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.
Sunday 30th June
Osberton - QUAIL [singing male, on the Osberton estate 18:00].
Thoresby Park - 2 Hawfinch [flew north over the Courtyard calling, 16:03].
Collingham Pits - 30 Black-tailed Godwit [sixteen on the muddy margins of Ferry Lane Lake 09:07, increasing to thirty by 11:15].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Yellow-legged Gull [first-summer, Bellmore Lake, 07:00], 5 Black-tailed Godwit [Chainbridge Scrape, this afternoon].
Saturday 29th June
Holme Pierrepont - Black-tailed Godwit [Blotts Pit, this evening].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [showing distantly from the viewpoint, midday].
Retford - Common Crossbill [over Lime Tree Avenue, 10:40].
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer, Phase Three this morning]; also Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 2 drake Goldeneye. Yellow-legged Gull, 3+Hobby [late afternoon].
Friday 28th June
Netherfield Lagoons - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [adult, on the new workings this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4 Black-tailed Godwit [Clifton Pit, 18:53 then flew east 19:07], Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [single showing from the watchpoint, briefly 13:15 and again 15:22].
Langford Lowfields - 7 SANDWICH TERN, Black-tailed Godwit [Phase Three, 07:00], 2 MEDITERRANEAN GULL [adults, flew east over Phase Three, 07:29].
Newark - Hobby [north over Kings Marina, this morning].
Thursday 27th June
Holme Pierrepont - COMMON SCOTER [drake, A52 Pit, this evening].
Langford Lowfields - c.20 Black-tailed Godwit [Phase Three, 18:00]; also 5 Common Redshank, CASPIAN GULL [German ringed, 1s], 6 Yellow-legged Gull [all Phase Three], 2 Hobby [this morning].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 6 Black-tailed Godwit [Clifton Pit, gull island, this afternoon]; also Green Sandpiper.
Carburton - Honey Buzzard [circling west of the Raptor Watchpoint, over the Carburton Cross-roads, 12:45].
Wednesday 26th June
Hoveringham - 7 COMMON SCOTER [5 drakes, Railway Pit 15:45 to 17:15 at least]; 26 Common Tern [21 Sailing Lake morning, 5 Railway Pit afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - Black-tailed Godwit [east through the A52 Pit, 16:52]; also Hobby.
Netherfield Lagoons - 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover [on the new workings, this this morning].
Tuesday 25th June
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer, again this evening], 2 drk Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper.
Spalford Pig fields - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [adult, this afternoon]; also 7 Yellow-legged Gull [3 first summer, 4 second-summer], Common Gull [first-summer], Herring Gull, 300+LBBG.
Besthorpe Nature Reserve - Whooper Swan [adult, still Mons Pool].
North Wheatley - FIRECREST [calling, early afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper [Chainbridge Scrape, this afternoon].
Kilvington Lakes - 2 SANDWICH TERN [West Lake, 11:00]; also Greenshank.
Monday 24th June
Holme Pierrepont - Green Sandpiper, Cuckoo [Blotts Pit, late afternoon].
Thoresby Park - 6+Hawfinch [mixed group of adults and juveniles, feeding in Cherry trees on Blacksmiths Lane, 14:00]; also Yellow Wagtail.
Thoroton - Cuckoo [between Thoroton and Hawksworth].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Curlew [south-east over Chainbridge Scrape, this morning], 3 Black-tailed Godwit [Tiln North].
Sunday 23rd June
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape East, from sheep gate on Chainbridge Lane 17:50].
Saturday 22nd June
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 4 Black-tailed Godwit [Chainbridge Scrape, late afternoon], Green Sandpiper [Neatholme Fen].
Netherfield Lagoons - Black-tailed Godwit [on the new workings, this afternoon].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [prolonged views of the male overhead for 20+ minutes, with bouts of displaying, 11:10 at least]. Also GOSHAWK, Red Kite and Hobby.
Budby Common - Woodlark [single, this morning]; also several Tree Pipit.
Friday 21st June
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer again on Phase Three, 15:50], 3 Yellow-legged Gull [second-summer].
Osberton - QUAIL [singing male, on the Osberton estate this afternoon]; also Corn Bunting.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard [showing from the watchpoint, late morning].
Idle Washland - 2 Marsh Harrier [cream crowns, Slaynes Lane]; also Black-tailed Godwit, "drumming" Common Snipe.
Huthwaite - 6 Willow Tit [family party, at least 4 on Silverhill Trail close to Derbyshire border and another pair at Teversal end of the Trail].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green Sandpiper [still on Ridge and Furrow].
Laxton - 2 Tree Sparrow [on the cricket pitch, this morning]; also Lesser Whitethroat, 7+Common Whitethroat, Marsh Tit.
Thursday 20th June
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 6 Black-tailed Godwit [Tiln North, this evening], 3 Yellow-legged Gull [2 second-semmer/1 first-summer, Bellmore Lake].
Wednesday 19th June
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer again on Phase Three], 3 Yellow-legged Gull [second-summer].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - GREAT WHITE EGRET [Chainbridge Scrape West].
Spalford - 2 CASPIAN GULL [in pig fields, this afternoon].
Thoresby Park - Tree Pipit [feeding in private garden, then flew north, 14:45]; also Yellow Wagtail, 15 Blackcap.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Green Sandpiper [Ridge and Furrow, this afternoon].
Tuesday 18th June
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Cuckoo [heard, Church Pond, 13:26].
Osberton - QUAIL [singing male, on the Osberton estate this morning]; also Hobby and Corn Bunting.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Grasshopper Warbler [along the riverside track, adjacent to Chainbridge Pit], Hobby [Alan's Meadow].
Monday 17th June
Clarborough - Iberian Chiffchaff [probable, singing in Ash/Oaks between St Johns Drive and Clarborough School, DN22 9NN, 13:05; no further sigh 16:00].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [second summer, Clifton Pit, 15:22].
Spalford - 2 CASPIAN GULL [first and second-summer, on the pig fields], 8 Yellow-legged Gull [2 second-summer, 6 first-summer]; also Common Gull, Herring Gull, c.350 LBB.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Cuckoo [female, rufous "hepatic" morph, flew over Clayworth Common towards the river, 10:31], 155 Gadwall, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 15 Common Tern [Chainbridge Scrape East].
Hoveringham - 24 Little Egret [on flooded field behind the Sailing Lake].
Sunday 16th June
Pleasley Hill - QUAIL [singing male this morning and again this evening; near Penniment Lane/Sampson's Lane juntion, from field opposite Penniment Farm].
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer], MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first summer], Yellow-legged Gull [first summer], Curlew, Green Sandpiper [all Phase Three].
Hickling - Hobby [through, 13:30]; also Grey Partridge calling.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Hobby [over the Sailing Pit, 08:52].
Saturday 15th June
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [showing from the watchpoint, 09:50 and again 15:40].
Besthorpe Nature Reserve - 2 Whooper Swan [Mons Pool, 17:47].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Yellow-legged Gull [second-summer, Bellmoor Lake, 17:16], 3 Spotted Flycatcher [reported Bunker Wood].
Hoveringham - 21 Little Egret [all in one flooded field, behind the Sailing Lake, this afternoon].
Langford Lowfields - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first summer, Phase Three, early afternoon]; also 2+Yellow-legged Gull, Whooper Swan, Green Sandpiper.
Bennerley Marsh - Hobby [through, this afternoon].
Thrumpton - Cuckoo [calling from riverside tree, seen from the Long Eaton side of the river, 10:43].
Friday 14th June
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 7 Dunlin, 3 Common Redshank [Chainbridge Scrape].
Thursday 13th June
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [second-summer, again on Blotts Pit this evening].
East Leake - 6 Little Egret [over due west, 20:00].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Little Ringed Plover, Common Gull [Clifton Pit, 19:00].
Thoresby Park - 2 Yellow Wagtail, 200+ Swift.
Rufford Country Park - 2 Hawfinch [by the staff car park, this morning].
Wednesday 12th June
Thoresby Park - Woodcock [roding male, South Grove 18:48]; also 300+Swift [over north, this afternoon].
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [second-summer, Blotts Pit still 17:38].
Netherfield Lagoons - Green Sandpiper [on the New Workings, late afternoon].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - Curlew [Tiln North, early afternoon], Dunlin [Chainbridge Scrape East].
Tuesday 11th June
Langford Lowfields - Cuckoo [female, rufous "hepatic" morph, flew passed the Beach Hut, this morning].
Monday 10th June
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [second-summer, Blotts Pit still this evening].
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer], 5 Yellow-legged Gull, Dunlin, Hobby, Whooper Swan [Phase Three, 10:00 - 13:00].
Sunday 9th June
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer], 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Dunlin, Whooper Swan [Phase Three, this afternoon].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [single showing well from the viewpoint].
Idle Washlands - Marsh Harrier [cream-crown], Common Snipe [drumming, Misson West, Slaynes Lane].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 3 Dunlin [Clifton Pit, 07:25].
Holme Pierrepont - 2 MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first and second-summer, Blotts Pit still this morning]; also Cuckoo.
Saturday 8th June
Holme Pierrepont - 2 MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first and second-summer, Blotts Pit again this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 6 Dunlin [flew north, 18:49], Common Gull [second-summer], Goosander [Clifton Pit].
Rufford - TURTLE DOVE [purring male, from electricity pole near old Rufford pit site, 18:30].
Friday 7th June
Holme Pierrepont - 2 MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first and second-summer, Blotts Pit this evening, 20:30 at least]. Also Cuckoo calling.
Pleasley Hill - QUAIL [singing briefly early morning and again 11:36 near Penniment Lane/Sampson's Lane juntion, singing from field opposite Penniment Farm].
Thursday 6th June
Pleasley Hill - QUAIL [singing male, near Penniment Lane/Sampson Lane junction this morning and again this evening].
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer, Blotts Pit this evening].
Attenborough Reserve - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer, Clifton Pit, 10:21].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [single showing from the viewpoint, 09:50]
Wednesday 5th June
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer, still Blotts Pit, 18:04].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - CASPIAN GULL [first-summer, Bellmore Lake], 2+ Yellow-legged Gull.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [single showing from the viewpoint, 12:35].
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer again on Phase Three, this Morning]; also Whooper Swan.
Tuesday 4th June
Holme Pierrepont - 3 SANDERLING [Blotts Pit, 16:49, single still present 19:00 at least], MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer, Blotts Pit 16:53, different bird to the one seen on Sunday].
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer again on Phase Three, this afternoon]; also MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer], Yellow-legged Gull, Whooper Swan.
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - 2 Curlew [Neatholme Fen, 15:15], Greenshank [Chainbridge Scrape East, this evening].
Spalford - CASPIAN GULL [first-summer, Spalford Pig Fields, present since 28th May].
Church Laneham - Grasshopper Warbler [reeling].
Monday 3rd June
Budby Common - 4 Nightjar [At least 4 churring, from different locations this evening]; also 2 Woodcock.
Langford Lowfields - CASPIAN GULL [German ringed first-summer again on Phase Three, this evening]; also MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer], Yellow-legged Gull, Whooper Swan.
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard [wing-clapping male joined by female, with both then drifting south, 09:25 - 09:35; male again displaying 13:10]; also Hobby.
Compton Acres - Hobby [through, 13:45].
Thoresby Park - Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail [Perlethorpe Flood], Reed Warbler [by the metal bridge near the Courtyard, 12:18]
Langwith - Quail [at the roadside east of Langwith, this morning].
Worksop - 2 Cuckoo [calling around the course, this morning].
Sunday 2nd June
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - 2 Honey Buzzard [single male showing on and off most of the day from 09:25 - 14:00, prolonged views of the male soaring over the Cat Hills Plantation 13:00 - 13:35, 2 up together male and female, 14:00]. Also Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, 6+Common Buzzard, 2 Goosander [pair], 4 Shelduck, 2+Yellow Wagtail.
Budby Common - 2 Woodlark [mid-morning].
Osberton Estate - 11 CORN BUNTING [singing males, holding territory on the Osberton estate, this morning]. Also Barn Owl, Hobby.
Holme Pierrepont - MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer], TURTLE DOVE [Blotts Pit, early morning].
Langford Lowfields - 3 SANDERLING [still present on Phase Three], Hobby.
Saturday 1st June
Budby Common - 4+ Nightjar, several roding Woodcock, Tawny Owl [this evening].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - OSPREY [over south from Tower hide, 17:52].
Welbeck Raptor Watchpoint - Honey Buzzard [overhead from the viewpoint, did maybe 15 "wingclap" displays in short bursts. Otherwise circling/soaring then headed off south-west, on view from 13:00 -13:40]. Also GOSHAWK, Red Kite, Hobby.
Langford Lowfields - 3 SANDERLING, MEDITERRANEAN GULL [first-summer], 2 Yellow-legged Gull [second-summer], Whooper Swan [all Phase Three, this morning].
Lound [Idle Valley Nature Reserve] - LITTLE TERN [Chainbridge Scrape West, 08:15 - 12:25 at least]
Many thanks to:
Laurence Archibald, Stephen Bacon, Merv Bartle, Bob Beck, Robin Brace, Nicholas Brownley, Paul Buxton,
Alan Clewes, Carl Cornish, Ian Cowgill, Nick Crouch, Mark Dawson, Jacqueline Dennison, David Dunn, Adey Fox, Malcolm Goodman, Indy Kiemel Greene, Andy Hall, Paul Hobson, John Hopper, Mike Leatherland, Scott Linacre, Claire Richardson Longmoor, Andy Merrick, Dean Nicholson, James Owen, Raymond Parker,
Peter Playle, Andrew Przeslak, Phil Read, Anthony Reed, Simon Roberts, Neil Sainthouse, Andy Shooter, Rob Smith, Simon Smith, Mark Speck, John Tebbs, Gary Telford,
David Tyldesley, Dave Viles, Mark Wilde, Rob Woodward.
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