Attenborough Nature Centre

Current Opening Times

 Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm.   Weekends 9am - 6pm.       Last orders 30 mins before closing time      
Access to the Reserve, 7am-dusk 
                       

with the Wildlife Trusts, Nottinghamshire  

April 2007

Saturday 28th April - Works Pit: 2 Shelduck. Main Pond: 9 Common Tern. Arctic Tern. Barton Side: 3 Common Buzzard, Red Tailed Hawk [all up together], 2 Common Buzzard [slightly further west]. Coneries: Arctic Tern, Curlew [ploughed field across river], Oystercatcher [over & west]. River Erewash/East Bank: Garden Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 7 Common Whitethroat, 5 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff.

Friday 27th April - Arctic Tern [main pond].

Thursday 26th April - 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Egyptian Goose, Oystercatcher, Blackcap, Sedge Warbler.

Monday 23rd April - 2 Northern Wheatear, Sedge Warbler, Shelduck, 1 Garden Warbler, Jay, Yellow Wagtail.

Saturday 21st April - 2 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, Grasshopper Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Spotted Crake [showed for 1 minute in left hand corner of works pit at 10:55am], Pintail [pair on Coneries], 2 Northern Wheatear, 2 Whinchat [males in sheepfield near the flash], 6 Reed Warbler, 5 Common Swift, 1 Goldeneye. Main Pit: 8 Common Tern, 1 Goosander [male with injured wing]. Erewash Field: 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler. Sailing Pit: 2 Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3 Common Tern, 2 Swallow, 2 Sand Martin. Church Pond: 14 Common Tern [platform]. Wheatear Field Scrape: 5 Lapwing.

Friday 20th April - Spotted Crake, 1 Dunlin [Tween Pond], Grasshopper Warbler [Erewash Field].

Wed 18th Apr - Little Gull, Grasshopper Warbler [Erewash Field - visible and reeling at the same time].

Tue 17th Apr - Grasshopper Warbler [showing well near the path - Erewash Field], c.30 Linnet, 2 Shelduck, Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting, Kingfisher, 2 Common Buzzard.

Mon 16th Apr - Works Pit: 2 Shelduck, 3 Teal. Main Pit: 8 Common Tern, Pochard [male]. Erewash Field: 5 Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit, Snipe, Grasshopper Warbler. Sailing Pit: 3 Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 27 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow.

Sun 15th Apr - Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler [several], 2 Shelduck, 7 Common Tern.

Sat 14th Apr - 6 Common Tern, 4 Egyptian Goose, Shoveler, Teal, Gadwall, Lapwing, Tree Sparrow.

Wed 11th Apr - 2 Goldeneye, Common Buzzard, 2 Shelduck, Swallow, Willow Warbler, 2 Sand Martin, 3 Little Grebe, Reed Bunting

Sun 8th Apr - Northern Wheatear, 4 Sand Martin, 6 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff.

Fri 6th Apr - 10 Goldeneye, 4 Shelduck, Treecreeper, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Common Buzzard, Blackcap [several singing].

Sunday 1st April - Delta: 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, 1 Woodcock, 5 Chiffchaff.