Sunday 8 November 2009

Sunday, 8 November

Ely Beet Factory - 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Cetti's Warbler and 2 Water Rails calling, 5+ Bearded Tit, Bittern, Egyptian Goose (Richard Bowles)

Grafham Water - 4 GREAT NORTHERN DIVERS; juvenile off lagoons, and 2 adults and juvenile off Mander CP/Valley Creek. Adult BLACK-THROATED DIVER, but mobile, Black-necked Grebe off Mander CP and later off Church Lane, Scaup 2 (drk & fem), Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Goosander and 3 Ruddy Ducks (Mark Hawkes); Brambling (Mike Everett;) Water Rail calling in the lagoons, 13 Little Grebes off the dam (Anthony Fenn)

Dry Drayton/Bar Hill area - Brambling (Rowena Baxter)

Holt Fen - c.7000 Golden Plover, c.2000 Lapwing, Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, 7 Egyptian Geese, amongst c.1300 large gulls 4 adult and two 2nd winter Yellow legged Gulls (Kathleen Rosewarne and Ian Barton) Water Pipit (Hugh Venables) 1st CY Caspian Gull (Simon Stirrup)

Fen Drayton - Rock Pipit (Nigel Sprowell, Dave Anderson); Bittern, Marsh Harrier, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, Barn Owl, Water Rail (c/o Neil Renwick)

Ferry Meadows CP - Swallow through (Don Gardener)

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