Sunday 16 March 2008

Sunday, 16 March

Dry Drayton - Red Kite flying west

Grafham Water - Green Sandpiper and the resident adult Yellow-legged Gull in lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Maxey GPs - Little Ringed Plover, 4 Ringed Plover this morning; male Wheatear, 2 Oystercatchers this afternoon (Mike Weedon)

Fowlmere - 400+ Fieldfares late afternoon (Peter Bircham)

Cambridge - 2 Bramblings with Chaffinches in a Cavendish Avenue garden (Michael Holdsworth)

Foxton - 4 Tree Sparrows, Brambling, 7 Reed Buntings and 25 Yellowhammers in a private garden this weekend (Marcus Kohler)

Trumpington - male Merlin near old railway cutting along Shelford Road briefly (James Hanlon)

1 comment:

Paul Batterbee said...

Siberian Chiffchaff - Grafham Water

Possible sighting of 3 Siberian Chiffchaffs in the nature reserve adjacent to Mander Car Park.

Features of note incl. golden-brown upper parts and face, very creamy white underbelly, a white patch on the primaries (sometimes present in Siberian C.) and [distinguishing it from female chaffinch] a narrow non-finch-like mandible, a black stripe cutting through the eye (horizontal) and a dumpy bull-necked jizz.

(Paul B.)