Thursday, 1 May 2025

Thursday, 1 May

Grafham Water - ad SPOTTED SANDPIPER at north end of dam. Park at Marlow and walk south (Richard Patient as per Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Wednesday, 30 April

Hobson's Park - KITTIWAKE briefly (Gareth Rees)

Grafham water - Black Tern through west (Mark Hawkes)

Caxton Gibbet - Greenshank briefly (JP Hook)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Wood Sandpiper, Garganey, 4 Cuckoo (Dean Harlow)

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper briefly (Hugh Wright); Hobby (Chris Lines)

Southey Wood - Spotted Flycatcher (Mike Weedon)

Soham - 10 Swift over (Chris Barker)

 

 

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Tuesday, 29 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER on perimeter canal near west corner of Crane Fen, 3 Wood Sandpiper on cell 10 (Hugh Venables)

Kingfishers Bridge - Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank (Keith Honnor) 

Etton/Maxey pits - Spotted Redshank, 3 Greenshank (Hugh Wright); a second Spotted Redshank (Howard Butler); 3 Little Gull (Josh Jones)

Castor Hanglands - REDSTART (Ian Humphrey) 

Swaddywell - Nightingale (Brian Lawrence)

Isleham Wash - 4 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Paul Whiteman)

Grafham Water - 2 LITTLE TERN through, 2 Arctic Tern through, 3 Black Tern, 2 Little Gull, Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes) 

Burwell Fen - pair of Garganey, 4 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Whimbrel, 5 Ruff, 2 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Burwell - 3 Swift (Paul Craske)

Monday, 28 April 2025

Monday, 28 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (Harry Orchard); at Lockspit Mere, 150m west of viewing mound, this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell Fen - Greenshank, pair of Garganey, Bittern (Andy Hannaford)

Eldernell - 4 Whimbrel to west of Lord's Holt (Andrew Gardener) 

Reach - Cukoo, Kingfisher (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 27 April 2025

Sunday, 27 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (m.o.)

Hobson's Park - Wheatear, Barnacle Goose (Joe Parham); 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Peregrine reported

Etton/Maxey pits - Black Redstart, though elusive (Mike Weedon)

Nene Washes - Greenshank at March Farmers (Charles Kitchin); 2 Greenshank east of March Famers, Wood Sandpiper on Low Wash (Paul Bolton)

Grafham Water - Peregrine, Great Egret over, Nightingale at Lagoons, Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

 

Saturday, 26 April 2025

Saturday, 26 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER cell 8 (JP Hook)

Grafham Water - Cuckoo (Jon Roe); 2 Great Northern Diver, 6 Swift (Mark Hawkes);12 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Goldeneye (Carlos Davies)

Etton/Maxey pits - Bar-tailed Godwit (Paul Bolton); Whimbrel through (Hugh Wright) 

Burwell Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Garganey, Merlin through (Richard Dale)

Witcham - Peregrine over (Chris Boness) 

Nene Washes - Spotted Redshank, Spoonbill, 3 Whopper Swan, 9 Ruff (Charles Kitchin)

Fowlmere - WRYNECK photopraphed (Steve Moore-Vale)

Friday, 25 April 2025

Friday, 25 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER heard at cell 8 (Richard Grimmett)

Dernford Reservoir - Little Gull (Gareth Rees); Black Tern (Matthew Mellor)

Etton pits - 2 Whimbrel briefly (Hugh Wright)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Nightingale singing (Kevin Wilson) 

Somersham - Raven west of the village (Russell Watkins)

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver, Little ringed Plovers on dam, Arctic Tern, 2 Whimbrel through (Mark Hawkes)