese west of railway crossing, 16:00 at least].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 6 Russian White-fronted Geese [again in field west of feeding station with Greylag Geese as viewed from the memorial, 14:00].
Holme Pierrepont - 5 SMEW [adult drake/4 redheads A52 Pit, mid-afternoon]; also Great White Egret.
East Leake - Red Kite [flying north-west over Lantern Lane and Sharpley Hill at 14:00].
Westwoodside - 3 BEWICK'S SWAN, 50 Whooper Swan [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank].
Idle Washlands - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [2nd-winter Slaynes Lane 12:05], 2 Goosander.
Collingham Pits - Great White Egret [Mons Pool, 10:43].
Cromwell Pits - 2 SMEW [adult drake and redhead, 10:02 - 12:55 at least].
Spalford - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [1st-winter Spalford Pit].
Bilborough - 4 Whooper Swan [flew low south over Glaisdale Drive, 09:08].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 4 Green Sandpiper [Chainbridge].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead still on Coneries from pond dipping platform, 08:33].
Besthorpe NR - 4 Whooper Swan [by the road towards the river Trent, 08:13].
Saturday 28th January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead still Coneries, late afternoon], CASPIAN GULL [adult still Clifton Pit]; also Oystercatcher [Gull Island].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 20 Goosander [Bellmoor Lake, mid-afternoon], Stonechat [by the Idle Valley Centre].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Great White Egret, Red Kite, Marsh Tit, Stonechat [from the feeding station layby].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Crossbill [over Budby Common].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 2000+ Pink-footed Geese, 29 Shelduck, 47 Curlew, Redshank, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 30 Fieldfare.
Holme Pierrepont - 4 SMEW [adult drake/3 redheads A52 Pit, late morning].
Westwoodside - 10 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank with 60 Whooper Swan, 08:17].
Friday 27th January
Stoke Bardolph - 2 CASPIAN GULL, 1w MEDITERRANEAN GULL, Yellow-legged Gull [on rooftops at Severn Trent Sewage Works this afternoon]; also 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 10+Chiffchaff, Whooper Swan.
Gringley Carr - 2 Brambling [along Carr Road in with large mixed finch flock, this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead still Coneries], Pintail [Clifton Pit], Brambling [left of Kingfisher hide].
Babworth - 5 Corn Bunting, 20+Tree Sparrow [along Old London Road, midday].
Westwoodside - 10 BEWICK'S SWAN, c.2000 Pink-footed Geese, 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, Barnacle Goose [Sanderson's Bank, late morning]; Russian Common Gull [1st-winter in field c 400m south of former Park Drain Hotel]; also 12+Corn Bunting.
Gunthorpe - Great White Egret, 21 Little Egret, 25 Goosander, adult and first-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Stonechat.
Gedling - 500 Pink-footed Geese [Several skeins totalling 500 west over Gedling Crematorium this morning].
Thursday 26th January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [adult still Clifton Pit late afternoon], SMEW [redhead, Coneries].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - CATTLE EGRET, 3 Great White Egret [again in sheep field south of Alans Meadow, this afternoon].
Stoke Bardolph - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [1st-winter], Yellow-legged Gull [sub-adult, late afternoon].
Babworth - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [1st-winter in field with large gull flock south of the railway crossing Old London Road, early afternoon].
Keyworth - 2 Red Kite [flew over, 12:00].
Rufford CP - 2 Hawfinch [09:10]; also 16 Goosander, Little Egret, Buzzard, 7 Jay, Marsh Tit, 1 Treecreeper, 3 Nuthatch.
Wednesday 25th January
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - Baikal Teal [female still, favoring the grass banks by the gravel pits with Eurasian Wigeon this morning to 12:18 at least; viewed from Fiftyeights Road. Grid Ref: SK 68900 98719]; also BLACK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE [with Pink-footed Geese].
Stoke Bardolph - 4 CASPIAN GULL [2nd-winter and three 1st-winter, on rooftops at Severn Trent Sewage Works 15:00]; also 2 Yellow-legged Gull [4th-winter and 1st-winter].
Westwoodside - 9 BEWICK'S SWAN, 39 Whooper Swan [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 33 Goosander [Clifton Pit, this afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - CATTLE EGRET, 3 Great White Egret [in sheep field south of Alans Meadow, this morning]; also on site 4 Goosander, Redshank, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Brambling, plus an Otter.
Rufford CP - 4 Hawfinch [with Redwing flock c.200m north of Lime Tree Avenue, 11:52].
Tuesday 24th January
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - Baikal Teal [female still, favoring the grass banks by the gravel pits with Eurasian Wigeon this morning and again at dusk after disappearing for most of the afternoon; viewed from Fiftyeights Road. Grid Ref: SK 68900 98719]; also HEN HARRIER [ringtail, quartering fields along Fiftyeights Road, 14:30].
Baikal Teal - Finningley © David Carr.
Westwoodside - 13 BEWICK'S SWAN, 60+Whooper Swan [showing well in roadside fields off Sanderson's Bank], Merlin [male sat in field, 10:12], HEN HARRIER [ringtail, hunting around the water tanks at the pull-in off Sanderson's Bank, early afternoon].
Netherfield Lagoons - 6 BEARDED TIT [in two sites in the reedbed seen from the causeway looking across the Slurry Lagoon; at least 3 males], 2 Snipe, pair Stonechat New workings area; late morning to midday visit].
South Muskam - 2 SMEW [drake and redhead, A1 Pits, late morning].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 3 Great White Egret [Alan's Meadow].
Strelley/Trowell - c.50 Golden Plover [between Strelley and Trowell, this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [adult still Clifton Pit, this morning]; also 3 Shelduck [close to the weir, 09:30]Water Rail [Clifton Pit, 08:30], Chiffchaff [Wheatear Field, 08:45], Great White Egret, Little Egret.
Monday 23rd January
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - Baikal Teal [female still, favoring the grass banks by the gravel pits with Eurasian Wigeon, 15:30 at least viewed from Fiftyeights Road. Grid Ref: SK 68900 98719]. Also on site c.3500 Pink-footed Geese, 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE, Barnacle Goose [feeding in field in South Yorks SK 683986, but occasionally flying into Nott's], COMMON CRANE [heard].
Westwoodside - 6 BEWICK'S SWAN [adults with 20+Whooper Swan still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, 11:50].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 2 Great White Egret, 3 Stonechat [Alan's Meadow], 3 Goosander, Goldeneye, Red-crested Pochard [Water Ski Pit], 2 Goldeneye (pr), Buzzard [Neatholme Fen], 2 Fieldfare, Redwing, Kestrel [Hawthorn Lane].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead, still Sailing Pit mid-morning]; 55 Goosander [this afternoon], Great White Egret [Main Pond, 14:00].
Sunday 22nd January
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - Baikal Teal [female, on scrapes by gravel pits with Eurasian Wigeon for third day; view from Fiftyeights Road. Grid Ref: SK 68900 98719].
Baikal Teal - Finningley © Ian Cowgill.
Baikal Teal - Finningley © Steve Furber.
Westwoodside - 12 BEWICK'S SWAN, 70+Whooper Swan [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW, 34 Goosander [Sailing Pit, late afternoon].
Ranskill - 130+ Pink-footed Geese [heading north-west over Blyth Road, 15:25].
Holme Pierrepont - 4 SMEW [adult drake/3 redheads, A52 Pit, early afternoon]; also BITTERN [flew across the A52 Pit, 13:20].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - BITTERN [in flight over Neatholme Fen, mid-morning], 600 Pink-footed Geese [530 over the Water Ski Pit heading north-west; c.70 Bellmoor Lake heading north-west], 7 Ruff [Walter Farm], CATTLE EGRET, 3 Great Wite Egret [Alans Meadow], Great White Egret [Blaco], 10 Goosander [Bellmoor Lake].
Idle Washlands - LITTLE GULL [1st-winter Slaynes Lane then flew off south-east, 09:15]; also 3 Great White Egret, 24 Pintail, 10 Goldeneye, Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Raven, 11 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, 2+Stonechat.
South Muskam - 20 Whooper Swan [in field by the A1/river Trent].
Newark Sugar Factory - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF [still in the outflow to river].
Strelley - 9 Golden Plover [in field near the village, this morning].
Rufford CP - 7 Hawfinch [from the main car park between 08:15 - 08:45].
Saturday 21st January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead, still Coneries mid-afternoon], CASPIAN GULL [adult, still present Clifton Pit].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead still Neatholme Fen, 14:00].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 6 Russian White-fronted Geese [at least 6 still in fields with Greylags west of the feeding station, 13:10].
Hoveringham - JACK SNIPE, 2 Common Snipe, 20 Siskin [Railway Pit this morning].
King's Mill Reservoir - Goosander, Shelduck, 12 Common Snipe.
Friday 20th January
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - CATTLE EGRET [Alans Meadow].
Clifton Pastures - 2 Raven [over], 2 Stonechat, c.100 Linnet [mid-afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead still on Coneries, 10:23], CASPIAN GULL [adult again Clifton Pit, 16:00 at least].
Westwoodside Area/Idle Bank - 13 BEWICK’S SWAN [a thirteenth bird has appeared during recent cold spell]; also c.60 Whooper Swan. Todays Doncaster Birding Blog
Idlestop – Snipe, Green Woodpecker, 2 Treecreeper, Brambling.
Gedling Crematorium - 130 Meadow Pipit, 300 Fieldfares [over].
Rufford CP - 8 Hawfinch [north of the Main car park, 09:30], c.200 Common Gull, 950 Black-headed Gull [on the frozen water], 8 Goosander [on open water near the golf course].
Thursday 19th January
Hoveringham - SMEW [redhead, Railway Pit this morning], 42 Pink-footed Geese [over Creagh Concrete factory 11:45], Raven [over seed fields], 300+ Linnets, 50+ Chaffinch, 2 Brambling [In large mixed finch flocks in seed fields].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [adult again Clifton Pit, from Kingfisher hide 10:40-10:50]; also Water Rail.
Westwoodside Area/Idle Bank - Barnacle Goose [of unknown origin in big flock of Pink-footed Geese off Idle Bank; with flocks of Pink-footed Geese over towards Misson Springs]. Todays Doncaster Birding Blog
Woodborough - Red Kite [east edge of village, 10:00].
Gringley Carr - 3 Brambling, 10 Yellowhammer, 5/6 Tree Sparrow.
Rufford CP - 16 Hawfinch [from the main car park, 08:38].
Wednesday 18th January
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 2 MEDITERRANEAN GULL [both 1st-winter, Neatholme Scrape roost], SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen], 3 Pintail, Kingfisher [Neatholme Scrape].
Westwoodside - 12 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank with 62+ Whooper Swan, this afternoon]; also 60 Golden Plover.
Westwoodside Area/Idle Bank - Greenland White-fronted Goose [with 2000+ Pink-footed Geese but no sign late afternoon but a possible Russian White-fronted Goose]. Todays Doncaster Birding Blog
Idle Washlands - 5 Pintail, 60 Golden Plover [north], 5+Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, Peregrine [Slaynes Lane], 2 Mistle Thrush [Hagg Lane].
Langford Lowfields - SCAUP [drake, Phase 2]; also 12 Whooper Swan, Great White Egret].
Besthorpe NR - Merlin [through], 12 Egyptian Geese [in field to the east of Mons Pool], Great White Egret [on Trent side adjacent the pool].
Newark Sugar Factory - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF [still in the outflow to river]; also 4 Chiffchaff.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; still present in field west of the feeding station, 10:50]; also Great White Great, Red Kite, Buzzard, Kestrel.
Rufford CP - 6 Hawfinch [from the main car park 08:15-08:40], Raven [fly-over], 300+ Common Gull.
Tuesday 17th January
Misson - Greenland White-fronted Goose [in first field north of The Rocket Site, Springs Road, with c.3,000 Pink-footed Geese, this afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 10+ Chiffchaff [at least 10 plus a paler bird seen briefly Hallcroft Sewage Works, early afternoon], Mandarin [drake Doughties].
Trowell Moor - 10 Grey Partridge, 45 Golden Plover [on the moor north-east of the service station].
Ossington - 2 Red Kite [11:00].
Rufford CP - Hawfinch [single from the main car park area, 09:30]; also 24 Goosander, Grey Heron, Goldcrest, 50+Redwing.
Monday 16th January
Hoveringham - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [1st-winter, in the Railway Pit roost this evening], 2 Redshank [Tipping Pond, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen, 14:00 at least], Marsh Harrier [cream-crown], Little Egret [Neatholme Fen], 5 Pintail, Great White Egret, GBBG [Neatholme Scrape], 5 Red-creasted Pochard, 3 Goosander [Water Ski Pit
Carlton on Trent - Russian White-fronted Goose [with feral geese flock viewed from the end of Carton Ferry Lane Collingham, 12:15].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Woodlark [Budby Common]..
Rufford CP - 9 Hawfinch, 2 Marsh Tit, 20+ mixed Redpoll and Siskin, Grey Wagtail, 20 Goosander.
Idle Washlands - 7 Shelduck, 27 Redshank, 33 Ruff, 53 Dunlin, 5 Pintail, 4 Goldeneye, 4 Great White Egret, Little Egret, Barn Owl, Merlin, Peregrine [Slaynes Lane] Todays Doncaster Birding Blog
Sunday 15th January
Westwoodside - 12 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, with 74 Whooper Swans], 1500+Pink-footed Geese.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; still present in field west of the feeding station this afternoon]; also Great White Egret
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen, 11:30], 2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, Marsh Harrier [Neatholme Fen], 10 Egyptian Geese, Green Sandpiper, 2 Grey Partridge [Willows/Clayworth Common].
Idle Washlands - 5+Great White Egret, 8 Little Egret, 2 Egyptian Geese, 12+Pintail, 4 Goldeneye, 6 Pochard, 37 Ruff, 33 Redshank, 43 Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 500+lapwing, 2 Marsh harrier, Peregrine, 2 Raven [Slaynes Lane, this morning], Marsh Harrier [Hagg Lane].
Gringley Carr - Marsh Harrier [juvenile], Kingfisher, 9 Corn Bunting.
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - Pink-footed Goose, 2 Green Sandpiper, 54 Curlew, 2 Buzzard, 2 Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 40+ Fieldfare. Todays Doncaster Birding Blog
Holme Pierrepont - 5 SMEW [adult drake and 4 redheads, A52 Pit this morning]; also Great White Egret.
Hoveringham - SMEW [redhead Sailing Lake Annex Pit this morning].
Thoresby Park - 6/7 Hawfinch [in trees in Deer enclosure viewed from cricket pitch, this morning]; also 2 Great White Egret.
Carlton on Trent - Russian White-fronted Goose [with feral geese flock viewed from the end of Carton Ferry Lane Collingham, 08:40].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [adult still Clifton Pit].
Oxton by-pass - Red Kite.
Gonalston - 250 Redwing, 10 Fieldfare.
Saturday 14th January
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - KITTIWAKE [adult, on the Great Lake, 15:35 , and flying around the dam causeway 16:00 at least].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 CASPIAN GULL [1st-winter on the Deep Pit, this afternoon; adult on the Slurry Lagoon]; also 45 Redpoll.
Westwoodside - 4 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, 11:52].
Gringley Carr – Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, Merlin [female], Peregrine, 2 Marsh Harrier [cream-crown and dark headed juvenile], Cettis Warbler, Water Rail, 6 Stonechat [3 pairs].
Idle Washlands – 4 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 2 Pintail, Goldeneye, 94 Curlew, Buzzard, 2 Kestrel [Slaynes Lane]. Todays Doncaster Birding Blog
Annesley Pit Top - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [1st-winter, Middle Lagoon 09:42].
Ranskill - Red Kite [flew over Great North Road, 09:35].
Friday 13th January
Hoveringham - SMEW [redhead, still Railway Lake 14:00].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen, 12:50].
Stoke Bardolph - Raven [landing on Pylon behind Sluice, 11:15].
Thoresby Park - 3 Hawfinch [by the Cricket Club, 09:33].
Thursday 12th January
Westwoodside - 11 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, with 88 Whooper Swans early afternoon], c1200 Pink-footed Geese, Barnacle Goose [in field immediately east of Bank East Fisheries, south of the road].
Stock Bardolph - CASPIAN GULL [1st-winter, by the outflow to the River Trent then flew south-west 10:45].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; still present in field west of the feeding station, 09:24 with at least five still present 11:20]; also Great White Egret, 2 Red Kite.
Hoveringham - SMEW [redhead, still Railway Lake], 7 Pintail.
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen, this morning].
Thoresby Park - 3 Hawfinch [again in trees by thedeer enclosure].
Rufford CP - Hawfinch [single, from the main car park, 09:10].
Wednesday 11th January
Newark on Trent - Black-throated Thrush [male in area with no general access for third day].
Black-throated Thrush - Newark on Trent.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; still present in field west of the feeding station, this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead, Clifton Pit early afternoon], CASPIAN GULL [1st-winter or hybrid Clifton Pit], MEDITERRANEAN GULL [ringed adult briefly Sailing Pit, mid-morning].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 5 Green Sandpiper [Chainbridge Scrape West, mid-morning].
Rufford CP - Red Kite [over 10:50].
Westwoodside - 13 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, with Whooper Swans this morning].
Tuesday 10th January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - KITTIWAKE [adult taken into care this morning but unfortunately died shortly after rescue].
Westwoodside - 10 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, with c.60 Whooper Swan this morning].
Monday 9th January
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; still present in field west of the feeding station, this afternoon].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 CASPIAN GULL [adult and 1st-winter, Slurry Lagoon early afternoon]; also 1w Yellow-legged Gull, leucistic Herring Gull, 2 Raven, 45 Redpoll,
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen, 11:52].
Westwoodside - 4 BEWICK'S SWAN [still in field north of Sanderson's Bank, with 10 Whooper Swan this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - CASPIAN GULL [adult, still Clifton Pit].
Hoveringham - 2 Stonechat [pair Sailing Lake], Raven [over seed fields mid-morning].
Mansfield - c.50 Pink-footed Geese [east over Thieveswood, 10:00].
Rufford CP - Hawfinch [at least one still from the main car park, 08:30].
Sunday 8th January
Newark Sugar Factory - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF [still in the outflow to river]; also 5 Chiffchaff, Green Sandpiper, Shelduck, 100+Teal, 70 Lapwing, 18 Shoveler.
Girton - 65 Pink-footed Geese.
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen, 12:35].
Barton in Fabis - 6 Grey Partridge [in field east of Top Farm Barton Lane, this afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - 2 SMEW [redheads, Deep Water Pit late morning].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; still present in field with Greylags this morning].
Gringley Carr - 30 Pink Footed Geese, 4 Whooper Swan, 70 Lapwing, Marsh Harrier [dark headed juv], Peregrine, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Stonechat [pair], 4 Corn Bunting.
Idle Stop - 4 Pintail [3 drakes], 450 Wigeon, 300 Teal.
Idle Washlands - 4 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 24 Pintail, 4 Goldeneye, 3 Dunlin, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 2 Buzzard [Slaynes Lane]. Todays Doncaster Birding Blog
Rufford CP - 3 Hawfinch [single from car-park, c.09:10; two c.08:40].
Westwoodside - 10+ BEWICK'S SWAN [in field north of Sanderson's Bank with 54 Whooper Swan, 08:30; The Bewick's and most of the Whoopers had relocated south of the Doncaster Road, just over the County boundary this afternoon].
Ravenshead - Raven [fly-over].
Saturday 7th January
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead, Coneries showing well close to the Sand Martin wall, 13:53], CASPIAN GULL [adult still Clifton Pit].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen, 12:03].
Idle Washlands - c.12 Pintail, 5 Goldeneye, 3 Great Crested Grebe, c.14 Dunlin, c.20 Goldfinch, Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 4 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret [Slaynes Lane]. Todays Doncaster Birding
Westwoodside - 14 BEWICK'S SWAN [fourteen reported in field north of Sanderson's Bank with 37 Whooper Swan, 10:30]; also 5 Curlew, 21 Golden Plover.
Friday 6th January
Westwoodside - 14 BEWICK'S SWAN [nine adults, with 50+ Whooper Swan, 12:40; fourteen reported this afternoon].
Netherfield - CASPIAN GULL [adult, Enva Recycling Centre, this afternoon]; also 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull.
1w Caspian Gull (5th Jan) and 1w Yellow-legged Gull (6th Jan)- Netherfield © Miles Cluff.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - FIRECREST [Church Pond path between the dipping platform and Education Wood briefly 11:50 then moved into the wood], SMEW [redhead, still Coneries from the dipping platform], CASPIAN GULL [adult still Clifton Pit].
Langford Lowfields - Russian White-fronted Goose [single with c.400 Greylag, Deep Water Pit late morning].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; in field with Greylags mid-morning]; also 35+Goosander, 4 Mandarin [flew west], Great White Egret, Little Egret, 2 Raven].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, still Neatholme Fen], 13 Red-crested Pochard [Linghurst lakes], female Marsh Harrier, 200+ Golden Plover over, 30+ Lesser Redpoll.
Rufford CP - 24 Goosander, Marsh Tit.
Besthorpe NR - Red Kite [heading north-east over Mons Pool, 09:30].
Thursday 5th January
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 CASPIAN GULL [2nd-winter, in ploughed field on the east side of the large gravel pit then flew west, 12:25]; 1st-winter, Enva Recycling Centre, this afternoon].
Gunthorpe to Burton Joyce - Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret [on the fishing pond complex], c40 Pink-footed Geese [east], 4 Goldeneye (3 drakes on the River, 12:40-14:40].
Westwoodside - 11 BEWICK'S SWAN [adults, with 48 Whooper Swan, to 11:00 at least], 2 Marsh Harrier [through 10:45], 2 Stonechat [in scrub at ‘pull in’].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SMEW [redhead, Neatholme Fen, 11:18]
Holme Pierrepont - CASPIAN GULL [2nd-winter, Blotts Pit 10:15 until 11:17, departed north-west towards Netherfield], 59 Pink-footed Geese [skein of fifty heading east, 12:10; nine circled over Blotts 12:45 before coming down in the field adjacent to Hacketts/Blotts CC, still present with Canada and Greylags 13:21].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; in field with Greylags mid-morning]; also Great White Egret.
Rufford CP - 12 Hawfinch [from the Main car park area, this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead, still Coneries from the dipping platform, 08:51], CASPIAN GULL [adult again Clifton Pit].
Wednesday 4th January
Westwoodside - 9 BEWICKS SWAN [adults still in field north of Sanderson's Bank with 62 Whooper Swan, 15:00].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - Great White Egret [Conservation Lake, early afternoon], 4 Shelduck, Green Sandpiper, several hundred Lapwing [Chainbridge Scrape East].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; in field with Greylags late morning].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 SMEW [adult drake and redhead, A52 Pit at the western end late morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SMEW [redhead still Coneries, mid-morning]; CASPIAN GULL [adult, again Clifton Pit], Blackcap [Beeston Pond path].
Kilvington Lakes - Merlin [adult male, through low west this morning].
Hoveringham - Cetti’s Warbler [Railway Pit].
Woodthorpe - 4 Blackcap [daily on garden feeders].
Tuesday 3rd January
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - c.50 Golden Plover, c.300 Lapwang, Green Sandpiper [Chainbridge Scrape East, 15:00], 8 Great Black-backed Gull [Linghurst Pool, 14:00].
Osberton Estate - 45 Barnacle Geese [over east, 13:30].
Clumber Park - Raven [over Limetree Av, 12:28].
Gringley Carr - 2 Corn Bunting [on roadside wires], 3+Twite [within a large mixed mobile finch flock feeding alongside the road on the field edges and then flying up into the roadside bushes]
Westwoodside - 10 BEWICK'S SWAN, 39 Whooper Swan, c.1000 Pink-footed Geese [Sanderson's Bank, this morning].
Monday 2nd January
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] – 2500+ Pink-footed Geese [into roost]; 3 Greylag Geese, c150+ Wigeon, 5 Lapwing, 92+Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 30+Redwing, 80+Fieldfare.
Holme Pierrepont - 4 SMEW [adult drake and 3 redheads, A52 Pit late afternoon]; also 5 Whooper Swan [3 adults], Great White Egret.
Clumber Park - Brambling, c.150 Greenfinch [pre-roost gathering in various flocks behind the Chaple, 15:30].
Retford - 2 Raven [over the Babworth church yard, 13:04].
Netherfield - CASPIAN GULL [adult, Enva Recycling Centre 12:40].
Newark Sugar Factory - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF [still in the outflow ditch with 5+Chiffchaff, early afternoon]; also 80 Pink-footed Geese [south-east], 200+Teal, 10 Shoveler, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler.
Nott'm City - 5 Mandarin [Nottingham canal, this afternoon].
Westwoodside - 11 BEWICK'S SWAN [eleven adults still in field by Sanderson's Bank, with 98 Whooper Swan; seven still present midday at least with 30 Whoopers].
Bewick's Swans - Westwoodside © Alan Clewes.
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - c.110 Pink-footed Geese [80+ north-east 09:57; c.30 north-east 10:11], SMEW [redhead, still present on Neatholme Pit late morning], 2 Pintail [Neatholme Scrape],
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 8 Russian White-fronted Geese [4 adults/4 juveniles; in field with Greylags this morning; then seen to fly off north-west 14:53].
West Leake - Merlin [female/imm, hunting passerines Wosscock Lane off West Leake Lane, 09:50].
Idle Washlands - c.200 Pink-footed Geese, 16 Pintail, 2 Goldeneye (1 Drake), 4 Great White Egret, Little Egret, Ruff, Redshank, 55 Dunlin, Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Cettis Warbler, Stonechat [Slaynes Lane] Todays Doncaster Birding
Everton Carr - 4 Stonechat, Little Owl, Sparrowhawk, Gs woodpecker (drumming), Green Woodpecker, c.20 Redpoll.
Rufford CP - 9 Hawfinches [from the Main Car Park, 08:00 - 08:35].
Mansfield - Blackcap, 3 Siskin [private garden].
Sunday 1st January
Langford Lowfields - SMEW [redhead, Deep Water Pit late afternoon].
Idle Washlands - 4 Pintail, 4 Goldeneye, 58 Dunlin, 8 Ruff, 2 Redshank, 3 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 4 Stonechat [Slaynes Lane].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - c.85 Pink-footed Geese [north-east over the village 12:00], Green Sandpiper [Sheep Fields], Chiffchaff [Lound sewage works], Cetti's Warbler [Linghurst Pool], Marsh Harrier [near Neatholme Fen].
Idle Stop - 60 Whooper Swan.
Gringley Carr - 30 Pink-footed Geese [north-west], 12 Whooper Swan, 200 Wigeon, 6 Grey Partridge, Marsh Harrier, 3 Kestrel, 3 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 35 Lapwing, 250 Fieldfare, 150 Redwing, 2 Cettis Warbler, 650 Starling, 4 Stonechat [2 pairs], Grey Wagtail.
Holme Pierrepont - CASPIAN GULL [adult, Blotts Pit this afternoon], 2 SMEW [adult drake and redhead, A52 Pit, this morning].
Westwoodside - 11 BEWICK'S SWAN [eleven still in field by Sanderson's Bank, with c.120 Whooper Swan this morning; four still present 15:43 at least].
Newark Sugar Factory - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF [still in the outflow ditch, this morning]; also c.8 Chiffchaff.
Barton in Fabis - Red Kite [drifting over Trentside towards Thrumpton late morning]; also Peregrine, 4 Stonechat.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - BITTERN [Church Pond, 08:00], SMEW [redhead, Clifton Pit, 08:22], CASPIAN GULL [adult still Clifton Pit].
Thoresby Park - Hawfinch [again in trees at deer enclosure, this morning].
Many thanks to:
Celia Abbott, Julian Ainsworth, Andy Baker, Gary Barber, Merv Bartle, Bryony Barratt, Ian Bollen, Robin Brace, Alan Bradley, Mark Brown, Ruth Brown, Phil Burnham, Andy Burton, Paul Buxton, Russell Calvert, Alan Clewes, Miles Cluff, Jim Collinson, Ian Cowgill, Nick Crouch, Stu Davenport, Rod Dean, Lance Degnan, Carl Dixon, David Elliott, Del Evans, Steve Follows, Ade Fox, Pete Freeman, John Gallagher, Geoff Gamble, Malc Goodman, Rae Harrington, Tom Hibbert, Roz Hilditch, Alan Hobson, Gary Hobson, Paul Hobson, John Hopper, Spencer Lawrence, Phil Lee, Tom Marshall, Tim Martin, Martin McCallum, Peter Mee, Lesley Noar, David Parkin, Phil Palmer, Craig Pitchford, Trevor Poyzer, Simon Roberts, Alan Scrimshaw, Diana Schmies, Edmund Staunton, Alan Thomas, Simon Thompson, Mick Tring, Joe Seymour, Andy Shooter, Jordan Skelly, Edmund Staunton, Gary Twells, David Tyldesley, Tony Wardell, Brian Whetton, Lynda White, James Wilkinson, Steve Wilkinson, Paul Wilcox.
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