Wednesday 28 February 2018

Wednesday, 28 February

Milton CP - 2 Caspian Gull, fem Scaup (Jon Heath)

Tuesday 27 February 2018

Tuesday, 27 February

Wimpole Hall - Hawfinch at car park (Paul Craske)

Milton CP - fem Scaup still (Jon Heath, Richard Johnson)

Sunday 25 February 2018

Sunday, 25 February

Ouse Washes - RING-NECKED DUCK still present at Chain Corner (Kathleen Rosewarne, Ian Barton); male Scaup north of Four Balls Farm (Brendan Doe)

Swaffham Prior Fen - White-fronted Goose (Kathleen Rosewarne, Ian Barton)

Cam Washes - White-Fronted Goose, 2 Green Sandpipers (Jon & David Heath)

Needingworth Quarry Lakes - 4 Smew (Patrick Woods)

St. Ives GPs - male & fem Smew (Philip Bubb)

Temple Farm, Redmere  - female GOSHAWK (Steve Mumford, Stella Laughton and Nick Laughton)

Grafham Water - 2nd c.y. Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull in roost (Mark Ward); 209 Goldeneye, Brambling (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - 5 Bean Geese, Pink-footed Goose, 24 Crane, Short-eared Owl at Eldernell; 1200 Black-tailed Godwit, 1000+ Lapwing at March Farmers (Steve Dudley) male AMERICAN WIGEON (Mike Weedon)

Melbourn - ad summer Mediterranean Gull with Common Gulls at plough on Muncey's Farm (Steve Cooper)

Saturday, 24 February

Ouse Washes - 4 White-Fronted Gees, 5 Water Pipits, 1500 Black-Tailed Godwits, 20 Ruff, 30 Corn Buntings (Ade Cooper); RING-NECKED DUCK still present (Chris Rider)

Milton CP - Scaup (Jon Heath)

Great Fen - Merlin, Peregrine (Howard Butler)

Eldernell - 21+ Crane, Short-eared Owl, 3+ Barn Owl (Matt Webb)


Friday 23 February 2018

Friday, 23 February

Wimpole Hall - 5+ Hawfinch still in the car park area, also Brambling, 2 Raven and Little Owl (Matt Mellor)

St. Ives GPs - Scaup (Mark Ward)

Earith Washes - RING-NECKED DUCK, Water Pipit (Mark Ward)

Nene Washes - 20 Crane, c.1500 Black-tailed Godwit, c.140 Bewick's Swan (Mark Ward)

Milton CP - fem Scaup on Dickerson's Pit still (John Hoppett)

Thursday 22 February 2018

Thursday, 22 February

Ouse Washes - male RING-NECKED DUCK north of Chain Corner (Mike Everett, Diana Leech)

Milton CP - fem Scaup on Dickerson's Pit (Jon Heath)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

Wednesday, 21 February

Milton CP - fem Scaup on Dickerson's Pit (Jon Heath)

Ouse Washes - male RING-NECKED DUCK north of Chain Corner (Paz Harrington); also male Scaup north of railway line, 4 Water Pipit near Welches Dam hide (Bruce Martin)

Nene Washes - male AMERICAN WIGEON 300m east of March Farmers car park, 22 Crane, Short0eared Owl at Eldernell (Ian Gordon)

Barton - Merlin (Vince Lea)

Wicken Fen - 3 Hen Harrier to roost, 2 Barn Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Monday 19 February 2018

Monday, 19 February

Wimpole Hall  - 16 Hawfinch (Richard Johnson)

Nene Washes - male AMERICAN WIGEON at March Famers (John Wells, Martin Wightman, Stephen Heather); 111 Bewick's Swan, 1047 Pintail, 11414 Wigeon. 8177 Golden Plover, 12719 Lapwing, Bittern, 7 Crane, 6 Short-eared Owl (Charlie Kitchin)

Sunday 18 February 2018

Sunday, 18 February

Six Mile Bottom - Raven over Hare Park (Kevin Wilson)

Wimpole Hall  - 3 Hawfinches, 2 Ravens, Brambling (Ade Cooper)

Nene Washes - drake AMERICAN WIGEON at March Farmers still, Great White Egret in flight nearby (Steve Dudley)

Stretham Marina - 5 Water Pipits (Graeme Reed)

Ouse Washes - male RING-NECKED DUCK at Chain Corner TL415779.  At Fortey's Hall area 1000+ Whooper Swan, 22 White-fronted Geese, Water Pipit, 3 c.y. ICELAND GULL briefly (Steve Cooper)

Colne Fen GP - Tundra Bean Goose, 4 White-fronted Geese at TL386774, redhead Smew, Green Sandpiper, Woodcock (Steve Cooper)

Wicken Fen - male & fem Hen Harrier to roost (Chris Boness)

Wennington & Holland Woods - 9 Woodcock (Richard Broughton)

Saturday, 17 February

Nene Washes - 24 Common Crane, Short-eared Owl (Norman Sills); 2000+ islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 2000+ Pintail, Jack Snipe, 9 Bewick's Swan, c.240 Whooper Swan, 5 Cetti's Warbler ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD (Mark Ward)

Linton - Water Rail near Stanton’s bridge at the Recreation Ground (Mark Thackstone)

Littleport - Hen Harrier nearby (Steve Mumford)

Wicken Fen - 2+ Hen Harrier, Merlin, 2 Bearded Tit near Boardwalk hide (Kevin Taylor)

Friday 16 February 2018

Friday, 16 February

Cambridge Research Park - ICELAND GULL distantly (Jon Heath)

Stirtloe Sewage Works - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 15 February

Wicken Fen - 3 male & 2 female Hen Harrier (Ian Dickerson)

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Wednesday, 14 February

Grafham Water - pair of Scaup, 14 Goosander, 2nd c.y. Mediterranean Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 2nd c.y. ICELAND GULL on the boom (Richard Patient)

Great Fen - 1000+ Linnet, 1000+ Stock Dove, Peregrine, Merlin, 10 Red Kite, 2 Short-eared Owl (Ron Harold)

Tuesday, 13 February

Wimpole - 4 Hawfinch, 7 Mandarin, 2 Raven (Barbara York)

Monday 12 February 2018

Monday, 12 February

Needingworth - 2 redhead Smew, 3 Goldeneye (Patrick Woods)

Wicken Fen - 2 male & a ringtail Hen Harrier (Josh Carter)

Hare Park - Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 11 February 2018

Sunday, 11 February

Nene Washes - drake AMERICAN WIGEON, at March Farmers and 2nd c.y. ICELAND GULL to roost there. Elsewhere 19 Crane, 1000+ Pintail, 2000+ Black-tailed Godwit, 3000+ Golden Plover, 150 Bewick's Swan, (Steve Cooper)

Meadow Lane - 2 Smew on Long Reach Lake (Pete Cook)

Wicken Fen - 2 fem Hen Harrier, Merlin (Norman Ratcliffe)

Burwell Fen - male Hen Harrier (Brendan Doe)

Saturday, 10 February

Cottenham, Long Drove - 2cy Iceland Gull & adult Caspian Gull on the tip today (Steve Cooper)

Madingly Hall - 8 Hawfinch, 2 Nuthatch in the grounds (Mike Crosby)

Thorney - Rough-Legged Buzzard

Friday 9 February 2018

Friday, 9 February

Histon - 2 Raven over towards Westwick (John Hoppett)

Thursday, 8 February

Grafham Water - 8 Goosander in Littless Creek (John Hoppett)

Stonea - 200 Linnet (Andy Bayes)

Wednesday 7 February 2018

Wednesday, 7 February

Burwell Fen - 2 Barn Owl, 75 Yellowhammer, Stonechat (Tim Dee)

Eldernell - 11 Crane, 6 Short-eared Owl, 4 Barn Owl (Ian Gordon)

Wimpole - 10+ Hawfinch, Raven over, 4 Mandarin (Jon & David Heath)

Wicken Fen - Hen Harrier, Merlin, Peregrine (Jon & David Heath)

Tuesday 6 February 2018

Tuesday, 6 February

Wimpole - 12 Hawfinch, Brambling at end of car park, 2 Raven over gardens (Jill & Jeremy Aldred)

Weston Colville - Raven nearby (Monica & Owen Marks)

Monday, 5 February

Burwell Fen - Goosander (Paul Craske)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Crane over(Paul Pateman)

Ferry Meadows - Cetti's Warbler (Don Gardener)

Sunday 4 February 2018

Sunday, 4 February

Eldernell - 12 Common Cranes, 2 Short-eared Owls (Mark Jackson)

Grafham Water - drake Scaup, 6 Goosander (Mark Ward); immature Iceland Gull (Richard Patient)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 24 White-fronted Geese still at Ferry Lagoon (Richard Thomas)

Needingworth - 12 Smew (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Washes - Water Pipit at Chain Corner (Brendan Doe)

Meadow Lane GPs, St. Ives - adult drake Scaup (Brendan Doe)

Stretham - 4 Water Pipit, Green Sandpiper on east side of Rover Cam c.TL536742 (Graeme Reed)

Kingfishers Bridge - Water Pipit, 7 Whooper Swan (Graeme Reed)


Saturday, 3 February

Fen Drayton Lakes - 24 White-fronted Geese still at Ferry Lagoon (Richard Thomas)

Meadow Lane GPs, St. Ives - adult drake Scaup and 3 redhead Smew (Mark Ward)

Eldernell - 12 Crane, 2 Short-eared Owl (Mark Jackson)

Friday 2 February 2018

Friday, 2 February

Eldernell - 5 Short-eared Owl (Paul Pateman)

Thursday 1 February 2018

Thursday, 1 February

Stirtloe Sewage Works - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF (Dean Harlow)

Wimpole - up to 5 Hawfinch still, 2 Raven over (Monica & Owen Marks)