Wildlife Sightings at Attenborough
Sightings for May 2008
Friday 23rd May 2008
Hobby
Thursday 22nd May 2008
Turnstone [Clifton Pit - water's edge left of Kingfisher hide], Cuckoo [on Barton Lane], Hobby.
Tuesday 20th May 2008
Hobby x2 Clifton Pit, Turnstone, Dunlin.
Monday 12th May 2008
Male & Female Garganey [Tween Pond]. Banded Demoiselle [Erewash Outflow]
Friday 9th May 2008
Turnstone [Clifton Pond], Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover x 2, Oystercatcher.
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Little Gull [Church Pond], Pink-Footed Goose, 4 x Black Tern [Clifton Pit].
Tuesday 6th May 2008
Black Tern [Main Pond].
Monday 5th May 2008
Grey Plover [Over], Osprey [Seen from Car Park Flew Over], 2 Little Ringed Plover, Cuckoo.
Sunday 4th May 2008
No reports of cattle egret today. Whimbrel (Over), Wheatear, Grasshopper Warbler (Reeling) [Wheatear Field, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Black Tern, Red Crested Pochard, Wigeon [Clifton Pit], Cuckoo (Singing) [Delta Area], Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Chiff Chaff, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Pink-Footed Goose, 2 Shelduck. Also 10 Black Tern [Long Eaton GP].
Saturday 3rd May 2008
Cattle Egret [Wheatear Field/Tween Pond Scrape] from 6:45a.m flew away briefly at 8:30am and then returned, 10:30am around the Tween Pond Islands. Present low in bushes on Tween Pond 6.30-8.30p.m [Viewed form Old Car-Park].
Friday 2nd May 2008
Cattle Egret [Wheatear Field/Tween Pond Scrape].
Thursday 1st May 2008
2 Oystercatcher [Wheatear Field and Clifton Pond].
