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 Keith Rainford Bullfinch194@gmail.com 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. 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 Red Kite, Barn Owl, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Little Ringed Plover, Nightjar, Turtle Dove and Willow Tit. Nevertheless, please submit your sightings anyway."
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Please remember to submit all sightings to Keith Rainford Bullfinch194@gmail.com each month, using the Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the Recording page.
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Archived Sightings 2001 - 2023
Archived Sightings 2001 to 2025
Archived Sightings 2026
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 Feral/unknown origin.
Total of 128 Species recorded so far in 2026.
Updated 1st March 2026.
Full List HERE
Saturday 18th April
Bentinck Pit Top - Curlew, Common Sandpiper, JACK SNIPE, RING OUZEL [Richard Box].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - GLOSSY IBIS [Neatholme Scrape; Jackie Dennison], Cuckoo [heard from Chainbridge Scrape East], 19 Yellow Wagtail, Northern Wheatear [Tiln North; Tim Carter]; Yellow Wagtail [Neatholme Fen], Red-crested Pochard [drake, Neatholme Scrape; Martin McCallum].
Cromwell Quarry - Black-tailed Godwit, 1+LRP, Green Sandpiper [still present, Alfie Seastron].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Cuckoo [Budby South Forest; Jackie Dennison].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 7 Common Tern, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [Clifton Pit], Grasshopper Warbler [still reeling in the Wheatear Field; Adey Fox].
Friday 17th April
Cromwell Quarry - Black-tailed Godwit, 1+LRP, Green Sandpiper [this evening; Alfie Seastron].
Carlton on Trent - Cuckoo [calling this evening; Alfie Seastron].
Clipstone Forest - 40+Crossbill, 4 Tree Pipit [this afternoon; Alan Scrimshaw].
Idle Washlands - 2 Pink-footed Geese, Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, LRP, 10 Black-tailed Godwit [flew west], Greenshank, Yellow Wagtail [Slaynes Lane, midday, Ian Cowgill, Lance Degnan].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 2 Egyptian Geese, 4 Curlew, Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, Green Woodpecker, Whitethroat [John Burdall]. Todays Doncaster Birding
Bennerley Marsh - 2 Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3 LRP [10:00; Richard Stanton].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Grasshopper Warbler [reeling in the Wheatear Field, early morning; Paul Buxton].
Langford Lowfields - WHIMBREL [Phase Three, this morning; Mark Dawson].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - Cuckoo [Chainbridge area/Bunker Wood, this morning], Green Sandpiper [Neatholme Fen], Common Tern [Bellmoor Lake].
Annesley Pit Top - 2 Gadwall, 6 Lapwing, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, Greenfinch, 8 Sand Martin (David Draper].
Thursday 16th April
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still A52 Pit this evening; Tom Shields]; also Common Sandpiper.
Besthorpe NR - 2 Dunlin [Mons Pool, late afternoon; Robert Carr].
Radcliffe on Trent - Black Kite [reported flying west over Grantham Road, 14:45; John Wakefield].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 2 Reed Warbler [Bellmoor Lake], 2 Cattle Egret [cattle field, south of Chainbridge Pit], Cuckoo [near Tiln Wood], 2 Northern Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail [ploughed field top of Neatholme Lane].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 2 Egyptian Geese, 19 Shelduck, 6 Shelduck, 4 Wigeon, 18 Tufted Duck, 6 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Oystercatcher, 5 Lapwing, 2 Redshank, 2 Herring Gull, 20 GB-b Gull, 5 LB-b Gull, 4 Cormorant, Great White Egret, 2 Long-tailed Tit, c.70 Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Whitethroat, Chaffinch (Chris Robinson) Todays Doncaster Birding
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 Common Tern [Sailing Pit], 2 Grasshopper Warbler [reeling Wheatear Field, this morning; Paul Buxton], Curlew [Clifton Pit, this afternoon; Simon Roberts].
Sherwood Forest NNR - 5 Common Redstart [singing males, this morning; Simon Roberts].
Bennerley Marsh - 2 Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3 LRP [10:00; Mike Leatherland].
Wednesday 15th April
Cossall - 2 White Stork [flew over this afternoon; Jeremy Burnside].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - SPOONBILL [flew over Chainbridge Scrape heading south late morning; Keith Fisher], 5 Cattle Egret [Chainbridge Pit], 4 Goldeneye [pair Neatholme Scrape, 2 females Neatholme Fen; Garry Hobson].
Trowell - RING OUZEL [in field behind Trowell Garden Centre viewed from Swansea Bridge, 08:50 - 09:00; Nige Davis].
Sherwood Forest NNR - Cuckoo [mid-morning; Alan Shrimshaw], Tree Pipit [Budby South Forest; Jackie Dennison].
Thoresby Pit Top - RING OUZEL [male briefly 07:00, then flew off and landed on Edwinstowe Cricket Pitch, but no further sign; Alan Scrimshaw]; also Northern Wheatear, 2 Crossbill.
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Grasshopper Warbler [reeling in the Wheatear Field, 07:38; Paul Buxton].
Tuesday 14th April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - OSPREY [over Clifton Pit 18:22 - 18:36; Simon Roberts]; also 2 Caspian Gull, Common Tern.
Idle Washlands - 2 Pink-footed Geese, drake GARGANEY, 3 Green Sandpiper [Slaynes Lane this evening; Lance Degnan]. Todays Doncaster Birding
Calverton Pit Top - 4 Tree Pipit, 3 Green Woodpecker, several Redpoll, Mistle Thrush, Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 6 Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff. (Chris johnson)
Monday 13th April
Idle Washlands - GARGANEY [drake], Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 9 Shelduck, 9 Redshank, 3 Green Sandpiper [Slaynes Lane; Lance Degnan, Steve Furber].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 7 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Geese, 9 Shelduck, 6 Shoveler, 2m Wigeon, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Oystercatcher, 11 Lapwing, WHIMBREL, 8+ Curlew, 2 Redshank, 22 GB-b Gull, Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 250+ Sand Martin, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, c.10 Linnet (Chris Robinson). Todays Doncaster Birding
Gringley on the Hill - RING OUZEL [in "Beacon" field just north of High Street, late morning; Ian Cowgill].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 3 Cattle Egret [in Cattle field between Tiln Nort/ Chainbridge Pit, 11:00], 3 Pink-footed Geese [Bellmoor Lake], Stonechat [Conservation Lake], 7 Yellow Wagtail, Northern Wheatear [Tiln North].
Clumber Park - Tree Pipit.
Ranby - Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Northern Wheatear [private Farm, near the village this morning].
Calverton Pit Top - Grasshopper Warbler [reeling from brambles early morning], Tree Pipit, good numbers of Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Lesser Redpoll, Siskin [Watchwood; Duncan Lyon].
Sunday 12th April
Kilvington Lakes - RING OUZEL [between West Lake and the hide, 18:50; Matt Scott].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Common Tern [Sailing Pit, 18:36; Adey Fox].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 5+ Northern Wheatear [Tiln North/Clayworth Common], 20+ Yellow Wagtail, 2 White Wagtail [Tiln North, 18:30], Cuckoo [calling, riverside of Chainbridge Pit, 19:00], Common Sandpiper [Bellmoor Lake].
Bennerley Marsh - 2 Shelduck, Common Sandpiper [late afternoon; Mike Leatherland].
Hoveringham - 2 Northern Wheatear [in field just north of the Sailing Lake, 10:30; Craig Pitchford, Simon Sharpe]; Barnacle Goose [Tipping Pond field].
Carrington - Red Kite [flying over back gardens in Sherbrooke Road, 10:00; Tim Allman].
Laneham - Common Redstart [male, in roadside hedge just north of the village along Helenship Lane, 09:10; Josh Jones].
Stokeham - RING OUZEL [male in roadside trees just west of the village 06:30, then flew into horse paddocks; Josh Jones]; also Northern Wheatear.
Saturday 11th April
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still A52 Pit this evening; Alan Clewes].
Headon - OSPREY [flew north-east over the village, 16:08; Anthony Swindells].
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 31 Shelduck, 2f Goldeneye, WHIMBREL, 11 (eleven) Curlew, Redshank, 20 GB-b Gull, Green Woodpecker (Suzanne Atkinson, Chris Robinson). Todays Doncaster Birding
Kilvington Lakes - 2 Oystercatcher, Snipe, 4 LRP, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail [this afternoon; Jonathan Lloyd].
Bennerley Marsh - 2 Oystercatcher, 7 LRP, 2 Raven [15:00; Mike Leatherland].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - Northern Wheatear, 9 Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North], 3 Oystercatcher [Conservation Lake], Red-crested Pochard, Goldeneye [Neatholme Scrape], 6 Goldeneye, Garden Warbler, 4+Blackcap, c.100 Sand Martin, 5+Swallow [Neathome Pit; Gary Hobson, Martin McCallum, Michael Wilkinson].
Langford Lowfields - 6 ARCTIC TERN [Phase Three, then flew west late morning; Carl Cornish]; also Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Northern Wheatear, 10+Yellow Wagtail.
Idle Washlands - 2 WHIMBREL, 2 ARCTIC TERN [through], Cuckoo [calling], c.800 Sand Martin [Slaynes Lane; Ian Cowgill, Keith Fisher, Dan Vernon].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - COMMON SCOTER [drake, Clifton Pit mid-morning; Paul Buxton]; also 3 Common Tern, 7 Comic Tern [through west], Curlew, Garden Warbler, good numbers House Martin.
Friday 10th April
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Caspian Gull [1st-winter again Clifton Pit, this evening; Daniel Shaw]; also 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, White Wagtail, 40+Swallow, 250+Sand Martin.
Stoke Bardolph - 2 COMMON CRANE [flew over east calling, late afternoon; Dawn Marie].
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still A52 Pit; Alan Clewes], Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail [Blotts Pit, 07:36; Andrew Przeslak].
King's Mill Reservoir - RING OUZEL [female in large field/field edge south of pedestrian bridge over railway mid-morning; Robin Brace].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - Northern Wheatear [Tiln North], Pink-footed Goose [Clayworth Common], Yellow Wagtail [Neatholme Fen], Green Sandpiper, several Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler [Chainbridge Pit; Malc Goodman].
Langford Lowfields - Greenshank [this morning; Alfie Seastron].
Colwick CP - 2 Goosander, Swallow [large numbers feeding over the Main Lake 08:00; Ray Dupont].
Thursday 9th April
Hoveringham - 8 Yellow Wagtail [near the Tipping Pond, late afternoon; Simon Sharpe].
Burton Joyce - Yellow Wagtail [Shelford side of the river; Bob Beck].
Langford Lowfields - Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 17 Sedge Warbler [this morning; John Ellis].
Colwick CP - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still on the Main Lake, 08:43; Michael Walker], Reed Warbler (Tom Shields).
Mansfield - Grey Heron [melanistic form, Hermatage Pond; Dale Hopewell].
Wednesday 8th April
Bentinck Pit Tip - COMMON SCOTER [female], 80 Fieldfare, Whinchat, White Wagtail (Rich Box).
Holme Pierrepont - GREATER SCAUP [drake, A52 Pit this evening; Alan Clewes].
Hoveringham - GREATER SCAUP [female, still Railway Pit], 2 Curlew, Northern Wheatear [Sailing Lake; John Hopper].
Kirton - Northern Wheatear, Whitethroat (Alan Scrimshaw).
Ollerton - 12 Fieldfare (Alan Scrimshaw).
Thoresby Pit Top - 2 Goosander [south; Alan Scrimshaw].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Northern Wheatear, White Wagtail [Squires Island, Clifton Pit this morning; Colin Smith], 2 Caspian Gull [1st and 2nd-winter], Yellow-legged Gull, White Wagtail [Clifton Pit, this evening; Simon Roberts].
Sutton on Trent - RING OUZEL [male, with 4 Fieldfare in riverside fields 08:30 - 18:30 at least; Alfie Seastron].
Ring Ouzel - Sutton on Trent ©
Alfie Seastron.
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 2 Northern Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North], Common Whitethroat [The Willows], Reed Warbler [Neatholme Scrape; ; Darren Houseman],
Nott'm City - Skylark [Old Market Square, full song flight above the old Debenhams building, 08:00; Nick Handos].
Tuesday 7th April
Misson Springs [Finningley GP] - 5 Whooper Swan [left north-west, 18:39], 3 Shelduck, 8 Shoveler, 13 Wigeon, 2 COMMON SCOTER [drake/female], 3 Oystercatcher, 8 Lapwing, 4+ Redshank, c.50r GB-b Gull, 3 LB-b Gull, Great White Egret, Grey Heron, 2 Green Woodpecker, 6+Raven [left north-west at dusk], 8 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap (Chris Robinson). Todays Doncaster Birding
Clipstone Forest - Brambling [amongst Redpoll/Siskin flock in Willows by Rainworth Water; Graham Beeley].
Rufford Pit Top - Willow Warbler, Swallow (Graham Beeley].
Thoresby Pit Top - Northern Wheatear, 5 Sand Martin (Alan Scrimshaw).
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - Pink-footed Goose, 2 Northern Wheatear, 5 Yellow Wagtail [Tiln North; Dave Richardson], 5 Whooper Swan, Little Egret, 4 Blackcap [Neatholme scrape], Shelduck, Oystercatcher [Alan’s meadow], 6 Ruff, Redshank [Chainbridge pit; Peter Burrill].
Hickling - Swallow [through, Peter Playle].
Epperstone - Willow Warbler [singing male; Peter Playle].
Holme Pierrepont - Oystercatcher, LRP [Blotts Pit; Sharon Ireland].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - Reed Warbler [Clifton Pit, calling from the new riverside screen], Common Sandpiper [Squires Island; Simon Thompson].
Monday 6th April
Hoveringham - GREATER SCAUP [female Railway Pit, 17:40; Matt Scott].
Kilvington Lakes - Redshank, LRP, 4 Snipe, Red Kite [late afternoon; Jonathan Lloyd].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - 2 White Wagtail [Clifton Pit, this afternoon; Simon Roberts]; GREATER SCAUP [drake, still on Tween], Willow Warbler [Barton Island; Daniel Shaw].
Bennerley Marsh - 3 LRP, 2 Oystercatcher [this afternoon; Mike Leatherland].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 2 Yellow Wagtail [semi-ploughed field near Neatholme Bridge, late morning; Keith Fisher], Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler [Neatholme Lane; Dave Richardson].
Cromwell Quarry - 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, LRP, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Shelduck [early afternoon; Alfie Seastron].
Averham - Swallow [on overhead wires; Ian Smith].
Colwick CP - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still on the Main Lake, 08:43], Common Sandpiper [on rocks below the River Trent Sluice; Tom Shields].
Sunday 5th April
Langford Lowfields/Besthorpe NR/Cromwell - OSPREY [over between 16:50 - 17:30; Mark Dawson, Carl Cornish, Rich Ward].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - GLOSSY IBIS [still Neatholme Fen, this afternoon; Tim Carter], Egyptian Geese [with 4 young], 50+Sand Martin, House Martin, several Blackcap and Chiffchaff [Neatholme Area; Martin McCallam].
Hollinwell Golf Course - OSPREY [low over the 8th tee heading towards Annesley, 11:15; Richard Stanton].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - 5 Ruff, 2 Redshank, Green Sandpiper [Chainbridge Pit, mid-morning], 2 LRP, Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher, Redshank [Neatholme Fen; Stu Davenport], 2 Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler [Hawthorne Lane; Keith Fisher, Tim Carter].
Annesley Pit Top - OSPREY [through north-west, 08:56; Paul Naylor].
Saturday 4th April
Langford Lowfields - SMEW [redhead still Phase Three, this afternoon; James Wilkinson].
Colwick CP - GREATER SCAUP [drake, still on the Main Lake].
Friday 3rd April
Besthorpe NR - 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 2 Goosander [Mons Pool, late afternoon; Carl Cornish].
Langford Lowfields - KITTIWAKE [adult flew through north, early afternoon], SMEW [redhead], LRP, 2 Yellow Wagtail [Phase Three], c.150 Golden Plover [flew south; Carl Cornish].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - GLOSSY IBIS [Neatholme Fen; Martin McCallum].
Barton in Fabis - Curlew [heading north-west through Trentside, 12:05], Swallow [over fields off Manor Road; Rob Hoare].
Fiskerton - Redwing [in field at the western end of the village; John Clarkson].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - GREATER SCAUP [adult drake, still Tween Pond mid-morning], Swallow [Clifton Pit; Daniel Shaw].
King's Mill Reservoir - Water Rail [under Willows south-west corner], Caspian Gull [2nd-winter, this morning; Robin Brace].
Holme Pierrepont - SMEW [redhead still A52 Pit, early morning], Yellow Wagtail [Blotts Pit; Alan Clewes].
Thursday 2nd April
Hoveringham - Marsh Harrier, 2 Green Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler [Sailing Lake, this morning; John Hopper].
Lound [Idle Valley NR] - Green Sandpiper [Chainbridge Lane West; Martin McCallum], 2 Egyptian Geese [Water ski Pit], Little Egret [Neatholme Scrape], Shelduck, c.50 Shoveler [Neatholme Fen] Oystercatcher, 3 Egyptian Geese [Field by Chainbridge lane bridge]; Peter Burrill].
Wednesday 1st April
Colwick CP - GREATER SCAUP [drake, Lodge Bay 17:52; Michael Walker].
Skegby - OSPREY [flying north mobbed by Herring Gulls, 16:20; Darren Hall].
Hucknall - Common Buzzard, 3 Grey Partridge, Song Thrush, 2 Yellowhammer [singing males - all seen on Whyburn Farm fields/hedges], 2 Crossbill [2 males/single in tree tops along Park Forest/Misk Farm border; Alan Thomas].
Attenborough Nature Reserve - OSPREY [circling over Tween Pond drifting north, 13:47; Andy Hall], GREATER SCAUP [adult drake, still Tween Pond, early morning], 32 Goosander [Clifton Pit; Adey Fox].
Osprey - Attenborough Nature Reserve ©
Andy Hall.
Welbeck Raptor Viewpoint - Red Kite [circling over, 13:15], 6 Common Buzzard [from the feeding station layby; Peter Burrill].
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