Thursday 30 April 2015

Thursday, 30 April

Tubney Fen - Whinchat, Barn Owl (Vince Lea, Louise Bacon); Garganey (Dave Palmer, Bruce Martin)

Burwell Fen - Garganey, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Swift (Dave Palmer, Bruce Martin)

Fowlmere NR - 2 Turtle Dove singing, fem Redstart nearby (Mike Foley)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 3 Greenshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, 90+ Common Tern, Hobby, 7 Nightingale, Wheatear (Martin Davis)

Wicken Fen - 4 Hobby, Nightingale, 2 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday 29 April 2015

Wednesday, 29 April

Ferry Meadows - Goosander, Common Sandpiper (Mike Weedon)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear (Martin Davis)

Upware to Reach - 11 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 3 Wheatear, also Redstart towards Tubney Fen briefly (Sheila & Ian Dickerson)

Hare Park, Six Mile Bottom - fem Redstart at TL583589 until 16:00h at least (Kevin Wilson)

Maxey Pits - Whinchat, Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo (Richard Astle)

Tuesday 28 April 2015

Tuesday, 28 April

Paxton Pits - RING OUZEL, GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, 2 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Arctic Tern, Hobby, 3 Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher (Martin Davis)

Ouse Fen - 3 Crane over, 4 Hobby, 8 Swift, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Barry O'Dowd)

Ouse Washes - imm. male Hen Harrier, 2 Whimbrel (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - 15 Arctic Tern, Little Gull (Mike Everett)

Cam Washes - 5 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Greenshank, 7 Avocet (Colin Kirtland)

Monday 27 April 2015

Monday, 27 April

Paxton Pits - RING OUZEL (Jamie Wells)

CRT Lark Rise Farm, Barton - Long-eared Owl. Park in lay-bys on bend just after entering Barton. Walk along track passed green barn. Follow right hand bend. On reaching spoil heap by bare field, bare left towards blue feeder. Bird is in hedge along west border of bare field between notice board and another blue feeder. Please do not walk along hedgerow and walk out over field. (Bruce Martin)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GREAT WHITE EGRET, Scaup this morning (Dave Anderson); GLOSSY IBIS, Common Sandpiper, 40+ Common Tern, 2 Cuckoo (Richard Allison); also Grasshopper Warbler (Ed Gill)

Ouse Fen - 2+ Hobby, 2Curlew, Cuckoo (Barry O'Dowd); GREAT WHITE EGRET this evening (Richard Thomas)

Paxton Pits - Turnstone, Whimbrel, pair of Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, Hobby, GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 3 Wheatear, 3 Cuckoo (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Castor Mill - RING OUZEL (John Atkins)

Sutton Gault - flava-type in amongst about 20 Yellow Wagtail (Rob Partridge)



Sunday 26 April 2015

Sunday, 26 April

Paxton Pits - female RING OUZEL just south of Washout Pit near post 12 (Gary Rawlings); c.10 Arctic Tern briefly (Jamie Wells); GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Martin Davis)

Grafham Water - 3 Common Scoter off Lagoons, 2 Sanderling on dam, 10+ Arctic Terns (Jono Leadley); Osprey (Ian Ellis); 28 Arctic Tern, Little Gull (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton - GLOSSY IBIS, Scaup, LITTLE TERN, Black Tern, Wimbrel, 4 Ruff, 3 Arctic Tern, 2 Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler (Richard Allison)

Maxey Pits - RING OUZEL (Chris Lines)

Ferry Meadows - 5 Whimbrel, Wheatear, 2 Common Sandpiper (Matt Webb)

Ouse Washes - Spotted Redshank, 2 Whimbrel, 2+ Greenshank, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Garganey (Mike Weedon)

Roswell Pits, Ely - 5 Cetti's Warbler singing (Kevin Wilson)

Burwell Fen - 4 Garganey, 3 Whimbrel (Steve Cooper); 30+ Yellow Wagtail (Isaac Swift)

Cam Washes - 2 Spotted Redshank, 3 Greenshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Wood Sandpiper (Steve Cooper)

Melbourn - Wheatear, 330 Linnet (Steve Cooper)

Wimpole Hall - 2 Whinchat near the lake (Mike Crosby)

Saturday, 25 April

Stapleford - Grasshopper Warbler (Mike Foley)

Grafham Water - 30+ Arctic Terns (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS, Arctic tern (Richard Thomas); Scaup, Hobby, 2 Cuckoo (Calum Urquart)

Bakers Fen - GREAT WHITE EGRET (Andy Hannaford)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Jamie Wells)

Devil's Dyke - 2 RING OUZEL (Ken & Maggie Hook)

Maxey - RING OUZEL at Etton Rd site (Richard Astle)

Friday 24 April 2015

Friday, 24 April

Fen Drayton - RING OUZEL at playing filed on Cootes Lane 09:45h (Richard Allison)

Maxey Pits - RING OUZEL (John Saunders)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Sandwich Tern, Scaup, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 2 Avocet (Richard Allison); GLOSSY IBIS, Cuckoo (Andy Jennings)

Paxton Pits - 4 Black Tern, GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank, 2+ Grasshopper Warblers (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Burwell Fen - Cuckoo (Dave Palmer); 5 Garganey, ringtail Hen Harrier, Curlew (Andy Hannaford)

Ferry Meadows - Cuckoo, 4 Swift (Paul Gallagher)

Woodwalton Fen - Cuckoo, 5+ Grasshopper Warb;ers, 10+ Reed Warblers (Colin Lee)

Tubney Fen - 2 Whinchat (Giles Merritt)

Grafham Water - 3 Arctic Tern over east (Monica & Owen Marks)

Yaxley - Hobby over (Hugh Wright)

Thursday 23 April 2015

Thursday, 23 April

Ferry Meadows - Arctic Tern, Garden Warbler (Mike Weedon); fem Redstart (Mike Weedon); Little Gull (Matt Webb)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Black Tern briefly, 2 Little Gull (Barry O'Dowd); 4 Black Tern, Little Gull (Richard Allison); GLOSSY IBIS, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank (Tony Lowe); Sanderling, Scaup, Whimbrel (Richard Thomas)

Fen Drayton - RING OUZEL on playing fields near children's play area or on the bowling green (Richard Allison); in field west of village hall, though elusive, 15:00h (Duncan Ritchie)

Murrow - Firecrest in a private garden (Marie Barton)

Grafham Water - 41 Little Gull together from Church Lane late morning, 7 Black Tern, 12+ Arctic Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 8 Black Tern, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank (Mark Hawkes); 52 Common Tern, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Yellow Wagtail, Swift (Martin Davis)

Ely - Crane over east early morning (Ben Green)

Holme Fen - Cuckoo, Wheatears (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Wicken Fen - 4 Hobby, Whinchat (Colin Kirtland)

Wednesday 22 April 2015

Wednesday, 22 April

Castor Mill - RING OUZEL, Grasshopper Warbler (Mac Bell)

Ferry Meadows - 2 Garden Warbler (Matt Webb); 12+ Arctic Tern (Howard Butler)

Fen Drayton Lakes -  2 Nightingale, Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Avocet (Richard Allison); Garganey, Spotted Redshank (David & Sallie ?); GLOSSY IBIS, Garden Warbler, Reed Warblers (David McCarthy); Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Gull (Steve Cooper); Arctic Tern (Calum Urquart); Cuckoo (Hugh Venables)

Ouse Washes - OSPREY north along river Delph, 3 Greenshank, RING OUZEL by Welches Dam car park, 2 Ring-necked Parakeets (Jonathan Taylor)

Ouse Fen - 3 Swift, 10 House Martin, 2 Grasshopper Warbler (Barry O'Dowd)

Grafham Water - OSPREY, Arctic Tern (Richard Patient)

Paxton Pits - 61 Common Tern, 2 ad Little Gull, 5 Swift, Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 3 Little Ringed Plover, GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Martin Davis)

Quy - Hobby over A14 nearby (Rod Newbury)

Wicken Fen - 4 RING OUZEL, fem Hen Harrier, 5+ Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo (David Fricker)


Tuesday 21 April 2015

Tuesday, 21 April

Wicken Fen - 4 RING OUZEL to rear of main car park 18:30h (Mark Hawkes, Simon Stirrup); ringtail Hen Harrier, Cuckoo, Woodcock, Grasshopper Warblers, Little Ringed Plover, Bearded Tit (Simon Stirrup)

Ouse Washes - RING OUZEL at Chain Corner, Grey Plover over (Jonathan Taylor)

Devil's Dyke - 5 RING OUZEL still (Duncan Ritchie)

Coploe Hill - 3 RING OUZEL, 2 RAVEN briefly (Steve Cooper)

Grafham Water - 5+ Arctic Tern from Mander CP (Dean Harlow)

Paxton Pits - c.10 Arctic Tern on Pumphouse Pit islands (Jamie & Rod Wilson); GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Mark Ward); Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, c.50 Common Tern (Jamie Wells)

Holland Wood - Turtle Dove (Richard Broughton)

Monks Wood - Nightingale  (Richard Broughton)

Fulbourn - Hobby over (Graeme Reed)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Little Gull, 2 Arctic Tern, 32 Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2 Avocet, 4+ Cetti's Warbler (Richard Allison)

Ferry Meadows - 35 Common Tern, Goosander, Cetti's Warbler (Jonathan Taylor)



Monday 20 April 2015

Monday, 20 April

Devil's Dyke - 4 RING OUZEL still present (John Hoppett); RING OUZEL on golf course side 15:00h (Kevin Wilson)

Mepal Airfield - 5 RING OUZEL (Ben Green)

Paxton Pits - Reed Warbler, 28 Common Tern, Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, ad Mediterranean Gull (Martin Davis); GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 4 Greenshank (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4+ Cetti's Warbler (Richard Allison)

Ferry Meadows - 2 ad Little Gull, Common Sandpiper (Mike Weedon)

Sunday 19 April 2015

Sunday, 19 April

Mepal Airfield - 5 RING OUZELS (Ben Green)

Castor Mill - RING OUZEL (Howard Butler)

Paxton Pits - 2 Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank (Jamie Wells); Grasshopper Warbler (Gary Rawlings); GREAT NORTHEN DIVER (Mat Wilson)

Devils Dyke - 5 RING OUZEL (Ade Long)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS (Richard Patient)

Wicken Fen - 3 RING OUZEL behind main car park, Hen Harrier, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Bearded Tit (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Washes - pair of Garganey (Brendan Doe)

Isleham Water Meadows - Greenshank, 6 Little Ringed Plover, pair of Garganey (Ben Green)

Little Wilbraham Fen - 2 Grssahopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Cuckoo (John Walsh)

Foxton - Wheatear along the Folwmere Road (Matt Mellor)

Godmanchester GPs - Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler (Vince Lea, Louise Bacon)

Saturday, 18 April

Paxton Pits - Mediterranean Gull, Whitethroat, Water Rail, Cetti's Warber, Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Greenshank, GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Jamie Wells); 5 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Grey Plover (Gary Rawlings)

Devils Dyke - 4 RING OUZEL in paddock fields and hedge by Devil's Dyke (Ade Long)

Fen Drayton BLACK-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon, GLOSSY IBIS on Swavesey Lake (Richard Bradbury); NIghtingale calling near disabled car park (Vic and Pauline Cozens); Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat (Bill Simmonds)

Ouse Washes - 3 RING OUZEL together in fields at the back of the car park between barns and toilet block, Arctic Tern, Greenshank, 4 Common Crane (Brendan Doe)

Little Abington - RING OUZEL on farmland just south of the Roman Road TL547505 (Vince Lee)

Witcham - 3 RING OUZEL at Clare farm in field behind messy pile of hay bales (Duncan Ritchie); RING OUZEL at Wardy Hill Drove (David Hopkins)

Friday 17 April 2015

Friday, 17 April

Fowlmere - RING OUZEL, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 2 House Martin (Robin Cox)

Witcham - RING OUZEL at Wardy Hill Drove, another at Clare Farm (David Hopkins)

Ouse Washes - RING OUZEL just north of Pymoor fishing pit, also Gray Plover (David Hopkins)

Also one Yaxley - 3 fem Wheatear to the south west (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - Bar-tailed Godwit, 6 Little Gull, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 4 Avocet, 12+ Common Tern, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - Grasshopper Warbler (Don Gardener)

Glatton -Cuckoo calling (Mike Weedon)

Great Wilbraham Common - Cuckoo, Wheatear (Chris Brown)

Little Wilbraham Fen - Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler  (Chris Brown)

Paxton Pits - 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, Grey Plover, Common Sandpiper, 30+ Common Tern (Mark Hawkes); GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Andy Jennings); Greenshank, Hobby (Jamie Wells0

Burwell fen - 2 Garganey (Andy Hannaford)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS, Little Gull, 2 Avocet (Richard Allison)

Thursday 16 April 2015

Thursday, 16 April

Nene Washes - 3 BLACK-WINGED STILT briefly early morning (Jonathan Taylor)

Ferry Meadows - 2 RING OUZEL briefly, 6 Wheatear, 3 Swift, Tree Pipit over, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Matt Webb); male REDSTART (Howard Butler)

Castor Mill - RING OUZEL (Mike Weedon)

Witcham - male RING OUZEL at Wardy Hill Drove, 6 RING OUZEL at Clare farm (David Hopkins)

Mepal - Common Tern (Rob Partridge)

Bainton Pits - 2 COMMON SCOTER, viewable from bank of Maxey Cut, Nightingale singing (Bob Titman)

Burwell Fen - 3 male Garganey briefly, Common Tern, 2 Bearded Tit (Andy Hannaford)

Paxton Pits - Grey Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Yellow Wagtail (Martin Davis)

Wednesday 15 April 2015

Wednesday, 15 April

Devil's Dyke - male RING OUZEL between Burwell and A11 (Kevin Harris)

Hope Farm, Knapwell - fem RING OUZEL (Derek Gruar)

Pymoor - RING OUZEL flushed near fishing pit, White Wagtail (David Hopkins)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 RING OUZEL, Grasshopper Warbler (Andrew Maddocks, Jeff Stenning)

Castor Hanglands - 3 RING OUZEL, 2 Nightingale singing (Andrew Maddocks, Jeff Stenning)

Swaddywell Pit - RING OUZEL (Mick Beeson)

Castor Mill - Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (Don Gardener)

Yaxley Lode - Tree Pipit over, 2 Whitethroat (Hugh Wright)

Maxey Pits - Grasshopper Warbler (Bob Titman)

Paxton Pits - Nightingale near Kingfisher Hide (Vic & Pauline Cozens)

Sutton Gault - Lesser Whitethroat at Borrow Pit, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Rob Partridge)

Wyton - 4 House Martin (Calum Urquart)

Westfield Farm, Comberton - 5 Wheatear, 65 Golden Plover (Vince Lea)

March - 4 Crane over the town centre 18:50h (Andy Bayes)

Grafham Water - 2 ad Little Gull west of Marlow CP (Mark Hawkes)


Tuesday 14 April 2015

Tuesday, 14 April

Moonshine Gap - 3 RING OUZEL south along public byway (Jonathan Taylor); 4 birds viewable from minor road between Great Gidding and Lutton, TL12448619, at 12:00h (Duncan Ritchie)

Barrington - 2 male RING OUZEL in field behind village hall (Matt Mellor) 

Cambourne - male & female RING OUZEL briefly, also Wheatear on Crow Hill (Vince Lea)

Witcham - fem RING OUZEL near Hive Road briefly (David Hopkins)

Ouse Washes - RING OUZEL by Pymoor railway bridge and another behind the VC car park (Bruce Martin)

Folksworth/Morborne - pair of RING OUZEL opposite entrance to Venetian Lodge Farm (Richard Jones) 

Cambridge - male REDSTART on Coldham's Common briefly 07:45h, Whitethroat (Rob Pople)

Soham - 6 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail along east Fen Drove early morning (Richard Dale)

Nene Washes - Tree Pipit over, male Hen Harrier (Jonathan Taylor)

Foxton - Swift over farm buildings along Fowlmere Road (matt Mellor)

Aldreth - 2 Wheatear (Simon Stirrup)

Wicken Fen - ringtail Hen Harrier, 8+ Marsh Harrier, 3 Barn Owl, Tanwy Owl, 2 Woodcock, Grasshopper Warbler, 2+ Sedge Warbler (Christoph Zöckler)

Castor Hanglands - 2 Nightingale singing (Richard Astle)

Fen Drayton Lakes - House Martin, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Whitehthroat, 5 Sedge Warbler, Little Ringed Plover (Mike Everett); 8 Common Tern (Andy Jennings)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Martin Davis); Turnstone (Jamie Wells)

Hope Farm, Knapwell - Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (Derek Gruar) 

Monday 13 April 2015

Monday, 13 April

Ouse Washes - male RING OUZEL at paddock next to Pumoor railway bridge this morning (Ben Green); male RING OUZEL in field opposite car park at 13:40h (Vic & Pauline Couzens)

Eldernell - RING OUZEL near car park (Andrew Gardener)

Witcham - male RING OUZEL at Wardy Hill Drove (David Hopkins)

Ferry Meadows - Wheatear just to the west along railway (Don Gardener); Cetti's Warbler (Howard Butler); 20 Common Tern (Matt Webb)

Mepal - 2 House Martins (Rob Partridge)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS, 3 Sedge warbler, 12 Common Tern (Calum Urquart)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Turnstone, 4 Yellow wagtail, 5 White Wagtail, 3 House Martin (Martin Davis)

Moonshine Gap - 3 RING OUZEL, 4 Wheatear (Richard Jones)

Waterbeach - 2 House Martin (Ian Burfield)

Sunday 12 April 2015

Sunday, 12 April

Cherry Hinton Chalk Pit - 2 male RING OUZELS briefly a.m. (Graeme Reed)

Paxton Pits - Whitethroat, Nightingale, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 9 Dunlin, 2 White Wagtail, Great Northern Diver (Jamie Wells)

Ouse Washes - fem. RING OUZEL at Pymore Bridge  (Duncan Poyser)

Fen Drayton Lakes -  Whitethroat, Sedge warbler, Common Terns (Sarah Howlett)

Saturday, 11 April

Stretham - Wheatear briefly (Owen Marks)

Glatton - Cuckoo (Mike Weedon); RING OUZEL briefly (Andy Frost)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Little Ringed Plover, Rock Pipit, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler (Jamie Wells); 4 Nightingale (Trevor Gunton)

Peterborough - male Redstart in Sugar Way estate briefly (Ben Fraser)

Witcham - male RING OUZEL at Wardy Hill Drove (David Hopkins)

Sutton Gault - 2 RING OUZEL near The Anchor Pub (Richard Grimmett)

Wicken Fen - pair of Garganey, also 3 on Burwell Fen and a pair on Tubney Fen  (Brendan Doe); male RING OUZEL in Highland Cattle field by main car park 18:20h (Simon Stirrup)

Friday 10 April 2015

Friday, 10 April

Ferry Meadows - LITTLE GULL on Gunwade, 2 Ruff, 2 Little Ringed Plover briefly, 3 Common Tern, House Martin (Don Gardener, Matt Webb)

Haddenham/Aldreth - 2 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear briefly at Clayton's Bridge (Paul Mason)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS, 2 Common Tern (Bill Simmonds)

Thursday 9 April 2015

Thursday, 9 April

Trumpington Medows - male RING OUZEL briefly 08:45h (Iain Webb)

Marsh Lane GP - Nightingale (Bill Simmonds)

Paxton Pits - pair of Garganey (Mark Brandon)

Ferry Meadows - Mediterranean Gull at Overton still (Peter Beesley)

Berry Fen - 3 pairs of Garganey (Mike Everett)

Ouse Washes - GREEN-WINGED TEAL from Stockdales, 3 Garganey, 44+ Avocet, 119 Ruff (Brendan Doe)

Wicken Fen - Hen Harrier, Woodcock, 10+ Water Rail, 3 Barn Owl, Tawny Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday 8 April 2015

Wednesday, 8 April

Ferry Meadows - male Yellow Wagtail, Mediterranean Gull at Overton again (Matt Webb)

Grafham water - Osprey (as per RBA)

Ouse Fen - 2 Sedge Warbler (Barry O'Dowd)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS from Ferry Mere Hide 18:45h (Chris Rider)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Turnstone, Little Ringed Plover (Martin Davis)

Tuesday 7 April 2015

Tuesday, 7 April

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Turnstone, Rock Pipit (Martin Davis); Nightingale singing briefly from concrete road this evening (David Hoccom)

Ely Beet Pits - pair of Garganey (Andrew Balmford)

Ferry Meadows - Mediterranean Gull near visitor centre again (Matt Webb)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET, 2 Crane, peregrine (Matt Wilson)

Monday, 6 April

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Turnstone, Rock Pipit, Mediterranen Gull, Little Ringed Plover (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Ferry Meadows - 1st win Mediterranean Gull, Common Ternf (Hugh Wright)

Eaton Socon - OSPREY over north (Martin Davis)

Gunthorpe - Reed Warbler (Keith Lawton)

Ouse Fen - 2 Yellow Wagtail over (Matt Mellor)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET north of Witcham Gravel (David Hopkins)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS (Hugh Venables)

Berry Fen - 5 Garganey (Hugh Venables)

Sunday, 5 April

Ouse fen - Yellow Wagtail over (Matt Mellor)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Turnstone, Rock Pipit, Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Berry Fen - Garganey, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 200 Black-tailed Godwit (Ian Ellis)

Ouse Washes - GREEN-WINGED TEAL from Stockdales Hide, 5 Garageny (Brendan Doe); GREAT WHITE EGRET 1/4 mile south of Sutton Gault (James Hanlon); Water Pipit opposite Fortrey Hall, Garganey (David Hopkins)

Swallows now being reported widely across the county.

Saturday, 4 April

Marsh Lane GP - 2 Swallow (Bill Simmonds)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, pair Red-crested Pochard, Swallow (Martin Davis)

Ferry Meadows - 1st win Mediterranean Gull down to six feet (Matt Webb)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Cetti's warbler calling, 6+ swallow (Andy Jennings)

Friday 3 April 2015

Friday, 3 April

Ouse Washes - GREEN-WINGED TEAL fom Stockdales Hide, 4 Crane (Mike Burdekin); also pair of Garganey, Knot, 100+ Ruff, c.600 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Peregrine (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Fen - Swallow (Matt Mellor)

Ferry Meadows - ist win Mediterranean Gull, 2 Swallow at Gunwade (Matt Webb)

Thursday 2 April 2015

Thursday, 2 April

RSPB Hope Farm, Knapwell - Merlin, Swallow (Derek Gruar)

Cambridge - Swallow over Nuttings Road (Iain Webb)

Ouse Washes - 1300 Black-tailed Godwit, 40 Ruff, 15 Little Egret, 6 Water Pipit, Barn Owl (Mark Eaton); GREAT WHITE EGRET off Witcham Gravel briefly, Short-eared Owl over farmland (David Hopkins)

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Ruff, pair Red-crested Pochard (Martin Davis)

Wednesday, 1 April

Paxton Pits - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Little Ringed Plover (Martin Davis)