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  

September 2007

Tuesday 18th - 3 Little Egret [in the Coneries roost. Flew in separately a few minutes apart around 19:20, arriving from high altitude].

Sunday 16th - 1 Bar-tailed Godwit.

Friday 14th - 4 Little Egret [roost]. Tween Pond Scrape: 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Snipe, 3 Sand Martin. Clifton Pond: Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Common Tern. Wet Marsh: 2 Garganey, 6 Shoveler, 3 Eurasian Wigeon, 2 Gadwall, c.20 Eurasian Teal, 1 Sparrowhawk [male].

Wednesday 12th - White-cheeked Pintail [escape on Tween Pond by car park near Visitor Centre], 6 Little Egret [roost site - small island on Coneries Pit], 30 Eurasian Teal, 70 Gadwall.

Tuesday 11th - Visitor Centre: 1 Sand Martin, 100 House Martin.

Monday 10th - Hobby [perched in tree next to Delta reedbed, making frequent sallies to catch dragonflies over reedbed].

Saturday 8th- Clifton Pit: 8 Common Snipe, 12 Eurasian Wigeon, Water Rail [calling], 2 Common Buzzard [Barton-in-Fabis side]. Barton Flash: 3 Little Egret. Sailing Pit/Sewerage Works: 100 House Martin, 70 Swallow, Common Whitethroat, Yellow-legged Gull.

Saturday 1st - Yellow-legged Gull, Hobby, Mediterranean Gull [juvenile on Clifton pit], Little Owl, 3 Common Buzzard, Red-tailed Hawk [over Branshill Wood].