The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Clumber Park NT, Notts
12 January 2014
10.00 - 12.00
Although no sign of hawfinches did find a good selection of birds including:
Common crossbill 8
Siskin 100+ (lakeside alders)
Lesser redpoll 20+ (" )
Tawny owl (male calling near Chapel)
Goosander 45
Mandarin 2m 1f
Kingfisher 2
Marsh tit 2
Nuthatch 5
Treecreeper 2
Redwing 40
Bullfinch 2
Great crested grebe 35
Buzzard 1

Brian

All the times ive visited clumber ive never seen kingfisher..im planning a visit for crossbills & hawfinches..if you dont mind saying, where were kingfisher?

What facilities does Clumber Park have? Any bird feeding stations, gift shops, etc?

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The whole forest is a bird feeding station, also the great lake with the colourful manderin,
Gift shops selling books to picnic blankets to metal eagles for the garden,
From mountain biking to camping..even a walk around the lake is pleasurable.
All in all a great place to visit..rufford country park only down the road..notts tourist board sign me up!

I meant mandarin..pretty rainbow duck!

Katherine
As Andy says, all the facilities you'd expect from a National Trust site (café, shops, several toilets, nature discovery centre, bird feeding sites, etc). Well sign-posted off the A1.

Andy
The kingfishers were near the footbridge over the weir at the very eastern end of the lake and also around the lake edge in front of the house. I've seen them on the last few visits there. The redpolls were very close, feeding on alders and willowherbs in the lakeside woodland strip just SW of the house, where there is a narrow lakeside path and not too disturbed. Most of the siskins were in the alders here too.

Regards
Brian