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The Netherfield Lagoons is a nature reserve that is situated on the Trent Valley Flood Plain and has been partly used as a dump for coal slurry but with two remaining gravel ponds. The two slurry pits are separated by a raised causeway, which is elevated some 50 feet (15 m) above the pits, giving a commanding view of the area. The largest tank is virtually full but retains some water, with muddy edges attractive to waders and roosting gulls and terns. The smaller tank is mainly deep water, attracting good numbers of wildfowl, with smaller birds, especially warblers, feeding and breeding around the tank edges. The site consists roughly of three compartments, the Slurry Lagoon, the Deep Pit and the two Gravel Pits.
Because of the largely temporary nature of the main slurry lagoon sites, much of the avian interest is restricted to passage and wintering birds. A railway embankment, which forms the western boundary of the site, holds ärtsångare and other warblers during the summer and occasionally jorduggla in the winter. The scrubby banks of the gravel ponds are a frequent stopping-off point for small numbers of buskskvätta and a regular wintering site for svarthakad buskskvätta. Storskarv roost on the electricity pylons.
During the spring, pools created on the slurry attract most of the common species of wader, with mindre strandpipare being common from April to September. Regular species in autumn include brushane, kärrsnäppa, gluttsnäppa, rödbena, skogssnäppa and drillsnäppa. In the late autumn up to 4000 ljungpipare and 1000 tofsvipa use the pools as a roost site, along with several hundred bläsand and smaller numbers of Kricka, Skedand and stjärtand. The weedy banks and fields attract good numbers of sånglärka and ängspiplärka, with gulärla being common on passage.
A good selection of rare birds have been located at the Netherfield Lagoons through regular checking of the migrant waders and wildfowl and have included amerikansk bläsand, rördrom, Trana, havssula, fjällpipare, tjockfot, skärsnäppa, myrsnäppa, brednäbbad simsnäppa, vittrut, vitvingad tärna, stubbstjärtseglare, trastsångare and kärrsångare.
Detaljer
Tillgänglighet
The site can be reached from the Colwick Loop Road, by taking the road to the Victoria Retail Park and parking is via Teal Close, which is the left turn at the island. Proceed almost to the end of Teal Close and then turn right into the unsignposted, but allweather surfaced path along the side of the Ouse Dyke, cross over the footbridge and enter the site. Some limited car parking is available on Teal Close (See the P on the map).
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April to June is the best time for passage waders at the Netherfield Lagoons, with terns and gulls also moving through the area. In autumn, birds begin to arrive at the lagoons from early August onwards, with passage peaking in September and October. Winter produces good numbers of birds, especially gulls, when the pools freeze over in harsh conditions. Dawn and dusk are the best time to visit, but passage birds could drop in at any time of day.
October-March: skäggdopping and Smådopping, snatterand, Kricka, brunand, vigg, knipa, storskrake, Pilgrimsfalk, ljungpipare, dvärgbeckasin, hornuggla and jorduggla.
April-June: Rarer grebes, lärkfalk, passage waders, gulls, terns, hirundines, gulärla, stenskvätta, buskskvätta, gräshoppsångare and other passage migrants.
July-October: Wildfowl, Pilgrimsfalk, mindre strandpipare and större strandpipare, kärrsnäppa, rödbena, gluttsnäppa, skogssnäppa, drillsnäppa, gulls, terns and passage migrants.