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July 2012
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Tue 31st Jul
Hoveringham - 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Barn Owl, 3 Common Tern, 1 Common Buzzard.
Worksop - Osprey [Godfrey's Pond], Hobby [near Manton Club].
Mon 30th Jul
Bentinck Void - Common Sandpiper.
Sun 29th Jul
Rufford Colliery - 1 Common Redstart [male], 1 Common Sandpiper.
Radford - Red Kite [Southey Street - high in Lime Trees, flying aggressively at corvid].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Tween Pond: Yellow-Legged Gull, Green Sandpiper.
Sat 28th Jul
Misterton - 1 Common Quail [heard at 11:00].
Besthorpe NWT - North: 1 Turtle Dove. South: 8 Little Egret, 1 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Turtle Dove.
Collingham Pits - 3 Green Sandpiper.
Newark - 5 Common Kestrel, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Bullfinch.
Fri 27th Jul
Center Parcs - 2 Goldcrest, 30+ Mistle Thrush, 3 Eurasian Jay, 3 Common Pheasant [female], 1 Eurasian Nuthatch, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Treecreeper, 3 Stock Dove, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 2 Wren.
Gringley Carr - Common Quail.
Thu 26th Jul
Gringley Carr - Common Quail.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Black-tailed Godwit [on Tween Scrape].
Skegby Trail - Mandarin Duck [with young].
Welbeck Watchpoint - Osprey, Hobby, Common Buzzard, Eurasian Sparrowhawk.
Whatton - Hobby [hunting swifts].
Wed 25th Jul
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Yellow-legged Gull [West Lake].
Mansfield - 4 Hobby [hunting at Crown Farm Industrial Estate among large flock of Swallows and Martins].
Lound - 1 Turtle Dove [Chainbridge Lane].
Tue 24th Jul
Bentinck Void - Whinchat.
Costock - Whinchat.
Kingston on Soar - Marsh Harrier [male - early morning].
Bildworth - Turtle Dove [pair at Boundary Wood].
Mon 23rd Jul
Hoveringham - 1 Cape Shelduck, 150+ Greylag Goose [Small Railway Lake].
Costock - Whinchat.
Lound - 1 Yellow-legged Gull [Neatholme Fen], 1 Common Gull [over Chainbridge Lane], 1 Common Sandpiper [Neatholme Scrape].
Norton - Common Buzzard.
Clumber Park - Common Kestrel.
Sun 22nd Jul
Hoveringham - 1 Cape Shelduck, 150+ Greylag Goose [Small Railway Lake].
Costock - Whinchat.
Sat 21st Jul
Budby Pumping Station - Osprey, Little Grebe, Tree Pipit.
Costock - Whinchat.
Besthorpe NWT - South: 1 Little Egret, 1 Turtle Dove.
Collingham Pits - 1 Dunlin, 4 Green Sandpiper.
Netherfield Lagoons - Sacred Ibis [presumed escape - flew high towards Gunthorpe].
Fri 20th Jul
Clumber Park - Common Buzzard.
Thu 19th Jul
Gonalston - Eurasian Nuthatch.
Tue 17th Jul
Collingham Pits - 1 Green Sandpiper.
Cotham Flash - 1 Whinchat, 2 Common Buzzard, 1 Little Owl.
Hoveringham - 1 Common Kestrel, Common Tern, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Egyptian Goose.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Grasshopper Warbler [Erewash Fields].
Sun 15th Jul
Hoveringham - River Trent: 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Common Buzzard.
River Idle - 30+ Oystercatcher [on wash-land opposite Gringley Pumping Station].
Sat 14th Jul
Bentinck Void - Whinchat.
Walesby - Stonechat.
Fri 13th Jul
St Anns - Red Kite [over Wells Road towards Mapperley].
Hucknall - 2 Siskin [juveniles].
Besthorpe NWT - South: 1 Little Egret, 1 Turtle Dove [heard].
Collingham Pits - 1 Little Egret, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Collingham Village - 1 Spotted Flycatcher.
Cotham Flash - 1 Common Greenshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Whinchat.
Kilvington Lakes - West Lake: 1 Little Egret, 1 Yellow-legged Gull [adult].
Manor Farm Wetlands - 3 Green Sandpiper.
Thu 12th Jul
Skegby Trail - Chaffinch , Goldfinch, Bullfinch, Yellowhammer, Great Tit , Long-tailed Tit , Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Jay, Common Buzzard, Barn Owl.
Lound - Chainbridge Scrape - east: 2 Little Egret, 4 Red-crested Pochard, 1 Black-tailed Godwit.
Welbeck Watchpoint - 2 Osprey [both birds seen to catch a fish late afternoon, first attempt for one and third attempt for the other], 1 Red Kite, 3 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 2 Common Kestrel, 12+ Common Buzzard, 10 Common Crossbill [family group flew over calling], 1 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Grey Partridge, 2 Common Tern, 200+ Common Swift.
Wed 11th Jul
Gonalston - Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Tue 10th Jul
Newstead Village - 5 Siskin [2 males, 2 females and 1 juvenile].
Mon 9th Jul
Hucknall - 2 Willow Warbler [garden], Siskin, Eurasian Jay.
Kingston on Soar - 2 Hobby.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3 Oystercatcher.
Collingham Pits - 1 Dunlin, 1 Green Sandpiper.
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Little Egret.
Sun 8th Jul
Wollaton Park - Common Buzzard.
Ollerton - 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker [on feeders].
Sat 7th Jul
Budby Pumping Station - 2 Osprey.
Holme Pierrepont - 1 Garganey.
Fri 6th Jul
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Lesser Whitethroat, Common Witethroat, Blackcap, Treecreeper, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff.
Besthorpe Nature Reserve - Mons Pool: 3 Mediterranean Gull.
Thu 5th Jul
Budby Common - Stonechat.
Budby Pumping Station - Common Kingfisher.
Wed 3rd Jul
Walkeringham - Turtle Dove [garden].
Cotgrave Country Park - Yellowhammer, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Common Kingfisher.
Tue 2nd Jul
Little John Lakes - Grey Heron, Common Redstart, Mallard.
Mon 1st Jul
Budby Pumping Station - 2 Osprey.
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