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You searched for all sightings reported between 01/01/2010 and 31/12/2010.

Date	Species	Site	Count	Observer
22/08/10	Nightjar	Padworth Common	2	T G Ball
05:30	fem/imm flushed from the road in the village at 05:25 and male churring briefly on the Common at 06:00.
13/08/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	2	P Gipson
21:00	1 churring in the cool, misty, autumnal conditions.
20/07/10	Nightjar	Swinley Forest	2	P Bright-Thomas
21:30	m + f. Male churring inside the camp, and a female seen on W side. SU863655.
20/07/10	Nightjar	Swinley Forest	1	P Bright-Thomas
21:30	m. Another churring male. SU866641.
20/07/10	Nightjar	Swinley Forest	3	P Bright-Thomas
21:30	m. At least 3 churring males, 2 within 30m of each other (including wing-clapping) and another 100m S. SU870639.
10/07/10	Nightjar	Snelsmore Common	1	S A Graham
22:00	Calling loudly in the vicinity of the watch tower.
08/07/10	Nightjar	Snelsmore Common	3	R G Hardy
22:15	Two churring males, then one male and a female flew overhead together, with lots of clapping and churring.
06/07/10	Nightjar	Snelsmore Common	1	P Bysh
22:40	male. heard singing briefly, then flew round calling.
03/07/10	Nightjar	Windsor Great Park	1	R M Haydon
00:30	Churring plus 'frog' call heard.
02/07/10	Nightjar	Hut Hill, Swinley Forest	3	R Fuge
21:30	2 seen well.. 1 other heard.
02/07/10	Nightjar	Wishmoor Bottom, Swinley Forest	2	A E Little
03:30	heard several calling. seen two flying between the trees. too dark to see the sex. also noticed quite a few glow worms on the rides.
28/06/10	Nightjar	Decoy Heath	2	P Driver
21:51	m, f. The f came to check me out then settled clucking at me from the cross bar of nearby telegraph pole (distraction?). m churring and wing-clapping, also flying very close. No sign of any competition.
27/06/10	Nightjar	Hut Hill, Swinley Forest	1	S D Abbott
21:45	m. Plenty of churring and good views in flight.
23/06/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	3	P Driver
22:00	m. two churring males seen and a third male heard on the Piece also roding Woodcock and Tawny Owl seen and Hobby heard. More Nightjar across the Hants border in what's left of Hundred Acre Piece.
21/06/10	Nightjar	Swinley Forest	1	R Parsons
22:30	m. B.
21/06/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	3	J C Langridge
21:45
17/06/10	Nightjar	Snelsmore Common	1	M J Dear
22:00
13/06/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	3	P Driver
22:10	1 fem seen very well, 2 churring males ignoring the rain, also 1 Woodcock over during a quick visit.
09/06/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	4	P Driver
21:50	minimum count - 3 separate churring males seen/heard and 1 female seen before rain stopped play.
31/05/10	Nightjar	Greenham Common	1	P E Hutchins
20:46	Noted 'singing' from this time, to the west of all fenced off areas. Please keep to the main paths.
30/05/10	Nightjar	Greenham Common	2	I Saunders
21:30	Westernmost end (heather and scrub west of fenced-off silos). Churring birds, possibly one taking flight. SU482648. Please keep to the main paths.
30/05/10	Nightjar	Greenham Common	2	S A Graham
22:05	Churring males W. and SE. of the bunker complex. Please keep to the main paths.
30/05/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	5	P Driver
21:40	including 4 churring males - 3 m on the main open area (which is being fenced-off) and one churring on the smaller clearing E of Silver Lane.
27/05/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	3	P Driver
21:40	at least one female seen but only two churring males seen and heard - one on the small clearing to the west of the main open area.
27/05/10	Nightjar	Gorrick Plantation	3	M Sklar
21:30	All churring, 1 seen high up in conifer.
24/05/10	Nightjar	Swinley Brickpits, Swinley Forest	2	P Mannion
21:15	2 churring, and another seen though perhaps one of the original two.
24/05/10	Nightjar	Snelsmore Common	2	P J Orr
22:00	Churring from East of lookout tower finally started up, after I was already half eaten by midges.
24/05/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	4	P Driver
21:25	3m, 1f. 3 separate churring males and at least 1 female seen, cuckoo, 2 woodcock (and a whole lot of bloodthirsty gnats).
22/05/10	Nightjar	Nalder Plantation	1	S A Graham
21:35	Churring and also seen in flight.
22/05/10	Nightjar	Gorrick Plantation	6	M Sklar
21:30	Heard over a half-hour period, calling and churring. 1 male seen wing clapping and diving to the ground.
20/05/10	Nightjar	Gorrick Plantation	1	E Napper
21:15	At least 2 churring males.
20/05/10	Nightjar	Padworth Common	5	R C Watts
	Five birds on Wednesday night with 2 woodcock see Wednesday sightings 21:10 pm.
19/05/10	Nightjar	Padworth Common	5	R C Watts
21:10	We saw three birds and heard two more .good views above our head and perch in fir tree.
19/05/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	4	R Crawford
21:20
15/05/10	Nightjar	Roundoak Piece	2	P Driver
21:11	At least 2, one m churring intermittently and wing clapping, another 'kooick'ing from the other end of the clearing.
12/05/10	Nightjar	Mortimer	1	D W Kelson
21:30	m. In Benyon's Inclosure, off Welshman's Rd. Mortimer West End. SU623639.
10/05/10	Nightjar	Padworth Common	1	T G Ball
21:00	Heard and seen briefly, per K J Tucker.
27/04/10	Nightjar	Caesar's Camp, Swinley Forest	1	C Gent
21:00	fem. hawking but not calling my earliest ever no woodcock despite perfect conditions presumably a consequence of the bad winter MYSTERY BIRD - I also thought silver-backed needletail based on drawing, habitat and flight description!!!