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September 2012
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Sun 30th Sep
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Chainbridge Wood: 1 Yellow-browed Warbler [elusive at times]
Rufford Mill - 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Common Kingfisher.
Wellow Wood - Common Buzzard.
Sat 29th Sep
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Chainbridge Wood: 1 Yellow-browed Warbler [elusive at times]
Bentinck Void - 2 Stonechat, Whinchat, Northern Wheatear, 635 Meadow Pipit [south].
Langford Lowfields - 1 Merlin [male], 1 Jack Snipe, 4 Common Snipe, 5 Little Egret, 7 Siskin [flew south], 4 Sand Martin [flew south], 87 Barn Swallow [flew south], 31 Meadow Pipit, 3 Common Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest.
Bennerley Marsh - 2 Raven, 2 Eurasian Sparrowhark, 1 Common Kestrel, 11 Barn Swallow, 12 Common Snipe, 2 Willow Tit, 1 Little Grebe, 2 Common Kingfisher, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Northern Lapwing, 60 Black-headed Gull.
Budby Pumping Station - 1 Common Gull.
Fri 28th Sep
Welbeck - Robin Hood Way: Red Kite, 4 Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Long-tailed Tit.
Collingham Pits - c.50 Eurasian Wigeon, 4 Northern Pintail, c.50 Northern Shoveler, c.60 European Golden Plover [fly-over], 1 Common Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper.
Welbeck Lake - 2 Cormorant, Grey Heron, Chaffinch, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Woodpigeon, Eurasian Nuthatch.
Thu 27th Sep
Bentinck Void - 2 Stonechat, Common Redstart.
Maun Valley Trail - 2 Redwing, Common Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Common Kestrel, Chiffchaff, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, 30+ Pink-footed Goose [over at 09:30].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Barn Swallow. A52 Pit: 4 Northern Pintail, 1 Slavonian Grebe [1st winter].
Hoveringham - 7 Common Buzzard, 2 Common Kestrel, c.100 Greylag Goose, 2 Common Kingfisher, 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Redwing, 1 Little Egret [Railway Pond].
Skegby - c.150 Pink-footed Goose.
Pleasley - c.350 Pink-footed Goose.
Wed 26th Sep
Bentinck Void - Osprey [south].
Collingham Pits - c.40 Eurasian Wigeon, c.350 Eurasian Teal, 4 Northern Pintail, 25+ Northern Shoveler, 5 Little Egret, 1 Common Snipe, 1 Common Greenshank, 8 Green Sandpiper.
Tue 25th Sep
King's Mill Reservoir - 1 Spotted Flycatcher.
Southwell - 1 Bullfinch, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Euasian Sparrowhawk, 1 Common Buzzard [Racecourse Lane], 1 Gadwall, 2 Little Grebe [lake north of Fiskerton Station], 32 Chaffinch, 17 Stock Dove [fields west of Fiskerton Road].
Mon 24th Sep
Bennerley Marsh - 230 Black-headed Gull, 125 House Martin, 350 Barn Swallow, 65 Mallard, 5 Grey Heron, 11 Common Snipe, 2 Common Buzzard.
Sun 23rd Sep
Woodthorpe Park - Green Woodpecker.
Hodsock Flash - 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 75 Eurasian Teal.
Balderton - Pink-footed Goose [2 skeins over during morning].
Oxton Estate - 3 Common Buzzard, 30 Northern Lapwing, 1 Green Woodpecker.
Sat 22nd Sep
Besthorpe NWT - South: 1 Little Egret, 22 Gadwall, 32 Northern Shoveler, 3 Common Snipe.
Collingham Pits - 2 Little Egret, 1 Northern Pintail, 10 Northern Shoveler, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sandpiper.
Fri 21st Sep
Hoveringham - Sailing Lake: 60+ House Martin, 10 Sand Martin, 50+ Barn Swallow, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Little Egret, 1 Yellow-legged Gull.
Wollaton - Little Gull [2nd winter in flock of gulls at Fernwood School].
Thu 20th Sep
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Ringed Plover, Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Little Egret.
Chesterfield Canal - Botany Bay: Cormorant, European Robin, Long-tailed Tit, Mallard.
Burton Joyce to Gunthorpe Ponds - Sand Martin, House Martin, Barn Swallow, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Woodpigeons, Wren, Grey Heron, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Common Kingfisher, Pied Wagtail, Greylag Goose, Goldcrest, Moorhens, Common Kestrel, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Cormorant, 4 Tufted Duck, Magpie, Common Pheasant, Common Buzzard, Jackdaws, Mallard, Little Grebe, Blackbird.
Wed 19th Sep
Newark - Sugar Factory: 3 Reed Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 2 Eurasian Jay, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit [south], 6 Barn Swallow, 10 Eurasian Teal, 1 Bullfinch, 2 House Martin.
Besthorpe NWT - South: 1 Northern Pintail, 30 Northern Shoveler, 2 Common Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper.
Collingham Pits - 2 Northern Pintail, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Little Egret, 4 Common Snipe, c.50 House Martin [passage].
Costock - Red Kite [over Intake Wood at 16:00].
Tue 18th Sep
Besthorpe NWT - South: 30 Northern Shoveler, 2 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, Northern Wheatear [Trent path].
Collingham Pits - 2 Red-crested Pochard [South Pit], 1 Little Egret, 1 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Snipe, 1 Dunlin, 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Sherwood Forest - Long-tailed Tit, Marsh Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Treecreeper.
Rufford Country Park - 40+ Tufted Duck, 60 Mallard [30 pairs], Canada Goose [mobile], Moorhen, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Black-headed Gull.
Sun 16th Sep
Bentinck Void - 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret [west at 08:48], Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, 311 Meadow Pipit [south].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - , 1 Little Egret [trees near Visitor Centre], Yellow-legged Gull [adult]. Clifton Pond: 1 Osprey [high over Clifton Pond at 16:00 - drifted towards Derbyshire], 1 Hobby [juvenile hunting hirundines over River], Garganey [juvenile], Eurasian Teal, Northern Shoveler.
Holme Pierrepont - A52 Pit: 1 Garganey [female], 1 Little Egret.
Sat 15th Sep
Rhodesia - 8 Common Buzzard [Haggonfields Farm].
Beechdale - 1 Green Woodpecker [Chalfont Drive].
Fri 14th Sep
Gringley Lock - 2 Grey Wagtail, Common Kestrel.
Beeston Canal - 9 House Martin, [hawking high up], Chiffchaff [calling].
Bennerley Marsh - 3 Common Pheasant, Cormorant, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Snipe, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 25 Black-headed Gull, 2 Skylark, 16 Barn Swallow, 8 House Martin. Chat Corner:. Common Kestrel, 3 Herring Gull, 11 Barn Swallow, 50 House Martin, 6 Goldfinch, Reed Bunting.
Besthorpe NWT - South: 3 Little Egret, 1 Northern Pintail, 20 Northern Shoveler, 1 Common Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Collingham Pits - 9 Little Egret, c.150 Eurasian Teal, 1 Northern Pintail [probably same bird as above], 2 Red-crested Pochard [pair on South Pit], 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Thu 13th Sep
Hoveringham - Railway Lake: 2+ Pied Flycatcher.
Holme Pierrepont - A52 Pit: 1 Little Gull [moulting adult with Black-headed Gulls], 10 Sand Martin, 1 Hobby, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Little Egret, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 50 House Martin, 5 Barn Swallow.
Costock- Red Kite [over wood - with Buzzard], Common Buzzard.
Wed 12th Sep
Besthorpe NWT - South: 2 Little Egret, 20 Northern Shoveler, 4 Green Sandpiper.
Collingham Pits - 2 Red-crested Pochard [Silt Pond], 1 Little Egret, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Tue 11th Sep
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Osprey [over Clifton pond - mobbed by Common Terns], Common Kingfisher, Little Egret.
Lambley - Northern Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Barn Swallow [large flock], House Martins [large flock with swallows].
Mon 10th Sep
Worksop - Red Kite [Retford Road - mobbed by gulls].
Besthorpe NWT - South: 4 Little Egret, 24 Northern Shoveler, 5 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.
Collingham Pits - 2 Little Egret, 12 Northern Shoveler, 1 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Eurasian Curlew, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Cotham Flash - 6 Common Snipe.
Kilvington Lakes - 1 Common Snipe, 7 Eurasian Curlew [in flight north-east at 11:30].
Sun 9th Sep
Holme Pierrepont - Red Kite, 2 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Hobby, Bittern.
Sat 8th Sep
Chilwell - 9 Common Buzzard [over barracks for about 10 minutes at 13:30].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Northern Wheatear [female on Erewash Fields], 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Little Egret, 7 Hobby, 5 Common Buzzard.
Fri 7th Sep
Costock - Red Kite [over at 17:25].
Thu 6th Sep
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 6 Little Egret, 2 Common Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper.
Hoveringham - Railway Lake: 1 Ross's Snow Goose, Northern Wheatear.
Clumber Park - Common Buzzard, 4 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron.
Wed 5th Sep
Holme Pierrepont - 1 Hobby [Skylarks Nature Reserve].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Bullfinch, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Little Egret, Common Snipe, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Common Kingfisher, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Common Buzzard, Little Grebe.
Tue 4th Sep
Welbeck Colliery - 20+ House Martin, 8 Pied Wagtail, 2 Common Magpie, 10+ Goldfinch, 2 Wren, 3 Coal Tit, 10+ Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit, 1 European Robin.
Newark - 1 Common Swift [Sugar Factory].
Hoveringham - 2 Snow Goose [amongst 200+ Greylag on large Railway Lake]
Mon 3rd Sep
Costock - Common Redstart [male present at 07:00 and 17:00].
Sun 2nd Sep
Costock - Spotted Flycatcher [on apple trees in old orchard].
Stapleford - House Martin [in numbers, moving south], Barn Swallow [in numbers, moving south].
Nottingham - Victoria Embankment: c.130 House Martin [over river].
Welbeck Colliery - 1 Hobby, 1 Eurasian Jay, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 10+ Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff.
Sherwood Forest - Hanger Hill: 1 Marsh Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 European Robin, 1 Grasshopper Warbler.
Sat 1st Sep
Hoveringham - River Trent: 2 Ruddy Shelduck.
Newark - Sugar Factory:8 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Eurasian Teal, 3 Barn Swallow, 40+ House Martin, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Willow Tit, 1 Lesser Whitethroat.
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