Bird/Nature Reserve Recommendations

[NSNO]

I'm looking for nature/bird reserves with decent hides for taking photos of woodland birds, within a couple of hours drive of Nottingham.
Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks

 

[jpandyp]

you can get to blacktoft sands in 1.5 hrs
theres ogston res,carsington res,and attenborough

 

[Tori_T]

There's Brandon Marsh SSSI, near Coventry.
It's just over an hour from you.

 

[NSNO]

Thanks for the replies.
I've never heard of blacktoft sands but after reading about it it sounds good so I'll definitely go there. I'm a regular visitor to Attenborough but there's only a couple of hides there.

I went to Brandon Marsh yesterday for the first time, I thought it was good but I was a bit disappointed that there were no woodland based hides because there were a lot of woodland birds around but it made it much harder to get photos.

Pennington Flash, Martin Mere and Fairburn Ings are also ones I'm going to try

 

[clownfish]

Have a look here.
http://www.birdforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=125

 

[NSNO]

Have a look here.
http://www.birdforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=125

Thanks for that, looks like a good resource I didn't even know existed

 

[Tringa]

Potteric Carr at Doncaster (junction 3 on the M18) is probably less than an hours drive.

Dave

 

[NSNO]

Potteric Carr at Doncaster (junction 3 on the M18) is probably less than an hours drive.

Dave

I went there today, nice place but I didn't think much to it from a photography point of view. I'll make another visit at some point.
I went on to Blacktoft Sands which I enjoyed but I could have done with some extra length