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.
"Records of certain sensitive species may not appear here during the breeding season, unless publicised by site managers or where records relate to what are likely to be passage migrants or wandering non-breeding individuals rather than breeders. Species that this generally applies to include (but are not necessarily limited to): Avocet, Bearded Tit, Bittern, Black-necked Grebe, Black Redstart, Cetti's Warbler, Garganey. Goshawk (except from Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint), Honey-buzzard (except from Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint), Marsh Harrier, Mediterranean Gull, Nightingale, Peregrine (except for Nottingham City Centre), Raven, Red Kite and Woodlark (except for Sherwood Forest NNR/Budby Common). For a range of other species, we will not include specific breeding information - this includes Barn Owl, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Little Ringed Plover, Nightjar, Turtle Dove and Willow Tit. Nevertheless, please submit your sightings anyway."
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.
Have you seen any Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers at Sherwood Forest this year?
The RSPB are trying to map their territories to understand population size and protect them during the breeding season.
Please email any information on sightings to: sherwoodforest@rspb.org.uk
[9th March 2020]
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Government covid-19 regulations on social distancing.
Due to Government covid-19 regulations on social distancing, it has been decided that the sightings page will now be updated on a weekly basis rather than daily to discourage social gatherings.
Hopefully normal service will resume soon but for now weekly updates will be every Sunday evening.
Please ONLY submit your sightings that conform with Government regulations; your once daily exercise walk, vizmig from your garden etc.
Government covid-19 regulations on social distancing - update 13th May.
The government guidelines have now been updated to basically allow an increased amount of travelling with no limit on the daily exercise periods. This will no doubt lead to people birding further afield within the county. We can't stop people doing that but hope that society members will continue to take all necessary precautions and observe social distancing when out and about.
Sunday 31st May
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [female, 14:05].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Neatholme Fen]; 2 Hobby.
Idle Washlands - 2 Ringed Plover [Slaynes Lane].
Netherfield Lagoons - Cuckoo, 2 Peregrine, Garden Warbler.
Budby Pumping Station - GARGANEY [drake, 05:36 but no sign this afternoon; first site record].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Hobby [over Clifton Pit, early afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - 2 SANDERLING [Phase 3, 05:58].
Saturday 30th May
Kirklington/Eakring - Woodcock [roding over Redgate Wood, near entrance to Dukes Wood, this evening].
Holme Pierrepont - LITTLE TERN [Blotts Pit, 15:35 - 18:55 at least].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [showing this morning].
Cotgrave - Crossbill [flew west, 09:45].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Hobby.
Bassingfield - Curlew [in the long grassy field on the Bassingfield side of Tollerton airfield]; also Yellow Wagtail.
Clumber Park - Whooper Swan [adult, on the Main Lake, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Common Crane [Tiln North, 04:56 then flew to fields east of Tiln North 05:03 beforth finally flying north, c.08:30].
Friday 29th May
Clifton Pastures - 2 QUAIL [singing males, audible from fields alongside the Fairham Brook, 21:30].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Common Crane [Tiln North, 19:00 - 21:18 at least].
Idle Washlands - Cattle Egret [showing distantly north of the eastern end of Slaynes Lane, this morning].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard [showing on and off all morning], GOSHAWK [male, through this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit, this morning].
Rainworth Heath - 2 Cuckoo [female heard ‘bubbling’ and distant male calling].
Thursday 28th May
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard [two birds up together, 10:45 - 10:50; one landed on the road heading down to the reservoir at a presumed wasp nest or similar].
Langford Lowfields - 14 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Dunlin, 2 Redshank [Phase 3, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Neatholme Scrape].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Redshank [Clifton Pit, this morning].
Mansfield - Ring-necked Parakeet [flying over Sandhurst Ave, 08:00].
Scrooby - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Top Fisheries, this morning].
Wednesday 27th May
No News.
Tuesday 26th May
Sherwood Forest NNR - 3 Nightjar, 3 Woodcock, 2 Cuckoo, 3 Woodlark, 3 Tree Pipit, 2 Stonechat [Budby Common, this evening].
Clifton Pastures - 2 QUAIL [singing males, again this evening].
Ordsall - Hoopoe [present on All Hollows Close 17:16, then flew back to the playing field].
Silverhill Wood - Willow Tit [adjacent to Dunsill Pond].
Monday 25th May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Smew [drake, Neatholme Scrape, this morning], Whinchat [on the east fence line Tiln North, this evening]; also Grasshopper warbler [heard briefly south of Tiln north],2+ Hobby [in air together], 2+ Cuckoo [in the area].
Ordsall - Hoopoe [still present on playing field off Grange Road, 06:00 - late afternoon].
Annesley Pit Top - 3 SANDLING [Lagoon 4, 06:56].
Sunday 24th May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Buff-breasted Sandpiper [Tiln North, still present on the north shore viewable from Chainbridge Lane, 06:49 - early afternoon at least], Smew [drake, still Blaco; this is now the latest Nott's record], Yellow-legged Gull [Bellmoor Lake, 13:08].
Annesley Pit Top - Honey Buzzard [male, flew low west, 19:30, photos indicate it to be the returning male present at the Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint last year], 2 SANDERLING [Lagoon 4, 10:49].
Ordsall - Hoopoe [present on playing field off Grange Road for second day, 19:45 at least].
Barton in Fabis - Cattle Egret [put up from dyke near Cottages Flash, then flew towards Thrumpton, 12:58]; also Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash].
Idle Washlands - 6 SANDERLING [Slaynes Lane, mid-morning].
Holme Pierrepont - ARCTIC TERN [flew north-east through Blotts Pit, 09:05].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - ARCTIC TERN [through Clifton Pit, 08:46]; also Hobby [Barton Lane], Little Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit].
Langford Lowfields - SANDERLING [Phase 3, 08:50].
King's Mill Reservoir - Little Ringed Plover [still present].
Saturday 23rd May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Buff-breasted Sandpiper [Tiln North, still present on the north shore viewable from Chainbridge Lane, 06:49 - dusk], Smew [drake, still on Blaco].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Stonechat [pair], Woodcock, Nightjar [17:00 - 22:00].
Idle Washlands - LITTLE GULL [first-winter], 2 SANDERLING, 3 Ringed Plover [Slaynes Lane].
Langford Lowfields - 2 MEDITERRANEAN GULL [adult and first-summer Phase 3, 10:40], SANDERLING [Phase 3, 11:39]; also Dulin, Ringed Plover.
Collingham Pits - GREY PLOVER [Northcroft Pit, 09:25].
Mansfield - Woodcock [Thieves Wood, flushed by dog].
Colwick Park - 3 ARCTIC TERN.
Friday 22nd May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Buff-breasted Sandpiper [Tiln North, still present viewable from Chainbridge Lane, 06:06 - 14:00 at least], Smew [drake, Tiln North, 07:07].
Langford Lowfields - SANDERLING, GREY PLOVER, Ruff [Phase 3, this morning; please note that the reserve and car park are still closed and viewing is from the public footpath only].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover [Clifton Pit].
Idle Washlands - SANDERLING [Slaynes Lane, early morning].
Thursday 21st May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Buff-breasted Sandpiper [Tiln North, viewable from Chainbridge Lane, 06:55 - dusk]; also 5 Dunlin [one of the five was considerably smaller, short-billed, paler individual and was considered to be of the ssp. artica], Redshank, 2+Hobby [all Tiln North], Smew [drake, still Blaco, this evening].
Idle Washlands - LITTLE GULL [first-winter, Slaynes Lane].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Nightjar ["churring" Budby Common, this evening], 3 Woodcock [roding over Budby Common, late evening], 3 Cuckoo [Budby Common, this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Cuckoo [near Tower hide, this morning].
Wednesday 20th May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Smew [drake, again on Blaco, viewable from the metal gate, this evening].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Hobby [between the Slurry Lagoon and the plantation walk], Peregrine [circling above the pylons].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Common Redstart, Garden Warbler.
Osberton Estate - Spotted Flycatcher.
Misson Carr - 3 Cuckoo ["bubbling" female and 2 males].
East Leake - Hobby [in pursuit of Swifts, then flew north].
Papplewick - 3 Yellow Wagtail [2 adults and juvenile].
Rufford - Common Sandpiper [lake on the old Rufford pit site, 05:20].
Tuesday 19th May
Attenborough Nature Reserve - SANDERLING [Clifton Pit, Gull Island, 16:25], 7 Shelduck [Coneries].
Langford Lowfields - GREATER SCAUP [drake on Deep Water Pit], 10 Ringed Plover, Dunlin [both Phase 3].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Smew [drake, again on Blaco, 14:47 at least viewable from the metal gate].
Monday 18th May
Clifton Pastures - Whinchat [female, still along the Fairham Brook, this evening].
Holme Pierrepont - OSPREY [flew low north over Blotts Pit, 10:42].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - LITTLE GULL [second-summer, still present but mobile seen on Clayworth Common, Neatholme Scrape], OSPREY [north-west over Chainbridge Pit, 10:30].
King's Mill Reservoir - Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper.
Sunday 17th May
Holme Pierrepont - 17 Common Tern, Little Ringed Plover, Cuckoo [Blotts pit, this evening].
Langford Lowfields - SANDERLING [Phase 3, this morning], GREATER SCAUP, Red-crested Pochard [still present on the Deep Water Pit]; also Grasshopper Warbler, 8 Hobby.
Girton Pits - Cattle Egret [North Pit, 10:29 -13:41 at least].
Sherwood Forest NNR - 6 Common Redstart [5 males], 12 Woodlark, 11 Tree Pipit, 5 Garden Warbler, 16 Willow Warbler, 3 Stonechat [2males], 2 Cuckoo.
Sutton Bonington - Whinchat [male, in horse field, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - LITTLE GULL [second-summer, still present Tiln North, 08:40 - 11:00 at least], Smew [drake, Blaco assocating with Goldeneye on the first lake, viewed from the big metal gate, 11:02], 3 Hobby [Chainbridge Scrape area, late morning].
Saturday 16th May
Clifton Pastures - QUAIL [singing male, 20:30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - TURNSTONE [Clifton Pit, Gull Island, 16:28 - 17:24 at least]; also White Wagtail.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 8 Hobby [over Chainbridge area, mid-afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - 2 SANDERLING [Phase 3, this morning], GREATER SCAUP [drake, Deep Water Pit, 16:30]; also Red-crested Pochard [please note that the reserve and car park are still closed and viewing is from the public footpath only]. ].
Harwell Carrs - Cuckoo [heard from woodland along side The River Idle].
King's Mill Reservoir - Little Ringed Plover.
Friday 15th May
Clifton Pastures - 2 QUAIL [singing males, this evening].
Sherwood Forest NNR - 8 Common Redstart [6 males], Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Garden Warbler, pair of Mandarin. 3 Woodlark, 6 Tree Pipit, 3 Stonechat [pair + juvenile], 1+ Cuckoo [Budby Common].
Idle Washlands - Mandarin [drake, Slaynes Lane].
King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Little Ringed Plover, c. 100 Swift.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 10 Black-tiled Godwit [circled Tiln North, then flew south, 08:02], LITTLE GULL [second-summer, still present Tiln North].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 WHIMBREL [Blotts Pit, briefly 07:40 then flew east].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - WHIMBREL [Clifton Pit, 06:00]
Thursday 14th May
Budby Pumping Station - Bee-eater [at least one calling unseen high to the north-east for about half a minute, 08:45].
Gedling - Ring-necked Parakeet [Gedling house wood, 17:45].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 7 Hobby [feeding over Clifton Pit, 15:30].
Cromwell - OSPREY [flew north over Cromwell Weir following the river Trent, 08:50].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - LITTLE GULL [second-summer, still Tiln North, 07:30], Grasshopper Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Cuckoo [Chainbridge Meadow], 2 Redshank, Ringed Plover, 2 Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North].
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper.
Rainworth Sewage Works - 50 Swift, 20 House Martin, Hobby.
Wednesday 13th May
Idle Washlands - WOOD SANDPIPER [Slaynes Lane, through south-west], WHIMBREL, c.500 Swift [Slaynes Lane].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - LITTLE GULL [second-summer], WHIMBREL [Tiln North, this evening], 2 Ringed Plover, Redshank, Yellow Wagtail, Oystercatcher [Tiln North], Lesser Whitethroat, Hobby [Chainbridge Meadow].
Holme Pierrepont - Ringed Plover, Cuckoo [Blotts Pit, this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank [Clifton Pit, 14:28].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Woodlark [singing, Budby Common]; also Tree Pipit, Cuckoo.
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper.
Idle Washlands - 4 Yellow Wagtail [Slaynes Lane].
Tuesday 12th May
Attenborough Nature Reserve - White-winged Black Tern [adult-summer, second bird; briefly on the Sailing Pit, 15:59, then flew back to the Windsurfing Pit, Long Eaton GP's, Derby's where it had been present since 13:56]; also Hobby [Sailing Pit], Cuckoo [by Tower Hide, 07:47], Redshank, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher with young [Gull Island, Clifton Pit, this morning].
Holme Pierrepont - White-winged Black Tern [adult-summer, still on Blotts Pit, 06:20 - 17:00 then relocated to the A52 Pit], Cuckoo, 2 Ringed Plover [Blotts Pit], 6+Hobby [A52 Pit].
Thrumpton - GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew over from the Long Eaton GP's towards the Ratcliffe on Soar power Station, 18:30].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 3 Black-tailed Godwit [Tiln North, 15:38], 2 Hobby [Bellmoor Lake, 15:45], 2 Redshank, Dunlin, Swift, Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler [Tiln North].
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper, c. 150 Swift.
Monday 11th May
Holme Pierrepont - White-winged Black Tern [adult-summer, now favoring Blotts Pit, present till dusk].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - OSPREY [over Bellmoor Lake, mid-afternoon], LITTLE GULL [second-summer, still present on Tiln North, 14:49].
Netherfield Lagoons - 3 Ringed Plover, Little Rined Plover, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Ruddy Shelduck [Works Area] Hobby [Large Gravel Pit].
Harwell - Cuckoo [Harwell Woods, this morning].
King's Mill Reservoir - Common Sandpiper.
Sunday 10th May
Holme Pierrepont - White-winged Black Tern [adult-summer, favoring the bays on the west side of the A52 Pit, early evening at least].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - TURNSTONE [Tiln North, 09:02], LITTLE GULL [second-summer, Tiln North, 12:15 - 13:00 at least]; also Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Common Gull.
King's Mill Reservoir - 60 Swift, 15 Swallow, c.200 Sand Martin, 12 House Martin, 2 Common Tern [this morning].
Colwick Park - c.35 Swift [over the Main Lake, this morning].
Saturday 9th May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GARGANEY, Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin [Tiln North, this morning]; also Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Tern, 2 Cuckoo.
Gringley Carr - TURTLE DOVE [flying along side River Idle near Gringley Pumping Station].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 2 Common Tern, Cuckoo [works area].
Clifton Pastures - Whinchat [along fairham brook].
Clumber Park - OSPREY [flew north-east. 09:10]; also 2 Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat.
Netherfield Lagoons - Cuckoo [single male, 09:00].
Papplewick - Cuckoo [singing, 07:15].
Friday 8th May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WOOD SANDPIPER [Chainbridge Pit, 15:15], 5 Dunlin [Tiln North], Grasshopper Warbler [Chainbridge Meadow], Cuckoo [Walters Lane], Goldeneye [Blaco Pits].
Worksop - Corn Bunting [Red Lane, near Carlton kennels].
Netherfield Lagoons - 5 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 6 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper [on the new workings]; also 3 Cuckoo [around the area, with 2 Males chasing a female].
Cotgrave - Ruddy Shelduck [on the Golf Course, this morning].
Thursday 7th May
Chilwell - OSPREY [high over this evening].
Sherwood Forest NNR - 2 Cuckoo [Budby South Forest, 19:00].
Holme Pierrepont - 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern, 2 Oystercatcher [this evening].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Whinchat [male, Tiln North, between the viewing mounds, this afternoon], Cuckoo [Tiln North].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Oystercatcher [Works Pond], Greenshank [still on Works flash], 6 Common Tern [4 dive bombing BHGs on Tern Platform, 2 Works Pond].
Idle Washlands - Redshank, Greenshank, Ruff, Hobby, Reed warbler, Sedge Warbler, Sand Martin, Swallow, 4 Common Tern [Slaynes Lane], Cuckoo heard [over Harwell side of River Idle].
Clifton Grove - Spotted Flycatcher [in trees below Branshill mid-morning].
King's Mill Reservoir - c.50 Swift [including a leucistic individual].
West Bridgford - 3 Swift.
Wednesday 6th May
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Avocet [flew south over Tween Pond, 19:29]; Northern Wheatear [Wheatear Field], 6+ Hobbies.
King's Mill Reservoir - TURNSTONE, 2 Common Tern, c.100 Swift.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WOOD SANDPIPER, 9 Dunlin [Tiln North], Common Sandpiper [Chainbridge Pit], Grasshopper Warbler [Chainbridge Meadow], WHIMBREL [over Tiln Pits area], Red-creasted Pochard, Common Sandpiper [Chainbridge Pit], Redshank, Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North]; 2 Hobby [Neatholme Lane], also GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Cuckoo [on site] .
Netherfield Lagoons - 7 Common Shelduck [Works Pond], 2 Oystercatcher, Greenshank [Works flash], 3 Common Tern [Deep Pit].
Osberton Estate - Whinchat [male, in oil seed rape field], also at least 4 singing Corn Bunting and numerous Yellow Wagtail.
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Avocet, Cuckoo [Blotts Pit, this morning].
Bingham - 6 Swift [over the town centre].
Arnold - Swift [single over Sandfield Road].
Tuesday 5th May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Grasshopper Warbler [Chainbridge Meadow], 7 Hobby [across the site].
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Common Shelduck, Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin [Works Pond].
Barton in Fabis - TURTLE DOVE [on the edge of Branhill Wood, then flew into private garden, 11:00], Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash], 5+Yellow Wagtail [Barton Lane].
Mapperley - 4 Swift [this morning].
Monday 4th May
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 LITTLE TERN [briefly on Gull Island, Clifton Pit, 12:27]; also 5 Common Tern, 3 Hobby.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WOOD SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, 2 Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover [Tiln North, this morning], WATER PIPIT [Tiln North, from the viewing point on the eastern side, early afternoon], 3 Common Tern, Sedge Warbler, Sand Martin, Common Whitethroat [Chainbridge Lane/Alan's Meadow circular walk], Little Ringed Plover, Yellow wagtail, Redshank [Tiln North].
Netherfield Lagoons - Ruddy Shelduck [Works Pond], Hobby [flew across river towards Ratcliffe].
King's Mill Reservoir - Dunlin [10:30].
Cotgrave CP - GREAT WHITE EGRET [through, 10:00].
Barton in Fabis - 2 Ringed Plover [Cottages Flash].
Skegby - 12 Swift, 6 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap [this morning]; also Hobby [over 16:55].
Sunday 3rd May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WOOD SANDPIPER, Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 5 Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North], Grasshopper Warbler [Alans Meadow, this morning], 3+Hobby [Chainbridge Scrape [early afternoon], White Wagtail [Clayworth Common].
Elkesley - Fieldfare [in paddock, 16:30].
Cromwell - Cuckoo, 2 Common Tern, Swift.
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Common Tern.
Thrumpton - 8 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail [feeding around cattle, 06:00], 2 Lesser Whitethroat, c.30 Swift, Goosander [Cranfleet Lock].
Holme Pierrepont - Cuckoo [Blotts Pit, 09:53].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Common Redstart, Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, Woodlark, Hawfinch, Willow Warbler [highlights of international dawn chorus day, 03:30 - 12:30].
Saturday 2nd May
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WATER PIPIT [still present Tiln North, this afternoon], WOOD SANDPIPER [Tiln North, 15:30], CASPIAN GULL [first-summer, Bellmoor Lake, mid-afternoon]; also 2 Cuckoo, several Yellow Wagtail, 8/9 Common Tern [spread over area].
Normanton Holmes - Short-eared Owl [on the riverbank, near the fishermans car park, 12:15].
Compton Acres - Spotted Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail [midday].
Netherfield Lagoons - Yellow Wagtail, 2 Oystercatcher [Works Area], Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler.
Clumber Park - 2 Hobby, 2 Marsh Harrier [through south, this morning], Lesser Whitethroat, Oystercatcher, TURTLE DOVE, Tree Pipit, 20 Swift, 2 Whinchat.
King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Common Tern, c.20 Swift, c.20 House Martin.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still Mian Pond, early morning].
Hickling - 10 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, Willow warbler, 7 Reed warbler, 7 Whitethroat, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Sedge warbler [singing birds recorded along Grantham canal towpath Hickling to River Smite, 06:30].
Friday 1st May
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover [Blotts Pit, this evening].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - WATER PIPIT, 10 Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North, 15:45], WOOD SANDPIPER [Tiln North, in the south-east corner, 12:40], Grasshopper Warbler [Chainbridge Meadow], 5 Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover [Tiln North, north-east corner, 13:13], Greenshank [heard, Chainbridge Meadow].
Attenborough Nature Reserve -Slavonian Grebe [adult summer, still Mian Pond, early afternoon], 2 Dunlin, 2 Hobby [Clifton Pit].
Netherfield Lagoons - 4 Yellow Wagtail, Oystercatcher, Common Tern.
King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Common Tern, c.20 House Martin, Reed Warbler.
Skegby - 3 Swallow, 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap.
Skegby Trail - 5 Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap.
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David Allison, Laurence Archibald, Mervyn Bartle,
Graham Beeley, Alfie Bloor, Nigel Bosworth,
Robin Brace, David Brydon, Andrew Buckley,
Paul Buxton, Don Cameron, Paul Charlesworth, Mick Clay, Alan Clewes, Miles Cluff, Ian Cowgill, Nick Crouch,
Martin Cutler,
Mark Dawson, Rod Dean, Jacqueline Dennison, Lynne Dermain, lawrence Dunn, Heather Easton, David Eite, John Ellis, Ade Fox,
John Gallagher, Indy Kiemel Greene, Darren Hall, John Hall, Liane Hambly, Jill Hannah, Rae Harrington, Paul Hobson, John Hopper, Chris Hughes, Don Hustings,
Sharon Ireland, Bill Jeffreys, Mike Leatherland, Scott Linacre, Martin McCallum, Rob Mellor, Andy Murray,
Philip Needham, Suzanne Nelson, John David Ogle, James Pam,
Martyn Perkins, Peter Playle, Clive Prescott, Tommy Salt, Anthony Reed, Simon Roberts, Lee Scudder, Celeste Sinclair, Alan Scrimshaw, Owen Scrimshaw, Andy Shooter, Simon Smith,
Richard Smyth, Mick Tring, Mike Vickers, Pat Warwick, Scott Wheatley, Mark Wilde, John Williamson, Andrew Winning.
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