Monday, 31 August 2020

Monday, 31 August

Woodhurst - Redstart along Butt Lane (Duncan McNiven)

Paxton Pits - Shag (Jamie Wells); 2 Shag, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Whinchat, Great White Egret, 2 Hobby (Martin Davis)

Great Stukeley - Redstart, Long-eared Owl, Hobby (Robin Ward)

Grafham water - Little Stint (Tim Rea); Mediterranean Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Ramsey/Bury - Hobby, Raven nearby (Mark Brandon)

 

Sunday, 30 August

Woodhurst - Redstart along Butt Lane (Duncan McNiven)

Sunday, 30 August 2020

Saturday, 29 August

 Grafham Water - Hobby (Chris Rider); Phalarope sp. off Mander briefly (Richard Patient); Little Gull, Osprey (Stewart Short)

Saturday, 29 August 2020

Friday, 28 August

Buckden - Great White Egret north of A14 (Stuart Elsom)

Fenstanton - Great White Egret nearby (Stuart Elsom)

Grafham Water - 4 Red-crested Pochard, Sandwich Tern over, Goldeneye, Great White Egret, 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Richard Patient) 

Wimpole Hall - 2 Spotted Flycatchers, Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Andrew Dobson)

Cambridge Research Park - Pied Flycatcher briefly (Jon and David Heath)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Great White Egret (Mike Everett)

Thursday, 27 August 2020

Thursday, 27 August

Ellington - Tree Pipit over (Stuart Elsom)

Stuntney - Tree Pipit over (Duncan Poyser)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper (Dave Anderson)

Grafham Water - Osprey (Peter Louden)

Wimpole Ridge - Wheatear, Spotted Flycatchers (Ken & Maggie hook)

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Wednesday, 26 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - Redstart (Dave Anderson)

Grafham Water - KITTIWAKE off dam 10:20h for five minutes (Ian Dawson)

Paxton Pits - Great White Egret (Mark Brandon)

Tuesday, 25 August

Harston - Curlew over (Stuart Elsom)

Haslingfield - Wheatear (Stuart Elsom)

St. Neots - CATTLE EGRET near riverside park (Richard Bashford) 

Ferry Meadows - 3 Shag (Don Gardener)

Monday, 24 August

Ferry Meadows - Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher (Don Gardener)

Paxton Pits - 2 Redstarts (Mark Brandon)

Wilbraham Fen - Whinchat, Hobby (Carl Howard)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover; also Mediterranean Gull over (Carl Howard)

Sunday, 23 August 2020

Sunday, 23 August

Fowlmere - 2 Tree Pipit in cattle paddock 08:50h before flying south (Ade Cooper); 3 Wheatear between the village and Thriplow (Brian Wallace)

Paxton Pits - 2 Redstart, 14 Green Sandpiper, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Ian Dawson)

Ferry Meadows - 17 Ring-necked Parakeet, including single yellow and blue birds (Don Gardener)

 Ouse Washes - 39 Crane (Steve Cooper)

Saturday, 22 August

RAF Molesworth - Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Impington - Hobby (Nigel Butcher)

Friday, 21 August

Dernford Reservoir - Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Ali Cooper)

Thursday, 20 August 2020

Thursday, 20 August

Grafham Water - Osprey (John Roe)

Ouse Washes - 24 Crane, Hobby (Kevin Taylor)

Great Fen - fem Redstart, Hobby, near Tower Farm (Ron Harold)

Kingfisher Bridge - Great White Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, Hobby (John Hoppett)

 Fen Drayton Lakes - Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

Wednesday, 19 August

 Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, Hobby nearby (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Stewart Short)

Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Tuesday, 18 August

Grafham Water - Osprey, Black Tern (Mark Hawkes); 12+ Yellow Wagtail (Carlos Davies)

Burwell Fen - Whinchat, Hobby, 2 Yellow Wagtail (David Wege)

Dernford Reservoir - Sanderling, 2 Greenshank, 5 Common Sandpiper, Whinchat (Richard Palmer)

Castor - 2 Whinchat at Mill Lane (Don Gardener)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Venables)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, 2 Whinchat (Graham Cole)

Paxton Pits - 13 Green Sandpiper (Carlos Davies)

Monday, 17 August 2020

Monday, 17 August

Grafham Water - BONXIE, Mediterranean Gull, Little Gull (Richard Patient); Black Tern and a second Little Gull (Ian Dawson); Osprey (Colin Addington); 5 Green Sandpiper (Jon Roe); also Great White Egret, Caspian Gull, 7 Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great Egret (Richard Allison)

Great Stukeley - PIED FLYCATCHER in a private garden (Matthew Rodgers)

Cam Washes - 2 Garganey, Avocet (Carl Howard)
 
Dimmock's Cote - Hobby, 6 Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Redshank heard (Carl Howard) 

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper (Norman Ratcliffe)

Fowlmere - Tree Pipit briefly 17:50h (Ade Cooper)



Sunday, 16 August 2020

Sunday, 16 August

Grafham Water - 3 BONXIE, 2 Little Gull, Black Tern, Osprey, Sanderling, Great White Egret, Garganey, Hobby, Peregrine, 8 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Hadenham - PIED FLYCATCHER at North Fen Drain (Brendan Doe)

Burwell - PIED FLYCATCHER at Heath Road (Richard Dale) 

Cambridge Research Park - REDSTART (Jon & David Heath)

Ferry Meadows - Hobby, 9 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Kingfishers Bridge - fem Goosander, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper (Sue Greenway); PIED FLYCATCHER in north belt near river, also Wood Sandpiper (Graeme Reed)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Greenshank, 4 Common Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret (Stephen Dutton)

Paxton Pits - Sandwich Tern, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Spotted F;lycatcher (Martin Davis); 2 Turnstone (Jamie Wells); 2 Red-crested Pochard (Neal Parkin)

Sutton North Fen - Turnstone (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Washes - 3 CATTLE EGRET, 24 Crane (Brendan Doe)

Cam Washes - 2 Garganey, 5 Wigeon, 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, 10 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Hobby (Jon & David Heath)


Saturday, 15 August

 Burwell Fen - Whinchat, Green Sandpiper (David Wege)

Longstanton - 6 Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper (Mark Austin) 

Grafham Water - Sanderling, Great White Egret, 14 Yellow Wagtail (Tim Rea); also BONXIE at Mander CP, Little Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 14 August 2020

Friday, 14 August

 Grafham Water - Osprey over, Great Egret, Hobby (Mark Hawkes); Wheatear (Tim Rea)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, 8 Common Sandpiper; also Meditrranean Gull reported (Andrew Dobson)

Longstanton - Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret (Mark Austin)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, 2 Green Sandpoper, 3 Common Sandpiper (Gill Parrish & Don Donald)

Bourne - 2 HONEY BUZZARD over the airfield (Chris Went)

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Thursday, 13 August

 Grafham Water - Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - 12 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank (Andrew Dobson)

Cam Washes - 3 CATTLE EGRET , 3 Garganey, 2 Avocet, Green Sandpiper (Jon & David Heath)

Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Wednesday, 12 August

 Grafham Water - possible Roseate Tern 09:30h but no sign since (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - Greenshank, 5 Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Andrew Dobson)

Lomgstanton - Greenshank (Mark Austin)

Tuesday, 11August

 Kingfishers Bridge - 7 CATTLE EGRET, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Green sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper, 5 Ruff, Greenshank, 2 Gargaeny, 62 Little Egret (Graeme Reed)

 Wicken Fen - 7 CATTLE EGRET to roost, 4 Green Sandpiper (Brendan Doe)

Grafham Water - Osprey, Caspian Gull, 8+ Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Common Sandpiper, 3 Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Molesworth - Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Longstanton - Greenshank, 6 Little Egret (Mark Austin)

Monday, 10 August 2020

Monday, 10 August

 Fen Drayton Lakes - Black-necked Grebe, 4 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Richard Allison); Turtle Dove (Gill Parrish)

Grafham Water - ad Caspian Gull, 2 juv Mediterranean Gull, 5+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 9 August 2020

Sunday 9 August

 Grafham Water - Great White Egret, Osprey, 7 Green Sandpipers (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton - 3 Red-crested Pochard on N side of Ferry. Hobby Turtle Dove S of Elnley (Edward King); 1-2 Greenshank at Longstanton Lagoons, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Ian Burfield)




Saturday, 8 August

 Grafham Water - Peregrine, 3 Raven, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Richard Patient); also 8 Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes); Turnstone, Osprey (as per rarebirdalert.com)

Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Wednesday, 5 August

Fen Drayton - 2 Great White Egret over Home Farm 06:40h (Richard Allison)

Marsh Lane GP - Great Egret (Neil Whitaker)

Grafham Water - 20+ Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (Tim Rea)

Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Tuesday, 4 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Turtle Dove (Richard Allison)

Godmanchester - Crossbill over (Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper (Ian Dawson); also Black Tern briefly, 5 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - juv CATTLE EGRET north of railway viaduct, also Crane viewable from the same area. Currently no access to RSPB hides from Welches Dam due to reservoir bank works (Jonathan Taylor)

Monday, 3 August 2020

Monday, 3 August

Paxton Pits - Great White Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Martin Davis)

Landbeach - Crossbill over (Dick Newell)

Sunday, 2 August 2020

Sunday, 2 August

Grafham Water - 2 juv Mediterranean Gull, ad Caspian Gull, 6 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 3+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - CATTLE EGRET, Whinchat, 3 Green Sandpiper (Martin Davis)

Marsh Lane GP - Great Egret (Mike Bending)

Cottenham Long Drove - 10 ad Yellow-legged Gull (Graham Cole)

Baker's Fen - 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 5 Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Little Owl (Colin Kirtland)

Saturday, 1 August 2020

Saturday, 1 August

Fen Drayton - Turtle Dove (Richard Allison); Bittern in flight (Ben ?)

Grafham Water - Osprey, ad Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes, Matthew Rodgers); 3 juv Mediterranean Gull, Goldeneye, Hobby (Mark Hawkes); Whimbrel through (Matthew Rodgers)

Paxton Pits - 2 Whinchat, 2 Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier (Mark Brandon)

Burwell Fen - 10 Garganey, 5 Ruff, 7 Green Sandpiper, c.50 Little Egret (James Littlewood); also Golden Plover with Lapwing (Andrew Dobson)

Baker's Fen - 2 Whinchat, 2 Green Sandpiper, 17 Black-tailed Godwit (James Littlewood)