Sunday 17 January 2010

Sunday, 17 January

Ferry Meadows - 3 Whooper Swans, again in field above Landy Green, 10 Lesser Redpoll feeding by Lynch Lake, Common Buzzard (Don Gardener)

Paxton pits - EURASIAN WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, with Greylags at Diddington Pit, Pintail, 4 Red-crested Pochard, 6 Smew, 3 Goosander, Red Kite, Peregrine, Green Sandpiper (Dave Milne, Martin Runchman, Neal Parkin, Jamie Wells); Woodcock (Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - 2 imm male VELVET SCOTERS still at south end of dam, SLAVONIAN GREBE, 4+ GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 2 Smew, 16 Red Crested Pochard, 3 Common Scoter, drk Scaup, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egrets, 102 Goldeneye, 10 Goosander (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington et al.); SHAG and fem Scaup at Mander car park (Stuart Sharp); Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton - 10 Smew, 5 Goosander, 4 Cetti's Warblers, 92 Black-tailed Godwit, 20 Redshank, 4 Ruff, 3 Water Rail, Grey wagtail, Egyptian goose, Ross's goose (Andy Cotton); 2 Bitterns to roost at Holywell Lake (Neil Renwick)

Maxey - Jack Snipe, 2 Little Owls, Buzzard, 3 Goosander (Chris Lines et al.)

Cambridge - Curlew heard over Nuttings Road after dark (Iain Webb)

Bottisham to Newmarket Road - male Hen Harrier perched on fence near the studs (Dee Butler)

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