Thursday 29 December 2022

Thursday, 29 December

Ferry Meadows - ad KITTIWAKE on river until departing north 10:43h (Matt Webb)

Eldernell - 43 Crane to roost, 2 male Hen Harrier (Ian Gordon)

Peterborough - 3 WAXWING at Milton Hall Estate (Chris Jones)

Wednesday, 28 December

Eldernell - 30 Crane, 2 male Hen Harrier, Bittern (Tim Watling)

Cheveley - 2 Brambling on feeders in a private garden (Andrew Palmer)

Peterborough - 32 Siskin at Benland, North Bretton (Nathan Stimpson)

Tuesday 27 December 2022

Tuesday, 27 December

Ouse Washes, Earith - 10 Water Pipit, Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Pink-footed Goose, 41 Egyptian Geese (Mark Ward, Ade Cooper)

Little Fen - Water Pipit (Mark Ward, Ade Cooper)

Ouse Fen - Water Pipit, 2 Great Egret, 4 Bearded Tit (Mark Ward, Ade Cooper)

Grafham Water - Peregrine, 1st c.y. male Scaup from Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes) 

Manea/Chatteris - 2 Bewick's Swan with Whooper Swan from B1098 (Russell Watkins)

Godmanchester - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF at the sewgae works, Goldeneye, 2 Goosander, Great Egret, small flcok of Siskins at the NR (Steve Cooper)

Monday, 26 December

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit, Peregrine (Stu & Jill Elsom); 1st win male Scaup off Plummer CP (James Walsh)

Wicken Fen - 3 Merlin, 5 Hen Harrier & 12 Marsh Harrier to roost, 3 Woodcock, 2 Water Pipit, 100 Whooper Swan with probable Tundra Bean Goose at dusk (Mark Ward)

Pymoor - 2 Bewick's Swan (Marilyn Peterkin)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Goosander (Andrew Terrell)

Eldernell - male Hen Harrier, 2 Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, Bittern, 3 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Monday 26 December 2022

Sunday, 25 December

Wicken Fen - Nordic jackdaw, 50 Lesser redpoll (David Nation)

Saturday 24 December 2022

Saturday, 24 December

Ouse Fen - 2 Glossy Ibis (Rich Atkins)

Fowlmere - WAXWING ina private garden (Doug Radford)

Eldernell - 3 Short-eared Owl flushed by dog walker (Dick Burnham); 53 Crane (Charlie Kitchin)

March Farmers - 82 Ruff (Charlie Kitchin)

Wicken Fen - 3 Hen Harrier, Merlin (Josh Sollitt)


Friday 23 December 2022

Friday, 23 December

Chatteris - Cattle Egret just to the south-east (David Nation)

Grafham Water - 2 ad Bewick's Swan, 2 drake Red-crested Pochard, 8 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 22 December

Burwell Fen - 2 Short-eared Owl (Paul Pulham)

Coveney - 2 Bewick's Swan with 400 Whooper Swan (Ian Burfield)

Wednesday 21 December 2022

Wednesday, 21 December

Grafham Water - 2 Bewick's Swan, 2 drake Red-crested Pochard, 10 Dunlin (Richard Palmer)

Burwell Fen - 3 Short-eared Owl (Paul Pulham)

Tuesday 20 December 2022

Tuesday, 20 December

Godmanchester NR - 2 Great Egret, Kingfisher (Tracey Graves)

Coveney - 3 Bewick's Swan nearby (David Nation)

Ouse Fen - Peregrine, Water Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Bearded Tit (Babs York)

Monday, 19 December

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 drake Smew (Peter Louden) 

Cottenham - Merlin heading east (David Nation)

Bainton pits - fem Scaup (Hugh Wright)

Sunday 18 December 2022

Sunday, 18 December

Haddenham - Woodcock in a private garden (Barbara York)

Dernford Reservoir - ICELAND GULL, Caspian Gull,  Yellow-legged Gull, Mandarin along the stream (Steve Cooper)

Nene washes - 1613 Whooper Swan, 72 Bewick's Swan (Charlie Kitchin)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Spoonbill (Jon Heath)

Coveney - Bewick's Swan with 300 Whooper Swan just east of the village (David Nation)

Saturday, 17 December

Haddenham - Woodcock in a private garden, male Hen Harrier over (Barbara York)

Grafham Water - male Smew briefly (Matthew Rodgers)

Chatteris - Woodcock, Green Sandpiper, 6 Whooper Swan (Mark Ward)

Hare Park - Brambling with Chaffinches, 2 Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - male & fem Smew, 2 Great Egret, 80 Shoveler, Peregrine also male & fem Wood Duck along the river (James Littlewood)

Friday, 16 December

Godmanchester GP - fem Goodsander, White-fronted Goose (Martin Sreeves)

Thursday 15 December 2022

Thursday, 15 December

March - 16 Crane over north-west 08:30h (Derek Benton)

Burwell Fen - Short-eared Owl (Paul Pulham)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Bittern, 14 Great Egret (Jon Heath)

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton, Josh Jones)

Wednesday 14 December 2022

Wednesday, 14 December

Burwell Fen - Jack Snipe, 2 Little Owl, 12 Fieldfare (Paul Pulham)

Barton - c.200 Corn Bunting, 100+ Yellowhammer (Roger Hardie)

Sunday 11 December 2022

Saturday, 10 December

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe, Caspian Gull, 2 Bewick's Swan, 23 Lesser Redpoll (Mark Ward)

Hinchingbrooke CP - 3 Goosander, 2 Great Egret (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - male Smew, Red-crested Pochard, 14 Great Egret, 25 Goldeneye, Water Pipit (Joe Parham)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 4 Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Wicken Fen - 2 Hen Harrier to roost, Tree Sparrow (Andrew Dobson)

Saturday 10 December 2022

Friday, 9 December

 Reach Lode - SNOW BUNTING near bridge, 46 Whooper Swan (Giles Merritt)

Hare Park - 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, Scaup, Common Scoter (Richard Patient); presumed ad Baltic Gull in roost, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Bewick's Swan, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 35 Redpoll, 3 Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - 3 Water Pipit north of Sutton Gault (James Hanlon)

Ouse Fen - Jack Snipe (James Hanlon)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Smew, Bittern, Cattle Egret, Glossy Ibis, Bearded Tit (Arjun Dutta)

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Thursday 8 December 2022

Thursday, 8 December

Fulbourn - 14 Golden Plover over New Shardlows Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Isleham Washes - GREY PHALAROPE (Paul Pulham)

Sawtry - Grey Plover over (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - SNOW BUNTING, Rock Pipit, Water Pipit (Jeremy Lindsell)

Wednesday 7 December 2022

Wednesday, 7 December

Ouse Fen - SNOW BUNTING (Jon Heath)

Cam Washes - 2 White-fronted Geese, 12 Whooper Swan (Jon Heath)

Isleham Washes - GREY PHALAROPE (Tim Watling)

Paxton Pits - Jack Snipe (Terry Brown) 

Eldernell - male Hen Harrier (Kevin Eldred)

Tuesday 6 December 2022

Tuesday, 6 December

Isleham Washes - GREY PHALAROPE (Dean Harlow)

Monday 5 December 2022

Monday, 5 December

Isleham Washes - GREY PHALAROPE (Sue Greenway)

Grafham Water - presumed GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 2 Bewick's Swan (Mark Hawkes)

Cherry Hinton Hall - 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Stephen Buckle)

Sunday 4 December 2022

Sunday, 4 December

Kingfishers Bridge - Whooper Swan, 2 Great Egret, Water Rail (Ian Burfield)

Wicken Fen - 6 Eurasian White-fronted Geese that departed by 13:30h, male Hen Harrier, 20+ Redpoll (Stephen Buckle); male and 2 female Hen Harrier and 6 Marsh Harriers to roost, Great Egret, Tawny Owl (Vince Lea, Louise Bacon)

Isleham Washes - GREY PHALAROPE (Duncan McNiven)

Eldernell - 73 Crane left the roost this morning (Charlie Kitchin); 2 male Hen Harrier with 6 Marsh Harrier to roost, 38 Crane, 100 Whooper Swan, 2 Great Egret, Tawny Owl (Josh Sollitt)

Saturday 3 December 2022

Saturday, 3 December

Grafham Water - moulting drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes); Black-necked Grebe (Andy Bartlett)

CEGB Reservoir, Peterborough - Common Scoter (Rachel Lennard)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 8 Glossy Ibis (Rich Atkins)

Eldernell - 2 male Hen Harrier to roost, 3 Great Egret, Curlew over (Matt Webb)

Isleham - GREY PHALAROPE (Colin Kirtland)

Thursday 1 December 2022

Thursday, 1 December

Fulbourn - 18 Corn Bunting at New Shardlows Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday 30 November 2022

Wednesday, 30 November

Trumpington - Ring-necked Parakeet (Matthew Binns)

Ferry Madows - 5 Stonechat (Nathan Stimpson)

Cambourne - 48 Brent Geese over (James Hanlon)

Farcet - Bent Goose over (Kevin Eldred)

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull, Great Egret (Josh Jones)

Purl's Bridge - Swallow (Mark Peck)

Grafham Water - probable moulting drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Richard Patient)

Tuesday, 29 November

Dernford Reservoir - 11 Whooper Swan, departed 10:50h (Derek Turnidge)

Northstowe - male Hen Harrier (Hugh Venables)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 33 Cattle Egret (Jeremy Lindsell)

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe, 3 Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret (Patrick Safford)

Eldernell - Short-eared Owl (Dick Burnham)

Monday 28 November 2022

Monday, 28 November

 Tanholt pits - 4 Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Sunday 27 November 2022

Sunday, 27 November

Grafham Water - 3 Red-crested Pochard, 55 Dunlin, 3 Great Egret, Raven (Mark Hawkes); Black-necked Grebe, Goosander (Matthew Rodgers)

Pymoor - 15 Cattle Egret, 400 Golden Plover, 1000+ lapwing, 18 Corn Bunting, White-fronted Goose, Hen Harrier (Christoph Zöckler, Tim Inskipp)

Fulbourn- Peregrine over New Shardlows Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Eldernell - 13 Crane to roost, 2 Hen Harrier, Merlin (Josh Sollitt)

Thursday 24 November 2022

Thursday, 24 November

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe, Great Egret, Grey Plover through (Ian Dawson)

Paxton Pits - juv Scaup (Ian Dawson)

Pymoor - 24 Cattle Egret, Great Egret to the north (Simon Stirrup)

Earith/Willinghm - RED-THROATED DIVER on the river near turn to Ouse Fen RSPB (David Nation)

Wednesday 23 November 2022

Wednesday, 23 November

 Quy - Raven over (Paul Pulham)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Tuesday, 22 November

Kings Dyke NR - Bearded Tit (Paul Bolton)

Holme Fen - Stonechat with red ring (Kevin Eldred)

Grafham Water - 2 Raven (Mike Drew)

Sawston - Black Redstart in a private garden (Andrew Kights)

Eldernell - male Hen Harrier to roost (Ian Gordon)

Monday 21 November 2022

Monday 21 November

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull, Great Egret, Goldeneye (Paul Bolton)

Sunday 20 November 2022

Sunday, 20 November

Grafham Water - 2 ad KITTIWAKE over west, Black-necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Common Scoter, juv Scaup, Grey Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, 70 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken - 65 Whooper Swan at Adventurer's Fen, Little Owl, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Etton - KITTIWAKE, Peregrine, Woodcock over (Hugh Wright)


Saturday 19 November 2022

Saturday, 19 November

Longstanton - 2 Little Gull (Rachel Lennard)

Waterbeach - 1st win Mediterranean Gull 200m south of Bottisham Lock (Ian Burfield)

Ouse Washes - 65 Crane, 7 Bewick's Swan, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Curlew (Brendan Doe, Ade Cooper); 84 Crane flew south past Pymoor railway bridge 16:25h (Peter Louden)

Paxton Pits - 3+ Red-crested Pochard, Spotted Redshank through (Jamie Wells)

Cambridge Research Park - Polish-ringed Caspian Gull (Jon Heath)

Orton BP - 2 Red-crested Pochard (Josh Jones)

Tanholt - Caspian Gull (Josh Jones)

Trumpington, Cambridge - Great Egret over the park & ride (Gareth Rees)

Friday, 18 November

Ouse Washes RSPB - ringtail Hen Harrier, 11 Cattle Egret, 5 Great Egret, 58 Crane, 60 Barnacle Geese, 900 Golden Plover, 18 Marsh Harrier (Mark Ward)

Eldernell - mael & ringtail Hen Harrier, 7 Crane (Kevin Eldred)

Thursday 17 November 2022

Thursday, 17 November

CEGB Reservoir, Peterborough - 12 Dark-bellied Brent Geese (Josh Jones)

Thorney Dyke - 50 Tree Sparrow (Mike Weedon)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Wednesday, 16 November

Ferry Meadows - 2 Goldeneye, Siskins at car park (Steve Zealand)

Tanholt - 2 Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Nene Washes - 1959 Whooper Swan on adjacent land (Charlie Kitchin)

Franks Pit - Osprey (Malcolm Holley)

Tuesday 15 November 2022

Monday, 14 November

Longstanton - Bearded Tit (Rachel Lennard) 

Nene Washes - ringtail Hen harrier on Low Wash (Charlie Kitchin)

Sunday 13 November 2022

Sunday, 13 November

Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, 2 Great Egret, Little Stint, 5 Red-crested Pochard, Raven; HAWFINCH, 5 Lesser Redpoll, Siskin over lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - 2 Great Egret, 2 Goosander flew along the River Nene (Charlie Kitchin)

Saturday 12 November 2022

Saturday, 12 November

Cambridge Research Park - HAWFINCH over, also Siskin & Redpoll (Jon Heath)

Grafham Water - drake RING-NECKED DUCK or possibly hybrid (Mark Hawkes)

Wimpole - Tawny Owl, 3 Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Friday 11 November 2022

Friday, 11 November

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, 5 Red-crested Pocharrd, Raven over, Redpoll (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

Wednesday, 9 November

Burwell Fen - 2 Whooper Swan, 37 Golden Plover over (Andy Hannaford)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

Tuesday, 8 November

Grafham Water - 2 Great Egret, 2 Raven, LONG-TAILED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, Green Sandpiper, Little Stint, Siskin (David Nation)

Tanholt - 2 Caspain Gull, Great Egret (Paul Bolton)

Monday 7 November 2022

Monday, 7 November

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret, 6 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Stonechat (Mike Weedon) 

Eldernell - male Hen Harrier (Ian Gordon)

Sunday 6 November 2022

Sunday, 6 November

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, Scaup, 3 Great Egret, Peregrine, 14 Redpoll (Mark Ward); 7 Red-crested Pochard (Matthew Rodgers)

Saturday 5 November 2022

Saturday, 5 November

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, 2 Green Sandpiper, Grey Plover, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes)

Tanholt - Turnstone (Paul Bolton)

Friday 4 November 2022

Friday, 4 November

Ouse Washes - 71 Crane to roost, 16 Cattle Egret, 7 Great Egret, Spotted Redshank (Jonathan Taylor); Water Pipit (Rachel Lennard)

 Eldernell - 2 Short-eared Owl west of car park, male Hen Harrier (Kevin Eldred) 

Northstowe - 4 Whooper Swan briefly (Christoph Zöckler)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 18 Great Egret, Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler)

Dernford Reservoir - 11 Whooper Swan (Roger Hardie) 

Wicken Fen - 5 Whooper Swan over (Sue Greenway)

Hare Park - 3 Nuthatch, 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, 2 Common Scoter, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday 3 November 2022

Wednesday, 2 November

Wintringham,  St. Neots - fem Black Redstart (Nathan Long)

Wicken Fen - flock of 90 Redpoll near visitor centre; those birds seen well all Lesser Redpoll, also Siskin (Vince Lea)

Tuesday 1 November 2022

Tuesday, 1 November

Holme Fen - 2 Raven (Kevin Eldred)

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, Salvonian Grebe, Sandlering, Little Stint, 2 Great Egret, Siskin & Redpoll over (David Nation)

Monday 31 October 2022

Monday, 31 October

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, 6 Little Stint, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Great Egret, 2 Stonechat (Ian dawson); 2 Water Pipit (Colin Addington)

Eldernell - male Hen Harrier (Kevin Eldred)

Tanholt - Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Heydon pig fields - Caspian Gull (Patrick Safford)

Nene washes - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE G463 from Isle of Wight release program, flew towards Peterborough (Kevin Eldfred); and roosted south of the city (as per Jon Heath)

Sunday 30 October 2022

Sunday, 30 October

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, Slavonian Grebe, Common Scoter, 3 Great Egret, Mediterranean Gull, 2 Caspain Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Little Stint, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Marsh Tit, 2 Stonechat, Rock/Water Pipit over (Mark Hawkes)

Fowlmere - DOTTEREL nearby (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Fen - 6 Glossy Ibis (Rich Atkins)

Eldernell - male Hen Harrier (Ian Gordon)

Saturday 29 October 2022

Saturday, 29 october

Fowlmere - DOTTEREL nearby c.TL430441 (as per Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - 14 Cattle Egret just north of railway, 13 Great Egret, 18 Ruff, 600 Golden Plover, 30 Barnacle Geese, Spotted Redhsnak through east (Simon Gillings)

Grafham Water - Slavonian Grebe, LONG-TAILED DUCK, 6 Little Stint, 54 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Stonechat, 4 Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Tubney Fen - 109 Golden Plover over (Kevin Wilson)

Eldernell - male Hen Harrier (Ian Gordon)

Friday, 28 October

Fen Drayton Lakes - Spoonbill, 22 Great Egret (Richard Allison)

Pymoor - 13 Cattle Egret just north of railway bridge (Sue Greenway)

Grafham Water - 3 Little Stint, 82 Dunlin, Great Egret, 4 Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Friday 28 October 2022

Thursday, 27 October

Grafham Water - 5 Little Stint, 77 Dunlin, Great Eregt, Siskin (Mark Hawkes); AMERICAN WIGEON (Steve Dutton)

Wednesday 26 October 2022

Wednesday, 26 October

Earith/Willingham - 5+ Cattle Egret between the villages, nearly opposite entrance to Ouse Fen (Kevin Taylor)

Grafham Water - Salvonian Grebe (Matthew Rodgers); also AMERICAN WIGEON, 6 Little Stint, 50+ Dunlin, Caspian Gull, Great Egret (Mark Hawkes); LONG-TAILED DUCK (Paul Pulham)

Fowlmere RSPB - FIRECREST with mobile Tit flock along the track to reedbed hide (Ade Cooper)

Trumpington - 670 Golden Plover near M11/A10 J11 (Jill Aldred)

Rings End - two groups of 3 Crane over to the west of the village this morning (Mark Ward)



Monday 24 October 2022

Monday, 24 October

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, LONG-TAILED DUCK, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 8 Great Egret, Little Stint, 55 Dunlin, Peregrine (Ron Harold)

Sunday 23 October 2022

Sunday, 23 October

Sawtry - Grey plover over (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Common Scoter, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 6 Little Stint, Curlew, Lesser Redpoll (David Nation); also LONG-TAILED DUCK, Goosander, 89 Dunlin, Curlew over, 4 Siskin, 2 Stonechat (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday 22 October 2022

Saturday, 22 October

Grafham Water - 6 Little Stint, 60 Dunlin, Yellow legged Gull, 3 Stonechat (Derek Benton); AMERICAN WIGEON, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 5 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes); 2 Rock Pipit (Mark Hawkes, Jon Heath); LONG-TAILED DUCK (Jon Heath); Sanderling, Grey Plover, ringtail Hen Harrier (Matthew Rodgers); Common Scoter (Rob Dazley)

Friday 21 October 2022

Friday, 21 October

Paxton Pits - Osprey over (Mark Brandon)

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, LONG-TAILED DUCK, 4 Little Stint, 2 Sanderling, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Stonechat (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday 20 October 2022

Thursday, 20 October

Ely/Brandon - two big flocks of Whooper Swan (Louise Bacon)

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON from Dudney Hide, LONG-TAILED DUCK, RED-BREASTED MERGANSER over west, 4 Common Scoter, 135 Dunlin, Greenshank, 2 Red-crested Pochard (Nigel Butler); also 4 Little Stint, 2 Curlew (Mark Hawkes)

Earith/Willingham - 6 Cattle Egret between the villages by the Great Ouse (David Nation)

Cambourne - DARTFORD WARBLER still (Geoff Barlow)

Wednesday 19 October 2022

Wednesday, 19 October

Witcham - 3 Fieldfare, possible Ring Ouzel near  TL474791 briefly (Chris Boness)

Fen Daryton Lakes - 20 Great Egret, Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler)

Cambourne - large numbers of thrushes over, also 10 Brambling and Siskins (James Hanlon)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

Tuesday, 18 October

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK from Mander CP, 2 Red-crested Pochard (Dean Harlow)

Little Wilbraham Fen - 2 Bearded Tit (Carl Howard)

Dernford Reservoir  - Ruff, male Scaup of unknown origin (Carl Howard)

Monday 17 October 2022

Monday, 17 October

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Simon Gillings)

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK from Mander CP 17:15h (John Lindsell, Mark Hawkes); ad Caspian Gull, Great Egret, Redwing (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret, 2 Stonechat (Mike Weedon)

Hobsons Park - Jack Snipe (Rachel Lennard)

Sunday 16 October 2022

Sunday, 16 October

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, Mediterranean Gull, Little Stint, 56 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, Great Egret, Peregrine, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, Redpoll (Mark Hawkes) 

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Rock Pipit (Jon Heath); Water Pipit (Ade Cooper)

Saturday 15 October 2022

Saturday, 15 October

Grafham Water - AMERICN WIGEON, Little Stint, Knot, 58 Dunlin, Raven, 2 Goldeneye, Great Egret, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Fowlmere - Jack Snipe, Stonechat (Ade Cooper)

Ferry Meadows - Catle Egret, 3 Stonechat (Howard Butler)

Friday, 14 October

Grafham Water - Sanderling, Little Stint, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes); AMERICAN WIGEON (Colin Addington)

Thursday 13 October 2022

Thursday, 13 October

Cambourne - DARTFORD WARBLER showed well this morning, also Marsh Tit (Jon Heath)

Trumpington - 563 Golden Plover nearby (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, Knot, Curlew Sandpiper (Jon Heath)

Wednesday 12 October 2022

Wednesday, 12 October

Nene Washes - Cattle Egret on Low Wash, Fieldfare (Charlie Kitchin)

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit (Andrew Dobson)

Trumpington - 500 Golden Plover just southwest of A10/M11 roundabout (Richard Palmer)

Tuesday 11 October 2022

Tuesday, 11 October

Waterbeach - Woodlark over 11:12h (Ian Burfield)

Cambridge - probable Woodlark over 07:35h (Rob Pople)

Grafham Water - Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 36 Dunlin in Valley Creek, 6 Great Egret, Rock Pipit (David Nation) 

Paxton Pits - 3 Spoonbill briefly, 4 Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret, 3 Siskin over (Mark Brandon) 

Ouse Fen - 52 Bearded Tit, Peregrine, 4 Stonechat, 14 Water Rail heard, 6 Cetti's Warbler heard (Mark Ward)

Mare Fen - 6 Cattle Egret (Mark Ward)

Barleycraft Lake - 49 Cattle Egret, 9 Glossy Ibis, 9 Great Egret this evening (Mark Ward)

Etton pits - Cattle Egret, 3 Whooper Swan (Bob Titman)


Monday 10 October 2022

Monday, 10 October

Cambourne - RING OUZEL (Dean Harlow)

Chippenham - 40 Redwing nearby (Paul Pulham)

Aldreth - 6 Cattle Egret nearby briefly (Simon Stirrup)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 3 Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, 53 Dunlin, Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes); Bittern (Nigel Butler)

Ouse Fen - Great Egret (Tracey Graves)

Paxton Pits - Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret, Hobby, 2 Raven, 2 Stonechat (Jamie Wells)

Sunday 9 October 2022

Sunday, 9 October

Cambourne - DARTFORD WARBLER still in the area this morning, 2 Whinchat, Stonechat (Ed Gill)

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, from Dudney hide,  PECTORAL SANDPIPER in Valley Creek, 3 Little Stint, 3 Grey Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, Turnstone, 4 Great Egret, pair of Red-crested Pochard, 6 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, Rocxk Pipit (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday 8 October 2022

Saturday, 8 October

Cambourne - DARTFORD WARBLER just east of Whomping Willow Lake; what3words ///inflict.detriment.enthused (James Hanlon)

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 2 Grey Plover, 5 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 3 Red-crested Pochard, Hobby (Jamie Wells)

Friday 7 October 2022

Friday, 7 October

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 7 Ruff (Rachel Lennard)

Etton pits - Rock Pipit (Hugh Wright)

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Great Egret (Paul Bolton)

Thursday 6 October 2022

Thursday, 6 October

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, 2 Little Stint from Mander CP (Duncan McNiven); also PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Garganey, 2 Grey Plover, 56 Dunlin, 36 Ringed Plover, 2 Ruff, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull, 15 Pintail (Mark Hawkes)

Longstanton - Little Stint (John Hoppett)

Dernford reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Ruff (Steve Dutton)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 5 Glossy Ibis, 10 Great Egret (Jon Heath)

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over (Paul Taylor)

Wednesday, 5 October

Grafham Water - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Grey Plover, 56 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes), PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Garganey (Stu Elsom)

Ouse Fen - Merlin, 2 Great Egret (John Wells)

Tuesday 4 October 2022

Tuesday, 4 October

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 2 Little Stint, 2 Grey Plover, 32 Dunlin, 36 Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes); Garganey (Nigel Butler); Raven over (John Roe)

Monday 3 October 2022

Monday, 3 October

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Little Stint, 2 Great Egret, 5 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes); 2 Grey Plover (Colin Addington)

Longstanton - Little Stint (Andrew Dobson)

Sunday 2 October 2022

Sunday, 2 October

Grafham Water - AMERICAN WIGEON until flushed by dogs on shoreline at 16:55h, PECTORAL SANDPIPER from Mander CP, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, Rock Pipit, 7 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still, Brambling (Joe Parham)

Ouse Fen RSPB - several groups of Bearded Tit, including a group of 30+ (David & Sallie Jones)

Etton pits - 2 Yellow-legged Gull, redhead Goosander, Brambling (Hugh Wright)

Chippenham Fen - male Goshawk (Duncan Poyser)

Longstanton - Little Stint (Richard Bradbury)

Nightingale Garden, Cambridge - Brambling (Doug Radford)

Saturday 1 October 2022

Saturday, 1 October

Grafham Water - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, drake AMERICAN WIGEON near Dudney hide, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 7 Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 84 Dunlin, Greenshank, 2 Great Egret, 15 Pintail (Mark Hawkes)

Brampton - 3 Greenshank, 36 :Little Grebe (Stewart Short)

Maxey-Etton pits - 2 Rock Pipit (Hugh Wright)

Friday, 30 September

Grafham Water - PECTORAL SANDPIPER fom Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday 29 September 2022

Thursday, 29 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still (Ian Dawson)

Grafham Water - PECTORAL SANDPIPER from Mander CP (Nigel Butler); also 5 Great Egret (Duncan McNiven); Golden Plover over (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret, Raven over (Howard Butler); 2 Stonechat (Andy Frost)

Sutton Gault - 6 Grey Wagtail & 6 Whooper Swan over (Rob Partridge)

Ouse Fen RSPB - 60 Bearded Tit (Anthony Helliwell)

Chatteris/Warboys road - juv GANNET which required assistance c.16:00h (Mark Ward)

Wednesday 28 September 2022

Wednesday, 28 September

Grafham Water - Red-throated Diver (Andrew Dobson); also 32 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail (Sue Greenway)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, Great Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper (Ian Dawson); Glossy Ibis (Terry Brown)

Wyton airfield - Short-eared Owl (Duncan McNiven)

Nene Washes - 15 Whopper Swans on Low Wash (Charlie Kitchin)

Tuesday 27 September 2022

Tuesday, 27 September

Grafham Water - Red-throated Diver (Nigel Butler)

Tanholt pits - 5 Great Egret, 2 Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Common Sandpiper (Howard Butler)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Spoonbill, Little Stint, Greenshank, 4 Great Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 20 Ruff, Common Sandpiper (David Nation)

Ouse Fen - CORNCRAKE flushed from an area with no public access, last seen near cell 1 bridleway but not relocated (Tom Williams)

Monday 26 September 2022

Monday, 26 September

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, 2 Great Egret (Richard Allison); 7 Cattle Egret (Anastacia Aldrich)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Ruff, 3 Stonechat (Andrew Dobson)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Paul Taylor)

Tanholt - 2 Caspain Gull, 3 Great Egret (Paul Bolton)

Sunday 25 September 2022

Sunday, 25 September

Sutton Gault -  2 Redwing in a private garden (Rob Partridge) 

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still, Ruff (Paul Pulham)

Chippenham Fen - 110 Redwing over (Richard Dale)

Kingfishers Bridge - Little Stint, Spoonbill, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Hobby (Sue Greenway)

Wicken Fen - Hobby (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Glossy Ibis (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Curlew Sandpiper, 37 Dunlin, Greenshank (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday 24 September 2022

Saturday, 24 September

Grafham Water - Little Stint, Curlew, Greenshank, Raven, 3 Stonechat, Red-crested Pochard (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Ruff, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2 Stonechat (Pete Holt) 

Etton Pits - Little Stint, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Ferry Meadows - Raven over (Don Gardener)

Friday, 23 September

Grafham Water - Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 17 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Tubney Fen - Great Egret over, Whinchat, pair of Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Hope Farm RSPB - Merlin (Mark Ward)

Kingfishers Bridge - Spoonbill, Little Stint, Great Egret, Hobby (David Walsh)

Thursday 22 September 2022

Thursday, 22 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still (Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, Ruff (Mark Hawkes); Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 30 Ringed Plover, 30 Dunlin (Duncan Ritchie) 

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Mike Weedon)

Etton pits - Little Stint (Hugh Wright) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Great White Egret, Spoonbill, Peregrine, Little Stint, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Ruff, Whinchat, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday 21 September 2022

Wednesday, 21 September

Grafham Water - 2 Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 28 Pintail (Mark Hawkes)

Etton pits - Little Stint (Hugh Wright)

Tanholt - Whooper Swan, Great Egret, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Howard Butler)

Tuesday 20 September 2022

Tuesday, 20 September

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6 Ruff, 45 Golden Plover (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 60 Dunlin, 62 Ringed Plover, Tree Pipit over (Mark Hawkes)

Tanholt pits - Great Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Chatteris - Redwing over (Mark Ward)

Monday 19 September 2022

Monday, 19 September

Grafham Water - 2 Common Scoter, Caspian Gull, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 34 Dunlin, 38 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Curlew, Greenshank, 5 Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes -  Glossy Ibis, 3 Great Egret (Richard Allison)

Dernford Reservoir - Common Scoter until departing at 13:30, Pectoral Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 3 Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit over (Steve Cooper)

Fowlmere - 22 Raven at A505 junction (Steve Cooper)

Cambridge - RING OUZEL at a private site thius afternoon (Brendan Doe)

Sunday 18 September 2022

Sunday, 18 September

Grafham Water - 2 Caspian Gull, Curlew, 27 Dunlin, 34 Ringed Plover, 3 Greenshank, 5 Great Egret, 2 Stonechat, Siskin over (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 4 Curlew Sandpiper (Jon Heath)

Saturday 17 September 2022

Saturday, 17 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Simon Gillings)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, 19 Dunlin, Greenshank, 21 Ringed Plover, 4 Caspian Gull, 5 Great Egret, 2 Raven (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Howard Butler); Spotted Flycatcher (Kevin Eldred)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, Curlew over, 2 Hobby, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7 Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Lisa Newman)

Friday 16 September 2022

Friday, 16 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Andy Hannaford)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, 6 Great Egret (Richard Patient)

Ferry Meadows - 60 Ring-necked Parakeet departed roost this morning (Don Gardener)

Thursday 15 September 2022

Thursday, 15 September

Dernford Reservoir - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Richard Fowling)

Etton pits - juv Spotted redshank, juv Curlew Sandpiper, 8 Green Sandpiper, 12 Golden Plover (Hugh Wright); 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Mike Weedon)

Grafham Water - Curlew, Turnstone, 3 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)


Wednesday 14 September 2022

Wednesday, 14 September

Grafham Water - Grey Plover, Curlew (Colin Addington); Knot, 58 Ringed Plover, 3 Great Egret, 3 Greenshank, Hobby (Mark hawkes)

Grunty Fen - ad Turtle Dove (David Nation)

Smithey Fen - juv Turtle Dove (Ian Ellis)

Tuesday 13 September 2022

Tuesday, 13 September

Grafham Water - Common Scoter, 8 Greenshank, 6 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpiper, 56 Ringed Plover, 20 Dunlin, 2 Great Egret (Ian Dawson)

Ferry Meadows - WRYNECK east of Pyramid (Duncan McNiven); also Cattle Egret, 5 Whinchat (Howard Butler)

Barleycraft - 40 Cattle egret, 4 Great Egret, Glossy Ibis (Christoph Zöckler et al.)

Ouse Fen - Glossy Ibis, 3 Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler et al.)

Monday 12 September 2022

Monday, 12 September

Ferry Meadows CP - WRYNECK near Pyramid statue, Cattle Egret, Whinchats (Mike Weedon)

Tubney Fen - juv Cuckoo, pair of Stonechat, Water Rail, fem Marsh Harrier (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - 3 Turnstone, 4 Great Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday 11 September 2022

Sunday, 11 September

Grafham Water - Knot, 31 Ringed Plover, 4 Caspian Gull, 50 Wigeon, Wheatear, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Whinchat, 2 Peregrine, 2 Hobby, 4 Raven, 60+ Chiffchaff (Mark Hawkes); Greenshank, Curlew, 2 Common Sandpiper, 17 Pintail, 2 Whinchat (David Nation)

Ouse Fen - Bittern, Redstart (Rich Atkins)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, Green Sandpiper, Tree Pipit, 2 Wheatear, 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Jamie Wells)

Ferry Meadows CP - WRYNECK, 6 Whinchat (Mike Weedon); also Cattle Egret (Don Gardener

Saturday 10 September 2022

Saturday, 10 September

Grafham Water - 2 Common Scoter south of Hill Farm CP, Osprey over east, 2 Knot, 2 Turnstone, 29 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Caspian Gull, 2 Raven, Black-necked Grebe (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - Redstart at south-west end of Sophie's Pool (Roger Hardie)

Friday 9 September 2022

Friday, 9 September

Ouse Fen - male Redstart (Jeremy Lindsell)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Osprey (Jeremy Lindsell)

Grafham Water -Sanderling, 3 Turnstone, 35 Ringed Plover, 7 Ruff, 6 Greenshank, Raven (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - pair of Raven, Hobby (Jamie Wells)

Thursday 8 September 2022

Thursday, 8 September

Longstanton - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER on north pool (Brendan Doe); Wood Sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK still (Paul Pulham)

Grafham Water - 3 Turnstone, 2 Raven, 48 Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 21 Dunlin, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Whinchat (Howard Butler); 20 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Tanholt - Whooper Swan (Paul Bolton)

Wednesday, 7 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern, knot, 5 Great Egret, 28 Dunlin, 32 Ringed Plover, 7 Ruff, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Tree Pipit, 10 Pintail (Mark Hawkes); Curlew, Turnstone, Comon Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson)

Barton - pair of Raven nearby (Roger Hardie)

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK & Whinchat still present just north of busway embankment (Paul Pulham)

Longstanton - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER on north pool (Brendan Doe)

Barleycraft - 60 Cattle Egret, 3 Great Egret, 8 Little Egret to roost (Christoph Zöckler)

Ouse Fen - Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 9 Ruff (Christoph Zöckler)

Castor Hanglands - Tree Pipit (Mike Weedon) 

Ferry Meadows - 2 Whinchat (Matt Webb)

Tuesday, 6 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK & Whinchat still present just north of busway embankment (Jon Heath)

Monday 5 September 2022

Monday, 5 September

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK west of railway & just north of busway embankment, 2 Whinchat (Howard Slatter); WRYNECK present until midday at least but elusive (Pete Holt)

Kingfishers Birdge - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Ruff, 25 Snipe, Great Egret, 2 Stonechat (Ian Burfield)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret on Heron Meadow (Don Gardener)

Castor Mill - Cattle Egret (Don Gardener)

Peakirk - Redstart north-east of Sisson's Farm (Jonathan Taylor) 

Swaddywell - 2 Whinchat (Mike Weedon)

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank, 15 Greenshank, 4 Ruff, 16 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Whinchat (Mark Hawkes)

Hare Park - 2 Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)


Sunday 4 September 2022

Sunday, 4 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern, Garganey, Peregrine, 5 Caspian Gull, 11 Greenshank, 6 Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 12 Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes); Knot, Ruff, 3 Turnstone, 23 Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Wheatear (Rachel Lennard)

Great Fen - Whinchat near new Decoy CP (Andy Frost)

Swaddywell - 2 Whinchat (Josh Jones)

Etton Pits - Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Ruff, 3 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Wheatear (Hugh Wright); Curlew (Chris Lines)

Fowlmere - Redstart (Ade Cooper)

Eldernell - 2 Garganey on pit to west of CP (Kevin Eldred)

Kingfishers Birdge - Spotted Redshank, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Ruff, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Black-tailed Godwit (James Littlewood)

Saturday 3 September 2022

Saturday, 3 September

Tanholt - 5 Caspian Gull, 10 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Swaddywell - Tree Pipit, 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Josh Jones); 2 Whinchat (Mike Weedon)

Soham- 2 Whinchat along Lode behind station (Andy Hannaford)

Trumpington - Ring-necked Parakeet over (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - 2 Caspian Gull, Knot, 18 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes); Curlew, 4 Turnstone, 2 Ruff, Great Egret, 8 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (Stu Elsom)

Longstanton - 6 Common Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Louise Bacon,V Vince Lea)

Paxton - Redstart, 2 Spotted Flycatcher at the farm, Raven (Jamie Wells)

Friday 2 September 2022

Friday, 2 September

Hail Weston / Great Staughton - NIGHTJAR briefly on road between the villages (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water - Knot, 4 Turnstone, 4 Caspian Gull, Little Ringed Plover, 12 Ringed Plover, Arctic Tern, Black Tern (Mark Hawkes); TEMMINCK'S STINT at Marlow Bay, 2 Spotted Redshank, 10 Pintail, Peregrine (Nigel Butler)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Great Egret over (Don Gardener)

Castor Mill - fem Redstart (Jonathan Taylor)

Castor Hanglnands - 2 Redstart 

Gravel Farm - 2 Whinchat along the River Great Ouse nearby (David Nation) 

George Neal Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe (Ian Burfield)

Dernford Farm Reservoir - Black tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 2 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Egyptian Geese (Steve Dutton) 

Ely/Soham - 42 Buzzard airborne, 70+ on the ground, 13 Kestrel, from layby on A142 at TL567768 again today (James Hanlon)



Thursday 1 September 2022

Thursday, 1 September

Shropshires Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe, Wheatear (David Nation)

Swaddywell pit - Whinchat (Josh Jones)

Castor Mill - Whinchat (Don Gardener)

Ellington - 13 Skua, either Arctic or Long-tailed, over high southwest, 13:15h (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Grafham Water - 7 Black Tern (Mark Hawkes); 6 Turnstone (Matthew Rodgers)

Nene Washes - Cattle Egret, Wheatear, 4 Whinchat (Charlie Kitchin)

Wednesday 31 August 2022

Wednesday, 31 August

Grafham Water - Tree Pipit over west, Knot, Sanderling, Ruff, 21 Dunlin, Wheatear, 40 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes); juv TEMMINCK'S STINT (Richard Patient); 8 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Caspian Gull, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Stu Elsom et al.)

Stourbridge Common - WRYNECK briefly but not relcated (Simon Gillings); 3 Whinchat, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat nearby at Ditton Meadows (Jon Heath)

Shropshires Reservoir - 10 Common Sandpiper, 3 Grrenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper; also 4 ad & 4 juv Turtle Dove recently (David Nation)

Ely/Soham - 88 Buzzard from layby on A142 at TL567768 again today (Andy Hannaford)

Tuesday 30 August 2022

Tuesday, 30 August

Grafham Water - 2 Caspian Gull, 15 Dunlin, Great Egret, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes); Knot, Sanderling, Osprey (Richard Patient)

Ely/Soham - 80+ Buzzard from layby on A142 at TL567768 again today, many on the ground in fields on south-west side of road (Sue Greenway)

Monday 29 August 2022

Monday, 29 August

Grafham Water - Osprey, Spotted Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper, Sanderling, 25 Ringed Plover, Curlew, 13 Greenshank, 13 Dunlin, 3 Great Egret, Garganey, Peregrine, 3 Wheatear, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat (Mark Hawkes)

Shropshires Reservoir - 9 Green Sandpiper, 4 Greeshank, 5 Common Sandpiper, 2 Garganey (David Nation)

Ely/Soham - 56 Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, Marsh Harrier, Kestrel in field south of A142  at TL565768Q (Mat Wilson)

Peakirk - Redstart, Wheatear (Jonathan Taylor)

Franks Pit - Grey Plover over (Hugh Wright)

Swaddywell - 3 Whinchat, Wheatear (Mike Weedon)

Sunday 28 August 2022

Sunday, 28 August

Grafham Water - 2 Black-necked Grebe (Mark Hawkes)

Barletcraft - 21 Cattle Egret, 6 Great Egret, 9 Glossy Ibis to roost; also Barn Owl, Hobby, Kingfisher, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Louise Bacon, Vince Lea)

Swaddywell - 2 Whinchat (Mike Weedon)

Saturday, 27 August

Grafham Water - Curlew, Common Sandpiper (Jon Roe); 6 Black Tern, Whimbrel, 12 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton - Redstart, 2 Spotted Flycatchers at Boughtion Lodge Farm, Bittern at the pits (Jamie Wells)

Swaddywell - fem redstart (Josh Jones)

Great Fen - Whinchat (Andy Frost)

Friday 26 August 2022

Friday, 26 August

Grafham Water - Black Tern, Whimbrel, Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday 25 August 2022

Thursday, 25 August

Grafham Water - 6 Black Tern, 12 Common Sandpiper briefly, 2 Greenshank, 33 Ringed Plover, 4 Caspian Gull, 4 Great Egret, Ruff (Mark Hawkes); 2 Sanderling (Stewart Short)

Frank's Pit, Helpston - Osprey (Bob Titman)

Ferry Meadows - Whinchat (Matt Webb)

Paxton Pits - 4 Black Tern, also Whinchat at Boughton Lodge Farm (Jamie Wells)

Wednesday 24 August 2022

Wednesday, 24 August

Stourbridge Common - Pied Flycatcher on eastern edge of the common just south of the railway footbridge (Andrew Dobson)

Castor Hanglands - Redstart (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - 2 Black Tern, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper (Stewart Short); 2 Caspian Gull, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpipe, 2 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday 23 August 2022

Tuesday, 23 August

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 5 Greenshank, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Tanholt - 7 Caspian Gull, 15 Yellow-legged Gull, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper (Josh Jones)

Stourbridge Common - Pied Flycatcher in willows by railway line TL47255987 (Simon Gillings)

Dernford reservoir - 3 Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit (Terry Brown) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Glossy Ibis (Terry Brown)

Monday 22 August 2022

Monday, 22 August

Chippenham Fen - Tree Pipit, 2 Raven (Simon Stirrup)

Kingfishers Bridge - 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank (Ian Burfield)

Grafham Water - Osprey,  Little Ringed Plover, 4 Great Egret, 20 Yellow-legged Gull (Ian Dawson); also Black Tern, 5 Caspian Gull, 5 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Great Shelford - Raven over (James Littlewood)

Frank's Pit, Helpston - Osprey (Chris Lines)


Sunday 21 August 2022

Sunday, 21 August

Grafham Water - Black Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpiper, 2 Caspian Gull, Ruff, 5 Greenshank, 2 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Castor Hanglands - Tree Pipit, Redstart, 5 Spotted Flycatcher (Jonathan Taylor)

Kingfishers Bridge - Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Golden Plover, 3 Greenshank, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff (Kevin Wilson)

Ailsworth - juv Whinchat, Nightingale (Matt Webb)

Saturday, 20 August

Grafham Water - juv Black Tern, 2 Greenshank, 8 Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Pink-footed Goose with Greylags (Mark Hawkes); Common Scoter briefly, flew east (Stewart Short)

Franks Pit, Helpston - Osprey, Bittern, 9 Green sandpiper, Turtle Dove over (Mike Weedon)

Tanholt - 10 Caspian Gull, 12 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)


Friday 29 July 2022

Friday, 29 July

Northstowe - 2 Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, ad & 3 young Little Ringed Plover, 4 young Avocet (Christoph Zöckler)

Dernford Reservoir - 5 Avocet (as per Louise Bacon)

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Stewart Short)

Swaffham Prior - Little Owl by Adventurers Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Fowlmere - juv Turtle Dove (Ade Cooper)

Thursday, 28 July

Hare Park - 2 ad + 3 young Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson) 

Dernford Reservoir - Little Ringed Plover, 10 Black-tailed Godwit (Andrew Dobson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 11 Glossy Ibis, 10 Cattle Egret, Bittern, Great Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, Turtle Dove, 2 families of Spotted Flycatcher (Ian Dawson, Mike Hodgson and John O’Sullivan)

Wednesday 27 July 2022

Wednesday, 27 July

Eldernell - White Stork, 2 Stonechat (Charlie Kitchin); male Redstart c.300 yards west of CP (Dick Burnham)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 10 Glossy Ibis, 7 Cttle Egret, Turtle Dove, Hobby, Kingfisher (Stuart Fox)

Wicken Fen - 2 Spotted Flycatcher near visitor centre (Stephen Buckle)

Tuesday, 26 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - 9 Glossy Ibis, 2 Cattle Egret (Terry Brown)

Longstanton - pair of Garganey (Rachel Lennard)

Eldernell - Raven, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Black-tailed Godwit (Charlie Kitchin)

Tuesday 26 July 2022

Monday, 25 July

Paxton Pits - 2 Cattle Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Jamie Wells)

Sunday 24 July 2022

Sunday, 24 July

Dernford Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Bittern, Turtle Dove (Stewart Carswell); 3 Green Sandpiper (Harry Orchard)

Longstanton - 2 Garganey (Brendan Doe)

Etton Pits - juv Mediterranean Gull (Jonathan Taylor)

Saturday 23 July 2022

Saturday, 23 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Turtle Dove (Gill Parrish); 11 Golssy Ibis, Great Egret, Common Sandpiper (Gareth Rees)

Grafham Water - pair of Garganey, male Channel Wagtail, drake Mandarin, 2 Caspian Gull (Richard Patient); juv Little Gull, 7 Yellow-legged gull, 2 Common Sandpiper (Stu Elsom)

Hail Weston - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE in a harvested field (as per Louise Bacon)

Friday 22 July 2022

Friday, 22 July

Grafham Water - 13 Little Tern briefly 08:19h, Black Tern (Richard Patient); 13 Little Terns again 09:23h (Mark Hawkes); a second Black Tern (Stewart Short)

Fowlmere - Marsh Tit near the village 10:30h (Doug Radford)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 11 Glossy Ibis (Rachel Lennard); Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (James Hanlon)

Ouse Washes - 2 Whinchat (Jonathan Taylor)

Paxton Pits - 2 Cattle Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, Hobby (Jamie Wells)

Wednesday, 20 July

Haddenham - fem REDSTART in Aldreth Road orchard (Stephen Buckle)

Grafham Water - Mandarin, Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); male Channel Wagtail feeding a juvenile (Matthew Rodgers) 

Cottenham area - 34 Yellow-legged Gull (Brendan Doe)

Etton/Maxey Pits - GULL-BILLED TERN over 20:20h. Seen irregularly at Baston/Langtoft pits in Lins (Matthew Mellor)

Tuesday, 19 July

Grafham Water - 7 Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull, 2 Common Sandpiper (Stu Elsom)

Sunday 17 July 2022

Sunday, 17 July

Grafham water - Osprey over southwest (Richard Patient)

Etton Pits - juv Nediterranean Gull, juv Yellow-legged Gull (Jonathan Taylor)

Haddenham - fem REDSTART in Aldreth Road orchard (Stephen Buckle)

Saturday 16 July 2022

Saturday, 16 July

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Richard Patient); also 2 Great Egret, 51 Little Egret, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 15 July

Grafham Water - juv Black-necked Grebe, 2cy Caspian Gull (Richard Patient)

Thursday 14 July 2022

Thursday, 14 July

Northstowe - 4 ad & 4 juv Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - 2 Great Egret, 79 Little Egret (Mark Hawkes); 5 Mandarin from Littless Hide (Nigel Butler)

Wicken/Burwell - Great Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, Bittern, Grasshopper Warbler, fem Stonechat (Paul Pulham)

Dernford Reservoir - ad Mediterranean Gull (Nigel Lister)

Soham - Grasshopper Warbler at Angle Common (Andy Hannaford)

Wednesday 13 July 2022

Wednesday, 13 July

Grafham Water - 2 Great Egret, 39 Little Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Hobby (Ian Dawson); 2 Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, Whimbrel, 11 Common Sandpiper (Stu Elsom)

Whittlesey - Cattle Egret on High Wash (Charlie Kitchin)

Tuesday 12 July 2022

Monday, 11 July

Foxton - juv Wheatear (Marcus Kohler)

Fleam Dyke - Quail singinf between Fulbourn and Basham this afternoon (Vince Lea)

Grafham Water - Great Egret, Greenshank (Colin Addington)

Friday 8 July 2022

Friday, 8 July

Wicken Fen - 4 Bearded Tit from Cahrlie's Hide (Paul Pulham)

Wednesday 6 July 2022

Wednesday, 6 July

Smithey Fen - White Stork (Stuart Fox)

Berry Fen - 2 Glossy Ibis (Rich Atkins)

Ferry Meadows - 5 Red-crested Pochard (Don Gardener)

Tuesday, 5 July

Berry Fen/Barleycraft Lake - 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Great White Egret, 2 Cattle Egret (Mark Ward)

Ouse Fen - Bittern (Mark Ward)

Monday 4 July 2022

Monday, 4 July

Northstowe - Little Ringed Plover with chicks, Kingfisher with fledged young, Avocet with fledged young and a pair still on a nest, 2 Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöcker) 

Burwell Fen - 2 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 63 Little Egret, Black-tailed Godwit (Andy Hannaford)

Sunday 3 July 2022

Sunday, 3 July

Berry Fen - Glossy Ibis, 2 Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Wood Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Derek Benton)

Grafham Water - Avocet, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Common Sandpiper, 24 Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Fulbourn - Turtle Dove (Stephen Buckle)

Smithey Fen - White Stork, Wood Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 20 Little Ringed Plover (Stephen Buckle)

Saturday 2 July 2022

Saturday, 2 July

Burwell Fen - Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Wood Sandpiper, 10 Green Sandpiper (Rich Dale)

Berry Fen - Glossy Ibis, Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Rich Atkins)

Friday, 1 July

Smithey Fen - White Stork, 2 Green Sand;piper (Peter Leonard)

Northstowe - pair of Avocet with young, 9 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler)

Thursday 30 June 2022

Thursday, 30 June

Grafham water -  2 Little Tern (Jonathan Taylor)

Wednesday, 29 June

Burwell Fen - 2 Spoonbill, Greenshank, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Water Rail, 47 Little Egret (Andy Hannaford)

Monday 27 June 2022

Monday, 27 June

 Wicken Fen - Great Egret, Stonechat, Kingfisher (Paul Pulham)

Saturday 25 June 2022

Friday, 24 June

Smithey Fen - White Stork, 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 5 Little Ringed Plover (Peter Leonard)

Cambridge - possible Black Kite near Marshalls (Paul Pulham)

Tuesday 21 June 2022

Tuesday, 21 June

Smithey Fen - White Stork of unknown origin, 7 Green Sandpiper, 4 Black-tailed Godwit (Andrew Dobson)

Little Staughton - 2 Quail singing along Great Staughton Road, also Barn Owl, Little Owl (Stu Elsom, Brook Perrins)

Monday 20 June 2022

Monday, 20 June

Burwell Fen - 2 Spoonbill, 42 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper (Andy Hannaford)

Smithey Fen - White Stork of unknown origin 16:00-16:25h, 5 Green Sandpiper (Peter Leonard)

St. Ives GC - Turtle Dove (John Le Gassick)

Sunday, 19 June

Smithey Fen - White Stork of unknown origin, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Richard Allison); Wood Sandpiper (Ian Ellis)

Ouse Washes - 12 Glossy Ibis, Whooper Swan (Richard Allison)

Quy - Quail singing from barley field nearby (Colin Kirtland)

Overcote - Turtle Dove (Kevin Wilson)



Saturday, 18 June

Chatteris - Quail over (Mark Ward)


 


Thusday, 16 June

Chatteris - Quaill over (Mark Ward)

Monday 13 June 2022

Monday, 13 June

Wicken area - Bittern, 3 Cuckoo, 3 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Maxey Pits - 4 Turtle Dove (Chris Lines)

Late news from 2 June: Grafham Water -  fem LESSER SCAUP photographed, but flushed accidentally by Anglian Water staff and not seen since.

Sunday 12 June 2022

Saturday, 11 June

Paxton Pits - Arctic Tern, 3 Hobby, Little Ringed Plover, Nightingale (Jamie Wells)

Saturday 11 June 2022

Friday, 10 June

Little Eversden - Quail singing nearby (Louise Bacon); south of path between church and A603 (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - Bittern in lagoons, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday 8 June 2022

Wednesday, 8 June

 Berry Fen - 8 Garganey, Barn Owl, Marsh Harrier (Sue Greenway)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

Tuesday, 7 June

Somersham - 8 Cattle Egret over south-west (Russell Watkins)

Monday 6 June 2022

Sunday, 5 June

Somersham - Bittern over north (Russell Watkins) 

Grafham Water - LITTLE TERN off Mander mid-afternoon only (Nigel Butler); 2 Sanderling on dam, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 1000+ Swift this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Sanderling (Steve Cooper)

Sunday 5 June 2022

Saturday, 4 June

Grafham Water - 2 Little Gull distantly from Marlow CP (Stu Elsom)

Wednesday 1 June 2022

Wednesday, 1 June

Little Paxton - pair of Raven over (Mark Brandon)

Ouse Washes - 11 GLOSSY IBIS, 3 Spoonbill (Stu Elsom)

Tuesday 31 May 2022

Tuesday, 31 May

Grafham Water - GREAT REED WARBLER in scrub at north end of dam this morning (Richard Patient); in cow parsley below dam this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS (Terry Brown)

Monday 30 May 2022

Monday, 30 May

RSPB Hope Farm, Knapwell - Quail calling, Raven & Peregrine over (Derek Gruar)

Sunday 29 May 2022

Sunday, 29 May

Burwell Fen - 3 drake Garganey, Bittern, 2 Stonechat (Norman Ratcliffe)

Kingfishers Bridge -  2 Spoonbill (Kevin Wilson)

Berry Fen - Spoonbill, 2 Great Egret (Jeremy Lindsell)

Ouse Fen - Bittern (Al Kitching)

Saturday 28 May 2022

Saturday, 28 May

Alconbury - Cattle Egret south over airfield (Mark Hawkes)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Friday, 27 May

Burwell - GLOSSY IBIS, Hobby, Cuckoo at the Fen, Nightingale at Priory Wood (Kevin Wilson); 3 Spoonbill, 3 drake Garganey, Greenshank (James Littlewood)

Berry Fen - 7 GLOSSY IBIS (Sara Anker)

Grafham Water - 2 Wheatear (Jon Roe)

Shropshires Reservoir - Arctic Tern, Water Rail (David Nation)

Little Downham - Cuckoo (Ian Seamark)

Harston - Turtle Dove in a private garden (Rachel Lennard)

Thursday 26 May 2022

Thursday, 26 May

Burwell Fen - GLOSSY IBIS (Nigel Lister)

Priory Wood, Burwell - Nightingale (Norm Ratcliffe)

Ouse Washes - 1st summer BONAPARTE'S GULL briefly (Jonathan Taylor)

Wednesday 25 May 2022

Wednesday, 25 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling at Marlow CP (Stuart Elsom)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

Tuesday, 24 May

Knapwell/Cambourne - Quail calling on private land, 1.5km from yesterday's bird (Derek Gruar)

Monday 23 May 2022

Monday, 23 May

Hope Farm RSPB - Quail calling 06:00h (Derek Gruar)

Etton Pits - drake Garganey (Hugh Wright)

Burwell Fen - GLOSSY IBIS, 2 Spoonbill, Bittern, Garganey; also Spoonbill on Baker's Fen (Will Burdett, Nikki Dibb & John Walsh)

Sunday 22 May 2022

Sunday, 22 May

Grafham Water - 8 Sanderling (Daivd Nation)

Fowlmere - possible ORTOLAN BUNTING over the villaeg calling 09:40h (Doug Radford)

Saturday 21 May 2022

Saturday, 21 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling, 2 Yellow-legged Gull on dam (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell Fen - Bittern, Wheatear, 3 Spoonbill which moved to Baker's Fen (Richard Dale); also 4 Great Egret, 2 Hobby, 2 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Etton pits - Little Stint, 2 Sanderling, 13 Ringed Plover (Mike Weedon)

Ouse Fen - GLOSSY IBIS (Derek Benton)

Friday 20 May 2022

Friday, 20 May

Grafham Water - 2 Sanderling, Turnstone, 2 Little Ringed on dam (Rachel Lennard)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Egyptian Goose, Hobby, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Thursday 19 May 2022

Thursday, 19 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling on dam (Mark Hawkes); also 2 Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail this evening (Tim Rea)

Dogsthorpe Star Pit - Cuckoo (Paul Bolton)

Etton Pits - pair of Garganey, Grasshopper Warbler (Hugh Wright)

Wednesday 18 May 2022

Wednesday, 18 May

Grafham Water - Turnstone on dam (Mark Hawkes)

Smithey Fen - WHITE STORK, the wide-ranging bird  with gap in right primaries (Ed Gill)

Ouse Fen RSPB - drake Garganey, 2 GLOSSY IBIS (Jeremy Lindsell)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove (Rachel Lennard)

Ouse Washes - probable female AMERICAN WIGEON in Cadbury Hide area, although access closed due to construction work (Brendan Doe)

Tuesday 17 May 2022

Tuesday, 17 May

Smithey Fen, Cottenham - SQUACCO HERON (Brendan Doe)

Grafham Water - 2 Sandwich Tern briefly this morning (Mark Hawkes); WHITE STORK over towards Buckden, the wide ranging bird with a gap in the right primaries (Ian Dawson)

Dernford Reservoir - TEMMINCK'S STINT reported, briefly 08:15h

Ramsey Heights -  WHITE STORK circling, then headed south east (Nick Blinston)

Monday 16 May 2022

Monday, 16 May

Southey Woods - 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Kevin Eldred)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Red-crested Pochard, 4 Egyptian Geese, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Northstowe - 7 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Wheatear (Andrew Maxwell)

Sunday 15 May 2022

Sunday, 15 May

Hinxton Genome Campus - Spotted Flycatcher (Vince Lea)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Red-crested Pochard (Carlos Davies)

Southey Woods - 3 Spotted Flycatcher (Paul Bolton)

Pig Jaw Pit, Etton - Sanderling (Hugh Wright) 

Ferry Meadows - WHITE STORK over (Chris Park)

Saturday, 14 May

Reach Lode - Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Yaxley Lode - Cuckoo, Whooper Swan, Wheatear, pair of Stonechat (Vince Lea)

King's Delp, King's Dyke - 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Vince Lea)

Ouse Washes - GLOSSY IBIS reported near Fortrey's Hall (as per Vince Lea)

Teversham Fen - Tree Pipit over (Simon Gillings)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove (Jeremy Lindsell)

Friday 13 May 2022

Friday, May 13

Chesterton - Osprey over north (Simon Gillings)

Etton pits - Turnstone, 7 Ringed Plover (Hugh Wright)

Thursday, 12 May

Ouse Washes - 3 Cattle Egret north over Oxlode, 4 Wheatear at Oxlode/Adventurer's junction, Whinchat between DStockdale's and railway, 2 Hobby (Stu Elsom)

Berry Fen - 2 Cattle Egret briefly, 3 GLOSSY IBIS (Stu Elsom); 15 Cattle Egret departed west 16:45h (Owen Marks)

Northstowe - TEMMINCK'S STINT still (Hugh Venables)

Wednesday 11 May 2022

Wednesday, 11 May

Grafham Water - 5 Sanderling on dam, 2 Common Sandpiper, Wheatear (Mark Hawkes)

Brampton new pits - Sanderling (Mark Hawkes); also 15 Ringed Plover (Jamie Wells)

Etton pits - Turnstone, 19 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright); Greenshamk (Chris Lines)

Ferry Meadows - Whimbrel over (Matt Webb)

Northstowe - TEMMINCK'S STINT (Andrew Dobson); 3 Wheatear, 2 Avocet, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Andrew Maxwell)

Block Fen - 8 Little Ringed Plover, Hobby, White Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Longstanton - Whinchat (Rachel Lennard)

Tuesday 10 May 2022

Tuesday, 10 May

Grafham Water - 2 Sanderling, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - Sanderling (Jamie Wells)

Etton pits - Greenshank, 7 Ringed Plover (Hugh Wright); Turnstone briefly (Hugh Wright)

Smithey Fen - TEMMINCK'S STINT in flight only 06:25h, did not land (Ian Ellis)

Northstowe - TEMMINCK'S STINT this evening (Hugh Venables)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Avocet (Harry Orchard); Turtle Dove, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Hobby, Bittern, Tawny Owl (Ian Seamark)

Nene Washes - Grey Plover over, Wheatear (Charlie Kitchin)

Barton - 2 Wheatear south of Bourn Brook (Roger Hardie)


Monday 9 May 2022

Monday, 9 May

Cam Washes, Waterbeach - Whinchat, 2 Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler (Ian Burfield)

Teversham Fen - Greenshank, 4 Little Ringed Plover (Colin Kirtland) 

Wicken Fen - Cuckoo, 3 Hobby (Andrew Maxwell); Bittern, Greenshank (Kevin Wilson)

Pymoor - 4 Cattle Egret just south of the railway bridge (Robert Mansfield)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Wood Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson)

Swifts in small numbers reported widely across the county

Sunday 8 May 2022

Sunday, 8 May

Cambridge Research Park - WHITE STORK circling 09:30h (Jon Heath)

Baker's Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 4 drake Garganey (Richard Dale)

Along Burwell Lode from Upware: Bittern, 7 Hobby, 2 Cuckoo (Colin Kirtland)

Swaffham bulbeck Lode - 2 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Fen/BerryFen/Little Fen - 16 Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 2 imm GLOSSY IBIS, Turtle Dove, drake Garganey, Hobby, 2 Cuckoo (Mark ward)

Northstowe - LITTLE TERN (Paul Derry)

Coveney Byall Fen - Whinchat (Mike Burdekin)

Saturday 7 May 2022

Saturday, 7 May

Grafham Water - Osprey over, Common Sandpiper, 20+ Swift, Little Ringed Plover, Arctic Tern, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes); 4 Turnstone briefly (Matthew Rodgers)

Woodhurst - Tree Sparrow at a garden feeder (Duncan McNiven)

Brampton Pits - Quail singing sporadically (Mark Hawkes)

Shropshires Reservoir - Arctic Tern (David Nation)

Wicken Fen - 4 Garganey, 2 Cuckoo, Hobby (Carlos Davies)

Kingfishers Bridge - Bittern, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, 2 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson)

Etton pits - Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Ferry Meadows - Wheatear (Don Gardener)

Isleham - 2 Avocet, Common Sandpiper, 2 Cuckoo (Colin Kirtland)

Welches Dam - 7 Hobby, 3 Spoonbill (Mike Burdekin)

Friday 6 May 2022

Friday, 6 May

Ouse Washes RSPB - Quail, Spotted Redshank, 7 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 3 limosa Black-tailed Godwit, Garganey, 5 Great Egret, Cuckoo, 8 Whooper Swan (Mark Ward)

Ferry Meadows - Whinchat on Heron Meadow (Don Gardener) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - LITTLE TERN this morning (Jeremy Lindsell); Cuckoo (Rachel Lennard)

Fulbourn - Marsh Harrier over New Shardlows Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Godmanchester GPs - Nightingale (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday 5 May 2022

Thursday, 5 May

Eldernell - 2 Hobby (James Pender) 

Woodwalton Fen - Hobby (James Pender)

Holme Fen - Whinchat (James Pender)

Ouse Washes - 5 Hobby, 4 Whimbrel, Common Sandpiper (Mike Burdekin)

Wicken Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 7 Grasshopper Warbler, Barn Owl, 2 breeding pluamge male Ruff (Christoph Zöckler)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove, Cuckoo (Gill Parrish)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

Wednesday, 4 May

Pymoor - 6 Crane over 10:00h (Bob Grice)

Burwell Fen - 6 Crane over 10:40h (Andy Hannaford)

Fen Drayton Lakes - GLOSSY IBIS over west, Nightingale (Dean Harlow); 2 Cuckoo (John Le Gassick)

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 2 Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

Tuesday, 3 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Wood Sandpiper on Ferry Lagoon (Richard Bradbury); 2 Arctic Tern (Dean Harlow)

Etton/Maxey pits - 3 Spotted Redshank on slurry pit south of Maxey Cut (Hugh Wright)

Dernford Reservoir - Black Tern, Mandarin, 2 Common Sandpiper (Vernon Dursley)

Grafham water - LITTLE TERN, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plovers (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken area - 10 Hobby, 3 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes RSPB - Greenshank, 20 Whooper Swan, 6 Great Egret, 5 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, Pink-footed Goose, Cuckoo (Mark Ward)

Block Fen - 2 Little Ringed Plover, Cuckoo (Mark Ward)

Chatteris - Cuckoo (Mark Ward)

Byall Fen drove - pair of Raven (Mark Ward)

Berry Fen - drake Mandarin (Richard Thomas)

Monday 2 May 2022

Monday, 2 May

Shropshires reservoir - Arctic Tern (David Nation)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Turtle Dove, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Harry Orchard); 2 Cuckoo, 2 Bittern, Hobby (Vernon Dursley)

Paxton Pits - Raven over, 7 Hobby, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 8 Whimbrel (Jamie Wells)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wheatear (Paul Taylor)

Block Fen - TEMMICK'S STINT briefly this evening, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Cuckoo. Also, at Little Fen 5 Cattle Egret; at Berry Fen 3 Great Egret, Little ringed Plover; at Sutton North Fen 8 Barnacle Geese, 6 Whooper Swan & at Sutton Gault a Whooper Swan (Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - Goldeneye, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); Spotted Flycatcher (Colin Addington)

Ouse Washes - 3 Spotted Redshank at Welches Dam, 3 Whimbrel over, 5 Great Egret, 26 Whooper Swan, 6 Avocet, 2 Cuckoo (Mark Hawkes)

Chatteris - Raven just east by Byall Fen Drove (Mark Hawkes)

Molesworth - Grasshopper Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, Cuckoo; also Black Redstart reported at a farm nearby (Stewart Short)

Ouse Fen - White Stork circling c.12:50h (Alan Hitchings)


Sunday 1 May 2022

Sunday, 1 May

Grafham Water - GREAT SKUA over towards Perry 09:00h, Sanderling on dam (Colin Addington); 2 Arctic Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Shropshires Reservoir - 4 Kittiwake, 2 Arctic Tern, 4 Black Tern, Cuckoo (David Nation)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Bar-tailed Godwit, Cattle Egret, Common Sandpiper, Goldeneye, 3 Cuckoo (Richard Allison)

Ferry Meadows - Curlew over, 2 Cuckoo (Matt Webb); Whinchat (Don Gardener)

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Goosander over (Hugh Wright)

March Farmers - RING OUZEL (Chris Jones)

Ouse Washes - 3 Garganey, Hobby, 2 White-fronted Goose, 3 Spotted Redshank, 7 Cattle Egret (Brendan Doe)

Lomgstanton - Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Andrew Maxwell)

Cow Lane pits - 4 Cattle Egret, Wheatear, Hobby, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Common Sandpiper (Stu Elsom)

Saturday 30 April 2022

Saturday, 30 April

Devil's Dyke - 4 RING OUZEL in same field near Ditch Farm (Richard Dale)

Cambridge - Nightingale singing and showing very well 11:40-11:55h, c.100m from the community farm along the path by the railway (Pete Holt)

Northstowe - 7 Avocet, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Green Saandpiper, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Raven (Christoph Zöckler)

Berry Fen - 6 Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Garganey, Cuckoo, Swallow Christoph Zöckler)

Fowlmere - 12 Crane over the village early morning (Bob Steed)

Burwell Fen - 10+ Hobby, Garganey, Greenshank (Tim Dee & Claire Spottiswoode)

Friday 29 April 2022

Friday, 29 April

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL still, Garganey, Swift, Hobby, Garden Warbler (James Hanlon)

Ferry Meadows - Hobby (Matt Webb); Cuckoo (Paul Gallagher)

Paxton Pits - 2 RING OUZEL, 6 Nightingale (John Hoppett)

Grafham Water - Bar-tailed Godwit, Whinchat (Colin Addington)

Cambridge - Nightingale at Coldham's Common still, in hawthorn thicket on east side of the railway line about 100m south from blue footbridge (Andrew Dobson)

Ouse Fen - 4 Swift, 3 Hobby (Rowena Baxter)

Maxey pits - 7 Arctic Tern (Chris Lines)

Ferry Meadows - WHITE STORK over A47/A1260 junction nearby (Mark Hawkes)

Fowlmere - escaped male Eider, from Dernford collection (Ade Cooper)

RSPB Hope Farm, Knapwell - RING OUZEL through, Wheatear (Derek Gruar)

Thursday 28 April 2022

Thursday, 28 April

Baker's Fen - Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank (Simon Stirrup)

Cambridge - Nightingale at Coldham's Common still 07:10h (Roger Hardie); again at 10:30h (Tanmay Dixit); Swift over city centre (Ian & Amanda Seamark)

Teversham Fen - Wood Sandpiper, Green sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

Grafham Water - Arctic Tern, Brambling, Wheatear, Swift (Mark Hawkes)

Cambridge - 2 Wheatear along path to Grantchester (Peter Louden)

Berry Fen - WHITE STORK circling 10:50h, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, Garganey (Ian Dawson)

Paxton Pits - 2 RING OUZEL south-west of Diddington Pit, Grasshopper Warbler (Mark Hawkes); 4 Nightingales singing along concrete road, Cuckoo, Hobby (Geoff Barlow); 6 Nightingale in Stirtloe/Diddington area (David & Sallie Jones)

Ely - RING OUZEL in a private garden (Chris Thaxter)

Maxey Cut - Goosander with 9 ducklings, Cuckoo nearby, Great Egret over (Ian Misselbrook)

Swaddywell NR - RING OUZEL near car park (Kevin Cade)

Brampton Woods - Cuckoo (Marcelo Lima)

Wyton - Crane over (John Wells)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Bittern (David & Sallie Jones); 3 Swift (Jeremy Lindsell); drake Scaup, 2 Goldeneye (Jon Heath)

Smithey Fen - Whimbrel (Brendan Doe)

Ferry Meadows - Arctic Tern, Yellow Wagtail (James Pender)

Wednesday 27 April 2022

Wednesday, 27 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Arctic Tern (Rachel Lennard); Bar-tailed Godwit (Richard Thomas)

Teversham Fen - Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank; also fem Merlin at Wilbraham Fen (Peter Louden) 

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Colin Addington); Cuckoo, 8 Swallow, 7 Yellow Wagtail (Stewart Short)

Shropshires Reservoir - 2 Arctic Tern, Common Swift (David Nation)

Impington - Cuckoo (Nigel Butcher)

Coldham's Common, Cambridge - Nightingale still 07:00h (Vernon Dursley); singing and showing very well on occasion, though mainly quiet & elusive 09:30-09:45h (Pete Holt)

Ferry Meadows - Garden Warbler (Kevin Eldred); Brambling over, Sandwich Tern (Matt Webb)

Castor Hanglands - Grasshopper Warbler (Bob Titman)

Grunty Fen - Turtle Dove (David & Sallie Jones)

Berry Fen - WHITE STORK, 2 GLOSSY IBIS, Cattle Egret, Garganey (Vernon Dursley)

Wicken area - Little Owl, Garganey (Stephen Hughes)

Tuesday 26 April 2022

Tuesday, 26 April

Ferry Meadows - 4 Sandwich Tern briefly (Matt Webb)

Paxton Pits - 2 RING OUZEL, 5 Nightingale (John Raven)

Croydon Hill - RING OUZEL (Mark Thomas)

Devil's Dyke - 2 RING OUZEL near farm buildings (David Nation)

Barton - Blue-headed Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 60 Corn Bunting (Vince Lea)

Coldhams Common, Cambridge - Nightingale (Chris Smith)

Grunty Fen - 2 Turtle Dove (David Nation)

Teversham Fen - Wood Sandpiper (David Nation)

Shropshires Reservoir - Arctic Tern (David Nation)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson)

March Farmers - Grey Plover (Charlie Kitchin)

Maxey - Turtle Dove nearby (Mike Weedon)

Monday 25 April 2022

Monday, 25 April

Grafham Water - Whimbrel on the dam this morning (Colin Addington); also Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); 9 Little Ringed Plover, 16 Yellow Wagtail, Cuckoo (Stewart Short)

Ferry Meadows - Common Sandpiper, Greenshank over (Matt Webb); Arctic Tern, Little Gull (Mike Weedon)

Etton-Maxey pits - RING OUZEL briefly (Hugh Wright)

Shropshires Reservoir - 2 Arctic Tern (David Nation)

March Farmers - RING OUZEL (Alan Bull)

Paxton Pits - 2 RING OUZEL (Jamie Wells)

Sunday 24 April 2022

Sunday, 24 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Whimbrel (Diana Leech); Bar-tailed Godwit. drake Scaup, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3 Goldeneye (Babs York); 17 Little Gull (Mark Ward); 4 Green Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Devil's Dyke - fem RING OUZEL south-west of Ditch Farm, 7 Wheatear, 2 Curlew briefly (Richard Dale)

Berry Fen - 10 Cattle Egret (David Nation)

Etton/Maxey pits - Great Egret, pair of Garganey, Grasshopper Warbler, Whimbrel over (Hugh Wright); Cuckoo (Bob Titman)

Tanholt pits - Bar-tailed Godwit (Jonathan Taylor)

Cambridge Research Park - Cuckoo (David & Sallie Jones)

Shropshires Reservoir - 2 Arctic Tern (David Nation)

Grunty Fen - Turtle Dove (David Nation)


Saturday 23 April 2022

Saturday, 23 April

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Harry Orchard)

Paxton Pits - 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Greenshank, Little Gull (Jamie Wells) 

Dernford Rservoir - Greenshank, Little Gull (Ian Dale)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 ad Little Gull (Richard Bradbury); Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Whimbrel, Sanderling, drake Scaup, Cattle Egret (Jeremy Lindsell); 3 Little Ringed Plover, Bittern (Andrew Maxwell); 8 Little Gull by 4pm (Carlos Davies)

Castor Hanglands - RING OUZEL along path to the site, Osprey, Marsh Tit (James Pender)

Etton pits - Greenshank, 9 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover also Bar-tailed Godwit at Langdyke Reserve (Hugh Wright); Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Turtle Dove, 40 Bar-tailed Godwit over, RING OUZEL at the Langdyke reserve briefly (Jonathan Taylor)

Maxey pits - 2 Whimbrel just to the west (Chris Lines)

Molesworth - Garsshopper Warbler inside airbase, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, Swallow (Stewart Short)

Isleham Washes - 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit (Richard Dale)

Ferry Meadows - 4 ad sum Little Gull over Gunwade (Chris Jones)

Friday 22 April 2022

Friday, 22 April

Berry Fen - fem BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 3 drake Garganey, 5 Avocet, Cattle Egret over, House Martin (Sue Greenway)

Grafham Water - RED-RUMPED SWALLOW over past Dudney Hide (as per news services)

Ouse Washes RSPB - Bar-tailed-Godwit, Spotted Redshank, 5 Garganey, 183 Ruff, 400 Black-tailed Godwit, 16 Avocet (Mark Ward)

Kingfishers bridge - 3 House Martin, 2 Black-tailed Godiwt, 4 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Gull (Brendan Doe); male Scaup, Bar-tailed Godwit (Jeremy Lindsell)

Thursday 21 April 2022

Thursday, 21 April

Berry Fen - fem BLUE-WINGED TEAL, male Garganey (Mat Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Bar-tailed Godwit on Moore Lake (Dean Harlow); Bittern, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler (Ian Seamark)

Ferry Meadows - 2 ad sum Mediterranean Gull over (Don Gardener); Green Sandpiper (Andy Golding); Osprey over (as per Jon Heath)

Dernford Farm Reservoir - Black Tern (as per https://twitter.com/cambsbirdclub?lang=en )

Paxton Pits - RING OUZEL, Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat (Jamie Wells)

Wednesday 20 April 2022

Wednesday, 20 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE G486 still present this morning, on north-west side of River Ouse, viewable from shelter on Ferry Mere. Departed south 06:15h (Richard Allison); flew along river towards Swavesey 09:30h (Diana Leech)

Ferry Meadows - White Wagtail (Mike Weedon)

March Farmers - Cuckoo (Paul Bolton)

St. Ives GP - WHITE STORK circling c.11:30h (Alan Bull)

Little Shelford - several Redwing still around (Carl Howard)

Cow Lane - Cuckoo along OuseValley Way, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Ouse Washes - Spotted Redshank, Short-eared Owl, pair of Garganey, 10 Whooper Swan, 300 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Avocet (Brendan Doe)

Tuesday 19 April 2022

Tuesday, 19 April

Grafham Water - Channel Wagtail, 50 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Whimbrel, 2 Cuckoo (John Hoppett); Turtle Dove from guided busway, 2 Reed Warbler, Cuckoo by CP (Dean Harlow)

Paxton Pits - RING OUZEL (Nathan Long)

Pymoor - 7 Wheatear (Mark Peck)

Litlington - Ring-necked Parakeet (Geoff Barlow)

Northstowe - 7 Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail (John Hoppett)

Ouse Fen - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over towards Fen Drayton c.18:30h (Jeremy Lindsell). This is a 2cy female, G486 (as per Roy Dennis Foundation); Roosted in tree on north-west side of River Ouse, viewable from just west of Webb's Hole Sluice (Richard Thomas)

Wicken Fen - white morph Gyr Falcon bearing jesses and a blue ring on the right leg (Kevin Wilson)

Monday 18 April 2022

Monday, 18 April

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL and east end, drake Garganey (Robin Ward)

Grafham Water - Grasshopper Warbler, Marsh Harrier (Mark Hawkes); White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail (Ed King); Greenshank (Colin Addington)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove along guided busway (Dean Harlow); 5 Cattle Egret (Gill Parrish); Whimbrel (Richard Thomas)

Longstanton - Yellow Wagtail (Rachel Lennard)

Croydon Hill - RING OUZEL (Ketih Honnor)

Paxton Pits - RING OUZEL, Nightingale, Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtail over (Jamie Wells)

Eldernell - WHITE STORK (Hugh Wright)

Ouse Washes - WHITE STORK south-west of Earith 11:50h (Kevin Eldred)

Ouse Fen - WHITE STORK circling c.11:50-12:00h (Jeremy Holding)

Dernford Farm Reservoir - 2 Mandarin, Mediterranean Gull over (Steve Dutton)

Wicken Fen - Hen Harrier, Cuckoo, 2 Barn Owl, 2 Little Owl, Swallow (Sue Greenway)

Tubney Fen - fem Whinchat, Stonechat (Sue Greenway)

Burwell Fen - Cuckoo, 4 Water Rail, Reed Warbler (Andy Hannaford) 

Great Fen - Short-eared Owl over the CP (as per Peterborough Bird News)

Nene Washes - RING OUZEL (as per @CambsBirdClub )

Wicken area - 13 Grasshopper Warbler (Marcus Kohler)

Shepreth - 2 Brambling at a garden feeder (Marcus Kohler)

Sunday 17 April 2022

Sunday, 17 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Cattle Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Raven over (James Hanlon)

Grafham Water - 2 Sandwich Tern briefly 09:00h, 2 White Wagtail, Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

March - RING OUZEL at end of Burrowmoor Road (Alan Bull) 

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL at east end but elusive, 4 Garganey, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); 2 Sandwich Tern over east 09:15h (Jonathan Taylor)

Kingfishers Bridge - Yellow Wagtail, Swallow, 3 Fieldfare (Sue Greenway); 2 Spoonbill late afaternoon (Kevin Wilson)

Etton area - Cuckoo, Goosander, 9 Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Ely - Nightingale from Springhead Lane (Chris Barker)

Tubney Fen - 2 Spoonbill over towards Burwell Fen, Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat (Richard Dale) 

Bakers Fen - 8 House Martin, Great Egret (Keith Honnor) 

Cambridge Research Park - Cettis's Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler (David & Sallie Jones)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Grasshopper Warbler (John Wells)

Ouse Fen - Grasshoper Warbler (Andrew Maxwell)

Sogham Lode - Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler (Andy Hannaford)

Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Common Tern reported widely across the county

Saturday 16 April 2022

Saturday, 16 April

Earith - WHITE STORK opposite the marina this morning (Richard Bradbury)

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL (as per https://twitter.com/CambsBirdClub) 

Paxton Pits - WHITE STORK over 12:15h, RING OUZEL, Garganey, 2 Grasshopper Warblers (Jamie Wells)

March Farmers - RING OUZEL (Mike Weedon) 

Coates - 2 RING OUZEL (Andrew Gardener)

Friday, 15 April

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 5 Garganey, 20 Black-tailed Godwit (Carlos Davies); WHITE STORK of unknown origin but unringed (Matthew Mellor)

Grafham Water - Channel Wagtail (Matthew Mellor); also White Wagtail (James Hanlon)

Wilbraham Fen - Cuckoo (James Littlewood)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Grasshopper Warbler, Sedge Warblers, Whitethroats (Rachel Lennard); 5 Cattle Egret (Dave Anderson); Caspian Gull, Whimbrel (Jeremy Lindsell); Peregrine (Gill Parrish)

Northstowe - Wheatear, Little Ringed Plover, 6 Avocet, 2 Green Sandpiper (Andrew Maxwell)

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over, Peregrine (Howard Butler)

Thursday 14 April 2022

Thursday, 14 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - Grasshopper Warbler (Ed King)

Teversham Fen - male Redstart (Carl Howard)

Wlibraham Fen - 6 Willow Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat (Carl Howard)

Paxton Pits - Grasshopper Warbler, Sedge Warblers, Whitethroat, Common Tern, House Martin (Jamie Wells)

Woodwalton Fen - 5 Grasshopper Warbler, Common Tern (as per Peterborough Bird News)

Castor Hanglands - 7 Nightingale, 2 Garden Warbler (as per Peterborough Bird News)

Nene Washes - ringtail Hen Harrier, Merlin, Whimbrel (colour ringed in Gambia 2017) (Charlie Kitchin)

Maxey Pits - 9 Yellow Wagtail (Chris Lines)

Great Fen - 2 Short-eared Owl (as per Peterborough Bird News)


Wednesday 13 April 2022

Wednesday, 13 April

Devil's Dyke - pair of DOTTEREL in bare field west of Ditch Farmthis morning (Richard Dale) 

Hope Farm Knapwell - 2 Whitethroat (Derek Gruar)

Soham - Whitethroat (Andy Hannaford)

Histon - Turtle Dove (Nigel Butcher)

Block Fen - 2 Avocet, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, White Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Sutton North Fen - 3 Whooper Swan, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 8 Fieldfare (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes, Mepal - 4 Great Egret, 20 Black-tailed Godwit, Whooper Swan (Mark Ward)

Clopton Hill - RING OUZEL (Mark Thomas)

Soham - 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, Swallow (Sue Greenway)

Tuesday 12 April 2022

Tuesday, 12 April

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Sue Greenway)

Ellington - Hobby over, House Martin (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Chatteris - White Stork of unknown origin circling over A141 (Russell Watkins)

Sutton North Fen - 5 Whooper Swan, 2 Fieldfare (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes, Welches Dam - pair of Garganey, 18 Whooper Swan, 4 Great Egret, 40 Black-tailed Godwit, 28 Pintail, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat (Mark Ward)

Longstatnton - Wheatear (Rachel Lennard)

Great Fen - 3 Wheatear on the Northern Loop (Terry Cooper)

Fowlmere - Reed Warbler (Ade Cooper)

Ferry Meadows - Whitethroat (Jonathan Taylor); Sedge Warbler (Matt Webb); 2 Brambling (Kevin Eldred)

March Farmers - Little Ringed Plover, 11 Golden Plover, 6 Avocet (Charlie Kitchin)

Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Brendan Doe)

Histon - Turtle Dove (Nigel Butcher)

Monday 11 April 2022

Monday, 11 April

Fen Drayton lakes - 12 Cattle Egret (Dean Harlow); Wheatear, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Avocet, 9 Common Tern (Dave Anderson)

Hope Farm, Knapwell - RING OUZEL (Derek Gruar)

Grafham Water - 9 little Gull, 2 Arctic Tern from Mander CP 09:30h (Stu & Jill Elsom); Black-necked Grebe from Mander CP, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Swallow, White Wagtail (Stewart Short)

Berry Fen - 3 Garganey, 4 Swallow (Sue Greenway)

March - House Martin (Derek Benton) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 17 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Tern (Kevin Wilson)

Hare Park - 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Block Fen - 10 Little Ringed Plover, 3 White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 3 Green Sandpiper, 12 Sand Martin (Mark Ward)

Sutton North Fen - 7 Whooper Swan (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes - 70 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Great Egret (Mark Ward)

Colne Fen - Swallow, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler (Mark Ward) 

Smithey Fen - Little Gull (Ian Ellis)

Ferry Meadows - 2 Crane over, Swallow, House Martin, Common Tern, Willow Warbler, 15 Lesser Redpoll (Mike Weedon); Curlew over, 3  Common Tern (Matt Webb); 2 Brambling, Whitethroat (Paul Bolton)

Paxton Pits - Arctic Tern briefly (Mark Brandon)

Burwell Fen - 60 Golden Plover (Andy Clements)


Sunday 10 April 2022

Sunday, 10 April

Diddington/Stirtloe - Wheatear west of path bewteen the villages (Mark Brandon)

RAF Molesworth - 2 Wheatear to west of Burton's scrapyard (Stewart Short)

Wicken Fen - Sedhe Warbler (David Wege)

Block Fen - 6 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Sand Martin, White Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Sutton North Fen - 7 Whooper Swan, 3 Barnacle Geese (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes - 10 Great Egret, Peregrine, 150 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, Yellow Wagtail, 24 Pintail (Mark Ward); male RING-NECKED DUCK from Welches Dam hide (Ade Cooper)

Somersham - Wheatear west of village (Russell Watkins)

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL, Garganey, Pink-footed Goose (Roger Hardie)

Paxton Pits - Garganey (Jamie Wells)

Saturday, 9 April

Berry Fen - 6 Garganey (Sue Greenway); BLUE-WINGED TEAL on pool south-west of Little Fen (Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - 3 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail (Stewart Short)

Block Fen - White Wagtail, 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes - 7 Great Egret, , 470 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 2cy male Hen Harrier, male Merlin (Mark Ward)

Friday 8 April 2022

Friday, 8 April

Grafham Water - 4 Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warbler (Mark Brandon); 5 Scaup at Sanctuary Bay (Mark Hawkes)

Milton CP - 3 Swallow (David Wege)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Spoonbill, Swallow (Simon Stirrup)

Burwell Fen - 6 Garganey, Cattle Egret, 3 Spoonbill, 56 Golden Plover (Ian Barton)

Thursday 7 April 2022

Thursday, 7 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - 14 Cattle Egret in field south of Elney (Richard Allison)

New Shardlows Farm - Swallow over (Kevin Wilson)

Elsworth - RING OUZEL this evening in field 2 down from windmill at junction (Dave Anderson)

Comberton - GREAT GREY SHRIKE on private land this evening, also 6 Golden Plover (Vince Lea)

Wednesday 6 April 2022

Wednesday, 6 April

Block Fen - 9 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Great Egret (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes - 8 Garganey, 5 Great Egret, c.160 islandica Black-tailed Godwit; drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL between Mepal/Sutton (Mark Ward); also Peregrine (Colin Kirtland)

Tuesday 5 April 2022

Tuesday, 5 April

Grafham - 5 Scaup, ad KITTIWAKE (Richard Patient)

Foxton - 5 Brambling in a private garden (Marcus Kohler)

Fullers Hill Farm - 150 Brambling, 70 Corn Bunting, 90 Yellowhammer (Mark Thomas)

Fen Drayton - 7 Cattle Egret (Gill Parrish); 11 Brambling by the busway (Philip Bubb)

RAF Wyton - White Stork of unknown origin over west north-west c.16:00h (Mark Ward)

Monday 4 April 2022

Monday, 4 April

Grafham Water - Swallow, Yellow Wagtail along dam (Colin Addington); also 3 Little Ringed Plover (Stewart Short)

Sutton Gault/Mepal - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL still present (Rachel Lennard)

Berry Fen - pair of Garganey (Gary Prescott)

Sunday 3 April 2022

Sunday, 3 April

Grafham Water - Sedge Warbler, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Avocet (Mark Hawkes)

Berry Fen - fem BLUE-WINGED TEAL, drake 4 Garganey (Nathan Long)

Sutton Gault/Mepal - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL still (Richard Thomas) 

Fortrey's Hall - 2 drake Garganey, 8 Great Egret, 400 islandica Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward)

Smithey Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Rachel Lennard)

Maxey/Etton - 2 Garganey, 7 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Swallow (Hugh Wright)

Block Fen - Yellow Wagtail, 13 Little Ringed Plover, Rock Pipit, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 White Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Saturday 2 April 2022

Saturday, 2 April

 Wicken Fen - 2 imm. Spoonbill over south-west (Simon Stirrup)

Sutton Gault/Mepal - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Richard Thomas); Garganey, 700 islandica Black-tailed Gogwi, Water Pipit, 9 Great Egret between Sutton Gault/Fortreys Hall. Also 5 Whooper Swan at Sutton North Fen, 7 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 White Wagtail at Block Fen (Mark Ward)

Tubney Fen - 600 Fieldfare in a single Field (Tom Dee & Claire Spottiswoode) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Knot (Richard Bradbury)


Friday 1 April 2022

Friday, 1 April

Ouse Washes RSPB - drake Scaup, 3 Garganey, 110 Whooper Swan, 50 Ruff, 400 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, Peregrine (Mark Ward)

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Ian Dawson); drake Garganey, also BLACK REDSTART at West View Marina (Stephen Hughes)

Fowlmere - Wheatear (Ade Cooper)

Thursday 31 March 2022

Thursday, 31 March

Berry Fen - fem BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Duncan McNiven); also 3 Garganey (Andrew Dobson). Please be considerate when parking at this site and keep field entrances clear.

Earith Marina - 2 BLACK REDSTART viewable from public footapth at west end (Andrew Dobson)

Etton/Maxey - pair of Garganey (Paul Bolton)

Wednesday 30 March 2022

Wednesday, 30 March

Berry Fen - fem BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 3 Garganey (Mark Ward)

Earith - 2 BLACK REDSTART at West View Marina (Mark Ward)

Sutton Gault - 700 islandica Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward)

Sutton North Fen - 5 Whooper Swan (Mark Ward)

Tuesday 29 March 2022

Tuesday, 29 March

Wicken area - 2 Bittern, Great Egret (Kevin Wilson)

Eldernell - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 11 Garganey, 2 Barnacle Geese (Josh Jones)

Etton/Maxey - pair of Garganey, Raven (Hugh Wright)

Monday 28 March 2022

Monday, 28 March

Hare Park - Woodcock (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes, Eartih to Fortrey's Hall - 6 Garganey, Spotted Redshank, 600 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 80 Ruff, 4 Avocet, ad Russian White-fronted Goose, 11 Great Egret, Mediterranean Gull over (Mark Ward)

Elsworth - Willow Warbler (Harry Orchard)

Etton/Maxey Pits - pair of Garganey, Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Ringed Plover (Paul Bolton)

Nene Park - Goosander on rowing lake (James Pender)

Cam Washes - 3 Spoonbill, Cattle Egret, Great Egret (Jon Heath)

Sunday 27 March 2022

Sunday, 27 March

Eldernell - 5 Garnganey, Short-eared Owl, Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Hare park - 4 Brambling, Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Northstowe - 5 Avocet (Andrew Maxwell)

Cambourne - Raven over (James Hanlon)

Swavesey - Short-eared Owl (Simon Passey)

Saturday 26 March 2022

Saturday, 26 March

Nene washes - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL viewed from 100m east of CP  at Eldernell this morning (Mike Weedon)

Kingfishers Bridge - Swallow with Sand Martins (Keith Honnor); 2 Spoonbill (Gareth Rees)

Dernford Reservoir - ad Mediterranean Gull 17:25h, flew north (Pete Wood)

Ouse Washes - 70 Whooper Swan White-fronted Goose, 47 Barnacle Geese, Goosander, 23 Garganey, 20 Great Egret, 800 Black-tailed Godwit, 126 Ruff, Spotted Redshank, Water Pipit, Swallow, Also 149 Corn Bunting just outside Coveney (Steve Cooper)

Comberton - GREAT-GREY SHRIKE (as per Steve Cooper) 

Northstowe - Black Redstart (Hugh Venables) 

Paxton Pits - 3 Smew, Brambling, Sand Martin, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Jamie Wells)

Friday 25 March 2022

Friday, 25 March

Nene washes - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL in flooded field immediately  north of Eldernell CP this morning (Mike Weedon); fem Hen Harrier (Howard Butler); WHITE STORK of unknown origin over (Hugh Wright)

Burwell Fen - fem Garganey, Whooper Swan, Swallow (Andy Hannaford)

Kingfishers Bridge - male Hen Harrier, Little Gull (Sue Greenway) 

Fowlmere - 4 Garganey (Terry Brown)

Lanbeach - GLOSSY IBIS over Wort's Meadow this morning(as per Ian Burfield)

Ouse Washes - 6 Garganey, 170 Whooper Swan, Great Egret (Mark Ward)

Thursday 24 March 2022

Thursday, 24 March

Ferry Meadows - 2 Little Gull (Mike Weedon)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Sand Martin, 2 Avocet, 3 Cetti's Warbler (Sue Greenway)

Ouse Washes - 4 Garganey north from Rickwood Hide (Keith Honnor); 6 Garganey opposite Oxlode (Jonathan Taylor)

Nene washes - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 14 Garganey, Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 2 ad Little Gull, Great Egret at Eldernell; Great Egret, 8 Avocet at March Farmers (Josh Jones); WHITE-TAILED EAGLE at Decoy Wood late afternoon, a further 8 Great Egret, 200 Whooper Swan, 3 Short-eared Owl, 40 islandica Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Little Gull (Nigel Lister)

Wednesday 23 March 2022

Wednesday, 23 March

Eldernell - Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Barnacle Geese, 3 drake Garganey, 8 Crane east of the CP (Duncan McNiven)

Dernford Reservoir - Little Gull (David & Sallie Jones) 

Grafham Water - 3 Little Gull, 2 Black-necked Grebe off fishing lodge, 6 Scaup (Richard Patient)

Somersham - 154 Brambling, fem Merlin (Mark Ward)

Smithey Fen - Little Ringed Plover (Rachel Lennard)

Tuesday 22 March 2022

Tuesday, 22 March

Heathfield, Duxford - HOOPOE reported still present (as per Jon Heath)

Eldernell - Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Barnacle Geese, 3 drake Garganey east of the CP (Paul Bolton)

Burwell Fen - SNOW BUNTING through this morning, male Hen Harrier, pair of Garganey, Short-eared Owl, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Ian Barton)

Comberton - GREAT-GREY SHRIKE south-east of usual hedgerow 16:30h (Duncan McNiven)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Little Gull (Andrew Dobson)

Ouse Washes - Garganey from near Rickwood Hide (Derek Benton); 10 Garganey, Great Egret, 90 Pintail, 550 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Water Pipit (Mark Ward)

Sutton North Fen - Whooper Swan, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Ward)

Somersham - 50 Bramlbing west of the village (Russell Watkins)

Isleham Washes - Spotted Redshank reported

Fen Drayton Lakes - Bittern (Tracey Graves)

Monday 21 March 2022

Monday, 21 March

Burwell Fen - Great Egret, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Andy Hannford)

Comberton - GREAT GREY SHRIKE still present in the area (Roger Hardie)

Ouse Washes - 600 isalndica Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, Whopoper Swan, 40 Pintail at Sutton; 21 Whooper swan, Great Egret, Water Pipit, Caspian Gull, 40 Pintail at Mepal (Mark Ward)

Eldernell - Brent Goose east of CP, 4 Garganey, Hen Harrier (Andrew Gardener)

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret (Gill Parrish)

Sunday 20 March 2022

Sunday, 20 March

Ouse Washes - drake RING-NECKED DUCK, drake & redhead Smew, 2 drake Garganey, 119 Whooper Swan, Little Ringed Plover over (Mark Ward)

Brampton - 2 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Red-crested Pochard on east pit, 2 Little Ringed Plover on west pit (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, 5 fem & a drake Scaup, Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes, David Nation, Colin Addington)

Burwell Fen - 2 Cattle Egret, pair of Garganey (Kevin Wilson)

Tubney Fen - 2 Little Owl at Gant Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Yaxley Fen - 5 Brambling with finch flock (Andy Frost)

Berry Fen - White Wagtail (Steve Cooper)



Saturday 19 March 2022

Saturday, 19 March

Ouse Washes - drake RING-NECKED DUCK, redhead Smew (Drew Lyness)

Berry Fen - 6 GLOSSY IBIS, pair of Garganey (Stewart Short)

Sutton Gault - 4 Water Pipit, SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF (Stewart Short)

Ouse Fen - 4 Great Egret (Drew Lyness)

Brampton east pits - Great Egret, 6 Red-crested Pochard (Jame Wells)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 10 Cetti's Warbler, Siskin, 2 Redpoll sp., 27 Goldeneye (Chris Rider)

Ferry Meadows - 4 Crane over, 2 Raven over (Matt Webb)

Friday 18 March 2022

Friday, 18 March

Knapwell - Redwing singing (Christoph Zöckler)

Oakington/Cottenham - Cattle Egret between the villages (David Nation)

Berry Fen - 5 GLOSSY IBIS (Mark Ward)

Earith washes - 700 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 19 Whooper Swan, Great Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Egyptian Geese (Mark Ward)

Great Staughton - WHITE STORK of unknown origin over north-east 12:45h (Laure Travis)

Burwell Fen - Wheatear (Cookie Shorten)

Thursday 17 March 2022

Thursday, 17 March

Fowlmere - ad male GOSHAWK over thew village 12:15h (Doug Radford)

Berry Fen - 5 GLOSSY IBIS (Vernon Dursley)

Sutton North Fen - 6 Whooper Swan (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes, north of Mepal - Water Pipit, c.900 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Ruff, 84 Pintail, 190 Whooper Swan, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Egyptian Geese (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - male Smew (Jamie Wells)

Wimpole - Peregrine, Raven, Mandarin (Patrick Safford)

Wicken Fen - 2 Hen Harrier, Bittern booming, Stonechat, 22 Little Egret to roost (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday 16 March 2022

Wednesday, 16 March

Hare Park - 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Poor Well NR Fulbourn - 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Little Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Tuesday 15 March 2022

Tuesday, 15 March

Grafham Water - fem Common Scoter, 6 Scaup, 5 Barnacle Geese (Richard Patient)

Bluntisham/Earith - GLOSSY IBIS on flood between the villages (Mark Brandon)

Ouse Fen - 3 Bearded Tit at the Over end (Mark Brandon)

Chatteris - 40 Whooper swan over north (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes, north of Mepal - 240 Whooper Swan, Water Pipit, cCetti's Warbler, 700 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Ruff, Great Egret, 2 Caspian Gull, 80 Pintail; at roost 202 Greenfinch, 4 Brambling, Siskin (Mark Ward)

Block Fen - 2 Green Sandpiper (Mark Ward)

Monday 14 March 2022

Monday, 14 March

Comberton - GREAT GREY SHRIKE still (Patrick Safford)

Burwell Fen area - Bittern in flight, Cattle Egret, ad Mediterranean Gull, 2 Stonechat, Raven over, Little Owl at Priory Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Sand Martin (Andy Frost)

Sunday 13 March 2022

Sunday, 13 March

Heathfield, Duxford - HOOPOE showing along Woburn Place neaer Woburn Mews 15:03h (Andy Clifton); present in officers' mess compound at16:30h (Simon Gillings)

Northstowe Flood - 5 Little Ringed Plover, Avocet, 2 Green Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson, Andrew Maxwell)

Ouse Washes (north of Mepal) - 5 Caspian Gull, Water Pipit, 500 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, 350 Whooper Swan, 2 Egyptian Geese, Barn owl (Mark Ward)

Block Fen - 2 Green Sandpiper (Mark Ward)

Saturday, 12 March

Cow Lane GPs - 2 Great Egret, Goosander, Yellow-legged Gull, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Roswell Pits - 3 Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler (Phil Smedley)

Cottenham, Long Drove - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Ian Ellis)

Peterborough rowing lake - Goosander (Nathan Stimpson)

Earith - 2 ad Mediteranean Gull (Brenadan Doe, Steve Cooper)

Raptor Foundation, Pidley - Harris's Hawk is awol, wearing anklets with flight Jesse's on both legs & a bell and an IBR ring on his right leg (raptorfoundation.org.uk )

Friday, 11 March

Chesterton - Woodcock over (Simon Gillings)

Nene Washes - 2nd win Mediterranen Gull, Short-eared Owl, Peregrine, 2 Crane (John Wells & Steve Heather)

Saturday, 12 March

 Heathfields - HOOPOE still (Mark Ward)

Thursday 10 March 2022

Thursday, 10 March

Wicken Fen - 2 male Hen Harrier, Woodcock (Christoph Zöckler)

Duxford - HOOPOE (Brendan Doe)

Wednesday 9 March 2022

Wednesday, 9 March

Brampton - drake Common Scoter on a private lake, 2 Little Ringed Plover nearby (Richard Dale)

Tuesday 8 March 2022

Tuesday, 8 March

Tanholt pits - 3rd win KUMLIEN'S GULL, juv & 2nd win ICELAND GULL, Caspian Gull (Mike Weedon)

Ferry Meadows - 7 Whooper Swan on Gunwade (Don Gardener)

Cam Washes - Spoonbill briefly (Tony Lowe)

Grafham Water - Little Ringed Plover, 5 Scaup (Ian Dawson)

Ouse Washes (north of Mepal) - ad Mediterranean Gull, 6 Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged  Gull, Water Pipit, 160 Whooper Swan, Barn Owl (Mark Ward)

Sutton North Fen - drake Common Scoter (David Nation)

Earith - 600 Black-tailed Godwit (David Nation)

Milton CP - 3 Siskin (Tracey Graves)

Monday 7 March 2022

Monday, 7 March

Milton CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER 09:45h (Richard Plamer)

Northstowe - 4 Avocet from guided busway (John Hoppett); increasing to 5 Avocet, also 5 Green Sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

Sutton North Fen - drake Common Scoter, 1800 Whooper Swan, 3 Bewick's Swan (Mark Ward)

Sutton Gault - 49 Water Pipit to roost to the south, Great Egret, 250 Whooper Swan, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Mark Ward)

Haddenham - male Siskin, 3 Brambling in a private garden (Barbara York)

Trumpington - Ring-necked Parakeet over (Mike Foley)

Sunday 6 March 2022

Sunday, 6 March

Grafham Water - fem Common Scoter (Richard Patient)

Grafham village - Brambling along Church Road (Jon Roe)

Saturday, 5 March

 Milton CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Rupert Evershed)

Overcote - Sand Martin along the river (Jeremy Lindsell)

Cottenham - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, KUMLIEN'S GULL, 2 Caspian Gull at Smithey Fen, 2cy ICELAND GULL, 7 Caspian Gull at Long Drove (Brendan Doe)

Magog Down - 35 Brambling (Mike Foley)

Fulbourn - 3 Brambling at New Shardlows Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes, north of Mepal  - 250 Whooper Swan, 7 Egyptian Geese, Caspian Gull, 140 Greenfinch to roost (Mark Ward)

Brampton East pits - 11 Red-crested Pochard, 23 Golden Plover over (Jame Wells)

Northstowe - 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, fem Merlin (Hugh Venables)

Burwell Fen - 1st win ICELAND GULL, ad sum Mediterranean Gull, Peregrine, 70 Whopper Swan, Barn Owl (James Littlewood)

Smithey Fen - male Hen Harrier (Vernon Dursley)

Friday 4 March 2022

Friday, 4 March

Dernsford Reservoir - Mediterranean Gull (Mark Austin)

Tanholt - 2 Caspian Gull (Josh Jones)

Etton pits - Red-breasted Merganser (Hugh Wright); Sand Martin (Josh Jones)

Thursday 3 March 2022

Thursday, 3 March

Burwell Fen - fem Hen Harrier (Andy Hannaford)

Smithey Fen - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 3 Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Ward)

Heathfield/Duxford - Ring-necked Parakeet over (Mark Ward)

Grunty Fen - male Hen Harrier over south (David Nation)

Smithey Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Gareth Rees)

Dernford Reservoir - fem Goosander (Steve Dutton)

Wednesday 2 March 2022

Wednesday, 2 March

Smithey Fen - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Park carefully in Brookfield Business Centre off Twenty Pence Road, Cottenham. Then walk north on the EAST bank of Cottenham Lode for 0.5 mile to view the flood. (Brendan Doe)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

Tuesday, 1 March

Upware - 2 Cattle Egret (David Nation)

Grafham water - 2m & 5f Scaup (Tim Watling)

Milton CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER, SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF (Jon Heath)

Comberton - GREAT GREY SHRIKE (Vernon Dursley)

Smithey Fen - 2 Curlew (Ian Ellis)

Monday 28 February 2022

Monday, 28 February

Smithey Fen - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Park carefully in Brookfield Business Centre off Twenty Pence Road, Cottenham. Then walk north on the EAST bank of Cottenham Lode for 0.5 mile to view the flood. (Ian Ellis)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, 3 Spoonbill, Green Sandpiper, 2 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver (Louise Bacon)

Sunday 27 February 2022

Sunday, 27 February

Comberton - GREAT GREY SHRIKE (Mike Crosby)

Wimpole Hall - Cetti's Warbler in reeds by lake (Mike Crosby)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Ring-necked Parakeet south side of Elney Lake (Gareth Rees)

Smithey Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Brendan Doe)

Earith - Russian White-fronted Goose on the pits, 840 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Water Pipit, Peregrine on the washes (Mark Ward)

Dernford Reservoir - pair of Goosander (Andrew Maxwell); ad Mediterranean Gull (Vernon Dursley)

Shropshires Reservoir - ad Mediterranean Gull (David Nation)

Eldernell - 13 Crane, 3 Great Egret, Peregrine, 2000 Black-tailed Godwit (Louise Bacon, Vince Lea); male & female Hen Harrier (Matt Mellor)

Duxford - HOOPOE (Ade Cooper)

Saturday, 26 February

Ely - Peregrine (David & Sallie Jones)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Spoonbill (Sue Greenway)

Godmanchester GPs - Black-necked Grebe (Stephen Hughes)

Dernford Reservoir - Mediterranean Gull (Rachel Lennard)

Grafham Water - 7 Scaup (Rachel Lennard)