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November 2011
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Wed 30th Nov
Bentinck Void - 4 Short-eared Owl.
Upper Idle Valley - 3 Short-eared Owl [hunting the dried-up washland east of the Bailey Bridge].
Bestwood Mill Lakes - 5 Common Snipe.
Netherfield Lagoons - Little Egret, Eurasian Teal, Common Goldeneye, Eurasian Wigeon.
Girton Gravel Pits - 1 Great Northern Diver [juvenile still present on Sailing Lake], 1 Red-crested Pochard [drake on Sailing Lake], 2 Yellow-legged Gull [1 adult and a 1st winter on Spalford Pit].
Tue 29th Nov
Clifton Pastures - 200+ European Golden Plover.
Pinxton - 1 Common Kestrel [female], 1 Common Pheasant [cock].
Norton - Barn Owl [Buskeyfield Lane].
Mon 28th Nov
Kinoulton - Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Great Spotted Woodpecker, c.4 Long-tailed Tit, Bullfinch, c.6 Chaffinch, 12 Fieldfare, Wren, 3 Yellowhammer, 2 Skylark.
Sun 27th Nov
Costock - 37 European Golden Plover, c.300 Fieldfare.
Highfields Lake - Goosander [large group].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Tween Pond: 2 Egyptian Goose. Clifton Pond: 1 Common Goldeneye [male], 1 Smew [female], 1 Common Snipe, 20+ Eurasian Teal, 20+ Eurasian Wigeon, 100+ Northern Lapwing, Grey Heron, 5+ Cormorant.
Sookholme - White Stork.
Girton Gravel Pits - Great Northern Diver [juvenile still on Sailing Lake].
Sat 26th Nov
Girton Gravel Pits - 1 Great Northern Diver [juvenile on Sailing Lake], 1 Red-crested Pochard [drake on Sailing Lake].
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Great White Egret [Chainbridge Scrape].
Hoveringham - Greater White-fronted Goose.
Sookholme - White Stork.
Fri 25th Nov
Hoveringham - Greater White-fronted Goose.
Costock - c.40 European Golden Plover, c.300 Fieldfare.
Thu 24th Nov
Gunthorpe Gravel Pits - White Stork.
Clifton Grove - Ring-necked Parakeet [over, towards village], 1 Tawny Owl [calling in daytime], 1 Green Woodpecker, 30+ Redwing, 12 Fieldfare, 6 Mistle Thrush, 5 Goldecrest, 8 Siskin.
Hoveringham - Sailing Lake 1 Goosander [female], 1 Common Redshank, c.17 Greater White-fronted Goose, c.2 Bean Goose [possibles], 6 Barnacle Goose [4 isolated birds, 2 with Canadas], 20 Egyptian Goose.
Arnot Hill Park - Pond Area: 21 Tufted Duck, 2 Common Pochard [pair], 14 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Canada Goose, 3 Greylag Goose. Rear of Old House: 35 Redwing, 25+ Goldfinch, 18 Chaffinch, 12 Greenfinch, 1 Eurasian Nuthatch, 2 Goldcrest, 18 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 2 Pied Wagtail. Bowling Green Feeders: 22 Tree Sparrow, 1 Wren, 6 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 1 Coal Tit, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, 2 Collared Dove .
Costock - 9 European Golden Plover.
Wed 23rd Nov
Clifton - White Stork.
Kinoulton - 30+ Yellowhammer, 25+ Tree Sparrow, 50+ Chaffinch, 6 Skylark, 20+ Goldfinch, 10+ Reed Bunting, 20+ Redwing, 50+ Fieldfare, 10 Mute Swan, Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, Mallard, Long-tailed Tit, Moorhen, Red-legged Partridge, Mistle Thrush.
Tue 22nd Nov
Bentinck Void - 4 Short-eared Owl, 80 European Golden Plover.
Silverhill Country Park - 1 Barn Owl, 2 Tawny Owl.
Welbeck Lake - 2 Grey Heron, 1 Great Crested Grebe.
Norton - Infield Lane: Common Buzzard, 2 Common Kestrel.
Clumber Park - 3 Eurasian Jay, Green Woodpecker.
Cuckney - Buskeyfield Lane: 12 Red-legged Partridge, Common Buzzard, 2 Common Kestrel.
Mon 21st Nov
Retford - Botany Bay: 3 Common Kestrel.
Hoveringham - Sailing Lake: 3 Yellow-legged Gull [in roost 1 adult and 2 first winter], 17 Greater White-fronted Goose [in field next To Coneygre Farm], 1 Goosander [red-head], 1 Little Egret.
Bentinck Void - 2 Short-eared Owl, Woodcock.
Clumber Park - 28 Common Pochard, 20 Black-headed Gull, 16 Mute Swan, Fieldfare, Redwing, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Greenfinch, Robin, Eurasian Starling, Blackbird, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, Muscovy Duck.
Welbeck Lake - 2 Grey Heron, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, Common Kestrel.
Norton - 2 Common Kestrel, Long-tailed Tit.
Sun 20th Nov
Kinoulton - 60+ Fieldfare, 6 Yellowhammer, c.55 Rook, 15 Red-legged Partridge.
South Wheatley - Great Grey Shrike [still present along Muspit Lane].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Main Pond: Smew [female], 2 Common Goldeneye. Clifton Pond: 2 Common Goldeneye, 7 Goosander, Common Snipe.
Sat 19th Nov
Welbeck Lakes - Greater Scuap [juvenile], 25 Goosander.
Fri 18th Nov
Keyworth - 25 European Golden Plover.
Clumber Park - 1 Eurasian Jay, 1 Common Kestrel.
Thu 17th Nov
Norton - Common Kestrel [mobbed by 4 corvids].
Idle Valley - 6 Mute Swan, 70+ Fieldfare, Great Crested Grebe, Long-tailed Tit.
Highfields - 14 Goosander, 4 Eurasian Teal, 10 Cormorant, Grey Heron, Tufted Duck, Fieldfare.
Kinoulton - 100 Fieldfare, c.12 Goldfinch, 3 Skylark [singing], 2 Common Kestrel.
Pinxton - 2 Common Kestrel, 1 Green Woodpecker.
Radcliffe on Trent - Red Kite [Shelford Road - harrassed by Crow].
Bentinck Void - Snow Bunting, Northern Wheatear, Short-eared Owl.
Idle Valley - 6 Mute Swan, 70+ Fieldfare, Great Crested Grebe, Long-tailed Tit.
Wed 16th Nov
Clifton - 1 Ring-necked Parakeet [feeding in garden along Village Road].
Tue 15th Nov
South Wheatley - Great Grey Shrike [still present along Muspit Lane - showing well 14:30 - 15:00], c.200 Pink-footed Goose [south-east at 14:50].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 1 Smew [female] [on north side of main path], 2 Bittern [from Delta Hide at 15:00], 9 Goosander [Clifton Pond] , 128 Eurasian Teal [Wet Marsh and Clifton Pond], 8 Common Goldeneye [various ponds], Green Sandpiper [Wet Marsh].
Mon 14th Nov
Clifton Grove - 1 Ring-necked Parakeet, 12 Siskin, 6 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Common Buzzard.
Rufford Country Park - Great Spotted Woodpecker, 20 Siskin, Redwing, Eurasian Nuthatch, Long-tailed Tit, Wren, Coal Tit, Willow Tit.
Sun 13th Nov
Sneinton - Red Kite [probable over Green's Windmill].
Grassthorpe - Ingram Lane: 8 Bean Goose [6 adults and 2 juveniles in field at junction with Holme Lane: SK804673].
Bentinck Void - Short-eared Owl, Ring Ouzel.
Thrumpton - stubble fields: Bean Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose, Merlin [immature].
Rufford Country Park - 3 Common Goldeneye [females], 1 Red-crested Pochard [female].
King's Mill Reservoir - Treecreeper, Common Goldeneye, Mandarin Duck.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield - Portland Park: Bullfinch, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Collard Dove, Dunnock, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Marsh Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Common Pheasant, Sparrowhawk.
Sat 12th Nov
Netherfield - 1 Little Egret [field left of A612 path].
Kilvington Lakes - 3 Greater White-fronted Goose [2 adults and a juvenile with Greylags on West Lake].
Grassthorpe Holme - 13 Greater White-fronted Goose [5 Adults and 8 juveniles].
Hoveringham - 9 Greater White-fronted Goose [family with 2 adults], 1 Pink-footed Goose, 10 Egyptian Goose, 8 Grey Heron, 6 Common Goldeneye, Fieldfare, Redwing, Mistle Thrush, Song Trush, Treecreeper.
Caythorpe - 4 Bohemian Waxwing [feeding on hawthorn - present for just a few minutes], Blackcap [pair in same hawthorn].
Welbeck - Robin Hood Trail: Sparrowhawk [male], Common Kestrel, Long-tailed Tit, 13 Fieldfare, 3 Common Pheasant, Blackbird.
Fri 11th Nov
Collingham Pits / Besthorpe NWT - 65 Gadwall, 160 Eurasian Treal, 6 Common Goldeneye, 1 Merlin [between Collingham Pits and Langford Lowfields RSPB], 400 European Golden Plover, 1 Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, 300+ Fieldfare.
South Wheatley- Great Grey Shrike [Muspit Lane].
Lound - Great White Egret [Chainbridge near scrape at 14:00].
Brackenhurst Campus - 65 Fieldfare [some in field some over], 1 Wren, 2 Robin, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 10+ Carrion Crow.
Thu 10th Nov
Newstead and Annesley Country Park - 500+ Golden Plover, Northern Lapwing, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 6 Bullfinch [3 pairs].
King's Mill Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe.
Arnot Hill Park - Pond Area: 12 Tufted Duck, 9 Red-crested Pochard, 15 Moorhen, 27 Black-headed Gull, 1 Great Black Backed Gull, 3 Herring Gull, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Sparrowhawk [female - over]. Rear of Old House/Rose Garden: Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Blackbird, Collared Dove, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wren, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 3 Mistle Thrush, 13 Robin, 50+ Redwing, 6 Pied Wagtail, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Jackdaw, 24 Long-tailed Tit.
Bestwood Mill Lakes - 4+ Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, 1 Red-crested Pochard [female], Eurasian Teal, Siskin, Goldfinch, Bullfinch.
Wed 9th Oct
Bestwood Mill Lakes - 1 Whooper Swan [at north end in morning - present since yesterday morning], 1 Mandarin Duck, 4+ Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, Eurasian Teal.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4+ Common Goldeneye, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Wooodpecker, Eurasian Wigeon, Eurasian Teal, Gadwall, Northern Shoveler..
South Wheatley - 1 Great Grey Shrike [adult along Muspit Lane - discontinuous hedgerow south-south-west from the Lane].
Tue 8th Oct
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron.
King's Mill Reservoir - Woodcock [bottom lake].
Seller's Wood NWT - 2 Woodcock, Goldcrest, Bullfinch, 1 Ring-necked Parakeet.
Mon 7th Nov
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron.
Worksop - Sparrowhawk [male in the Gateford area].
Basford - c.40 Pink-footed Goose [over north-east at 10:10].
Bentinck Void - Short-eared Owl.
Colwick Country Park - 1 Whooper Swan, 1 Mandarin Duck.
South Wheatley - Great Grey Shrike [Muspit Lane - on hedge third field up from the farm on the left-hand-side].
Sun 6th Nov
Sherwood Forest - Vistor Centre Area: 1 Common Crossbill, 1 Woodlark, 2 Marsh Tit, 2 Eurasian Nuthatch, 5 Treecreeper, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Eurasian Jay, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Siskin, 6 Common Buzzard, 2 Common Raven, c.100 Pink-footed Goose [east].
Collingham Pits - 1 Red-breasted Merganser [juvenile on Silt Lagoon - then flew to Mons Pool], 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Egret.
King's Mill Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe.
Pinxton - c. 100 Pink-footed Goose [over].
Hoveringham - Railway Lake: 80 Pink-footed Goose [east], 12 Whooper Swan [all morning], 5 Common Goldeneye.
Lound - 1 Great White Egret [Windsurf Pool], 1 Little Egret, 10 Dunlin, 2 Common Redshank.
Arnold - c.100 Pink-footed Goose [over at 09:30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Snipe.
Sat 5th Nov
Girton Pits - 1 Snow Bunting [west over Sailing Lake - calling], c.150 Pink-footed Goose[east], 1 Little Egret.
Arnold - c.70 Pink-footed Goose [over at 14:00].
Colwick Country Park - c.150 Cormorant [roost at 15:30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron, Smew [Main Pond], c.100 Pink-footed Goose [over].
Fri 4th Nov
Brands Hill Wood - 1 Hen Harrier [ringtail above wood].
Mattersey - 1 Hen Harrier [ringtail].
Clumber Park - 20 Northern Shoveler [Carburton end].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron.
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - 18 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant.
Thu 3rd Nov
Newstead and Annesley Country Park - 1 Black-necked Grebe.
Idle Valley - 1 Great White Egret.
Brands Hill Wood - 1 Hen Harrier [ringtail above wood].
Collingham Pits - 2 Northern Pintail, 1 Common Goldeneye, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [adults], c.100 Fieldfare. Silt Pond: 1 Little Egret, c.200 European Golden Plover [circling flocks].
Kilvington Lakes - c.300 European Golden Plover [flight], 1 Jack Snipe, 4+ Yellow-legged Gull [adults].
Burton Meadows - 2 Little Egret.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron.
Wed 2nd Nov
Brands Hill Wood - 1 Hen Harrier [ringtail above wood].
Gonalston - 1 Eurasian Nuthatch, 1 Fieldfare, 1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 2 Coal Tit.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron.
Worksop - Sainsbury's Wren, Common Kestrel.
Clumber Park - 8 Cormorant.
Tue 1st Nov
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Squacco Heron.
Costock - Black Redstart [juvenile / 1st winter].
Collingham Pits - 2 Northern Pintail, 19 Northern Shoveler, 2 Common Buzzard, c.300 European Golden Plover, Eurasian Curlew, 1 Common Redshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Short-eared Owl, c.150 Fieldfare.
Kilvington Lakes - 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull [adults].
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