Friday 30 April 2021

Friday, 30 April

Cambridge - 2 Raven over tennis Court Road (Clive T) and presumably the same two plus a third bird over Chesterton (Simon Gillings)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Black Tern, Little Tern, Common Sandpiper, Cattle Egret, Cuckoo (Gill Parrish); Firecrest (Jonathan Taylor)

Paxton Pits - 2 Arctic Tern, Black Tern, Common Terns, Hobby, Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtail, 4 Nightingale, Grasshopper Warbler (Vince Lea & Louise Bacon); further Grasshopper Warbler, Nightingale and Cuckoo (Audrey & Gwyn Williams)

Thursday 29 April 2021

Thursday, 29 April

Paxton Pits - 6 Arctic Tern through (Mark Ward) 

Grafham water - 3 Common Sandpiper, fem 'flava' type amongst the Yellow Wagtails (Mark Hawkes)

Kings / Abbots Ripton - male RING OUZEL by Bough Lane between the villages (Duncan Ritchie); also a fem RING OUZEL near Abbots ripton (Duncan McNiven)

Kingfishers Bridge - 5 Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2 Common Tern, 22 Swift, Wheatear (Gill Parrish & Don Donald)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Garden Warbler (Tracey Graves); 2 Black Tern (Pete Wood)

Longstowe - Avocet, Common Sandpiper (Pete Wood)

Dernford Reservoir - 11 Arctic Tern (Simon Gillings)

West Brook - Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper (Mark Thomas)

Ouse Fen - Wood Sandpiper (Jeremy Lindsell)

Smithy Fen, Cottenham - Wood Sandpiper, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 40 Yellow Wagtail (Brendan Doe) 

Fowlmere - 2 Wheatear near Manor Farm (Ian Dale)

Wednesday 28 April 2021

Wednesday, 28 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, 2 Great Egret, Common Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Whimbrel, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); Sanderling (Colin Addington); ARCTIC SKUA through, also Curlew, 3 Greenshank through (Stu Elsom); 22 Arctic Tern over north, Whimbrel east (Mark Ward); 2 Sanderling, fem Black Redstart, 5 Whimbrel over (Mark Hawkes); RING OUZEL (Andrew Sharpe)

Paxton Pits - 11 Black Tern, 2 Arctic Tern (Geoff Barlow); 8 Arcitic Tern, 2 Great Egret, 5 Nightingale, Cuckoo, 2 Grasshopper Warbler (Duncan McNiven)

Burwell Fen - 9 Whimbrel, 5 Swift, 4 Wheatear, Hobby (David Wege)

Bakers Fen, Wicken - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank (Bob Humphrey)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Arctic Tern, 2 Little Gull (Matt Mellor)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Black Tern, 4 Arctic Tern, Kittiwake through, Sanderling (Graeme Reed)

Etton Pits - 4 Sanderling (Hugh Wright); , Little Ringed Plover, 3 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (Paul Bolton)

Berry Fen - Wood Sandpiper, GLOSSY IBIS, 8 Greenshank over (Richard Thomas)

Comberton - 2 Wheatear (ed Gill)

Tuesday 27 April 2021

Tuesday, 27 April

Grafham Water - RING OUZEL along path to Dudney Hide, Nightingale singing (Stu Butchart); Greenshank, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Tim Rea); 7 Swift, Hobby nearby (Stu Elsom)

Burwell Fen - 5 Whimbrel, 4 Wheatear, 2 Yellow wagtail, fem Blue-headed Wagtail (David Wege)

Kingfishers Bridge - RING OUZEL still in paddock (Keith Honnor); also albifrons White-fronted Goose, 8 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Whimbrel, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, Jack Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, Little Gull, 10 Common Tern, Barn Owl, Little Owl, 2 Tawny Owl, 2 Kingfisher, Hobby, 2 Raven, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Yellow Wagtail amongst 100 species seen at the site today (Graeme Reed); 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper (Ian Burfield)

Paxton Pits - Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 2 male Red-crested Pochard, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Mark Brandon)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great Egret, Grey Plover, Greenshank, Little  Ringed Plover, Cuckoo (Gill Parrish)

Fowlmere RSPB - Jack Snipe, Water Rail chick (Colin Helliwell)

Berry Fen - Garganey reported

West Brook - Turtle Dove over (Mark Thomas)

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over (Mike Weedon)

Monday 26 April 2021

Monday, 26 April

Devil's Dyke - RING OUZEL northwest of A14 (Richard Dale)

Grafham Water - RING OUZEL along path to Dudney Hide, Nightingale singing (Richard Palmer); 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper (Mark Ward); YellowxBlue-headed Wagtail with 72 Yellow Wagtail, 5 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - 1st win KITIWAKE, ad Little Gull (Andrew Dobson); 17 Swift (Robin Cox)

Kingfsihers Bridge - RING OUZEL, White-fronted Goose, Little Gull, 2 Whimbrel, Avocet, Br-tailed Godwit (Sue Greenway et al.)

Roman Road, Abington - Short-eared Owl (Andy Merryweather)

Burwell Fen - 11 Whimbrel, 3 Wheatear, 6 Yellow Wagtail (David Wege)

Smithey Fen - Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover (David Nation)

Westbrook - Bar-tailed Godwit (Richard Thomas)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Greenshank, Grey Plover, Common Sandpiper, 12 Common Tern, 6 Swift (Andrew Maxwell)

Little Wilbraham - pair of Madarin on the river (Carlos Davies)

Etton Pits - Wood Sandpiper (Paul Bolton)

Sunday 25 April 2021

Sunday, 25 April

Grafham Water - 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank (Mark Hawkes)

Smithey Fen, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Whimbrel, 3 Greenshank, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Cuckoo (Ian Ellis)

Buckden - 4 Arctic Tern over (Mark Ward)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, Swift (Matt Mellor); RING OUZEL (Nick Cousins); Hobby, a fourth Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Gull, 2 Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (David Nation)

Molesworth - male Melin, Lesser Whitethroat (Stewart Short)

Wicken area - 10 Whimbrel, 60 Fieldfare between Baker's and Burwell Fens (Derek and Viven Gruar)

Dernford Reservoir - 6 Swift, Yellow Wagtail (Pete Wood) 

Westbrook - 7 Whimbrel, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper (Mark Thomas)

Ely - RING OUZEL (Neal Gates)

Cam Washes, Upware - Wood Sandpiper (David Nation)

Berry Fen - Garganey, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit (Simon Stirrup)

Saturday 24 April 2021

Saturday, 24 April

Grafham Water - 4 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, White Wagtail, Swift, YellowxBlue-headed Wagtail hybrid (Mark Hawkes); 5 Little Gull, Bar-tailed Godwit (Richard Patient); 2 Little Ringed Plover (Stewart Short)

Stirtloe - RING OUZEL in sheepfields, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, 2 Swift (Richard Allison); 12 Little Gull early a.m. (Jeremy Lindsell); 30 Little Gull and icrerasing (Andrew Maddocks, Jeff Stenning)

Paxton Pits - 8 Little Gull, 16 Common Tern (John Raven)

Nene Washes - at March Farmers Cattle Egret, Spotted Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Whimbrel; at Eldernell a flighty RING OUZEL west of CP, 7 Whimbrel (Richard Patient)

Kingfishers Bridge - RING OUZEL, Garganey, Little Gull, 4 Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit briefly, Wood Sandpiper (Ian Burfield); 4 Avocet (Andrew Maxwell); Arcric Tern, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper (Babs York); 2 Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Carlos Davies); also a second RING OUZEL, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper reported

Dernford Reservoir - Little Gull, Grey Wagtail (Matt Midgley & Rachel Gartner)

Berry Fen - 36 Little Gull, 11 of which lingered, Green Sandpiper (Philip Bubb)

Ouse Fen - 5 Hobby (Philip Bubb); Turtle Dove (Hugh Venables)

Over - Swift (Andy Jennings) 

Cam Washes, Up[ware - Whimbrel, Swift, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Jon & David Heath); GLOSSY IBIS, Wood Sandpiper (Carlos Davies)

Northstowe - 4 Avocet, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 27 Yellow Wagtail (Hugh Venables)

Ouse Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Little Gull, RING OUZEL, Brambling, Wheatear, 10 Crane, 8 Great White Egret, 45 Yellow Wagtail, ringtail Hen Harrier, Peregrine (Brendan Doe)

Wicken Fen - 8 Whimbrel, Hobby, 2 pair sof Stonechat, pair of Garganey, Leeser Whitehroat (Carlos Davies)

Friday 23 April 2021

Friday, 23 April

Cambridge - RING OUZEL along path between Granhcester Road adn Coton Road, also Hobby & 7 Golden Plover; Green Sandpiper along the River Cam towards Grantchester (Peter Louden)

Eaton Ford - Cuckoo, Willow Warbler (Richard Patient)

Burwell Fen - 3 Garganey, Common Tern (Andy Hannaford)

Grafham Water - 3 Little Gull, Black Tern, RING OUZEL at Mander CP briefly (Richard Patient); 4 Whimbrel, 30 Yellow Wagtail (Stu Elsom)

Kingfishers Bridge - Swift, RING OUZEL, 3 Whimbrel, Arctic Tern, Common Tern, White-fronted Goose (Sue Greenway)

Somersham - 2 White Stork of unknown origin, Lesser Whitethroat (Russell Watkins)

Dernford Reservoir - 30 Little Gull, Bar-tailed Godwit over (Andrew Dobson); peak of 36 Little Gull (Ian Dale)

Trumpington Meadows - Cuckoo (Jeff Riley)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS, 3 Garganey, Cattle Egret, Whimbrel, 4 Little Gull (Hugh Venables); also Great Egret, Cuckoo, 30 Common Tern (Richard Patient)

Northstowe - Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover (Hugh Venables)

Paxton Pits - Cattle Egret, 2 Red-crested Pochard (Mark Ward)

Cam Washes, Upware - GLOSSY IBIS, Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 59 Golden Plover (Jon & David Heath)

Thursday 22 April 2021

Thursday, 22 April

Paxton Pits - Black Tern (Mark Ward)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 RING OUZEL, 6 Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Arctic Tern, Little Gull (Andrew Dobson)

Cam Washes, Upware - GLOSSY IBIS (Andrew Dobson); drake Garganey, 10 Yellow Wagtail, Cuckoo (Jon & David Heath)

Grafham water - Reed Warbler, Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail (Tracey Graves)

Barton/Wimpole - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE reported from A603 between the villages this morning

Farcet - male RING OUZEL west of the village (Steve Dudley)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Gull (Richard Thomas)

Wednesday 21 April 2021

Wednesday, 21 April

Grafham Water - 19 Arctic Tern, Black Tern, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Little Gull, male RING OUZEL in paddock by Cam Washes, 6 Whimbrel (Mark Pettit)

Wimpole - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over 11:55h (Maggie Hook)

Wicken - Hobby at Upware end of Wicken Lode (David Wege)

CEGB pit, Peterborough - 2 Little Gull (Paul Bolton)

Ferry Meadows  - Little Gull briefly, Common Scoter (Mike Weedon)

Cam Washes, Upware - GLOSSY IBIS briefly (Jon & David Heath)

Fen Drayton Lakes - pair of Garganey, 2 Arctic Tern, Great Egret (Michael Rikki); 2 Little Gull (Chris Rider)

Northstowe - Arctic Tern, 4 Little Ringed Plover (Hugh Venables)

Tuesday, 20 April

Foxton/Shepreth - 3 RING OUSEL on private land (Matt Mellor)

Grafham Water - 3 Common Scoter (Colin Addington); also Arctic Tern, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Ward); male Black Redstart, Bar-tailed Godwit (Ian Dawson); after dark Tawny Owls, Barn Owl and the escaped male Great Horned Owl still present (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 11 Arctic Tern, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover (Richard Allison); also Bar-tailed Godwit, Reed Warbler (Gill Parrish); Little Gull (Richard Thomas)

Monday 19 April 2021

Monday, 19 April

Burwell - 2 Peregrine (Paul Craske)

Berry Fen - Garganey, Little Ringed Plover, Reed Warbler (Tracey Graves)

Grafham Water - 3 Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit at the dam (Richard Patient); 2 Little Ringed Plover (Stewart Short)

Comberton - fem Wheatear (Ed Gill)

Devil's Dyke - Wheatear near B1102 (Stu Elsom)

Burwell - Wheatear, Little Owl, 2 Great White Egret over (Stu Elsom)

Cam Washes, Upware - Great White Egret, 2 Black-tailed Godwit (Stu Elsom)

Sunday 18 April 2021

Sunday, 18 April

RAF Molesworth - Redstart, 2 Whitethroat (Stewart Short)

Paxton Pits - Reed Warbler, 2 Whitethroat (Terry Brown); 2 pair of Smew, Cuckoo, 2 Raven, 2 Reed Warbler (Mark Ward)

Grafham Water -  RING OUSEL near Dudney Hide, 2 Common Tern, 10 Yeloow Wagtail (Ron Harold); Short-eared Owl west of Hill Farm, Cuckoo, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull, Raven (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - pair of Garganey at Baker's Fen, Hobby over Sedge Fen (Simon Stirrup)

Dernford Reservoir - 4 Common Tern, Oystercatcher  (Ian Dale)

Snithey Fen, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Green Sandpiper (Jem Holding)

Ouse Washes - 3 GLOSSY IBIS, Little Ringed Plover, Great White Egret, Peregrine (James Littlewood); GLOSSY IBIS at Earith, Spotted Redshank at Little Fen, pair of Garganey, Common Tern at Berry Fen (Duncan NcNiven); Greenshank, 4 Garganey, 1000 Black-tailed Godwit, 50 Ruff, 65 Pintail (Brendan Doe)

Woodwalton Fen - pair of Wood Duck, pair of Mandarin, Brambling, 3 Lesser Redpoll (Duncan McNiven)


Saturday 17 April 2021

Saturday, 17 April

Wicken Fen - 2 Garganey, 4 Grasshopper Warblers, Barn Owl, Little Owl, Tawny Owl (Sue Greenway)

Ouse Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Cattle Egret, 12 Crane, 3 Garganey, 3 Curlew, 750 Black-tailed Godwit, 35 Ruff, 17 Great White Egret, Whitethroat (Brendan Doe); also 3 more Garganey, 3 Whopper Swan, 2 Whitethroat (Simon Gillings)

Ditton Meadows - Lesser Whitethroat (Rob Pople)

Dernford Reservoir - Little Gull (Andrew Dobson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Common Sandpiper, Whitethroat, Common Tern, 18 Goldeneye (Carlos Davies)

Woodwalton Fen - Grasshopper Warbler, 14 Golden Plover, pair of Wood Duck (Mark Ward)

Friday 16 April 2021

Friday, 16 April

Smithey Fen, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Tim Rea)

Nene Washes - GLOSSY IBIS, 6 Great White Egret at March Farmers, Whitethroat, 7 Crane at Eldernell (Derek Benton) 

Ouse Washes - Channel Wagtail with 42 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Avocet (Brendan Doe)

Berry Fen - 3 GLOSSY IBIS, Spotted Redshank (Richard Thomas)

Farcet - RING OUZEL to west of village (Steve Dudley)

Ferry Meadows - COMMON SCOTER, 2 Common Tern (Mike Weedon)

Paxton Pits - Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, 4 Common Tern, 4 Smew, Great White Egret, 2 Red-crested Pochard (Jamie Wells); Nightingale (Mark Ward)

Stirtloe STW - male Redstart 200 yards to sourh (Mark Ward)

Coton - 70 Golden Plover between NR and M11 (Roger Hardie)

Grafham Water - 4 White Wagtail (Mark Ward); 40+ Yellow Wagtail, Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Brampton -2 White Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Ouse Fen - 5 Arctic Tern (Richard Thomas); Nightingale, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler (Tracey Graves)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Gull briefly (Jeremy Lindsell)

Thursday 15 April 2021

Thursday, 15 April

Coveney Byall Fen - 2 Mediterranean Gull (Mike Burdekin)

Longstanton - 2 male Wheatear, 64 GHolden Plover (Stu Elsom)

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe (Colin Addington)

Huntingdon - Crane over A141 to the north (Dean Harlow)

Wednesday 14 April 2021

Wednesday, 14 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Great Egret, Common Tern (Gill Parrish); Garganey, 10 Common Tern, 3 Yellow Wagtail late afternoon (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Common Tern (Mark Hawkes); 7 White Wagtail, 35 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - Cuckoo (Mark Ward)

Brampton - 5 White Wagtail, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Hemingford Grey - Nightingale, Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler (Chris Bowden)

Burwell Fen - Whitethroat (Andy Hannaford)

Isleham Washes - Little Tern (Paul Whiteman)

Nene Washes, Eldernell/March Farmers - 14 Crane, 11 Great White Egret, 800 Black-tailed Godwit, 37 Ruff (John Wells)

Berry Fen - Garganey (Rachel Lennard); Spotted Redshank (Richard Thomas)

Barleycraft - Red-crested Pochard (Rachel Lennard)

Sawston - Crossbill in a private garden briefly (Andrew Knights) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Mediterranean Gull, Goosander, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Sedge Warbler (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Fen - Wheatear (Rachel Lennard)

Tuesday 13 April 2021

Tuesday, 13 April

Grafham Water - 7 White Wagtail, 30 Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 6 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Grunty Fen - Redstart briefly (Michael Rikki)

Dernford Reservoir - Wheatear, Grey Wagtail (Steve Dutton)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS (Tracey Graves)

Ouse Fen - Merlin (Richard Thomas)

Monday 12 April 2021

Monday, 12 April

Cambridge - 3 Wheatear on haystack behind Cambridge Rugby Club (Peter Louden); a fourth Wheatear later in the day (Andrew Dobson)

Paxton Pits - Slavonian Grebe, Osprey over (Mark Ward)

Brampton - 2 White Wagtail, 5 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Ward)

Wimpole - Tundra Bean Goose still (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham - Osprey, White Wagtail, 9 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (Mike Everett)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS (Tracey Graves)

Ouse Washes - SPOONBILL at Fortrey's Hall, Cattle Egret, 8 Great White Egret (Brendan Doe)

Buckden - Wheatear (Mark Ward)

Sunday 11 April 2021

Sunday, 11 April

Grafham Water - Kittiwake arrived 10:35h (Richard Patient); 3 Little Ringed Plover, 20 Yellow Wagtail at the dam this afternoon (Josh Carter); 2 White Wagtail, Wheatear (Mark Hawkes)

Woodwalton Fen - male Hen Harrier, Greenshank (Duncan McNiven)

Ouse Washes - SPOONBILL, 2 drake Garganey, Great Egret at Chain Corner; 3 GLOSSY IBIS at Eairth (Mark Brandon); WHITE-TAILED EAGLE, 2 Spotted Redshank, 50 Ruff, 40 Dunlin, 500 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Great White Egret (Brendan Doe)

Kingfishers Bridge - male Redstart (Graeme Reed)

Great Abingotn - fem Redstart (Andy Merryweather)

Westbrook - 23 Yellow Wagtails, Jack Snipe (Mark Thomas)

Ellington - Brambling, Peregrine (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Saturday 10 April 2021

Saturday, 10 April

Ouse Washes - 2 SPOONBILL, Cattle Egret, Gery Plover, Spotted Redshank at Fortrey's Hall (Brendon Doe, Simon Gillings); 2 White Stork (Mark Pettit), one ringed (Jonathan Taylor); juv WHITE-TAILED EAGLE south of Welches Dam (Duncan McNiven)

Hare Park - Tawny Owl, 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - pair of Garganey, Cattle Egret, Common Tern, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler (Hugh Venables); also Great White Egret, 16 Goldeneye (Carlos Davies)

Northstowe - 3 Little Ringed Plover (Hugh Venables)

Adventurer's Fen - Cuckoo, Willow Warbler (Kevin Wilson) 

Clopton - 4 Wheatear (Mark Thomas)

Friday 9 April 2021

Friday, 9 April

Grafham Water - Osprey at west end, 2 male Wheatear, White Wagtail at the dam (Mark Hawkes); 2  Little Ringed Plover at the dam (Tom Rea); 9 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Yellow Wagtail, 3 White Wagtail at the east end, also fem Merlin (Mark Ward)

Ouse Fen - Osprey over (Richard Thomas)

Earith - 2 GLOSSY IBIS (Michael Rikki)

Great Wibraham Common - male RING OUZEL but elusive, Willow Warbler (Carl Howard)

Ouse Washes - 2 SPOONBILL at Fortrey's Hall, Cattle Egret, 13 Great White Egret, 1500 Black-tailed Godwit, Knot, 30 Dunlin, 50 Ruff (Brendan Doe)

Buckden - White Wagtail nearby (Mark Ward)

Cambridge Resaerch Park - Cuckoo, Willow Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler (Ian Burfield)

Fenstanton - 2 Little Ringed Plover (Andrew Sharpe); Common Tern over (Mark Thomas)

Yaxley - Wheatear between the village and Holme Fen (Paul Bolton)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 5 Yellow Wagtail (Rachel Lennard); Cattle Egret (Gill Parrish)

Thursday 8 April 2021

Thursday, 8 April

Ouse Washes - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE north of Mepal 08:30h (as per Cliff Carson); Black-necked Grebe, drake Garganey at Pymoor (Ian Ellis)

Smithey Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Green Sandpiper (Michael Rikki)

Comberton - Wheatear in the parish (Ed Gill)

Wicken - male Hen Harrier to roost, Stonechat (Christoph Zöckler)

Teversham Fen - drake Garganey, 150 Golden Plover, Swallows (Carl Howard)

Wimpole - Tundra Bean GHoose (Rachel Lennard)

Wednesday 7 April 2021

Wednesday, 7 April

Smithey Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (David & Sallie Jones)

Grafham Water - Osprey (Colin Addington); White-tailed Eagle 'G471' 14:30-14:45h, from tracking data (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, Sedge Warbler (Mike Everett)

Tuesday 6 April 2021

Tuesday, 6 April

Smithey Fen, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Ian Ellis); Yellow Wagtail (Michael Rikki)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS (David & Sallie Jones)

Bakers Fen - mael Garganey (Stewart Feeney) 

Paxton Pits - pair of Smew, 2 Red-crested Pochard (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtails (Tracey Graves)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Sedge Warbler singing in reeds by the river, Great White Egret, Willow Warbler (Terry Brown)

Teversham Fen - male Garganey, Yellow Wagtail, Swallow (Colin Kirtland)

Monday 5 April 2021

Monday, 5 April

Smithey Fen, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL, also White Wagtail & Yellow Wagtail nearby (Ian Ellis)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS (David & Sallie Jones)

Grafham Water - 2 Little Ringed Plover, 5 House Martin, 8 Yellow Wagtail, Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - Sandwich Tern (Jonathan Taylor)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Andy Maxwell)

Manea - ringtail Hen Harrier just to the south (Michael Rikki)

Ouse Washes - Kittiwake near Welches Dam hide, 3 Garganey (Paul Nobbs)

Paxton Pits - Common Scoter, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Smew, fem Scaup, Cattle Egret, Little Ringed Plover, House Martin (Jamie Wells)

Tubney Fen - Little Owl(Kevin Wilson)

Fordham Wood - Marsh Tit, Raven (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 4 April 2021

Sunday, 4 April

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, male Common Scoter, Grey Plover on dam, 6 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Tubney Fen - Black Redstart at the muck heap (David & Sallie Jones)

Soham - Short-eared Owl near Sedge Fen (Sue Greenway)

Ouse Washes - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE (Peter Louden); which headed west at Fen Drayton c.14:15h (Richard Patient); and west over Hemingford area 14:48h (Matt Mellor); 1200 Black-tailed Godwit, Knot, 2 Green Sandpiper at Witcham, 4 Garganey, Great White Egret at Rickwood Hide (Brendan Doe)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, House Martin (Christopher Hughes)

Wicken Fen - Sedge Warbler singing (Simon Stirrup)

Saturday, 3 April

Tubney Fen - Black redstart at the muck heap, Wheatear nearby at Swaffham Prior Fen (Mark Pettit)

Burwell Fen - Wheatear at cattle pen, Great White Egret over (Andy Hannaford)

RAF Molesworth - 2 White Wagtail between the base and Burton's Scrapyard (Stewart Short)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, 13 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Willow Warbler, 30 Goldeneye (Carlos Davies)

Diddington Pits - 4 Smew viewed from public path (Carlos Davies)

Ouse Washes - imm. WHITE-TAILED EAGLE east over Chain Corner, Cattle Egret over south, 4 Great White Egret (Brendan Doe)

Grove Lane area, Ellington - 150 Golden Plover, 2 Little Rined Plover, 2 Raven (Stu  Elsom)

Ouse Valley - 2 Great White Egret, 5 Little Ringed Plover (Stu  Elsom)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS (Matt Walton)

Longstanton - Great White Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper,  Yellow Wagtail, 11 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Thomas)

Friday 2 April 2021

Friday, 2 April

Milton CP - 7 Swallow (David Wege)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, 14 Swallow (Mark Hawkes)

Wimpole - male RING OUZEL (Matt Mellor); also Tundra Bean Goose, Swallow (Jamie Wells)

Tubney Fen - Black Redstart around the muck heap, 2 Swallow (Giles Merritt)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret, 70 Sand Martin, 10 Goldeneye, Siskin (Terry Brown)

Waterbeach - male RING OUZEL near the sailing club (Carlos Davis)

Burwell Fen - 4 Whooper Swan (Carlos Davis)

Upware Washes -  2 Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit (Carlos Davis)

Thursday 1 April 2021

Thursday, 1 April

Dernford Reservoir - 4 Barnacle Gese, 3 Swallow, 3 Sand Martin (Richard Palmer)

Fen Drayton lakes - Common Tern, Swallow, 200+ Sand Martin, 26 Goldeneye, Great Egret (Richard Allison)