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 - 2018
Archived Sightings 2001 to 2018
Archived Sightings 2019
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.
Recent NBWRC Decisions.
White-winged Black Tern - Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve], 17/11/2018. Accepted
White-winged Black Tern - Cottam, 25/05/2018. Accepted.
Monday 30th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - White-rumped Sandpiper [juvenile, still present favoring Chainbridge Scrape West, 07:48 to dusk]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET.
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, still present on Blotts Pit, late afternoon].
Oxton - Red Kite [low over the Oxton bypass, 15:00].
Stoke Ferry - Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, c.100 Pied Wagtail [this afternoon].
Sunday 29th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - White-rumped Sandpiper [juvenile, found on Chainbridge Scrape West feeding with a small group of Dunlin, c.09:20; it spent the rest of the day commuting between Chainbridge West and Neatholme Scrape, where it was still present, 17:22 at least]. Also on site: 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET, 5 Dunlin, 2+Ruff, 2 Ringed Plover, 6 Pintail, juv Marsh Harrier.
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, late afternoon].
Stoke Ferry - 2 Common Sandpiper, c.50 Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 7+House Martin.
Hickling - 8 Chiffchaff, c.200 Greenfinch [Hickling Canal, area by Clarke's Bridge, this morning]; also small parties of House Martin, Swallow and several Meadow Pipits over.
Bennerly Marsh - 6 House Martin [over early morning].
Saturday 28th September
Langford Lowfields - Northern Wheatear, 5 juv Common Tern, 2 Pintail, 67 Pochard [Phase 3 late afternoon], 4 Ringed Plover [Phase 3, this morning], Spotted Flycatcher [along Slough Dyke], Whinchat [along the cyclepath to Holme Lane].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Hobby, Peregrine [over Clifton Pit, 15:17].
Besthorpe NR - Whinchat [in setaside field north of Mons Pool, 14:59].
Collingham Pits - ARCTIC TERN [juvenile, on Ferry Lane Lake, midday].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Marsh Harrier [over Chainbridge Scrape East, 10:30 - 10:45], 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, House Martin [Chainbridge Scrape East].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, still on Blotts Pit].
Friday 27th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, this evening].
Keyworth - Red Kite [south of Keyworth towards Wysall, 16:30].
Stoke Ferry - Goosander [this afternoon].
Bennerley Marsh - 8 Swallow [through, early afternoon], Raven.
Scrooby - Marsh Harrier [cream crown, over Hiese paddocks, this morning]; also 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap.
Thursday 26th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 7 Comic Terns [flew over Tween Pond towards the Long Eaton GPs, 17:50], Hobby, Raven [from the Tower hide, 10:57].
Wollaton Park - 8 Ring-necked Parakeet.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREY PLOVER [calling over the Willows, 09:16].
Wednesday 25th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 juv BLACK-NECKED GREBE, 4 Pintail [Blotts Pit, this evening].
Chilwell - Raven [circling high over chilwell, calling and generally heading in northerly direction, 11:55].
Hoveringham - Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Snipe, Common Whitethroat, Reed Warbler [Sailing Lake].
Tuesday 24th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - BITTERN [Chainbridge Scrape East, from the viewpoint, 18:19], 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [still Chainbridge Scrape, this afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still on Blotts Pit, 17:54].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Tern [juvenile, Clifton Pit, 15:12].
Kelham - Hobby [hunting House Martins, over Ollerton Rd/Blacksmith Lane area of the village, 12:30].
Scrooby - Northern Wheatear [in horse field along Mill Lane, 11:15], Common Whitethroat [near the mill], 2 Chiffchaff.
Newark - Red Kite [drifted north-west].
Hoveringham - 10+Chiffchaff [Sailing Lake Club track]; also 4 House Martin.
Monday 23rd September
Kilvington Lakes - BAR-TAILED GODWIT [juvenile, dropped into West Lake, 14:00], GARGANEY [juvenile, still present on West Lake]; also Greenshank, 2 Dunlin, juv Little Ringed Plover, 11 Redshank, eclipse drk Pintail, 6 Wigeon, 5 Pochard, Yellow-legged Gull, Northern Wheatear [all West Lake].
Holme Pierrepont - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still on Blotts Pit, this afternoon], 3 Hobby [hawking dragonflies over Blotts Pit].
Bunny - 2 Raven [over heading south, late morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape, 11:11].
Hoveringham - Red Kite, 2 Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, light southerly passage of Meadow Pipit and Swallows [Sailing Lake this morning].
Sunday 22nd September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, late afternoon]; also 2 Ruff.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY [still Clifton Pit, 16:46]; also Ruff, Common Gull.
Fountaindale - 5 Mandarin [3 drakes, on the main pond, 14:30].
Saturday 21st September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 5 GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape West, 19:27]; also 5 Pintail, Marsh Harrier, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2w Common Gull.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY [still present on Clifton Pit, 16:54].
Hoveringham - Pintail, 39 Wigeon, 10 Pochard, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Willow Warbler [Trentside late afternoon].
Clifton Village - c.6 House Martin [high over heading south-west, 14:00].
East Leake - 2 Raven [heading South over East Leake allotments, midday]; also 4 Swallow [heading South East].
Barton in Fabis - 14 Yellow Wagtail [riverside fields, feeding under cattle, 11:30]; also Lesser Whitethroat.
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, 09:28]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew over north].
Clumber Park - 8 Little Egret, 4 Cetti's Warbler, Red-crested Pochard, 2 Grey Wagtail, Water Rail [this morning].
Friday 20th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, this evening].
Kilvington Lakes - Greenshank, 2 Ringed Plover, Northern Wheatear [West Lake, this afternoon], Yellow Wagtail [flyover], Hobby [over North Lake wood].
Burton Joyce - Curlew [over early afternoon].
Hickling - Hobby [over carrying a Barn Swallow, 13:00].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY [still present on Clifton Pit, 11:26].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 7 Whooper Swan [Neatholme Pit, 07:57].
Thursday 19th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GARGANEY [Clifton Pit, 14:43 - 19:26 at least]; also Ruff [still present].
Hoveringham - 2 Common Snipe, juv Ringed Plover, 30 Wigeon, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Lesser Whitethroat [Sailing Lake].
Wednesday 18th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, this evening].
Kilvington Lakes - BAR-TAILED GODWIT [still present on West Lake, early afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 110 Pink-footed Geese [through east, 09:30], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Old Windsurf Pools], Tree Pipit [over Chainbridge West, 13:15 calling and seen in flight], 6 Pintail [Chainbridge West], 2 Ruff [Neatholme Fen], 3 Marsh Harrier [on site including an adult male]; also 7 Little Egret, Dunlin, 20 Common Snipe, 12 Green Sandpiper.
Budby Pumping Station - Pintail [Budby Flash, this morning]; also Cetti's Warbler.
Tuesday 17th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, this evening].
Kilvington Lakes - BAR-TAILED GODWIT, 2 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Yellow-legged Gull, Pintail, 6 Little Egret [all West Lake]; Barnacle Goose, c. 40 House Martin through [both East Lake].
Budby Pumping Station - KNOT [Budby Flash, flew in from the north-east and settled on the far west shore line, 10:14 - midday at least]; also Spotted Flycatcher.
Misson Springs - 2 Sacred Ibis [again at Finningley GP].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank [Clifton Pit, 10:10].
Center Parcs - 12+Pink-footed Geese [heading east, this morning].
Hoveringham - Pintail, Red Kite, Raven, Cetti's Warbler [Sailing Lake, this morning], 22 Yellow Wagtail [15 horse paddock, 7 Sailing Lake], 21 Wigeon, 9 Common Pochard [Trentside],
Monday 16th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, this evening].
Budby Pumping Station - 2 Spotted Flycatcher [east of the bridge, this afternoon].
Kilvington Lakes - CASPIAN GULL [second-winter, this morning]; also 22 Pink-footed Geese [over south-west], Greenshank, Pintail.
Hoveringham - Pintail, Green Sandpiper, Northern Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat.
Stoke Ferry - 2 Goosander [Fem/juv], Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper [all on riverside].
Sunday 15th September
Idle Washlands - 2 Marsh Harrier [juveniles], Pintail, Goosander, 50+ Snipe, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [Slaynes Lane, this afternoon].
Girton - GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew down the river Trent, 14:19].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape West, 14:00].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, late morning].
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE, Pintail [on Budby Flash, this morning], OSPREY [over south-west, 09:50].
Langford Lowfields - 4 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 9 Dunlin, Pintail [Phase 3, this morning].
Stoke Ferry - Common Sandpiper [still on riverside], 4 Grey Wagtail [on the outflow].
Saturday 14th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, 13:00 at least], GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew over Blotts Pit, 13:00], Common Redstart [on fence bordering the A52 Pit, 17:26], 2 Hobby [Blotts Pit].
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Budby Flash, midday].
Clumber Park - Raven, Spotted Flycatcher, juv Hobby, 3 Little Egret.
Bilborough - Ring-necked Parakeet [over Woolsthorpe council depot, 07:08].
Friday 13th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, 18:35].
Newark - Spotted Flycatcher [still north of Kings Marina, by the old railway, 18:32].
Clifton Grove - Spotted Flycatcher [on the river path, between Clifton Bridge and the Grove, 17:15].
Idle Washlands - WOOD SANDPIPER [Hagg Lane Flash, midday]; also 11 Little Egret.
Hoveringham - Marsh Harrier [Cream-crown], Peregrine, Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Swift, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Raven [Sailing Lake], Whinchat, 2 Northern Wheatear [Horse Paddock]; also on site, 11 Grey Partridge, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler and Marsh Tit.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Ruff [Ridge and Furrow, this afternoon]; also 2 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit], 200+Tufted Duck [Church Pond].
Stoke Ferry - Common Sandpiper [on riverside, this afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Tree Pipit [in horse paddock, Chainbridge Lane, 09:00], 11 Common Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 3 Ruff [Neatholme Fen], Hobby [Tiln North], Marsh Harrier [juv, Chainbridge Scrape East], Stonechat [Alans Meadow], Lesser Whitethroat [Chainbridge Meadow]; also 2 GREAT WHITE EGRET [on site].
King's Mill Reservoir - Goosander, 18 Shoveler, 4 Common Snipe..
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Budby Flash, 07:51].
Thursday 12th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, 17:51].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GARGANEY [Chainbridge Scrape, 16:40]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET, 5 Pintail, Dunlin [Chainbridge Scrape], Swift [over Chainbridge Wood].
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Budby Flash, 09:30];also Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Hobby, 2 Ring necked Parakeet [distant fly over].
Wednesday 11th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still Blotts Pit, 17:54].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - OSPREY [juvenile, through south, 16:16], also Ruff, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit].
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Budby Flash, 13:27].
Idle Washlands - Whooper Swan, 35 Little Egret, Greenshank, 35 Common Snipe [Hagg Lane Flash], 28 Pink-footed Geese [over north-west], Marsh Harrier, 6 Ruff, 2 Greenshank, 40 Common Snipe, Cetti's Warbler [Slaynes Lane]; also 6 Ringed Plover [Newington Flash, S.York's].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - OSPREY [south-west over Blaco towards Lound village, 08:48]; also on site today: 14 Pintail, 4 Ruff, 2 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, GREAT WHITE EGRET.
Kilvington Lakes - GARGANEY [juvenile, still on West Lake, 08:30].
Tuesday 10th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Hobby [Cross Lane, late evening], 3 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper [Neatholme Scrape], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, 19:07]; also 3 Dunlin.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, 16:45].
Collingham Pits - 12 COMMON SCOTER [6 drakes, Ferry Lane Lake, this morning]; also 2 Green Sandpiper.
Hoveringham - 20 Wigeon, 4 Hobby, 2 Peregrine, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern, 3 Swift, 5 Yellow Wagtail, Northern Wheatear [Sailing Lake].
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Budby Flash, 07:43 - 15:00 at least], 4 Spotted Flycatcher [adult, feeding three young, this afternoon].
Newark - Common Redstart [male, in Birch tree next to TK Maxx, 07:20]
Monday 9th September
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still on Blotts Pit, early evening].
Netherfield Lagoons - Spotted Flycatcher [this evening].
Hickling - Greenshank [over the village calling, heading south-west, 16:40].
Barton in Fabis - Greenshank, Common Redshank, Green Sandpiper [Cottages Flash, early evening].
Hucknall - Brambling [male, in private garden, 16:00].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - SPOTTED REDSHANK [Chainbridge Scrape West, mid-afternoon then flew north-west, 15:30]; also GREAT WHITE EGRET, Marsh Harrier, 5 Ruff [all Chainbridge Scrape West, early evening].
Erewash Meadows NR - GARGANEY [Spoonbill Pool, this afternoon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 SANDWICH TERN [through Clifton Pit], 3 Greenshank, Common Redshank, Ruff [Clifton Pit, this afternoon].
Newark - 2 Swift [heading south].
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Budby Flash, 11:18].
Hoveringham - Green Sandpiper [Railway Pit, this morning], 8 Wigeon, 3 Swift [Sailing Lake].
Sunday 8th September
Idle Washlands - Whooper Swan, 35 Little Egret, Greenshank [Hagg Lane Flash], Dunlin, 8 Ruff, 2 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, c.50 Common Snipe [Slaynes Lane].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Curlew [Neatholme Fen, this afternoon], Green Sandpiper, 230+Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler [Chainbridge Scrape East], Spotted Flycatcher [next to the Water-Ski Pit, corner of Hawthorn/Cross Lane].
Barton in Fabis - Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, 9 Common Snipe [over towards the ANR], Northern Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail [Cottages Flash, late afternoon].
Budby Pumping Station - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, on Budby Flash, this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREAT WHITE EGRET [over Clifton Pit, heading west, 11:03], Ruff, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pit]; also Curlew [over calling, 10:02].
Holme Pierrepont - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Blotts Pit, this morning], Tree Pipit, Curlew [over].
Hoveringham - 2 Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, 6+Willow warbler, 2 Chiffchaff [all Trentside], 3 Common Tern [Sailing Lake].
Langford Lowfields - Pintail [female], 7 Ringed Plover, 5 Dunlin, Curlew, 2 LRP, Greenshank, Redshank, Hobby, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Whinchat [this morning].
Saturday 7th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-winged Stilt [juvenile, still Neatholme Fen 08:20 - 16:35], Sacred Ibis [Neatholme Fen, mid-morning], 2 Whinchat [still Tiln North], GREAT WHITE EGRET [Neatholme Fen]; also on site Avocet, 2 LRP, 2 Dunlin, 4 Green Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat.
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juveniles, still present on Blotts Pit, this evening]; also Dunlin.
Misson Springs - Sacred Ibis [Finningley GP, 17:30]; also Curlew, Green Sandpiper.
Gringley Carr - Merlin, Marsh Harrier, 5 Yellow-legged Gull [4 ads, 1 first-summer], 4 Yellow Wagtail.
Netherfield Lagoons - GREAT WHITE EGRET [on the Slurry Lagoon, this afternoon], Greenshank, 4 Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin [riverside flash].
Kilvington Lakes - GARGANEY [still present on West lake]; also 3 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Yellow Wagtail [ all on West lake].
Barton in Fabis - Dunlin, 4 Green Sandpiper [Cottages Flash, early afternoon], 2 Hobby [over Branshill Wood].
Langford Lowfields - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Turnstone, Greenshank, 6 Ringed Plover, 3 LRP, Pintail [Phase 3, this morning].
Friday 6th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-winged Stilt [juvenile, still present Neatholme Fen, showing from the second screen, 17:30 at least], Ringtail Harrier [Wildgoose Farm, over the cattle field towards the river, 09:40], 5 Swift [single over the Visitor Centre, 13:31, single Chainbridge Pit, 14:26, 3 Neatholme Scrape, 18:06], Whinchat [Tiln North, 13:34], 2 Dunlin, 3 Pintail [Chainbridge Scrape West], BITTERN [Tiln North], WOOD SANDPIPER [Chainbridge Scrape West, 16:05 -18:50 at least].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBE [both juveniles, Blotts Pit, this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank, 6 Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruff [Clifton Pit].
Kilvington Lakes - GARGANEY [juvenile still on West Lake], 2 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull, Yellow Wagtail.
Budby Common - Spotted Flycatcher.
Thursday 5th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-winged Stilt [juvenile, still present Neatholme Fen, showing well from the second screen, 19:36 at least]; also GARGANEY.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank, Ruff, Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit, this evening].
Holme Pierrepont - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Blotts Pit, this evening].
Kilvington Lakes - GARGANEY [juvenile-type, on the western shore of West Lake, 17:52].
Hoveringham - 2 Peregrine, 4 Common Tern, Yellow-legged Gull [adult], 3 Raven, 100+ Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler, 3 Swift, 4 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake], 2 Whinchat [in the horse paddock].
Wednesday 4th September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-winged Stilt [juvenile, flew into Neatholme Fen from the north, 08:25; still present this evening], BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, Bellmoor Lake, 13:03], KNOT [still present Chainbridge Scrape East, 11:15], Avocet [Neatholme Scrape].
Holme Pierrepont - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, still present on Blotts Pit, this evening], Whinchat [A52 Pit].
Cottam/Littleborough - CASPIAN GULL, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, 200+LBBG [in ploughed field between Cottam and Littleborough, 16:45].
Idle Washlands - 2 GARGANEY, KNOT, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Greenshank, Redshank, c.100 Common Snipe, Marsh Harrier, Whinchat [Slaynes Lane], Whooper Swan, 27 Little Egret, 2 Greenshank [Hagg Lane Flash].
Hoveringham - Hobby, Peregrine, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern, Wheatear, 3 Swift, 4 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Greenshank [Clifton Pit, 10:26].
Tuesday 3rd September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-winged Stilt [juvenile, still present on Neatholme Fen, 08:30 - 19:35 at least], KNOT [Chainbridge Scrape East, 14:20 - 15:50], Marsh Harrier [female, Hayton Common, 13:00],GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Pit, 09:47], 2 Whinchat [Tiln North, 07:58]; also 3 Swift, 20 Sand Martin, 24 Wigeon, Dunlin, Greenshank, 7 Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Snipe, 7 Red-crested Pochard.
Holme Pierrepont - BLACK-NECKED GREBE [juvenile, Blotts Pit, 17:20].
Bevercotes - Wryneck [caught and ringed at the old Bevercotes pit site this morning, released at the concrete bridge adjacent to the old fishing pond], Spotted Flycatcher [at the Bevercotes pit site entrance]; also Hobby.
Hoveringham - Red Kite, Peregrine, 2 Common Tern, Swift, 4 Yellow Wagtail [Sailing Lake].
Monday 2nd September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-winged Stilt [juvenile, still present on Neatholme Fen from 06:40 when it was flushed by cattle but was relocated on Chainbridge Pit, 08:22; it then returned to Neatholme Fen and was still present 19:17 at least], 3 Whinchat [Tiln North, 13:17], OSPREY [over 13:21], Marsh Harrier [female, west over Neatholme Fen, late afternoon]; also Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Snipe.
Rainworth - 2 Northern Wheatear [this evening].
Newark Sugar Factory - 7 Green Sandpiper, 40 Teal, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Common Tern.
Hoveringham - 2 Common Tern, Hobby, Peregrine, 200 Sand Martin, 30 House Martin, 20 Swallow, Chiffchaff, Blackcap.
Mansfield Woodhouse - GREAT WHITE EGRET [flew over the Maun Valley Nature Reserve, 06:40].
Sunday 1st September
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Black-winged Stilt [juvenile, Neatholme Fen 17:58 - 20:00 at least]; also Swift [single over Bellmoor/Sewage Works, 14:04], Yellow-legged Gull, 183 LBBG [Chainbridge West, at dusk].
Newark Sugar Factory - 6 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 15 Teal.
Barton in Fabis - 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Snipe [Cottages Flash, 16:51].
Thoresby Park - Hawfinch [over the Courtyard, 09:59].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - OSPREY [over Tween Pond, 07:32]; also Ruff, 3 Black -tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Peregrine [Clifton Pit].
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