What have you seen

Steve. There might be a Clumber Park bird list on line somewhere.

Thanks brue good idea. I have had a look but can't see them listed. Perhaps nobody has spotted them. Or more likely we have it horribly wrong.😖

If you google "oyster catchers clumber park" it comes up with previous sightings there a couple or so years ago so you are probably correct.

 We've a family of Oyster Catchers on Oare Creek ,she's just had her second brood .Very noisy and vocal if you get near them !!.

Thanks for that FL359. Found it now. I tried chrome rather than safari. I'm not sure why but you get a different list with a different browser. I wonder why they are so far from the sea. Although thinking about it, tidal parts of the Trent are not that far away.

Steve, they do indeed nest inland as well. Same as other wading birds such as Curlews etc. There are always plenty of Oystercatchers inland in Scotland. We saw them one year on the golf course near Killin.

Thanks for the info Wherenext. I will have to take my decent camera next time and perhaps get a photo, if they are still about. We have been walking around the lake, observing the wildlife,  for over 30 years ( not constantly of course 😬) and this is the first time we have noticed them. So perhaps only a rare visit.

Steve, we frequently see Oiks many miles inland, they seem to follow river valleys. There was a pair sitting on eggs on a nest in the centre of the CC's Altnaharra site 5 weeks ago. The wardens had put up warning tapes and bollards to stop visitors disturbing them. 

During a visit to St Abbs Head we managed to spot the rare Northern Brown Argus butterfly, as well as thousands of Guillmots on the cliffs & the sea. Then yesterday at Duns Castle Woods there were many small near black "butterflies" which I took to be Small Blues, but after an e-mail to "borderbutterfies" I discovered that they were in fact Chimney Sweeper Moths, which are much more common but are often mistaken for Small Blues. Not my photo, unfortunately.

Nice one, NTH