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.
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.
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Archived Sightings 2001 - 2023
Archived Sightings 2001 to 2025
Archived Sightings 2026
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 Feral/unknown origin.
Total of 198 Species recorded so far in 2026.
Updated 2nd October 2026.
Full List HERE
Sunday 11th October
Holme Pierrepont - GLOSSY IBIS [still Blotts Pit, 16:30], ROCK PIPIT [still A52 Pit; Alan Clewes].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 JACK SNIPE [Clifton Pit from Tower Hide, 16:02].
Kneesall - Barn Owl (Sharon Wilson).
Rufford - c.5 Brambling [feeding in Cherry Tree on the approach Rd to the old Rufford Colliery site, this afternoon; Graham Beeley].
Calverton - 3 Red Kite [over Springwater Golf Course; Mark Wilde].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SPOONBILL [imm south over Chainbridge Scrape East, 10:36], GLOSSY IBIS, Marsh Harrier [Chainbridge Scrape East], 2 Whooper Swan [Neatholme Scrape; Richard Scott].
Laxton Hills - Pink-footed Geese [148 moving south-west; 23 moving north west, early morning], Pintail [within the skien of 148 PFG], 29 Lapwing, 100+Skylark (Alan Scrimshaw).
Langford Lowfields - GREY PLOVER, GARGANEY [Phase Three, this morning; Mark Dawson].
Saturday 10th October
Cromwell Quarry - Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3 Snipe [this evening; Alfie Seastron].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - JACK SNIPE [Clifton Pit from Kingfisher Hide, early evening; Rod Dean].
Beckingham - 4 Whooper Swan [over Beckingham Camp; Matt Clint].
Collingham - c.100 Golden Plover [heading south-east, this afternoon; Robert Carr].
Holme Pierrepont - GLOSSY IBIS [still Blotts Pit], ROCK PIPIT [still A52 Pit, this morning; Alan Clewes].
Mansfield - Red Kite [over the Crematorium drifting towards Berry Hill; Phoebe Abbott].
Kilvington Lakes - Merlin [North Lake, this morning; Edmund Staunton].
Annesley Pit Top [Newstead and Annesley CP] - WATER PIPIT [on the south-east corner of the Middle Lagoon, 09:06; Paul Naylor].
Friday 9th October
Sutton on Trent - 33 Egyptian Geese, Yellow-legged Gull, 4+Grey Partridge, Little Owl [this evening; Alfie Seastron].
Netherfield - Caspian Gull [1st-winter Enva Recycling Centre, this afternoon; Miles Cluff].
Langford Lowfields - 4 GREY PLOVER, GARGANEY [Phase Three, this morning; Mark Dawson].
Holme Pierrepont - SHORT-EARED OWL [high north-west over Blotts Pit, mobbed by corvids, 09:00; Andrew Przeslak], 3 Whooper Swan [dropped into Blotts Pit, 10:12], GLOSSY IBIS [again Blotts Pit, 15:28], ROCK PIPIT [A52 Pit, early evening; Alan Clewes].
Edwinstowe - Redwing [flocks moving west this morning; Tom Hibbert].
Hockerton - Redwing [small numbers head passing over 06:30; Mark Wilde].
Thursday 8th October
Costock - Great White Egret [Holy Cross Convent, foraging in field 15:00; Mother Mary Julian].
Hucknall - GLOSSY IBIS [circled over the Hucknall bypass towards Bestwood Mill Lakes, 13:48; Richard Stanton].
Collingham Pits - JACK SNIPE [Ferry Lane Pit, 13:44; Mark Dawson].
Idle Washlands - GLOSSY IBIS, 2 Great White Egret, Little Egret, 3 Heron, JACK SNIPE, 3 Common Snipe, c.40 Mallard [Hagg Lane Flash, 12:30], Marsh Harrier [female, Slaynes Lane; Del Evans].
Clumber Park - Whooper Swan [adult, Clumber Lake opposite the Cafe/Shop area, this afternoon; Tracy Farrer]; also 2 Great White Egret, 2 Cetti's Warbler [heard].
Hoveringham - 6 Whooper Swan [Sailing lake, 11:47], Cattle Egret [on field by the Tipping Pond then flushed by farmer flew east, 11:10; Simon Shape].
Kilvington Lakes - ROCK PIPIT [West Lake, this morning; Edmund Staunton].
Holme Pierrepont - GLOSSY IBIS [flew east through the A52 Pit, 10:48], ROCK PIPIT [A52 Pit but mobile], c.65 Pink-footed Geese [east over Blotts Pit, 09:57; Alan Clewes].
Burton Joyce - c.50 Pink-footed Geese [east, 09:51; Bob Beck].
Gedling CP - c.50 Pink-footed Geese [east, 09:47; Tom Shields].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - GREY PLOVER [Chainbridge Scrape East, 08:43], WOOD SANDPIPER [Chainbridge Pit, 09:28], GLOSSY IBIS [Chainbridge Scrape East, 13:08; Dave Read].
Tollerton - 2 Ring-necked Parakeet [over Lothian Road, 08:30 mobbed by Magpie; Kevin Pyke].
Wednesday 7th October
Attenborough Nature Reserve - JACK SNIPE, 3 Pintail [Clifton Pit, this evening; Simon Roberts].
Holme Pierrepont - COMMON SCOTER [drake Blotts Pit, 10:42 - late afternoon at least; Alan Clewes], GLOSSY IBIS [in flight heading west, late afternoon; Andrew Buckley]; also Great White Egret.
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - GLOSSY IBIS [again on Chainbridge Scrape East, mid-afternoon; Birdguides].
Nott'm City - 7 Mandarin [five drakes, Nottingham Canal by the Tax Office; Andy Lane].
Langford Lowfields - BAR-TAILED GODWIT [Phase Three, 09:15], 3 COMMON SCOTER [all drakes, Deep Water Pit, early afternoon; Mark Dawson].
Carburton - Great White Egret [River Poulter pond, 08:15; Peter Burrill].
Sibthorpe - Nightjar [flushed from front garden, 06:30; Christian Boix].
Tuesday 6th October
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] – 4 SPOONBILL [on the middle Island, 15:31]; also 23 Pink-footed Geese, Little Egret, 11 Great White Egret (Ellis Lucas).
Holme Pierrepont - GLOSSY IBIS [dropped into Blotts Pit, 10:45], ROCK PIPIT [Blotts Pit, 15:34; Alan Clewes], Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper [Blotts Pit, this evening; Andrew Buckley].
Budby Pumping Station - Great White Egret, Peregrine, Kingfisher, Cetti's Warbler, 8 Raven [Budby Flash, early afternoon; Kevin Smith].
Hoveringham - JACK SNIPE [foraging along the edge of the Tipping Pond, late morning, Simon Sharpe].
Monday 5th October
Idle Washlands - GLOSSY IBIS [Hagg Lane Flash], 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier [Slaynes Lane; Steve Furber].
Holme Pierrepont - GLOSSY IBIS [still Blotts Pit, late morning; Michael Walker].
Kirton Brick Pits - 52 Gadwall, 19 Shoveler, 55 Teal, 3 Wigeon (Alan Scrimshaw).
Laxton - 12 Golden Plover, 100+Skylark, West Field Hill; Alan Scrimshaw].
Langford Lowfields - GARGANEY [still Phase Three, 08:28; Mark Dawson].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - BITTERN [flew into the Church Pond reed-bed, 07:15; Alan Thomas], ROCK PIPIT [Clifton Pit, late morning; Simon Roberts]; also 3 Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Snipe.
Sunday 4th October
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Pintail, 6 Snipe, Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, this evening; Simon Roberts]; Caspian Gull [adult, Clifton Pit, this afternoon; Brain Whetton].
Idle Washlands - 4 Great White Egret, GLOSSY IBIS, 6 Pintail, 4 Ruff, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, cc Marsh Harrier, GBBG, 8 LBBG, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti's Warbler [Slaynes Lane, this afternoon; Lance Degnan].
Holme Pierrepont - GLOSSY IBIS [still Blotts Pit, early afternoon; Alan Clewes].
Kilvington Lakes - ROCK PIPIT [south shore West Lake, 09:02], SPOONBILL [West Lake, 09:42 - 10:36 at least; Birdguides].
Saturday 3rd October
Collingham Pits - Curlew, Grey Wagtail [this evening; Robert Carr].
Cromwell Quarry - Common Sandpiper, 1+Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier, Grey Wagtail (Alfie Seastron).
Holme Pierrepont - Brambling [female, feeding on path between Blotts/Fishing Lake, 17:04; Andy Lane].
Colwick CP - 3 Pintail [Main Lake, this afternoon; Tom Shields].
Kilvington Lakes - 20 Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 2 Snipe, 2 Dunlin, Grey Wagtail [West Lake, this afternoon; Jonathan Lloyd].
Laxton - 4 Stonechat, 50 Skylark [South Fields; Sharron Wilson].
Osberton - Northern Wheatear [female type; Andy Shooter],
Clumber Park - Pintail [female], 12 Mandarin, 2 Brambling (Andy Shooter).
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SPOONBILL [Clifton Pit, 07:38 - mid-morning; Adey Fox], Cattle Egret [over Tween towards Coneries, 10:48], Pintail [over Clifton Pit towards Tween, 11:55; Andy Hall], Greenshank [Cliton Pit, 18:05; David Farnsworth].
Friday 2nd October
Holme Pierrepont - GLOSSY IBIS [still Blotts Pit, this evening].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] – 6 Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3 Ruff, 75 Cormorant [left NW], 4 SPOONBILL [left south], 2 Little Egret, 3 Great White Egret, 4 Grey Heron, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, c.30 Linnet, Siskin (Chris Robinson). Todays Doncaster Birding
Langford Lowfields - GARGANEY, WOOD SANDPIPER [Phase Three, this morning; Mark Dawson].
Scrooby - 20 Cattle Egret [in fields east of the railway, this morning then flew towards Bawtry; Del Evans].
Ollerton - 2 Redwing [over, 08:25; Alan Scrimshaw].
Idle Washlands - RING-NECKED DUCK [drake on the Deep Water Pit, 08:19; Dave Hursthouse], 2 Water Rail [Slaynes Lane; Keith Fisher].
Barton in Fabis - 7 Swallow [west, 07:38], 2 Red Kite, 11 Yellowhammer (Rob Hoare).
Thursday 1st October
Attenborough Nature Reserve - JACK SNIPE, Hobby [Clifton Pit, this evening; Simon Roberts].
Farndon - Hobby [hawking over the Trent, mid-afternoon; Nick Blinston].
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