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)