Notts sightings for Mon 7th May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 7, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Hoveringham- Sailing Lake: 1 Common Greenshank [flew high to north]. Railway Lake: 2 Common Gull, 1 Little Egret.
  • Skegby Trail - Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Yellowhammer, Chaffinch, Eurasian Nuthatch, Willow Tit , Long-tailed Tit, Skylark, Barn Swallow.
  • Sherwood Forest/Budby Common - 4 Common Crossbill, 5+ Garden Warbler, 4+ Tree Pipit.
  • Cotgrave Country Park - Common Cuckoo, Common Buzzard, Green Woodpecker.
  • Eakring Flash - 2 Northern Wheatear [below Leyfields Farm - east of the flash].
  • Kinoulton - 4+ Common Whitethroat, 4+ Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 5 Skylark, 2 Yellowhammer, 4+ Reed Bunting, 3 Barn Swallow, Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel.
  • Old Basford - Lesser Whitethroat [singing].
  • Bentinck Void - 14 Northern Wheatear.
  • Attenborough Nature Reserve - Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Grasshopper Warbler [Erewash Fields], Common Tern, Reed Bunting, 2 Common Shelduck, 2+ Arctic Tern [at least 2 birds still present], Northern Wheatear, House Martin, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, Common Swift, Eurasian Sparrowhawk.

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Notts sightings for Mon 7th May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 7, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Cotgrave Country Park - Common Cuckoo, Common Buzzard, Green Woodpecker.
  • Eakring Flash - 2 Northern Wheatear [below Leyfields Farm - east of the flash].
  • Kinoulton - 4+ Common Whitethroat, 4+ Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 5 Skylark, 2 Yellowhammer, 4+ Reed Bunting, 3 Barn Swallow, Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel.
  • Old Basford - Lesser Whitethroat [singing].
  • Bentinck Void - 14 Northern Wheatear.
  • Attenborough Nature Reserve - Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Grasshopper Warbler [Erewash Fields], Common Tern, Reed Bunting, 2 Common Shelduck, 2+ Arctic Tern [at least 2 birds still present], Northern Wheatear, House Martin, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, Common Swift, Eurasian Sparrowhawk.

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Notts sightings for Sun 6th May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 7, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Kinoulton - 2 Whinchat [pair], Common Whitethroat 2, Common Buzzard, Yellowhammer, Willow Warbler, Reed Bunting.
  • Mansfield Woodhouse - Red-rumped Swallow [single: identified with other hirundines… supporting notes provided].
  • Netherfield Lagoons - 1 Common Cuckoo, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Buzzard, 1 Arctic Tern, 8 Common Tern, 2 Common Shelduck, 9+ Reed Warbler, 8+ Common Whitethroat, 2 Garden Warbler, 10+ Sedge Warbler, 10+ Blackcap, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Stock Dove, 15+ Common Swift, 4 House Martin, 5 Sand Martin, 8+ Swallow, 1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk.
  • Holme Pierrepont - Oystercatcher.
  • Bentinck Void - 10 Northern Wheatear, Ruddy Turnstone, Common Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper.
  • Clumber Park - Great Crested Grebe, Mute Swan, Common Goldeneye.
  • Stapleford Woods - Common Cuckoo.
  • Highfields - Willow Warbler, Chaffinch, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Coot, Goldfinch, Great Crested Grebe, Great Tit, Green Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Grey Heron, Eurasian Jay, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Robin, Woodpigeon, Wren.

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Notts sightings for Sat 5th May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 7, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Hickling - Common Cuckoo, 5 Reed Bunting, 3 Reed Warbler, 12 Sedge Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Common Whitethroat, 10 Chiffchaff, 12+ Blackcap, 10+ Linnet, Coot, 3 Yellowhammer.
  • Kinoulton- Whinchat [pair], Bullfinch,2 Barn Swallow, 3 House Martin, Willow Warbler, 4 Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Common Whitethroat, 2 Yellowhammer, 3+ Reed Bunting, 5+ Skylark, c.7 Goldfinch, 4 Blue Tit.
  • Colwick Woods - Common Cuckoo [calling].
  • Gonalston - 3 Stock Dove, 1 Eurasian Nuthatch, 3 Yellowhammer, 1 Common Pheasant, 1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk.
  • Bentinck Void - 9 Northern Wheatear, Tree Pipit.
  • Langford Lowfields - 6+ Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, Barn Swallow, 2 Yellow Wagtail [male and female], 4 Willow Warbler, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Blackcap [male and female], Song Thrush, 3 Yellowhammer, 5 Skylark, Common Whitethroat, Common Shelduck, 12+ Tufted Duck, 12+ Greylag Goose, 2 Cormorant, Common Cuckoo [calling], 2 Oystercatcher.
  • Attenborough Nature Reserve - Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Common Tern, House Martin, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, Common Swift, Red-crested Pochard, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Yellow Wagtail, Ruff, Common Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler.
  • Bennerley Marsh - 1 Whinchat, 150 House Martin, 1 Garden Warbler, 6 Common Whitethroat, 14 Reed Bunting.

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Notts sightings for Fri 4th May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 5, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Kinoulton - Common Cuckoo, 2 Blackcap, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 3+ Yellowhammer, Northern Lapwing, 3 Reed Bunting.
  • Cotham Flash - 2 Dunlin, 1 Northern Wheatear.
  • Kilvington Lakes - 1 Green-winged Teal [drake still on West Lake], 4 Dunlin, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Whimbrel [for 20 minutes late morning], 2 Common Sandpiper, 26 Arctic Tern [East Lake - mid-morning], c.250 Barn Swallow, 2 White Wagtail, 1 Northern Wheatear.
  • Colwick Woods - Willow Warbler [singing], Common Whitethroat [singing].
  • Bentinck Void- Common Sandpiper, 7 Northern Wheatear.
  • Rufford - Osprey [over golf course, towards Eakring, being mobbed by corvids].

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Notts sightings for Thu 3rd May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 5, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Norton - Red Kite [bird with damaged primary feathers - mobbed Lapwings].
  • Welbeck Lake - Red Kite, 6 Common Buzzard, 4 Eurasian Nuthatch, Chaffinch, European Robin, Mandarin Duck [male], Grey Heron, 5 Northern Lapwing.
  • Bentinck Void - 9 Northern Wheatear, Whimbrel, Hobby.
  • Kinoulton - Blackcap, Northern Wheatear, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat 2, Common Whitethroat, 4 Yellowhammer, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 Song Thrush, 2 House Martin, 4+ Skylark.
  • Kilvington Lakes - 1 Green-winged Teal, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit [summer plumage], 3 Gadwall, 1 Northern Wheatear, 1 Common Tern, 6 Arctic Tern, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Common Sandpiper.
  • Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Arctic Tern [mid-morning].
  • King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Cormorant, 7 Common Shelduck, 1 Common Sandpiper, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin, Common Whitethroat.
  • Besthorpe NWT - 4 Eurasian Curlew, 3 Common Cuckoo [2 male, 1 female], Lesser Whitethroat, c.15 Common Shelduck.

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Notts sightings for Wed 2nd May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 3, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Bentinck Void - 6 Northern Wheatear.
  • Collingham Pits - 3 Northern Wheatear.
  • Welham - Northern Wheatear [pair], Skylark [pair].
  • New Basford - Common Buzzard, 1 Yellow Wagtail [over], Grey Wagtail [singing].
  • Hoveringham - Railway Lake: 2 Goosander, 2 Little Gull [immature], c.20 Common Tern, 2 Northern Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat.
  • Colwick Country Park - Whinchat.
  • Skegby - 2 Common Swift [over].
  • Newton - 2 Common Buzzard.
  • Budby Common - 1 Ring Ouzel.
  • Kilvington Lakes - 1 Bar-tailed Godwit [summer plumage], 4 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 6 Common Tern.
  • Stapleford - Common Buzzard [towards Toton sidings].

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Notts sightings for Tue 1st May (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 3, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Bentinck Void - 10 Northern Wheatear, Common Sandpiper.
  • Attenborough Nature Reserve - Garganey [male on Clifton Pond], Ruff [male still on Clifton Pond], 5 Common Greenshank [over high to north-east, calling].
  • Kilvington Lakes - 1 Arctic Tern [through north at 08:35].
  • King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Black Tern [evening].
  • Church Warsop - 1 Common Cuckoo [Coach Road Woods].
  • Bestwood Country Park - Lamin's Lane: 3+ Yellow Wagtail [in fallow field north-east of t-junction], 10 Pied Wagtail, 1 Northern Lapwing.

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Notts sightings for Mon 30th Apr (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 3, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Bentinck Void - Common Sandpiper, Whinchat, 25 Northern Wheatear, Ring Ouzel.
  • Rufford Pit Top - 1 Red Kite [wing-tagged bird over to south].
  • Skegby Trail - Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Grasshopper Warbler [reeling briefly], 3 Barn Swallow, Yellowhammer, Chaffinch, European Robin, Pied Wagtail, Stock Dove, Skylark, Eurasian Sparrowhawk.
  • West Bridgford - 7 Common Swift, 1 Common Buzzard.
  • Costock - 5 Northern Wheatear, Yellowhammer, c.10 Linnet, 6 House Martin, Yellow Wagtail, Marsh Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin, Dunnock, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker [pair], Common Cuckoo, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Skylark, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, c.12 Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 4 Greenfinch, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Common Pheasant, Red-legged Partridge, Carrion Crow, Common Kestrel, Magpie.
  • Collingham Pits - 7 Northern Wheatear.
  • Kinoulton - Northern Wheatear, Blackcap, Song Thrush, 5 Yellowhammer, 6+ Skylark, 3 Reed Bunting, Common Buzzard, 2 Red-legged Partridge.
  • Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4+ Arctic Tern [Coneries], 4 Black Tern [Coneries], 4 Red-crested Pochard [2 pairs], 3+ Northern Wheatear [Sailing Club and Erewash Fields], Common Kestrel, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler [reeling], Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting, Common Tern, Oystercatcher, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin, 50+ Common Swift [pouring into the reserve], 3 Little Egret [over Tween Pond], Pied Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail [over], Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Bullfinch, Linnet, Goldfinch, Greenfinch.
  • Hoveringham - Railway Lake: 1 Bar Tailed Godwit [adult on on islands], 2 Egyptian Goose [with 5 young]. Sailing Lake: 8 Northern Wheatear [Wheatear Field], 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Common Buzzard.

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Notts sightings for Sun 29th Apr (courtesy of Notts Birdwatchers)

May 3, 2012 in Other Notts Sightings by rssfeeds

  • Bentinck Void - 10 Northern Wheatear.
  • Worksop - Common Buzzard [Rayton Lane].
  • Norton - Barn Owl.
  • Colwick Woods - 4 Common Swift.
  • Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4 Arctic Tern [Coneries], Hobby [hunting Swallows over Coneries], Common Tern, 60+ Barn Swallow, 10+ House Martin, 8+ Sand Martin, 2 Ruff, 4 Red-crested Pochard [2 pairs], Blackcap, Common Whitethroat.

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