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July 2011

 

Sun 31st Jul

Granby - 1 Red Kite [over village at 19:00 - ombbed by Swallows and Common Swifts].

Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 4+ Common Buzzard, 1 Little Egret.

Sat 30th Jul

Clumber Park - Common Redstart.

Fri 29th Jul

Gedling Pit Top - Short-eared Owl [hunting].

Collingham Pits - 21 Little Egret [2 colour-ringed birds from Terrington St Clement, Norfolk], 5 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.

Collingham Silt Pond - 1 Common Greenshank, 5 Arctic Tern [resting with Common Terns early morning - flew At 08:00].

Kilvington Lakes - 1 Little Egret, 1 Common Scoter [female or immature], 4 Common Redshank, 1+ Yellow-legged Gull.

Clumber Park - 9 Cormorant, 6 Great Crested Grebe, Eurasian Nuthatch.

Thu 28th Jul

Budby Pumping Station - Spotted Flycatcher.

Clumber Park - Common Greenshank, Grey Heron, Cormorant.

Newstead & Annesley Country Park - 1 Dunlin.

Gringley Carr - 1 Hobby, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Common Kestrel, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 15 Goldfinch, 1 Corn Bunting, 1 Yellowhammer, 3+ Yellow Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 10 Linnet, 2 Sand Martin, 10 Swallow, 1 Common Quail [calling in field near pumping station], 8 Red-legged Partridge, 6 Grey Partridge, 4 Common Pheasant.

Sutton in Ashfield - 2 Eurasian Curlew [calling - to south-west.

Wed 27th Jul

Collingham Pits - 21 Little Egret, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Dunlin, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Cuckoo [juvenile].

Besthorpe NWT - South: 2 Green Sandpiper.

Kilvington Lakes - 5 Little Egret, 3 Common Sandpiper, 5+ Yellow-legged Gull [adults].

Tue 26th Jul

Kinoulton - 2 Stock Dove [courtship display], 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Robin [juvenile], 25 Eurasian Starling, 12 House Sparrow, 4 Goldfinch, 1 Wren, 1 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 3 Blackbird, 6 Collared Dove, 2 Woodpigeon, 10+ Common Swift, 10+ House Martin, 6+ Barn Swallow.

Budby Pumping Station - Little Egret.

Mon 25th Jul

Newstead & Annesley Country Park - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Budby Pumping Station - 2 Green Sandpiper.

Woodborough - Hobby, 5 Goldfinch , 3 Common Kestrel, Green Woodpecker , 2 Chiffchaff , 4 Wood Warbler, Yellowhammer, 3 Common Pheasant, 5 Jackdaw.

Radcliffe-on-Trent - Barn Owl [1 seen but 3 heard nightly].

Clumber Park - 12 Cormorant, 2 Mandarin Duck [males], Mute Swan [with cygnets], Eurasian Nuthatch, 2 Common Buzzard.

Sun 24th Jul

Besthorpe NWT - 6 Little Egret [Mons Pool], 1 Turtle Dove.

Collingham Pits - 1 Sanderling [new workings], 3 Yellow-legged Gull [1 adult], c.340 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Egret, 1 Grasshopper Warbler.

Rise Park - Red Kite.

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Clumber Park - 2 Common Kingfisher, 2 Sedge Warbler, 1 Mandarin Duck [female], 1 Sparrowhawk.

Sat 23rd Jul

Idle Valley - 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Yellow-legged Gull.

Fri 22nd Jul

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 22 Little Egret [Coneries roost].

Radmanthwaite - 50 European Golden Plover [circling over Penniment Farm].

Collingham Pits - 15 Little Egret, 1 Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Northern Wheatear [juvenile], 1 Grasshopper Warbler.

Kilvington Lakes - 5 Little Egret, 2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Yellow-legged Gull [5 adults and 1 juvenile on North Lake].

Bentinck Void - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Thu 21st Jul

Bentinck Void - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Wed 20th Jul

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 20+ Little Egret [Coneries roost].

Collingham Pits - 12 Little Egret, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Grasshopper Warbler.

Collingham Silt Pond - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Kilvington Lakes - 5 Little Egret, 3 Dunlin, 1 Common Redshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper, Common Swift [small passage].

King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Common Scoter [females].

Bentinck Void - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Tue 19th Jul

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 25 Little Egret [Coneries roost].

Bentinck Void - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Pinxton - 1 Sparrowhawk [female took Greenfinch from feeders].

Mon 18th Jul

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 34 Little Egret [Coneries roost].

Bentinck Void - 1 Common Sandpiper.

Besthorpe NWT - South: 1 Common Redshank.

Collingham Pits - 3 Little Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper.

Collingham Silt Lagoon - 1 Egyptian Goose.

Kilvington Lakes - 4 Little Egret, 1 Green Sandpiper, 7 Common Sandpiper [6 on East Lake and 1 on West Lake], Common Swift [passage south].

Welbeck Lake - Common Kestrel, Grey Heron.

Clumber Park - 4 Green Woodpecker, 4 Common Kestrel, 3 Cormorant, 3 Chaffinch.

Sun 17th Jul

Hucknall - Garden: 2 Blackcap [1 male and 1 female], 1 Common Whitethroat, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Bullfinch [female], 5+ Greenfinch [some juveniles], 5+ Blue Tit [mainly juveniles], 5+ Long-tailed Tits [juveniles], 2+ Great Tit [including juveniles], 2 Robin [adult and juvenile].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Little Egret [by 9pm - settling to roost on an island in Coneries Pit], c.65 Common Tern [30 Church Pond, 20 Clifton Pond, 15 Coneries], 14 Eurasian Teal [Clifton Pond], 10 Northern Shoveler [Clifton Pond], 14 Common Pochard [Clifton Pond], 70 Sand Martin [20 Clifton Pond and 50 near Coneries colony].

Sat 16th Jul

Stapleford - 2 Merlin [near Erewash].

Fri 15th Jul

Brackenhurst - Hobby [Durdham Farm].

Clumber Park- 2 Yellowhammer, Sedge Warbler, Reed Bunting, Common Kestrel, Great Crested Grebe [juvenile], 60+ Mute Swan.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Grasshopper Warbler [reeling on rose bush], Blackcap [many juveniles], Common Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Linnet, Willow Tit, Common Kingfisher, Tufted Duck [with 9 very young ducklings], Yellow-legged Gull, 8 Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit.

Besthorpe NWT - South: 3 Little Egret, 1 Green Sandpiper.

Collingham Pits - 6 Little Egret, 5 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.

Collingham Silt Pond - 1 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper.

Kilvington Lakes - 5 Little Egret, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Yellow-legged Gull.

Kinoulton - Common Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, 10 Common Swift, c.15 Eurasian Starling, 2 Bullfinch, Common Kestrel, 2 Song Thrush.

Thu 14th Jul

King's Mill Reservoir - 53 Northern Lapwing, c.300 Black-headed Gull, 3 Common Gull, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Stoke Bardolph - Black Tern [south along river Trent near Stoke weir].

Wed 13th Jul

Besthorpe NWT - South: 3 Little Egret, 1 Common Sandpiper.

Collingham Pits - 2 Little Egret, 1 Green Sandpiper.

Kilvington Lakes - 3 Little Egret, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper.

Tue 12th Jul

North Clifton - Village: 1 Red Kite [drifting north over village towards Lincolnshire border].

Clumber Park - 2 Eurasian Nuthatch, 5 Cormorant, Great Spotted Woodpecker [male & female], Robin, Treecreeper.

Mon 11th Jul

Collingham Pits - 9 Little Egret, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper.

Besthorpe NWT - South: 1 Green Sandpiper, Hobby.

Sun 10th Jul

Blidworth Woods - c.720 Corvids [mixed species in 2 groups].

Arnold - 1 Green Woodpecker [garden].

Kinoulton - Crimson Rosella [escaped bird on seed feeder].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, c.20 Common Tern, Black-headed Gull, Common Sandpiper, c.200 Northern Lapwing, Cormorant, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Egyptian Goose, Mute Swan, Mallard, Gadwall, Pochard, Red-crested Pochard, Eurasian Teal, Tufted Duck, Coot, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Sand Martin, Eurasian Starling, Blackbird, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Linnet, Common Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Great Tit, Tree Sparrow, Chaffinch, Dunnock.

King's Mill Reservoir - 9 Black-tailed Godwit.

Fri 8th Jul

Retford - Common Buzzard [Jockey House, Retford].

Netherfield Lagoons - 1 Green Sandpiper, c.20 Northern Lapwing, Common Pochard, 2 Eurasian Wigeon, 6 Northern Shoveler.

Besthorpe NWT - Mons Pool Area: 2 Common Tern, 1 Black-tailed Godwit [summer plumage], 3 Green Sandpiper, 52+ Greylag Goose, 2 Northern Lapwing, 3 Great-crested Grebe [with young], 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Thu 7th Jul

Budby NNR - Tree Pipit, Woodcock, Stonechat, Common Buzzard, Yellowhammer, Linnet.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Mediterranean Gull [Tween Pond], Grasshopper Warbler [Wheatear Field], 100 Sand Martin [Coneries], 20 Common Tern [Church Pond], 7 Black-tailed Godwit [adult summer plumage birds circled in and down but departed west-south-west gaining height over Thrumpton. Clifton Pond: 3 Little Egret [2 adult and 1 sub-adult - reed-bed area], 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Oystercatcher, 15 Common Tern, 5 Common Pochard, 12 Eurasian Teal, 45 Tufted Duck.

King's Mill Reservoir - 7 Greylag Goose [including young], 30 Northern Lapwing, 1 Common Greenshank, c.200 Common Swift, c.250 Sand Martin, Reed Warbler.

Wed 6th Jul

Collingham Pits - 7 Little Egret, 1 Grasshopper Warbler.

Besthorpe NWT - South: 1 Little Egret, 9 Green Sandpiper.

Kilvington Lakes - 1 Little Egret, 1 Common Samdpiper.

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Grasshopper Warbler.

Tue 5th Jul

Sansom Wood- Hobby [being mobbed], Grey Heron, Mute Swan, 3 Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting, 5 Linnet.

Mon 4th Jul

Besthorpe NWT - South: 4 Little Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper.

Collingham Pits - 2 Little Egret.

Hoveringham - River: 1 Common Kingfisher, 1 Little Egret [river bank], 1 Common Tern , 1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 1 Yellow Wagtail.

Gringley Carr - 1 Marsh Harrier [female], 1 Hobby, 1 Linnet, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Yellowhammer.

Cotgrave Country Park - Tree Sparrow, Common Kingfisher, Corn Bunting, Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat.

Sat 2nd Jul

Costock - Turtle Dove [‘purring’ in overgrown farm hedge].

Attenborough Nature Reserve - Grasshopper Warbler, Linnet [pair near Tower Hide], Little Egret [Clifton Pond], Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting, Barnacle Goose, Chiffchaff.

Kinoulton - Red Kite [to west over village], Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Hobby, 4 Skylark, c.20 Common Swift, c.15 House Martin, 6 Barn Swallow, Red-legged Partridge, Chiffchaff, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 4 Goldfinch, 12 Eurasian Starling.

Besthorpe NWT - South: 2 Little Egret, 1 Eurasian Curlew, 6 Green Sandpiper.

Collingham Pits - 2 Little Egret, 5 Green Sandpiper.

Lound - 2 Turtle Dove [Neatholme Lane], 1 Little Egret [Neatholme Pit], 1 Common Greenshank [Neatholme Scrape], 12 Common Tern [Chainbridge Scrape].

Fri 1st Jul

King's Mill Reservoir - 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Common Tern.

Hoveringham - 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Common Whitethroat.

Norton - Common Buzzard.

Welbeck Lake - Grey Heron, Great Crested Grebe.

 

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