Wildlife Sightings at Attenborough
Sightings for April 2008
Monday 28th Apr 2008
Cuckoo [Delta Area]
Sunday 27th Apr 2008
Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pond], Lesser Whitethroat.
Saturday 26th Apr 2008
Barton Lane: Northern Wheatear [female in field by level crossing], 2 Oystercatcher. Clifton Pond: Common Sandpiper, Tree Sparrow.
Friday 25th Apr 2008
Whimbrel [Clifton Pit], Little Gull [Main Pond].
Thursday 24th Apr 2008
3 Dunlin [left of Kingfisher Hide].
Monday 21st Apr 2008
Red Kite, Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Tween Pond Scrape:- 2 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail. Attenborough Bowling Green: 4 Yellow Wagtail.
Sunday 20th Apr 2008
2 Arctic Tern, 4 Willow Tit.
Saturday 19th Apr 2008
Common Swift [over Visitor Centre], 200+ Sand Martin [Coneries Pond], 50+ Swallow, 20 Common Tern.
Friday 18th Apr 2008
Sand Martin [total on all pits: 1200+], 150+ Swallow total on all pits, 4 House Martin, Common Swift [one flying low near Barton Lane bridge area late afternoon], Yellow Wagtail [feeding on Tween Pond Scrape], Reed Warbler [Delta reed-bed], 5 Willow Warbler [singing], 33 Common Tern [29 together feeding over Coneries Pond and 4 to North earlier over Main Pond], 24 Common Goldeneye [12 each on Church and Clifton Ponds], 4 Northern Shoveler, Common Snipe [one on Delta.
Wednesday 16th Apr 2008
Reed Warbler [singing, Delta reed-bed].
Tuesday 15th Apr 2008
Grasshopper Warbler, Osprey [male seen flying down River Trent towards Nottingham at approximately 11:15.
Monday 14th Apr 2008
Black Redstart, Curlew
Saturday 12th Apr 2008
Barn Swallow, House Martin, 1 Common Tern [Coneries Pond]. Erewash Field: 6 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark. Wheatear Field: Common Sandpiper, 4 Eurasian Teal. Clifton Pond: 2 Common Shelduck, 5 Common Goldeneye, 35 Sand Martin. Delta: 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff.
Thursday 10th Apr 2008
1 Yellow Wagtail [male], 1 Common Goldeneye, 3+ Brambling [back of the church], Oystercatcher, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap. Coneries Pond: 300+ Sand Martin [nearly all gone by late morning]. Clifton Pond: Common Tern. Main Pond: 1 Common Sandpiper.
Tuesday 8th Apr 2008
6 Willow Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap [all warblers singing at various places around the reserve but mainly in the Delta area], 80+ Sand Martin [Main Pond]. Clifton Pond: 1 Common Pochard, 10 Northern Shoveler, 2 Common Shelduck, 12 Eurasian Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Eurasian Wigeon [male], 1 Swallow, 1 Goosander [male].
Saturday 5th Apr 2008
c.500 Sand Martin, Oystercatcher.
Friday 4th Apr 2008
4 Blackcap [singing], 6+ Chiffchaff [singing], 17 Fieldfare, 2 Willow Tit.
