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)

Friday 25 February 2022

Friday, 25 February

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great Egret, 7 Goldeneye (John Le Gassick)

Ferry Meadows - Raven over (Don Gardener)

Eldernell - 6 Crane (Theo de Clermont)

Grafham Water - 2 drake, 5 fem Scaup (Colin Addington)

Swavesey - 7 Cattle Egret between the church and busway (Ed Gill)

Wicken area - 2 common Crane, 25 Golden Plover, Little Owl, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Six Mile Bottom - 2 Siskin  on a garden feeder (Kevin Wislon)

Ouse Washes - KUMLIEN'S GULL, 5 Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull in roost, 900 Whooper Swan to roost, 5 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE arrived at dusk (Mark Ward)

Etton Pits - 41 Goosander to roost (Jonathan Taylor)

Thursday 24 February 2022

Thursday, 24 February

Chatteris - Green Sandpiper nearby (Graham Cole)

Barway Fen - 2 Peregrine over (Sue Greenway)

Dernford Reservoir - ad Mediterranean Gull to roost, KUMLIEN'S GULL over, Goosander, 2 Woodcock, Stonechat, 12 Corn Bunting, 20 Mandarin into wildfowl pens at dusk (Steve Cooper)

Ouse Fen - 2 Crane (Mark Jones)

Wednesday 23 February 2022

Wednesday, 23 February

Dernford reservoir - ad Mediterranean Gull, fem Goosander, Merlin also 3 Ruddy Shelduck & Swan Goose (Andrew Dobson)

Tuesday 22 February 2022

Tuesday, 22 February

Dernford reservoir - fem Goosander (Mark Austin)

Grafham Water - 3 Goosander, 5 fem Scaup (David Nation)

Brampton East pit - 8 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Goldeneye (David Nation)

Nene Washes - 11,773 Wigeon, 474 Pintail, 571 Shoveler, 356 Gadwall, 2,847 Teal, 992 Black-tailed Godwit, 8450 Golden Plover, 200 Ruff, 24 Crane, 4 Great Egret, 1139 Whooper Swan, ringtail Hen Harrier to roost (Charlie Kitchin)

Monday 21 February 2022

Monday, 21 February

Grafham Water - a toal of 125 KITTIWAKE arriving in various groups and departing before dusk (Richard Patient); 2 Goosander (Mark Ward)

Dernford Reservoir - KITTIWAKE, Mediterranean Gull to roost, also Goosander, Woodcock (Steve Cooper)

Paxton Pits - 6 Smew, 8 Red-crested Pochard (Mark Ward)

Wicken area - 2 Crane, Little Owl, male Merlin, Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Smithey Fen - Water Rail (Rachel Lennard)

Sunday 20 February 2022

Sunday, 20 February

Colne Fen - 9 Whooper Swan, Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, 2 Grey Wagtail (Steve Cooper)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Russian White-fronted Goose (Brendan Doe); 253 Whooper Swan, 600+ Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff, 28 Dunlin; Great Egret at the sluice (Steve Cooper)

Sutton North Fen GP - 500+ Whooper Swan, 585 Teal, male Merlin (Steve Cooper)

Local Duxford residents reported the Hoopoe was still in the area on Friday (as per Steve Cooper)

Saturday 19 February 2022

Saturday, 19 February

Grafham Water - 5 fem Scaup, 4 Goosander (Mark Hawkes); Great Northern Diver (David Nation)

Fulbourn - 3 Bramblings at New Shardlows farm (Kevin Wilson)

Friday 18 February 2022

Friday 18 February

Eaton Ford - 44 Barnacle Geese over (Richard Patient)

Wednesday 16 February 2022

Thursday, 17 February

Fortrey's Hall - 5 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE arrived 11:00h (Roger Hardie)

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

Wednesday, 16 February

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL 08:40h, fem Goosander (Richard Palmer)

Smithey Fen, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL 10:20h, flew towards Long Drove (Andrew Maddocks)

Haddenham - fem Merlin near Hillrow causeway (David Nation)

Swavesey - 6 Cattle Egret near the church (Jon Murray)

Cambridge - Peregrine over Histon road area (Mike Wood)

Tuesday 15 February 2022

Tuesday, 15 February

Dernford Reservoir - fem Goosander (Mark Austin)

Gravel Farm Reservoir - male Goosander (David Nation)

Grafham Water - SPOONBILL over west ~3pm (Colin Addington)

Smithey Fen - SPOONBILL (Ian Ellis)

Monday 14 February 2022

Monday, 14 January

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 redhead Smew (Nikki Dibb)

Maxey pit - Great Egret (Chris Lines)

Godmanchester - White-fronted Goose (Rachel lennard);

Godmanchester GP - Black-necked Grebe (John Murray)

Harston/Foxton - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over (Ian Wheller)

Sunday 13 February 2022

Sunday, 13 February

Godmanchester - White-fronted Goose (Brendan Doe)

Grunty Fen - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over towards Ely 15:00h (David Nation)

Eldernell - 24 Crane (Owen Watson)

Saturday 12 February 2022

Saturday, 12 February

Nene Washes - Avocet, 900 Black-tailed Godwit at March Farmers, 29 Crane, Merlin at Eldernell (Charlie Kitchin) 

Ouse washes - 5 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE, 119 Whooper Swan at Fortrey's Hall, 419 Whooper Swan, 4 Great Egret, 60 Black-tailed Godwit, 22 Golden Plover between Mepal & Earith (Carlos Davies)

Ouse Fen - 3 Great Egret (Carlos Davies)

Swavesey - 8 Cattle Egret near church (Carlos Davies)

Grafham Water - 5 fem Scaup (Mark Hawkes)

Fordham Wood - Marsh Tit, Nuthatch, 6 Siskin (Kevin Wilson)

Milton CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Nathan Long)

Friday 11 February 2022

Friday, 11 February

Godmanchester GP - Black-necked Grebe (Tony Plant)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes); 5 Scaup off Plummer (Keith Honnor)

Milton CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Graham Cole)

Ouse Washes - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE (presumed G471) between Fortrey's Hall and Common Wash late pm for c30 mins. Eventually flew off NW over Welches Dam VC just before dusk. Also male Hen Harrier, 2 Water Pipit over, 4 Great White Egret, 40 Ruff, c200 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE (Mark Ward).

Thursday 10 February 2022

Thursday, 10 February

Heydon pig fields - KUMLIEN'S GULL, 2 Raven (Roger Hardie)

Ouse Fen - TUNDRA BEAN GOOSE with Greylags at Over end; also 7 Cattle Egret at Swavesey Church (Richard Palmer)

Fubourn - 3 Brambling at New Shardlows Farm feeder (Kevin Wilson)

South Cambs - 7 Raven (Rachel Lennard)

Eldernell - GLOSSY IBIS to the west (Charlie Kitchin)

Wednesday 9 February 2022

Wednesday, 9 February

Fortrey's Hall - 5 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE to west of old pumping station, 50 Whooper Swan (Duncan McNiven)

South Cambs - 44 Raven in and around field with deer carcass (Steve Cooper)

Heydon pig fields - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Steve Cooper)

Cottenham - 600 Whooper Swan, 3 Bewick's Swan, 3 Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull (Brendan Doe)

Tuesday 8 February 2022

Tuesday, 8 February

Dernford Reservoir - pair of Goosander (Mark Austin)

Grafham Water - Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (David Nation)

Godmanchester GP - Black-necked Grebe, 2 Egyptian Geese (John Wells)

Ellington - male Brambling, 5 Siskin, Tawny Owl (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Monday 7 February 2022

Monday, 7 February

Grafham - Great Northern Diver, fem Scaup, juv Kittiwake (Richard Patient)

Ouse Washes - 5 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE at Fortrey's Hall briefly, 88 Barnacle Geese at Oxlode, 135 Corn Bunting just east of Way Head (Simon Gillings)

Wilburton - fem Merlin at Low Fen (Simon Gillings) 

Godmanchester GP - Black-necked Grebe, Great Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, Ring-necked Parakeet, Cetti's Warbler (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Sunday 6 February 2022

Sunday, 6 February

Fulbourn - Peregrine over (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Merlin in the area, c.150 Reed Bunting to roost (Steve Cooper)

Heydon pig fields - 3 Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Raven (Steve Cooper) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 7 Smew, Caspian Gull, Yellow Legged Gull, Great Egret over (James Hanlon)

Swavesey - 9 Cattle Egret (James Hanlon)

Pymoor - flock of c.30 Barnacle geese (Al Kitching)

Saturday 5 February 2022

Friday, 4 February

Swavesey - 7 Cattle Egret between church & busway (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, drake Goosander (Mark Hawkes)

Manea - Cattle Egret (Andy Bayes)

Thursday 3 February 2022

Thursday, 3 February

Grafham Water - 6 Scaup (Colin Addington)

Godmanchester GP - Black-necked Grebe (Jon Heath)

Swavesey - 3 Cattle Egret (Jeremy Lindsell)

Wednesday 2 February 2022

Wednesday, 2 February

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Spoonbill, which flew norther east along river (Jonathan Taylor)

Ouse Washes - 5 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE nearby, south of Fortrey's Hall 17:00h (Jonathan Taylor)

New Shardlows Farm - 2 Brambling at feeder (Kevin Wilson)

Knarr Fen - 62 Crane, 20 Bewick's Swan, Tree Sparrow, Brambling (Ian Gordon)

Tuesday 1 February 2022

Tuesday, 1 February

Comberton - GREAT GREY SHRIKE (John Hoppett)

Grafham Water - 6 Scaup (David Nation)

Fowlmere - Redpoll with Siskin flock, Barn Owl (Ed Gill)

Milton CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Jon Heath) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Spoonbill (Colin Kirtland)

Wicken Fen - 2 male & a female Hen Harrier, Woodcock (Colin Kirtland)