The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Thoresby Hall - 10.45 - 11.45 Cloudy and windy
incl.
pair of Spotted Flycatchers

Welbeck Raptor Viewpoint - 12.00-3.00pm Cloudy and windy;brighter later (with a group of 6-8 birders)

incl. Honey Buzzard - excellent views - tail rather long; long winged when gliding with smoothly downcurved wings; soared on flattish wings
Goshawk (juvenile) flew overhead at medium tree height and across the lake in mainly straight gliding flight. Initial silhouette suggested Carrion Crow. Brown above, buff-white below Flew straight into wood at low level.
Osprey - flew up and down over lake and circled around for c10 minutes
Common Buzzard - 4/5 incl 3 in the air together
Kestrel
plus Marsh Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Chaffinch -at the feeders

(plus a visit to Bloxham Lane,Nocton Heath, Lincs on way home 4.00 - 4.45)
incl. Marsh Harrier cc - several views towards A15.

Regards,

Freddy

Whereabouts is this viewpoint? I might ask Dad to take me if it's very off-the-route of public transport.....

Welbeck Viewpoint NOTTS
Grid reference SK 580720

One of the quickest routes from Lincolnshire is to take the A1 to the junction with the A614/A57 SE of Worksop. Then go straight through Clumber Park (nearby on the A614) on the minor road towards Norton. The viewpoint is then on the right as, having crossed the B6034 after Carburton,you come to a lakeside pull-in with parking for some 6-8 cars.
Good luck!

Regards,

Freddy

More precisely Katherine, if you take the first exit left (sign posted Nottingham) at the Worksop/A1 roundabout. After a few hundred yards on the right you will see an archway leading into Clumber Park. Follow this road right through the park (a couple of miles) and go straight across the junction at the far end (lakes on the right). The site is on the right a mile or so after the junction.

If you go past the 90 degree left hand bend in this road you have gone 100 yards to far. Combine it with a look for nuthatches and hawfinch behind the church in Clumber Park and if you are fortunate you can say you had a good day

Hope this helps and as Freddy said - good luck