Sunday, 31 December 2023

Sunday, 31 December

Great Shelford - 14 WAXWING near the station but flighty (John Hoppett)

St. Ives GPs - drake Smew (Duncan McNiven)

Grafham Water - 2 Bewick's Swan (James Walsh)

Milton CP - fem Goosander on Dickerson's Pit still (John Proctor)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Mediterranean Gull (Richard Thomas)

Saturday, 30 December 2023

Saturday, 20 December

Devil's Dyke - 29 Raven near Ditch Farm (Rich Dale)

Great Shelford Statoon - 30 WAXWING (Tony Warne)

Friday, 29 December 2023

Friday, 29 December

Fen Drayton Lakes - fem Common Scoter on Ferry Lagoon, Caspian Gull on Ferry Mere (Robin Ward)

Great Shelford - 15+ WAXWING at Mores Meadow 14:40h (Ben Balmford)

Cambridge - 11 WAXWING at Christchurch Street briefly (Jon Heath)

Thursday, 28 December 2023

Thursday, 28 December

Cambridge - 12 WAXWING along Parsonage Street until 11:45h (Carlos Davies)

Great Shelford - 20 WAXWING at the station briefly this morning (as per Steve Dutton); 15 WAXWING at Mores Meadow briefly, 14:20h (Andrew Knights)

Longstanton - FERRUGINOUS DUCK (John Hoppett)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Common Scoter on Ferry Lagoon (Carlos Davies)

Cambridge Research Park - 3 Caspian Gull (Jon Heath)

Wednesday, 27 December

Great Shelford - WAXWING near station (Mike Foley)

Manea - 15+ Crane reported just to the west

Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Tuesday, 26 December

Longstanton - FERRUGINOUS DUCK (Jeremy Lindsell)

Sunday, 24 December 2023

Sunday, 24 December

Cambridge - 9 WAXWING along Adams Road 12:30h (Chris Rider)

Great Shelford station - 6 WAXWING reported

Thorpe Meadows Rowing Lake - 1w Mediterranean Gull (Don Gardener)

Longstanton - FERRUGINOUS DUCK (Lee Gregory)

Saturday, 23 December 2023

Saturday, 23 December

Sawtry - 9 WAXWING south over Rowell Way (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - drake AMERICAN WIGEON reported, about half way between March Farmers and Rings End 

Dernford Reservoir - Caspian Gull, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, 13 Corn Bunting; also 30 Lesser Redpoll at Dernford Fen (Steve Cooper)

Friday, 22 December 2023

Friday, 22 December

Peterborough Rowing Lake - 1w Mediterranean Gull (Mike Weedon)

Ouse Washes and surrounding farmland - 8964 Whooper Swan, 297 Bewick's Swan this week (Jonathan Taylor)

Maxey - male Smew on Pig Jaw Pit this morning (Chris Lines)

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 2 Bewick's Swan, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 21 December

Coton - WAXWINGS still present (m.o.)

CEGB reservoir/Teardrop Lake - Great Northen Diver, 1w Mediterranean Gull (Paul Bolton)

Wednesday, 20 December 2023

Wednesday, 20 December

Peterborough, CS Bauer CP - 2 WAXWING this morning (m.o.)

Cherry Hinton - 5 WAXWING (Jon Heath) 

Cambridge, Vinery Road - 2 WAXWING briefly (Jon Heath)

Coton - 8 WAXWING (Rich Atkins)

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop lake - Great Northern Diver

Tuesday, 19 December

Peterborough, CS Bauer CP - 4 WAXWING this morning (m.o.)

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop lake - Great Northern Diver (Brian Stone)

Monday, 18 December 2023

Monday, 18 December

Stretham - 15 WAXWING along Short Road (Rachel Lennard)

Coton - 21 WAXWING near school (Nath Comber)

Peterborough, CS Bauer CP - 3 WAXWING this morning (Chris Jones); up to 5 birds present later in the day (m.o.)

Swavesey - 9 Cattle Egret at Middle Fen (Simon Passey)

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop lake - Great Northern Diver (Paul Bolton)

Sunday, 17 December 2023

Sunday, 17 December

Nene Washes - drake AMERICAN WIGEON c. 2km west of Ring's End, Spotted Redshank (Andrew Tongue)

Upper Cambourne - 5 WAXWING this morning (James Hanlon); 7 birds this afternoon (Brendan Doe)

Grafham Water - 2 Bewick's Swan, Red-crested Pochard, Caspian Gull (Elliot Cornelius) 

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop lake - Great Northern Diver (Mike Weedon)

Wicken Fen -  2 male, 2 ringtail Hen Harrier to roost, 200+ Whooper Swan to roost at Burwell, Redpoll (Christoph Zöckler)

Saturday, 16 December 2023

Saturday, 16 November

Nene Washes - drake AMERICAN WIGEON east of March Farmers (Andrew Tongue)

 Coton - 3 WAXWING on Whitwell Way (Richard Palmer)

Friday, 15 December 2023

Friday, 15 December

Coton - 24 WAXWING reported near primary school this morning, 3 remaining at 13:30h (Louise Bacon)

Thursday, 14 December

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop lake - Great Northern Diver (Josh Jones)

Grafham Water -  Great Northern Diver, 2 Bewick's Swan (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Wednesday, 14 December

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop Lake - Great Northern Diver (Don Gardener)

Trumpington Meadows NR - 8 Brent Geese over south (Iain Webb) 

Upper Cambourne - 3 WAXWING headed from Eastgate towards Upper Cambourne (James Hanlon)

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Tuesday, 12 December

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, Green Sandpiper, 72 Pochard in Velley Creek, 10 Siskin (Ian Dawson)

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop Lake - Great Northern Diver (Dean Harlow)

Southey Wood - CROSSBILLS at What3words location playful.massaged.sticker, present since yesterday (Paul Bolton)

Monday, 11 December

Stretham - WAXWING (Ian Barton, Rachel Lennard)

Sunday, 10 December 2023

Sunday, 10 December

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, 2 Bewick's Swan, 4 Goosander, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); 2 Great Egret, 4 Egyptian Geese, Common Sandpiper (David Nation)

Paxton Pits - Great Northern Diver (David Nation)

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop lake - Great Northern Diver (Chris Jones)

Stretham - Pink-footed Goose with Greylags (David Nation)

Brampton East - 7 Red-crested Pochard (David Nation)

Saturday, 9 December

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop lake - Great Northern Diver (Mike Weedon)

Research Park, Waterbeach - 3 Caspian Gull (Jon Heath)

Friday, 8 December 2023

Friday, 8 December

Fen Drayton Lakes - Common Scoter, also 5 Cattle Egret near Swavesey busway stop (Jill Aldred)

CEGB Reservoir - Great Northern Diver (Chris Jones)

Wimpole - 4 Mandarin, 2 Raven, 14 Red Kite to roost (Colin Kirtland)

Thursday, 7 December 2023

Thursday, 7 December

 Granta Park - 3 Goosander over (Gareth Rees)

Wednesday, 6 December

March Farmers - 160 Ruff, 100 Dunlin, 12 Bewick's Swan with Whooper Swans (Charlie Kitchin)

Fen Drayton Lakes - LONG-TAILED DUCK still (Terry Brown)

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Tuesday, 5 December

Cradge Bank - 4 Cattle Egret (Martin Browne)

Paxton Pits - 3 Goosander (Terry Brown)

Monday, 4 December 2023

Sunday, 3 December

Cottenham Long Drove - Czech-ringed Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Sunday, 3 December 2023

Saturday, 2 December

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 1 December 2023

Friday, 1 December

Grafham Water - 12 Whooper Swan through west (Nigel Butler)

Burwell Fen - 17 Whooper Swan, 2 Stonechat (Andy Hannaford)

CEGB Reservoir - juv Great Northern Diver, Caspian Gull (Josh Jones)

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull, Stonechat, 4 Bewick's Swan over, 2 Whooper Swan briefly (Paul Bolton)

Fen Drayton Lakes - LONG-TAILED DUCK on Ferry Lgoon (Arjun Dutta); Common Scoter (Rachel Lennard)

Burnt Fen - 18 Bewick's Swan, 500 Whooper Swan, 3 Bearded Tit, Brambling, 200 Golden Plover, Great Egret Over, Goosander over (David Nation)

Litlington - WAXWINGS (Andy Symes)

Cambridge - Raven over Ross Street (Edward Imber)

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Wednesday, 29 November

Granta Park - Woodcok (Gareth Rees) 

Milton CP - 3 Goosander (Jon Heath)

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, PURPLE SANDPIPER, 2 Bewick's Swan, Goosander, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Tuesday, 28 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, PURPLE SANDPIPER, Red-necked Grebe, diver sp. briefly (Ron Harold)

Monday, 27 November

Prickwillow - 13 Bewick's Swan with 200 Whooper Swan (David Nation)

Sunday, 26 November 2023

Sunday, 26 November

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

Ferry Meadows - Great Egret (Chris Monk)

Godmanchester - 15 Cattle Egret over (Steve Austin)

Paxton Pits - Great Northern Diver, Short-eared Owl (Jamie Wells)

Saturday, 25 November 2023

Saturday, 25 November

Berry Fen - FERRUGINOUS DUCK although elsuive (Andrew Tongue)

Grafham Water - Grey Plover over, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes); PURPLE SANDPIPER at north end this afternoon, GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Andrew Dobson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - male Common Scoter (Andrew Dobson) 

Burwell Fen - 4 Short-eared Owl, 300 Whooper Swan to roost (Christoph Zöckler)

Friday, 24 November 2023

Friday, 24 November

Grafham Water - at the dam PURPLE SANDPIPER, GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Richard Patient)

Thursday, 23 November 2023

Thursday, 23 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, fem Goosander, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Ian Dawson)

Burwell Fen - 3 Short-ared Owl, 4 Stonechat, ringtail Harrier (Paul Pulham)

Wicken - male Hen Harrier to roost (Colin Kirtland)

Girton - Woodcock at the allotments (Gillian Bunting)

Landbeach - 3 Raven over (Dick Newell)

Ferry Meadows - Mandarin, 3 Goosander (Bob Titman)

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Wednesday, 22 November

Fen Drayton Lakes - Peregrine, 3 Goosander, 10 Goldeneye, 2 Great Egret (Terry Brown)

Pymoor - Bar-tailed Godwit, also 5 Cattle Egret nearby (David Nation)

Wicken area - 60 Golden Plover, pair of Stonechat, Short-eared Owl, Redpoll, 7 Water Rail heard (Kevin Wilson)

Great Northern Diver (m.o.)

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Tuesday, 21 November

Thorpe Meadows rowing lake - Great Northern Diver (Tina Lindsay)

Monday, 20 November

Thorpe Meadows rowing lake - Great Northern Diver (Josh Jones)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, Common Scoter, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell Fen - 6 Short-eared Owl (Andy Clements)

Sunday, 19 November 2023

Sunday, 19 November

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, 4 Marsh Harrier (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 18 November 2023

Saturday, 18 November

Thorpe Meadows Rowing Lake - Great Northern Diver (Don Gardener)

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Ian Moore)

March Farmers - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER at the east end (Jonathan Taylor)

Wimpole - fem Hen Harrier (Richard Gregory)

Paxton Pits - Red-breasted Merganser, 2 Stonechat (Jamie Wells)

Longstanton - Red-crested Pochard (Rachel Lennard)

Friday, 17 November 2023

Friday, 17 November

Grafham Water - Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Little Gull, Caspian Gull, Goosander (Nigel Butler); GREEN-WINGED TEAL, Great Northern Diver (David & Sallie Jones)

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

Wicken Fen - Crossbill over (Simon Stirrup)

Nene Washes - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER with c.4000 Golden Plover on the north side, from far end of Thoney Dyke, until the the flock dispersed c.14:45h (Jonathan Taylor)

Drysides Pit - Great Northern Diver (Paul Bolton)

Thursday, 16 November 2023

Thursday, 16 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Stuart Fox)

Wednesday, 15 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Nath Comber); Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 14 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Rich Atkins)

Monday, 13 November 2023

Monday, 13 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Mark Hawkes)

Dryside Pit - Great Northern Diver (Paul Bolton)

Sunday, 12 November 2023

Sunday, 12 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Stuart Fox)

Northstowe - fem Scaup (Paul Derry)

Wandlebury - Bramblings, Firecrest (Andrew Knights)

Orwell - Short-eared Owl over (Richard Gregory)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Caspian Gull, Goldeneye, 4 Great Egret (Carlos Davies)

Wimpole - 2 Redpoll along Mare Way nearby (Kevin Wilson)

Ferry Meadows - 2 Great Egret (Chrsitopher Monk)

Saturday, 11 November 2023

Saturday, 11 November

Buckden - Brambling (Duncan McNiven) 

Burwell Fen - 3 Short-eared owl, Barn Owl (Paul & Joanne Craske)

Hare Park - 82 Stock Dove (Kevin Wilson)

Bradley Fen - Great Northern Diver (Mike Weedon)

Eldernell - Short-eared Owl (Dick Burnham)

Friday, 10 November 2023

Friday, 10 November

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, likely present since at least 5 November (Richard Patient)

Burwell Fen - Merlin, 4 Short-eared Owl (David Wege)

Purls Bridge - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (Jonathan Taylor)

Thursday, 9 November

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver (Andrew Dobson)

Thorney Dyke - Tree Sparrow (Andrew Dobson)

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Tuesday, 7 November

Wandlebury CP - 5+ Brambling (James Littlewood)

Eldernell - 14 Crane, 60 Whooper Swan, 2 Bewick's Swan, Tawny Owl, Long-eared Owl, Merlin reported

Monday, 6 November 2023

Monday, 6 November

Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER in maple trees near Victoria Road (Christoph Zöckler)

Hare Park - 3 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Berry Fen - BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Richard Thomas)

Sunday, 5 November 2023

Sunday, 5 November

Berry Fen - drake BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Andrew Tongue)

Maxey Pits - Red-crested Pochard, Merlin (Chris Lines)

Ferry Meadows - Great Egret (Christopher Monk)

Nene Washes - 4 Great Egret, Cattle Egret, 10 Ruff (Charlie Kitchin)

Clayhithe - 2 Siskin (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Fen - 13 Great Egret (Simon Passey)

Northstowe - Short-eared Owl, Scaup (Hugh Venables)

Saturday, 4 November

Grafham Water - Shag (Rachel Lennard)

Northstowe - juv Scaup, also Ferruginous Duck of unknown origin (Jon Heath)

Friday, 3 November

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull, Whooper Swan to the east (Paul Bolton)

Peterborough - WAXWING reported

Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Tuesday, 31 October

Haddenham - fem Black Redstart along Lode Way (Stephen Buckle)

March - Shag on the River Nene in the town centre (Derek Benton)

Grafham Water - ad Caspian Gull, Shag, 2 Little Gull through (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 30 October 2023

Monday, 30 October

Grafham Water - juv GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Shag, Snow Bunting over (Richard Patient)

Sunday, 29 October 2023

Sunday, 29 October

Grafham Water - juv and adult GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Shag (Mark Hawkes, Richard Patient)

Maxey - Osprey to north of the cut (Chris Lines)

Coe Fen - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER briefly (Joe Parham)

Saturday, 28 October

Wandlebury - 4 Brambling at junction with Roman Road (James Littlewood)

Eldernell - 30 Crane departed towards March, Bittern, hundreds of Whooper Swan left roost (Ian Gordon); Barnacle Goose (Mike Weedon)

Maxey/Helspton Road - 2 Barnacle Geese to south of drain (Mike Weedon)

Friday, 27 October 2023

Friday, 27 October

Grafham Water - juv Shag, Ring-necked Parakeet, Firecrest east of fishing lodge (Richard Patient) 

Hare Park - 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Burwell Fen -  220 Golden Plover in flight, 2 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson)

Nene Washes - Great Egret, 10 Cattle Egret on Low Wash, Spotted Redshank east of Eldernell CP (Charlie Kitchin)

Thursday, 26 October

Hare Park - 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Thursday, 26 October 2023

Wednesday, 25 October

Grafham Water - Red-necked Grebe briefly (Richard Patient)

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Tuesday, 24 October

Dernford Reservoir - Slavonian Grebe (David Dives); not located at 15:00h (Andy Merryweather)

Wicken area - 10 Whooper Swan on Burwell Fen, 2 Little Owl, pair of Stonechat at Priory Farm, 10 Cattle Egret, 2 Egyptian Geese at Upware (Kevin Wilson)

A47 - c.75 Crane from the road just past Ken Thomas between Rings End & Thorney (Tina Lindsay)

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Monday, 23 October 2023

Monday, 23 October

Cam Washes, Upware - 16 Cattle Egret (Jon Heath); 10 Whooper Swan, 10 Golden Plover (Ian Burfield)

Magog Down - Raven (Mike Foley)

Sunday, 22 October

Pymoor - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER trapped and riged at a private site (Tony Martin)

Ferry Meadows - Hen Harrier over, 3 Great Egret (Matt Webb)

Nene Washes - 10 Cattle Egret on Low Wash, 50 Crane, Tawny Owl at Eldernell (Charlie Kitchin)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Scaup (Rachel Lennard)

Coveney Byall Fen - Brent Goose (Brendan Doe)


Sunday, 22 October 2023

Saturday, 21 October

Grafham Water - probable RICHARD'S PIPIT over calling, but not seen (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Little Gull (Jake Reich); also Rock Pipit over, 2 Mandarin (Chris Ruis)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 6 Bearded Tit, Bittern, 9 Cattle Egret, Great Egret (Carlos Davies); Scaup (Richard Thomas)

Tanholt - Scaup (Paul Bolton)

Cambridge Research Park - Bittern, pair of Raven, Brambling (Jon Heath)

Saturday, 21 October 2023

Friday, 20 October

Grafham Water - 12 Little Gull, 2 Mediterranean Gull into roost (Mark Hawkes)

Ditton Meadows - pair of Stonechat (Iain Webb)

Thursday, 19 October 2023

Thursday, 19 October

Roswell Pits, Ely - juv Shag (Neal Gates)

Orton Wistow - RING OUZEL briefly (Matt Webb)

Maxey Pits - Mediterranean Gull over (Jonathan Taylor)

Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Wednesday, 18 October

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit (Mark Hawkes)

Isleham Washes - Spotted Redshank (Rich Dale)

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Tuesday, 17 October

Berry Fen - Great Egret, 7 Cattle Egret (Tracey Graves)

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit on dam, Green Sandpiper, Rock Pipit and Stonechat through, also 5 Siskin over (Mark Hawkes)

Etton Pits - 2 mobile Rock Pipit, Brambling over (Hugh Wright)

Monday, 16 October 2023

Monday, 16 October

Maxey pits - PECTORAL SANDIPER on Pig Jaw Pit and Rectory Pit until departing high 15:50h (Mike Weedon); on Pig Jaw Pit 2 Ruff, 2 Rock Pipit although elusive, Stonechat (Brian Stone)

High Wash - 8 Cattle Egret (Charlie Kitchin)

Wicken - 2 Little Owl at Priory Farm, Redpoll over (Kevin Wilson)


Sunday, 15 October 2023

Sunday, 15 October

Grafham Water - RING OUZEL in Lagoons this morning, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Rock Pipit (Mark Hawkes); 4 further Rock Pipit (Richard Patient)

Maxey Pits - Osprey, Peregrine over (Chris Lines)


Friday, 13 October 2023

Friday, 13 October

Ouse Washes RSPB - 49 Crane (Terry Brown)

Grafham Water - 5 Avocet (Matthew Rodgers)

Thursday, 12 October 2023

Thursday, 12 October

Grafham Water - Turnstone, Sanderling, Rock Pipit (Nigel Butler); Wheatear (Andrew Dobson); Brent Goose, 6 Whooper Swan (Matthew Rodgers)

Nene Washes - 100 Whooper Swan over (Charlie Kitchin) 

Berry Fen - 7 Cattle Egret (Nicola Ann)

Wednesday, 11 October

Grafham Water - Spoonbill, Bittern in flight (Nigel Butler)

New Shardlows Farm - 18 Swallow over (Kevin Wilson)

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Tuesday, 10 October

Dernford Reservoir - Garganey, 100 Golden Plover over (Steve Dutton)

Monday, 9 October 2023

Monday, 9 October

Great Shelford - Great Egret, 2 Brambling & 12 Siskin over (Chris Ruis)

Tanholt - 9 Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Devils Dyke - Merlin (Rich Dale)

Movements of Redwing and Fieldfare reported widely over the last few days.

Sunday, 8 October

Chippenham Fen - STONE CURLEW calling nearby pre-dawn, also 40 Redpoll through, 30 Siskin (Rich Dale)

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Friday, 6 October

Ouse Washes - 30 Cattle Egret (Jonathan Taylor)

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Thursday, 5 October

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Garganey, Marsh Harrier through (Steve Dutton)

Eldernell - 22 Crane to east of CP (Ian Gordon)

March - 72 Crane over (Alan Bull)

Wednesday, 4 October 2023

Wednesday, 4 October

Ouse Fen - Great Egret, Merlin, Swallow (Colin Kirtland)

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit, Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - 6 Cattle Egret (Alan Bull)

Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Tuesday, 3 October

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit briefly, 2 Green Sandpiper, 8 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 15 Cattle Egret, Great Egret (Charlie Kitchin)

Ellington - Spotted Flycatcher in a private garden (Stuart Elsom)

Monday, 2 October 2023

Monday, 2 October

Grafham Water - 2 Spoonbill (Mark Hawkes)

Cambridge - 1cy male Hen Harrier nearby (Jon Heath)

Sunday, 1 October 2023

Sunday, 1 October

Ouse Washes - 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPER on pool near railway, 17 Crane, 2 Great Egret, 14 Ruff (James Littlewood)

Saturday, 30 September 2023

Saturday, 30 September

Grafham Water - 2 Black-necked Grebe, juv Osprey over, 3 Stonechat, 7 Great Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, 3 Redpoll, 2 Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Whopper Swan, 10 Great Egret, 4 Cattle Egret (Carlos Davies)

Friday, 29 September 2023

Friday, 29 September

Grafham Water - Little Owl calling, 8 Great Egret, Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-elgged Gull, juv PURPLE HERON in Littless Creek (Mark Hawkes) which headed east towards lagoons at 18:26h (Matthew Rodgers)

Maxey Pits - Osprey, Great Egret, Whinchat (Chris Lines)

Thursday, 28 September

Tanholt - 3 Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Grafham Water - Wheatear (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Wednesday, 27 September

Cambridge - 4 Raven over north Nuttings Road (Iain Webb)

Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Tuesday, 26 September

Etton - Fieldfare (Hugh Wright)

Whittlesey High Wash - 18 Cattle Egret, 2 Whinchat (Charlie Kitchin)


Monday, 25 September 2023

Monday, 25 September

Northstowe - Short-eared Owl through, Green Sandpiper (Hugh Venables)

Ferry Meadows - at least 77 Ring-necked Parakeet left the roost this mmorning (Don Gardener)

Maxey pits - 3 Hobby (Chris Lines)

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Sunday, 24 September

Hare Park - 12 Sand Martin through (Kevin Wilson)

Whittlesey High Wash - 17 Cattle Egret (Charlie Kitchin)

Maxey Pits - 2 Osprey, Whinchat (Chris LInes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Cattle Egret, 7 Great Egret, fem Garganey (Nath Comber)

Saturday, 23 September

Ouse Fen - 20 Bearded Tit, Water Rail (Christoph Zöckler)

Chippenham Fen - ringtail Hen Harrier over south, 6 Siskin, juv Hobby (Richard Dale)

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit, Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Hobby (Simon Passey)

Friday, 22 September 2023

Friday, 22 September

Fen Drayon Lakes - 11 Great Egret, 5 Cattle Egret, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler (Alan Harris)

West Brook pit - Osprey (Duerden Cormack)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over 11:30h (Jill Aldred)

Horingsea - 2 Siskin, 3 Sand Martin (Ian Burfield)

Quy Fen - Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Green Sandpiper (Ian Burfield)

Thursday, 21 September 2023

Thursday, 21 September

Cambridge - Whinchat, Stoenchat along MRAO fenceline near dishes at Barton end, viewed along footpath from Haslingfield (Roger Hardie)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Curlew Sandpiper (Richard Thomas); 7 Cattle Egrets, 7 Great Egret (Nigel Lister)

Maxey pits - juv Osprey, Peregrine (Hugh Wright)

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Wednesday, 20 September

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Garganey, Common Sandpiper, Sand Martin (Alan Harris)

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 9 Great Egrets, Hobby (Caspian Gull)

Nene Washes - 2 Whinchat on Low Wash  (Charlie Kitchin)

Tuesday, 19 September

Grafham Water - 11 Great Egret, Arctic Tern through (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken area - Peregrine over, 6 Swallows (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 17 September 2023

Sunday, 17 September

Barleycraft - Osprey over (Al Kitching)

Saturday, 16 September

Whittlesey High Wash - 17 Cattle Egret (Charlie Kitchin)

Etton pits - Great Egret over (Bob Titman); Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Paul Bolto)

Tanholt - Capian Gull, Great Erget (Paul Bolton)

Friday, 15 September 2023

Friday, 15 September

Ouse Washes RSPB - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, 20 Crane (Derek Benton)

Thursday, 14 September 2023

Thursday, 14 September

Grafham Water - 3 Great Egret (John Roe)

Etton pits - Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes - 17 Cattle Egret on High Wash (Charlie Kitchin)

Wednesday, 13 September 2023

Wednesday, 13 September

Ouse Washes RSPB - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 12 Crane, Wood Sandpiper (Rachel Lennard)

Etton pits - Wood Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, also Green Sandpiper, Golden Plover over (Hugh Wright)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, 2 Hobby (Terry Brown)

Grafham Water - juv Little Gull, Sandwich Tern, 6 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 12 September 2023

Tuesday, 12 September

Grafham Water - dark phase ARCTIC SKUA west past Marlow CP 17:45h (Matthew Rodgers); Knot, 6 Great Egret, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Whittlesey High Wash - 15 Cattle Egret (Charlie Kitchin)

Ouse Washes - Wood Sandpiper (Terry Brown) 

Etton pits - Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Monday, 11 September 2023

Monday, 11 September

Grafham Water - Knot (Mark Hawkes)

Etton pits - Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Dernford Reservoir - Little Stint, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Garganey (Roger Hardie)

Kingfishers Bridge - Garganey, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, Peregrine (Ian Burfield)

Sunday, 10 September 2023

Sunday, 10 September

Etton pits - Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - Garganey, 5 Great Egret, Caspian Gull, 7 Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday, 9 September

Grafham Water - juv Black Tern, 3 Pintail, 25 Siskin over (Mark Hawkes)

Isleham Washes - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Avocet, Green Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson)

Nene Washes - 16 Cattle Egret, Merlin on Low Wash reported

Friday, 8 September 2023

Friday, 8 September

Isleham Washes - 2 juv Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper, 9 Egyptian  Geese, 6 Yellow Wagtail (Stu Elsom)

River Nene - Whooper Swan by Rail World (Phill Hicks)

Ouse Washes - Curlew Sandpiper, 100 Ruff, 58 Crane, 5 Green Sandpiper, 4 Great Egret (Jonathan Taylor)

Etton pits - Caspian Gull, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Thursday, 7 September 2023

Thursday, 7 September

Grafham Water - 2 Little Gull, Black Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - 14 Cattle Egret reported

Wednesday, 6 September 2023

Wednesday, 6 September

Littlington - 2 Whinchat (Geoff Barlow)

Tanholt - 1cy & 2cy Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Tuesday, 5 September 2023

Tuesday, 5 September

Cradge Bank - 17 Cattle Egret (Josh Jones)

Grafham Water - 2 Sandwich Tern (Richard Patient)

Longstanton - 2 Whinchat (Rachel Lennard)

Monday, 4 September

Grafham Water - 2 Sandwich Tern (Richard Patient)

Nene Washes, Low Wash - Short-eared Owl (Dick Burnham)

Sunday, 3 September 2023

Sunday, 3 September

Maxey Pits - 2 Great Egret (Chris Lines)

Dernford Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe, Cattle Egret, 2 Garganey, Greenshank, 3 common Sandpiper, Hobby (Steve Cooper)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Hobby (James Littlewood)

Chippenahm Fen - Tree Pipit, Siskin (Richard Dale)

Saturday, 2 September

Dernford Rservoir - Black-necked Grebe (Robert Kitchen)

Grafham Water - 3 Tree Sparrow with Linnets at the dam (Mark Hawkes)

Etton Pits - 12 Turnstone through, 4 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, Wheatear (Hugh Wright)

Friday, 1 September 2023

Friday, 1 September

Etton pits -2 Garganey, fem mandarin, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff (Hugh Wright); 2 Red-crested Pochard (Chris Lines)

Dernford Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe, Common Sandpiper (Andy Merryweather)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Greenshank, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Hobby (Terry Brown)

Thursday, 31 August 2023

Thursday, 31 August

Dernford Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe, Knot (Andrew Dobson); 2 Garganey (Jon Heath)

Castor Hanglands - Short-eared Owl (Mike Weedon)

Eartih - fem Goosander on the river, 2 Cattle Egret (Simon Stirrup)

Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Wednesday, 30 August

Dernford Resevoir - Black-necked Grebe, 2 Common Sandpiper Alan Harris)

Isleham Washes - Red-crested Pochard, Avocet, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Stu Elsom)

Tanholt - 3 juv Caspian Gull, 8 Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Berry Fen - 2 Ruff, Gren Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Stephen Hughes)

Ditton Meadows - Whinchat (Jon Heath)

Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Tuesday, 29 August

West Brook pit - 2 Osprey over, ad Mediterranean Gull (Duerden Cormack)

Hare Park - Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 28 August

Hildersham/Linton - Wheatear, 2 Peregrine between the villages (James Littlewood)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, 4 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank (Nath Comber)

Sunday, 27 August 2023

Sunday, 27 August

Grafham Water - 2 Whinchat (Mark Hawkes)

St. Neots - Redstart in a private garden (Andrew Tongue)

Paxton Pits - Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Greenshank, 2 Raven, 3 juv Hobby (Jamie Wells)

Ouse Washes RSPB - White Stork from Stockdales hide (Andrew Tongue)

Cambourne - Redstart (Johnny Hook); 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Rachel Lennard)

Maxey - Cattle Egret over west along the cut (Mike Weedon)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 2 Hobby, Glossy Ibis, 3 Great Egret, Greenshank, 6 Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Carlos Davies)

Cambridge Research Park - Whinchat (Ian Burfield)

Saturday, 26 August 2023

Saturday, 26 September

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (Carlos Davies) 

Wicken Fen - Greenshank, 6 Green Sandpiper, Garganey, Little Owl (Carlos Davies) 

Grafham Water - Whinchat, Hobby, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 7 Common Sandpiper, 30 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Fowlmere - male Redstart (Ade Cooper)

Ailsworth - Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Whinchat nearby (Matt Webb)

Friday, 25 August 2023

Friday, 25 August

Kingfishers Bridge - Wood Sandpiper,  Garganey (Ian Burfield); also Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Ruff (Kevin Wilson)

Thursday, 24 August

Etton pits - 4 Whimbrel over (Hugh Wright)

Tanholt - 2 Caspian Gull, Green Sandpiper (Paul Bolton)

Nene Washes - 2 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear (Charlie Kitchin)

Wednesday, 23 August 2023

Wednesday, 23 August

Castor Hanglands - Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher (Mike Weedon)

Landbeach - Raven over (Dick Newell)

Dernford Reservoir - Wood Sandpiper (Steve Dutton)

Tuesday, 22 August 2023

Tuesday, 22 August

Baits Bite lock - Hobby, Ring-necked Parakeet (Mike Wood)

Etton pits - Garganey (Hugh Wright)

Monday, 21 August 2023

Monday, 21 August

Dernford Reservoir - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Garganey (Richard Palmer)

Etton pits - Garganey (Hugh Wright)

Cambridge - Redstart in a private garden (Jon Heath)

Sunday, 20 August 2023

Sunday, 20 August

Chippenham Fen - 2 Tree Pipits trapped and ringed this morning (Rich Dale)

Grafham Water - 1cy Mediterranean Gull, 5 Turnstone briefly, 2 Wheatear (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - Wood Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Chris Ruis)

Etton pits - Redstart along the South Drain (Hugh Wright)

Tanholt  - 2 Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Green Sandpiper (Howard Butler)

Nene Washes - Cuckoo, 13 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2 Raven, Great Egret, 90 Yellow Wagtail (Charlie Kitchin)

Saturday, 19 August

Chippenham Fen - Pied Flycatcher trapped and ringed this morning (Rich Dale)

Wicken Fen - Great Egret, 4 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Turnstone, 3 Garganey (Carlos Davies)

Paxton Pits - Spoonbill, Osprey, Caspian Gull, 2 Turnstone, Grenshank (Jamie Wells)

Friday, 18 August 2023

Friday, 18 August

Etton pits - 2 Black Tern, Garganey, Great Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper (Hugh Wright); 2 juv Spotted Redshank (Josh Jones)

Grafham Water -  4 Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 40 Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit over, 3 Black Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - juv Arctic Tern on Overton Lake (Matt Webb)

Tanholt - 2 juv Caspian Gull, 6 juv Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Ditton Meadows - Whinchat (Jon Heath)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Great Egret (Tracey Graves)

Northstowe - 2 juv Black Tern (Hugh Venables)


Thursday, 17 August 2023

Thursday, 17 August

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe, 2 Black Terns (Richard Patient); Osprey, Greenshank, Caspian Gull, 2 Raven (Nigel Butler); 4 Mediterranean Gull, 2 further Black Tern, 3 Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Wandlebury - pair and 2 juv Spotted Flycatcher (James Littlewood)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, 2 Cattle Egret, 2 Great Egret, 2 Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Carlos Davies)

Longstanton - 12 Common Sandpiper (Rachel Lennard)

Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Wednesday, 16 August

Maxey Pits - Cattle Egret (Chris Lines)

Grafham Water - Osprey, 2 Caspian Gull, 5 Common Sandpiper, 40 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - 8 Spoonbill, Golden Plover, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 18 Ruff (Jonathan Taylor)

Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Tuesday, 15 August

Landbeach - Quail singing nearby (Dick Newell)

Grunty Fen - 2 juv Turtle Dove (David Nation)

Grafham Water - Osprey over (John Roe)

Wandlebury - 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Mike Wood)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret, Hobby (Gill Parrish)

Etton pits - juv Mediterranean Gull (Hugh Wright)

Monday, 14 August 2023

Monday, 14 August

Ouse Washes RSPB - 3 Spoonbill from Cadbury hide (Diana Leech)

Grafham Water  - 9 Cattle Egret (Nigel Butler); 3 Dunlin, 19 Black-tailed Godwit over (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Fowlmere - Green Sandpiper (Dave Hatton)

Etton pits - juv Mediterranean Gull, Garganey, 4 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Ouse Fen - 2 Great Egret (Tracey Graves)

Sunday, 13 August 2023

Sunday, 13 August

Grafham Water - 2 Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Raven (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Maxwell)

Cambridge - 10 Whimbrel over (Jon Heath)

Cambridge Research Park - Yellow-legged Gull (Jon Heath)

Dogsthorpe - Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Saturday, 12 August 2023

Saturday, 12 August

Berry Fen - Greenshank (Rich Atkins)

Friday, 11 August

 Ouse Washes RSPB - 2 Spoonbill (Brendan Doe)

Shropshire's Reservoir - 2 Greenshank over, Wheatear (David Nation)

Friday, 11 August 2023

Thursday, 10 August

Grafham Water - Turnstone, Caspian Gull (Ian Dawson); also 25 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Common Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, Raven (Mark Hawkes); Little Ringed Plover (Tracey Graves)

Wicken Fen - 4 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 12 Yellow Wagtail, Kingfisher (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday, 9 August

Paxton Pits - 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Avocet, Hobby (Terry Brown)

Nene Washes - 1200 lapwing, 4 Greensahnk, 5 Ruff, Wheatear (Charlie Kitchin)

Ouse Washes RSPB - 31 Ruff, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 18 Garganey (Rachel Lennard)

Monday, 7 August 2023

Monday, 7 August

Tanholt - Wood Sandpiper, 10 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, Ruff, 2 Common Sandpiper (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 6 August 2023

Sunday, 6 August

Ouse Fen, Lockspit's Mere - 2 Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, Grasshopper Warbler (Tracey Graves)

Berry Fen - Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (Rich Atkins)

Etton pits - drake Scaup (Mike Weedon)

Saturday, 5 August 2023

Saturday, 5 August

Wicken Fen - Garganey, Green Sandpiper (Stephen Buckle)

Paxton Pits - 4 Caspian Gull (Andrew Tongue)

Berry Fen - Cattle Egret, 2 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (Rachel Lennard)

Etton pits - drake Scaup, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Jonathan Taylor); Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Garganey (Hugh Wright)


Friday, 4 August 2023

Friday, 4 August

Smithy Fen - Curlew Sandpiper (Ian Ellis)

Thursday, 3 August 2023

Thursday, 3 August

Grafham Water - 2 Turnstone, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Jon Roe)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (David & Sallie Jones)

Wednesday, 2 August

Grafham Water - Garganey (Nigel Butler)

Ouse Washes RSPB - 4 Whooper Swan, 28 Garganey, Great Egret, 9 Ruff, Curlew, Hobby (Terry Brown)

Etton pits - Sanderling, Turnstone, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper; also Grey Plover over (Hugh Wright)

Tuesday, 1 August 2023

Tuesday, 1 August

Kingfishers Bridge - 4 Egyptian Geese, Ruff, Common Sandpiper (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 31 July

Bottisham Lock - Yellow-legged Gull nearby (Stephen Buckle)

Sunday, 30 July

Grunty Fen - ad Caspian Gull, ad Mediterranean Gull (David Nation)

Smithy Fen - White Stork (Tom hines)

Ouse  Washes RSPB - Spoonbill (Nick Cousins)

Ouse Fen - Glossy Ibis (Rich Atkins)

Saturday, 29 July 2023

Saturday, 29 July

Ouse Fen - 2 Great Egret (Tracey Graves); Crane reported over

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Shelduck/Cape Shelduck (Ian Burfield)

Wicken Fen - 3 Garganey, Gasshopper Warbler (Stephen Buckle)

Friday, 28 July

Grunty Fen - Caspian Gull, juv Turtle Dove (David Nation)

Etton pits - 3 Goosander, Yellow-legged Gull, Mandarin, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Friday, 28 July 2023

Thursday, 27 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Diana Leech)

Wednesday, 26 July 2023

Wednesday, 26 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Marilyn Peterkin)

Maxey pits - Great Egret (Chris Lines)

Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Tuesday, 25 July

Ouse Washes RSPB - PECTORAL SANDPIPER from Stockdales & then Cadbury Hide (Ade Cooper)

Smithy Fen - White Stork, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sandpiper (Marilyn Peterkin)

Grafham Water - Sandwich Tern (Richard Patient)

Hare Park - Peregrine over (Kevin Wilson)

Kingfishers Birdge - Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, Ruff; also par of Ruddy Shelduck (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, 5 Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

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

Monday, 24 July 2023

Monday, 24 July

Longstanton - Crossbill over norhtwest calling 15:10h (David Nation)

Grafham Water - Sanderling, Osprey (Richard Patient); Grey Plover over (Colin Addington)

Smithy Fen - 3 Green Sandpiper, 7 Little Ringed Plover (Peter Leonard)

Kingfishers Bridge - Ruff, Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Kevin Wilson)

Tanholt - 3 juv Caspian Gull, 12 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Sunday, 23 July 2023

Saturday, 22 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Great Egret (Gill Parrish)

Tanholt - juv Caspian Gull, 6 Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Friday, 21 July

Cherry Hinton - 2 Sandwich Tern over south (Carl Howard) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Cattle Egret, 8 Great Egret, Hobby, Turnstone, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper (Alan Harris)

Thursday, 20 July 2023

Thursday, 20 July

Ouse Fen - Bittern, 2 Great Egret, Hobby, Bearded Tit (Tracey Graves)

Grafham Water - 4 Mandarin, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, Goldeneye (Nigel Butler)

Wednesday, 19July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, Bittern, 4 Great Egret, 5 Black-tailed Gdowit, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Alan Harris)

Tuesday, 18 July 2023

Tuesday, 18 July

Sawtry - STONE CURLEW over  St Andrews Road/B1043 at 07:40h (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Black Tern off Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 17 July 2023

Monday, 17 July

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 2 ad Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - Great Egret, Hobby, 2 Turtle Dove (Tracey Graves)

Kingfishers Bridge - Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Ruff (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 16 July

Heydon pig farms - 17 Yellow-legged Gull, 3cy caspain Gull, 29 Raven nearby (Steve Cooper)

Dernford reservoir - 6 Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, juv Yellow-legged Gull (Steve Cooper)

Saturday, 15 July 2023

Saturday, 15 July

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Stewart Short)

Thursday, 13 July 2023

Thursday, 13 July

Grafham Water - 2cy drake LESSER SCAUP from Plummer CP this afternoon (Yoav Perlman) 

Tanholt - juv Yellow-legged Gull, 3cy Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton) 

Nene Washes - Redstart, Cattle Egret reported 

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Wednesday, 12 July

Smithy Fen - White Stork, 4 Green Sandpiper, 8 Little Ringed Plover reported 

Grafham Water - 3 Common Sandpiper, 8 Little Ringed Plover, Mediterranean Gull, Black Tern, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 10 July 2023

Monday, 10 July

Burwell Fen - male Whinchat (Chris Brown)

Dernford Reservoir - Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

Milton - White Stork over (James Hutchinson)

Sunday, 9 July

Smithy Fen - Little Stint (Rachel Lennard); White Stork, Little Ringed Plover (Rich Atkins)

Saturday, 8 July

Smithy Fen - White Stork, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Avocet, Little Ringed Plover (Rachel Lennard)

Friday, 7 July 2023

Friday, 7 July

Grafham Water -2cy drake LESSER SCAUP in valley creek this morning (Richard Patient). A very subtle bird and easily over-looked amongst Tufted’s. Note that there is also an adult drake Tufted x Scaup-type hybrid around too. Park at Mander car park and walk west to valley creek hide (Mark Hawkes); Wimbrel, 8 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Curlew over, Yellow-legged Gull (Ian Dawson)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Cuckoo (Ian Burfield)

Burwell Fen - Green Sandpiper, Bearded Tits, 2 Barn Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Wednesday, 5 July

West Brook Pit - Osprey over (Duerden Cormack)

Tuesday, 4 July 2023

Tuesday, 4 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN 06:00h, not reported after this time (Steve Hutchinson)

Monday, 3 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN (Dave Anderson)

Saturday, 1 July 2023

Saturday, 1 July

Wicken Fen - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Tree Sparrow, Little Owl at Priory Farm (Stephen Buckle)

Friday, 30 June

Fleam Dyke - Quail singing west of dyke, just north of disused railway; also 3 Corn Butning singing, Hobby (Iain Webb)

Friday, 30 June 2023

Thursday, 29 June

Cambridge - 4 Spotted Flycatcher at the crematorium Memorial Wood (Mike Wood)

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Wednesday, 28 June

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Richard Patient)

Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Tuesday, 27 June

Wicken Fen area - Bittern, 2 Cuckoo, Hobby (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 26 June 2023

Monday, 26 June

Grafham Water - Little Tern (Richard Patient)

Anglesey Abbey - Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail alon Quy Water (Kevin Wilson)

Quy Fen - Cuckoo, Kingfisher (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 24 June

 Ouse Washes - NIGHT HERON from Welches dam still (Paul Nobbs)

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Thursday, 22 June

Ouse Washes - NIGHT HERON (Kevin Taylor)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Sandwich Tern (Jeremy Lindsell)

Maxey - 2 Turtle Dove (Dick Burnham)

Wednesday, 21 June

Boxworth - Quail singing, c. TL34516514 (Alan Harris)

Ouse Fen - LITTLE CRAKE singing well from 22:10h (Steve Gantlett)

Ouse Washes - NIGHT HERON (Terry Brown)

Monday, 19 June 2023

Monday, 19 June

Wicken area - Bittern, 5 Cuckoo, 2 Grasshopper warbler, pair of Stonechat with 2 juveniles (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 18 June 2023

Sunday, 18 June

Grafham Water - mobile KELP GULL until 10:30h (Richard Patient)

Welches Dam - NIGHT HERON (Russell Watkins)

Ouse Fen - LITTLE CRAKE singing (Jamie Wells); PURPLE HERON over (Richard Grimmett)

Saturday, 17 June

Ouse Fen - LITTLE CRAKE singing

Ouse Washes - 8 Whooper Swan near the railway line, NIGHT HERON at Welches Dam (Carlos Davies); also fem Garganey, 11 Great Egret, Bittern (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - fem Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes)

 

Friday, 16 June 2023

Friday, 16 June

Ouse Fen - LITTLE CRAKE singing this morning (Tim Mason).

Thursday, 15 June 2023

Thursday, 15 June

Ouse Fen - LITTLE CRAKE singing this morning (Jeremy Lindsell). Note that this bird is deep in the reed bed at the north-west corner of cell2/Cuckoo Fen North and is not viewable in any way. Audible from western side of the cell near kissing gate (Hugh Venables)

Welches Dam - at least 1 NIGHT HERON from bridge over River Delph 07:00h (Simon Stirrup); 2 birds visible later (Paul Pulham); at least 3 birds present this evening (Neil Howard)

Fen Drayton Lakes - fem Common Scoter, 2 Hobby, 3 Cuckoo (Stu Elsom)

Croxton - Quail singing nearby this morning (Stu Elsom)

Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Wednesday, 14 June

Ouse Fen - a vocal LITTLE CRAKE (Richard Grimett). Note that this bird is deep in a reed bed and is not viewable in any way. Listen from Cuckoo Fen mound at c.TL37867236 or Whatthreewords:  intrigues.chicken.rods; more information here: CBC Twitter. Also 3 Spoonbill over c.8pm (Mark Ward)

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Tuesday, 13 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake BLUE-WINGED TEAL, Hobby, Cuckoo (Scott Linacre)

Monday, 12 June 2023

Monday, 12 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake BLUE-WINGED TEAL on Ferry Lagoon, although elusive (Richard Grimmett)

Ouse Washes RSPB - 3 ad NIGHT HERON in view at Welches Dam until 8.45pm, then flew off south down the river (Duncan McNiven)

Sunday, 11 June 2023

Sunday, 11 June

Ouse Washes RSPB - 4 NIGHT HERON left south from trees near Welches Dam sluice 06:50h (Mark Hawkes); at Welches dam this evening, all 4 showed well until dusk (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake BLUE-WINGED TEAL, fem Garganey, Turtle Dove (Mark Ward)

Chippenham Fen - Crossbill over (Richard Dale)

Saturday, 10 June 2023

Saturday, 10 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake BLUE-WINGED TEAL of Ferry Lagoon (Robert Martin)

Welches Dam - NIGHT HERON very close to bridge over river Delph this morning (Jonathan Taylor)

Fowlmere RSPB - MARSH WARBLER singing extremely well and constant throughout the morning. The bird is mostly out of view but is showing occasionally when it moves closer the track. From carpark this is at the end of boardwalk, in area immediately past the bench on the right (Ade Cooper)

Etton/Maxey pits - Little Tern (Paul Bolton)

Paxton Pits - 8 Little Tern over, Hobby, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 9 June 2023

Friday, 9 June

Northstowe - CASPIAN TERN (Hugh Venables)

Welches Dam - NIGHT HERON 06:40h (Jonathan Taylor)

Ouse Fen - 3 Garganey (Tracey Graves)

Etton/Maxey pits - 3 Goosander, Avocets (Mike Weedon)

Thursday, 8 June 2023

Thursday, 8 June

Ouse Washes - 2 Glossy Ibis south toward Earith 10:30h (Derek Benton)

Etton/Maxey pits - Black Tern (Josh Jones); Goosander family (Paul Bolton)

Grafham Water  - Little Gull (Colin Addington)

Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Wednesday, 8 June

Ouse Washes, Sutton Gault - 2 NIGHT HERON (Richard Bradbury)

Etton/Maxey pits - pair of BLACK-WINGED STILTS, Greenshank (Josh Jones)

Nene Washes - Grey Plover (Charlie Kitchin)


Tuesday, 6 June 2023

Tuesday, 6 June

Ouse Washes - NIGHT HERON 400m north of Jolly Bankers (Chris Rider); PURPLE HERON over south at the same location (Brendan Doe)

Etton/Maxey pits - pair of BLACK-WINGED STILT, Greenshank, 3 Sanderling early morning (Josh Jones); also Grey Plover, Avocet this evening but no sign of the Stilts (Chris Lines)

Monday, 5 June 2023

Monday, 5 June

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 BLACK-WINGED STILT (Josh Jones); Avocet pair with 3 young (Mike Weedon)

Ouse Washes - imm NIGHT HERON north of Earith, south of Sutton Gault (Brendan Doe)

Sunday, 4 June 2023

Sunday, 4 June

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Chain Corner - 10 Grey Plover, 2 Cuckoo, Great Egret, Hobby (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Ouse Washes - Glossy Ibis, Cattle Egret, 19 Great Egret, Garganey (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Fen - Red-crested Pochard (Andrew Tongue)

Saturday, 3 June 2023

Saturday, 3 June

Dernsford Reservoir - Black Tern (Andrew Knights)

Grafham Water - 4 Sanderling, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper this morning (Andrew Dobson); 7 Sanderling this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Kingfishers Bridge - ad Mediterranean Gull, Black Tern, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Etton/Maxey pits - 5 Crane over (Josh Jones)

Milton - Ring-necked Parakeet in a private garden (John Proctor)

Friday, 2 June 2023

Friday, 2 June

Grafham Water - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN  with 4 Black Tern 08:20h, flock departed 08:30h (Richard Patient); 4 Sanderling, Osprey over (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN, 5 Black Tern (m.o.)

Dernford Reservoir - 10 Common Scoter (Jake Reich); 2 Black Tern (Steve Dutton); also drake Garganey, Whimbrel over (Carlos Davies)

Cottenham - Quail singing off Broad Lane, beyond the bridge 08:00-08:30h (Neil Howard)

Chain Corner - White Stork (Tracey Graves)

Berry Fen - Grey Plover (Tracey Graves) 

Ouse Fen - Crane (Tracey Graves)

Etton/Maxey pits - Little Stint, 3 Sanderling (Josh Jones)

Thursday, 1 June

West Brook - Greenshank, Sanderling (Mark Thomas)

Dernford Reservoir - Black Terns (Terry Brown)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Sanderling, 2 Black Tern (Jeremy Lindsell)

Etton/Maxey pits - Black Tern, Sanderling (Josh Jones)

Nene Washes - 2 Black Tern, 102 Ringed Plover, Spoonbill, Greenshank (Charlie Kitchin)

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Wednesday, 31 May

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK fom Littless Hide (Nigel Butler)

Etton/Maxey pits - Greenshank, Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones); Sanderling (Mike Weedon)

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Tuesday, 30 May

Kingfishers Bridge - Black Tern, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Berry Fen - Spoonbill briefly (Jeremy Lindsell)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Sanderling, Common Sandpiper (Josh Jones); Turnstone, a third Sanderling, 2 Goosander, Hobby (Mike Weedon)

Eldernell - Spoonbill, Avocet, Grey Plover, 2 Greenshank, 5 Great Egret east of March Farmers (Charlie Kitchin)


Monday, 29 May 2023

Monday, 29 May

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 9 Sanderling, Osprey over (Mark Hawkes); 2 Black Tern (Stewart Short)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Black Tern at Ferry Lagoon (Roger Hardie); 3 Black Tern, 5 Cattle Egret briefly (Christoph Zöckler)

Ouse Washes - Spponbill over at Earith, 3 Cattle Egret just south of Sutton Gault, White Stork from jolly bankers (Ade Cooper); NIGHT HERON in trees north of jolly bankers bridge (Brendan Doe); NIGHT HERON flew towards Chain Corner, 6 Cattle Egret, 2 Great Egret, 42 Little Egret, Bittern, 2 Cuckoo, 3 Garganey, Wood Sandpiper over (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - 6 Black Tern (Jamie Wells)


Sunday, 28 May 2023

Sunday, 28 May

Grafham Water - Black Tern briefly; 4 Little Tern circled, departing 08:43h (Mark Hawkes); 5 Sanderling through, Common Sandpiper, 2 Hobby (Mark Hawkes, Matthew Rodgers, Richard Patient)

Saturday, 27 May 2023

Saturday, 27 May

Grafham Water - GULL-BILLED TERN briefly, headed high north-east; 9 Black Tern (Richard Patient)

Friday, 26 May

Eldernell - ringtail Harrier sp over north, 3 Curlew Sandpipers east of car-park (Charlie Kitchin)

Ferry Meadows - Grasshopper Warbler reported

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Tuesday, 23 May

Grafham Water - Osprey in tree opposite Dudeny hide 18:46h (Mark Hawkes)

Longstanton - Quail singing (Rachel Lennard)

Great Stukeley - Quail singing briefly on east side of Prestley Wood (Robin Ward)

Smithy Fen - Knot, Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Kings Dyke - 4 Crane over (Kevin Eldred)

Monday, 22 May 2023

Monday, 22 May

Wicken area - Bittern, 6 Hobby, 3 Grasshopper Warbler (Kevin Wilson)

Wimpole estate - BLACK KITE over (Richard Gregory)

Sunday, 21 May

Cambridge - White Stork over Wolfson College (Tom Worthington)

Saturday, 20 May 2023

Saturday, 20 May

West Brook - ad male MONTAGU'S HARRIER over 13:21h (Mark Thomas)

Whittlesey - Spoonbill over (Charlie Kitchin)

Fordham Wood - Cetti's Warbler (Kevin Wilson)

Friday, 19 May

Grafham Water - HONEY BUZZARD in the area for 10min, 3 Sanderling, 2 Little Riunged Plover, Cuckoo (Mark Hawkes)

River Cam Waterbeach to Upware - 2 Hobby, 2 Kingfisher, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Great Egret, 3 Cattle Egret, Grey Plover, Bittern, Turtle Dove (Alan Harris)

Friday, 19 May 2023

Thursday, 18 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Grey Plover, 4 Great Egret, 3 Cuckoo, Bittern (Tracey Graves); 3 Glossy Ibis reported

West Brook pools - Grey Plover (Mark Thomas)

Etton/Maxey - LITTLE TERN (Jonathan Taylor)

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Tuesday, 16 May

Holme Fen - 2 Crane over (Steve Ouditt)

Wicken area - 4 Hobby, 4 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes - Hobby, Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtails (Tracey Graves)

Ouse Fen - Turtle Dove (Andrea Zolnhofer)

Monday, 15 May 2023

Monday, 15 May

Wicken area - Garganey, Bittern, Greenshank over, 2 Hobby, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Etton/Maxey pits - Garganey (Hugh Wright)

Westbrook pit - Wood Sandpiper (Rachel Lennard)

Bury Fen - 2 Garganey (Andrew Harrold)

Ouse Fen - PURPLE HERON dropped in north of conveyor belt (Jeremy Lindsell)

Sunday, 14 May 2023

Sunday, 14 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Gull, 2 Hobby (Roger Hardie)

Wicken area - 4 Hobby, 2 Cuckoo (Colin Kirtland)

Saturday, 13 May

Maxey/Etton pits - Caspian Gull, Wood Sandpiper briefly, Common Sandpiper, 4 Goosander (Hugh Wright)

Westbrook Pit - TEMMINCK'S STINT (Mark Thomas)

White Stork over A1(M) c.10 miles south of Peterborough (Pete Cook)

Thursday, 11 May 2023

Thursday, 11 May

Wicken area - Nightingale, 4 Cuckoo (Paul Pulham)

Lark Rise farm - Long-eared Owl (Tim Scott)

Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Wednesday, 10 May

Fen Drayton Lakles - 4 Little Gull, drake Garganey, Great Egret, Cattle Egret, 2 Bittern, Hobby, Turnstone, 2 Common Sandpiper (Steve Cooper)

Hobson's Park - White Stork (Joe Parham) 

Woodwalton Fen - Spoonbill reportd (as per Chris Jones)

Nene Washes - PURPLE HERON still east of March Famers, although elusive, before flying towards Ring's End. Also drake Garganeny (Paul Nobbs); Whinchat reported

Withcam - Hobby over (Chris Boness)

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Tuesday, 9 May

Fowlmere - Cuckoo, Spotted Flycatcher (Ed Gill) 

Wicken area - Bittern, Garganey, 3 Hobby, 3 Cuckoo, Barn Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 8 May 2023

Monday, 8 May

Southey Wood - Spotted Flycatcher (Kevin Eldred)

March Farmers - ad PURPLE HERON through, coming down at Ring's End (Mike Weedon)

Dernford Reservoir - White Stork in the vicinity (Roger Hardie)

Chatteris - Firecrest along old railway line to Somersham (Mark Ward)

Sunday, 7 May

 Ouse Fen - Whinchat (Jeremy Lindsell)

Cambourne - 2 Black Tern at Whomping Willow lake (Johnny Hook)

Castor Hanglands - 2 Spotted Flycatcher 6 Nightingale, Raven over (Steve Zealand)

Orton Mere - Nightingale (Nicola Hart) 

Fowlmere - White Stork over (Doiug Radford) reported earlier from Duxford


Saturday, 6 May

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over (Matt Webb)

Nene Washes - 48 Ruff, 2 Greenshank (Charlie Kitchin)


Friday, 5 May 2023

Friday, 5 May

Grafham Water - 4 Arctic Tern, Osprey & Hobby over,  Cuckoo, Avocet (Mark Hawkes); White Stork over, Wheatear (Sue Greenway)

Etton/Maxey Pits - 2 Grey Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Common Sandpiper, 4 Goosander, fem Scaup, 2 Greenshank (Hugh Wright); 3rd Greenshank (Paul Bolton)

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Thursday, 4 May

Ouse Fen - 2 Crane, 2 Hobby, Bittern (Tony Lowe)

Grafham Water - 2 Avocet (Jon Roe)

Maxey/Etton pits - Greenshank, Spotted Redshank Avocet, 2 Turtle Dove (Chris Lines)

Castor Hanglands - fem redstart (as per Mike Weedon) 

Northstowe - 16 Ruff, 14 Ringed Plover, 5 Greenshank, 4 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Wheatear (Hugh Venables)

Roman Road/Mark's Grave - Quail singing (Roger Horton)

Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Wednesday, 3 May

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Garganey (Steve Cooper)

Etton/Maxey pits - fem Scaup, 5 Goosander, 2 Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

March Farmers - GLOSSY IBIS c.1 mile to the east fo the car park, past kissing gate (Dick Burnham); also 2 Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, 2 Garganey, Hobby, Great White Egret (Mike Weedon)


Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Tuesday, May 2

Grafham Water - 3 Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Little Ringed Plover, Little Gull, Black Tern (Kevin Wilson)

Cow Lane GPs - 7 Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, Nightingale, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Yellow Wagtail, Cuckoo (Stu Elsom)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Turtle Dove, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Bittern, 35 Garden Warbler (Tim Caldicott)

Etton - Greenshank (Malcolm Holley)

March Farmers - 2 Spotted Redshank, Greenshank to east of car park (Mike Weedon)

Monday, 1 May 2023

Monday, 1 May

Grafham Water - 2 Arctic Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Kingfishers Bridge - Little Gull (Ian Burfield)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Cattle Egret, Raven over, Mandarin (Tim Caldicott)

Lords Holt - Bearded Tit (Andrew Gardener); Grasshopper Warbler (Kevin Eldred)

Etton/Maxey Pits - White Wagtail (Jonathan Taylor)

Nene Washes - 2 Spotted Redshank, 10 Hobby reported east of March Farmers

Tanholt pits - Little Ringed Plover (James Pender)

Sunday, 30 April

Wicken Fen - 2 Merlin, 5 Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Lesser Redpoll (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Turnstone, Common Sandpiper, Turtle Dove, Cuckoo, Bittern (Tim Caldicott)

March Farmers - 6 Whimbrel (Charlie Kitchin)

Etton/Maxey Pits - 2 Wheatear (Chris Lines); Scaup (Mike Weedon); Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Tanholt pits - Spotted Flycatcher (Mark Hawkes)

Connington - 5 wheatear in Rose Court Farm horse paddocks (Kevin Eldred)

March Farmers - 4 Whimbrel, 4 Great Egret (Mike Weedon);

Sunday, 30 April 2023

Saturday, 29 April

Paxton Pits - Whinchat, 3 Common Scoter (Nathan Long)

Cuckoo, Swift, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler reported widely in recent days

Friday, 28 April 2023

Friday, 28 April

Trumpington - male Redstart in a private garden briefly (Jill Aldred)

Grafham Water - 3 Arctic Tern, Swift (Mak Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 3 Common Scoter, 2 Swift (Jamie Wells)

Tanholt - Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Thursday, 27 April 2023

Thursday, 27 April

Grafham Water - 5 Swift amongst the hirundines (Keith Honnor); 2 Grey Plover through (Stu Elsom)

Castor Hanglands - 3 Nightingale singing (Martin Browne)

Peterborough - Opsrey over east (Brain Stone)

Ouse Washes - Grenshank at Mepal (Mark Ward)

Wednesday, 26 April 2023

Wednesday, 26 April

Etton/Maxey pits - Little Gull, Scaup (Hugh Wright); 2 Turtle Dove (Chris Lines)

Ely - Nightingale singing along path between Kiln Lane and the pocket park (Chris Barker)


Tuesday, 25 April

Maxey/Etton pits - Whimbrel through, fem Scaup, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Ring's End - fem Redstart around the carpark (Paul Nobbs)

Castor Hanglands - Nightingale (Ray McDonnell)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover, pair of Egyptian Geese with goslings (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 24 April 2023

Monday, 24 April

Wicken/Burwell area - 2 Cuckoo, 3 Grasshopper Warbler, Bittern (Paul Pulham)

Kingfishers Bridge - darke Garganey, Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 23 April 2023

Sunday, 23 April

Fen Drayton Lakes -Black Tern, drake Garganey, fem Goosdander, Bittern, 4 Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Garden warbler (Ian Burfield)

Paxton Pits - 4 Litte Gull, Grasshopper Warbler (Jamie Wells); Cuckoo reported

Brampton Woods - Cuckoo (Tim  Fryer)

Etton Maxey Pits - Grey Plover, Little Gull, 5 Dunlin, Scaup, 3 Goosander, Whooper Swan, Common Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Turtle Dove (Hugh Wright)

Castor Hanglands - 2 Nightingale (Eugene Flanz)

Saturday, 22 April 2023

Saturday, 22 April

Great Stukeley - RING OUZEL at a private site (Robin Ward)

Swaffham Bulbeck - White Stork over (Giles Merritt) 

Baker's Fen - Grasshopper Warbler (Ian Burfield)

Wicken area - 2 Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Wilson); Cuckoo (Andrea Zolnhofer)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Osprey over, Raven, 2  Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Joe Parham)

Berry Fen - Spotted Redshank (Rachel Lennard)

Northstowe - Whimbrel (Rachel Lennard)

Etton/Maxey Pits - 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Avocet, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine (Jonathan Taylor); 10 Whimbrel over (Chris LInes); 2 Spotted Redhsank, Green Sandpiper on flood to the west (Martin Browne)

Paxton Pits - Redstart, Hobby, also Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit & Nightingale recently (Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - Cuckoo (Mark Hawkes)

Lesser Whitethroat reported widely over the last two days

Friday, 21 April 2023

Friday, 21 April

Grafham Water - 2 Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); Brambling (Stewart Short)

Wicken area - Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank over, 2 drake Garganey, Bittern (Kevin Wilson)

Etton/Maxey Pits - Bar-tailed Godwit, Short-eared Owl, fem Scaup (Hugh Wright); 3 Avocet, 2 Swift, 8 Green Sandpiper (Chris Lines)

Nene Washes - 10 Whimbrel, 40 Ruff (Charlie Kitchin)

Kingfishers Bridge - Little Gull, 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Avocet (Ian Burfield)

Waterbeach - Hobby over the rec 19:35h (Ian Burfield)

Thursday, 20 April 2023

Thursday, 20 April

Grafham - 4 Arctic Tern, Yellow-legged Gull through, 6 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell/Adventurer's Fens - Grasshopper Warbler, White Stork over (Paul Pulham)

Cam Washes - Lesser Whitethroat (Ian Burfield)

Kingfishers Bridge - Greenshank (Ian Burfield)

Etton/Maxey pits - Bar-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Bob Titman); 3 Avocet, 2 further Green Sandpiper, Cuckoo (Chris Lines); fem Scaup, 2 further Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit (Paul Bolton)

Godmanchester GPs - fem RING OUZEL (Keith Honnor)


Wednesday, 19 April

Grafham Water - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL still present (Colin Addington)

Northstowe - Bar-tailed Godwit, Avocets (Christoph Zöckler)

Ouse Washes - drake Garganey at Mepal (Mark Ward)

Etton/Maxey Pits - 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Greenshank briefly, Green Sandpiper, fem Scaup, Whooper Swan, 7 Goosander, Peregrine (Hugh Wright); 2 Arctic Tern, 3 Avocet (Chris Lines)

March Farmers - 7 Whimbrel through, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wheatear, 4 Fieldfare (Charlie Kitchin)

Peterborough - White Stork over (Mike Weedon)

Burwell Fen - 2 Mediterranean Gull over, drake Garganey, male Wheatear (Brendan Doe)

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Tuesday, 18 April

Grafham Water - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL at Dudney Creek this morning (Nigel Butler); still present 18:10h, viewed from Lymage Hide (Mark Hawkes)

Fortrey's Hall - Bar-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward)

Woodwalton Fen - Grasshopper warbler (James Pender) 

Etton/Maxey Pits - Curlew, fem Scaup, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet over (Hugh Wright); 3 Bar-tailed Godwit (Chris Lines)

Monday, 17 April 2023

Monday, 17 April

Fowlmere - White Stork this evening viewable from the small chapel and cemetery at the junction of Mill Road/Shepreth Road, two fields away to the east. Uisng what3words, approx: comically.useful.stiletto (Andrew Dobson)

Swaffham Prior - Peregrine (Tim Dee, Claire Spottiswoode)

Ouse Fen - Great egret (Tracey Graves)

Nene Washes, Lord's Holt - Bearded Tit (Andrew Gardener)

Maxey Pits - Avocet (Chris Lines); also 2 Spotted Redshank reported

Wicken & Burwell Fens - 4 Garganey, Green Sandpiper, 3 Barn Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Sunday, 16 April 2023

Sunday, 16 April

Maxey/Etton Pits - male Bearded Tit, Scaup, 5 White Wagtail, Cukoo, 3 Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler (Hugh Wright); Whitethroat by Maxey Cut (Kevin Eldred); Goosander family on the cut (Will Bowell)

Blackbush Drove - 4 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Eldred)

Fowlmere - White Stork, unringed (m.o.)

Grafham Water - Blue-headed/Yellow Wagtail hybrid, 25 Yellow Wagtail, 11 Avocet, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Sedge Warbler, Caspain Gull over (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - 92 Yellow Wagtail, 20 Whooper Swan, 6 Great Egret, 550 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 16 Golden Plover over (Charlie Kitchin)

Ouse Fen RSPB - 3 Great Egret (Simon Passey)

Saturday, 15 April 2023

Saturday, 15 April

Grafham Water - 3 Wheatear, 3 White Wagtail, 15 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes); Osprey (Stewart Short)

Fowlmere - Firecrest until 10:00h, 3 Wheatear in field opposite reserve entrance (Ade Cooper) 

Etton pits - Cuckoo, fem Scaup, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Goosander, 2 Whopper Swan (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes - pair of Garganey on High Wash (Mike Weedon)

Blackbush Drove - 11 Wheatear, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail (Mike Weedon)

Wicken Fen - Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler (Simon Passey)

Paxton Pits - Cuckoo, Reed Warbler, 2 Mediterranean Gull over; Blue-headed Wagtail & 2 Wheratear at Boughton Lodge Farm, (Jamie Wells)

Friday, 14 April 2023

Friday, 14 April

Devil's Dyke - 14 Wheatear at Mare Hill, 12 more in other fields (Richard Dale)

Grafham Water - Wheatear, Common Sandpiper (Tony Lowe)

Comberton - 3 Wheatear off Long Road (Ed Gill)

Somersham - Wheatear (Russell Watkins)

Abington - male RING OUZEL in a private garden (Andy Merryweather)

Wicken area - Bittern, Crane, 3 Sedge Warblers (Kevin Wilson)

Larkrise, Barton - 4 Wheatear, Redstart, 9 Golden Plover (Roger Hardie)

Fowlmere - male Firecrest (Rob Jones); fem Redstart, 4 Reed Warbler, 3 Raven (Ade Cooper)

Cam Washes - male RING OUZEL; 9 Wheatear in nearby fields (Brendan Doe)

Thursday, 13 April 2023

Thursday, 13 April

Grafham Water - Osprey, Common Tern, 2 Raven over (Mark Hawkes); White Wagtail (Tracey Graves); 9 Little Ringed Plover, 25+ Yellow Wagtail, Channel Wagtail, White Wagtail (Stewart Short)

Wicken Fen - Grasshopper Warbler (Simon Stirrup)

Fen Drayton Lakes - ad Kittiwake, Greenshank (Duerdon Cormack)

Fowlmere - Osprey over, Whitethroat, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Wheatear (Ade Cooper)

Wimpole - Opsrey over (Brendan Doe)

Trumpington - Wheatear, 2 Little Owl (Mike Foley)

Ouse Fen - Short-eared Owl, Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 150 islandica Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - Osprey, Wheatear, 8 Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat (Jamie Wells)

Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Wednesday, 12 April

Fowlmere - Reed Warbler (Ade Cooper)

Hobson's Park - Wheatear, 2 Swallow, 15 House Martin through (Pete Holt)

Grafham Water - Channel Wagtail (Matthew Rodgers)

Tuesday, 11 April 2023

Tuesday, 11 April

Ouse Fen - Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Wheatear (Tracey Graves)

Hope Farm RSPB - male Redstart (Duerden Cormack)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Cattle egret across the river from Ferry Lagoon (Terry Brown)

Soham - Siskin in a private garden (Sue Greenway)

Etton pits - fem Scaup, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Whooper Swan, 5 Goosander (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - 2 Curlew over, 9 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Yellow wagtail, 60 Swallow (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 10 April 2023

Monday, 10 April

Ferry Meadows - 2 imm male Common Scoter briefly (Don Gardener)

Grafham Water - Common Sandpiper (Chris Brown); Little Ringed Plover, Siskin, 2 House Martin (Mark Hawkes); Little Gull through this morning (Matthew Rodgers)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Osprey through, Arctic Tern, 2 Little Gull, 2 drake Garganey, 4 Cattle Egret (Joe Parham)

Sunday, 9 April 2023

Sunday, 9 April

Grafham Water - Raven over, 2 Sedge Warbler, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 5 Swallow (Mark Hawkes); this evening BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL type, 20+ Yellow Wagtail, 2 White Wagtail (Matthew Rodgers)

Hobson's Park - drake Garganey (Andrew Dobson)

Wimblington - White Stork of unknown origin over (Alan Bull)

Escape Gyr Falcon in the Maxey/Etton area (Will Bowell)

Saturday, 8 April 2023

Saturday, 8 April

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Don Gardener)

Grafham Water - pair of Common Scoter (Richard Patient); also Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken area - Crane at the fen, 2 Garganey at Baker's Fen, 3 Garganey at Burwell Fen, Yellow Wagtail over (Kevin Wilson, Bruce Martin); also Short-eared Owl at Burwell Fen, a 6th Garganey, Green Sandpiper, Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler (Carlos Davies)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Garganey, 300 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Cattle Egret by the Ouse (Stephen Hughes)

Middle Fen, Over - fem Goosander on the Great Ouse (Simon Passey)

Friday, 7 April 2023

Friday, 7 April

Grafham Water - 4 White Wagtail early morning only (Matthew Rodgers); Kittiwake through, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Swallow, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Barton - Whitethroat, Willow Warbler (Louise Bacon)

Northstowe - Green Sandpiper, Raven, Swallow (Christoph Zöckler)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 900 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Cattle Egret, 20 Pintail (Christoph Zöckler)

Hobson's Park - drake Garganey (Pete Holt) 

Eldernell - Bearded Tit near Lord's Holt (Andrew Gardener)

Hare Park - Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Wicken Fen - drake Garganey on Baker's Fen, 4 Swallow, 7 Willow Warbler (Kevin Wilson)

Earith - Great Egret (Tracey Graves)

Cherry Hinton Hall - Ring-necked Parakeet (Alex Inzani)

Thursday, 6 April 2023

Thursday, 6 April

Hobson's Park - drake Garganey on the pool (Diana Leech); Sedge Warbler (Andrew Dobson); Artctic Tern (Jon Heath)

Dernford Reservoir - pair of Garganey, 5 Swallow (Stewart Feeney)

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 10+ Swllow, 30+ Goldeneye, Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Huntingdon - WHITE STORK over west (Andrew Harrold)

Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Wednesday, 5 April

Grunty Fen - Merlin through (David Nation)

Northstowe - 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warbler (Christoph Zöckler)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Black-necked Grebe, 900 Black-tailed Godwit (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - 9 Little Ringed Plover, 20+ Swallow, 60+ Sand Martin, 8 Yellow Wagtail, Brambling (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 4 April 2023

Tuesday, 4 April

Ouse Fen - Short-eared Owl, Great Egret, also Bittern reported (Tracey Graves)

Haddenham - male Hen Harrier (Paul Craske)

Monday, 3 April 2023

Monday, 3 April

Grafham Water - 9 Yellow Wagtail (Matthew Rodgers); Swallow, 4 Avocet (Colin Addington)

Sunday, 2 April 2023

Sunday, 2 April

Grafham Water - 9 Kittiwake (Richard Patient)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Garganey,2 Black-necked Grebe (Roger Hardie)

Hare Park - Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Upware - Swallow (Tim Dee, Claire Spottiswoode)

Saturday, 1 April 2023

Saturday, 1 April

Grafham Water - 16 Kittiwake this morning (Richard Patient; 7 still present off Marlow this evening (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Comberton - male Black Redstart, no public access to the site (Vince Lea)

Anglesey Abbey - 2 Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes - 24 Whooper Swan at Fortrey's Hall, 100 Whooper Swan Chatteris/Somersham, 40 Whooper Swan Langwood Fen, Willow Warblers at Block Fen & Sutton Gault (Mark Ward)

Wilburton - fem Merlin (David Nation)

Dernford Reservoir - House Martin, Swallow (Ade Cooper)

Maxey Pits - 2 Avocet (Josh Sollitt)

Ferry Meadows - Common Tern (Matt Webb)

Friday, 31 March 2023

Friday, 31 March

Tanholt - Scadinavian Rock Pipit (Josh Jones); Yellow wagtail (Mike Weedon)

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Thursday, 30 March

Fowlmere - Brambling in a private garden (Doug Radford)

Grafham Water - male Yellow Wagtail on the dam (Tony Lowe)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Fieldfares still present, Bullfinch (Tracey Graves); Common Tern, 500 Black-tailed GodwitWillow Warbler (Hugh Venables)

Earith - Swallow (Paul Craske)

Chatteris - Willow Warbler (Mark Ward)

Milton CP - Swallow through (Colin Kirtland)

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Wednesday 29 March

Fen Drayton Lakes - 100 Sand Martin, 16 Chiffchaff, Green Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Dernford Reseervoir - 100 Sand Martin through, 2 Swallow (Andrew Dobson)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Tuesday, 28 March

Stretham/Wicken - c.1000 Golden Plover, north of the A1123 and just east of the railway line (Stephen Buckle)

Smithy Fen - male Hen Harrier (Brendan Doe)

Grafham Water - Opsrey off Marlow CP (Stuart Elsom)

Monday, 27 March 2023

Monday, 27 March

Soham - Woodcock in a private garden (Andy Hannaford)

Kingfishers Bridge - 8 Avocet, Bittern (Roger Hardie)

Wicken Fen - Tree Sparrow near vistior centre (Roger Hardie)

Etton - 4 Whooper Swan, fem Scaup, Little Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sandpiper, White Wagtail (Hugh Wright) 

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Crane over (Kevin Taylor)

Godmanchester GPs - Pink-footed Goose (Stuart Elsom)

Sunday, 26 March 2023

Sunday, 26 March

St. Ives - pair of Smew (Duncan McNiven)

Fowlmere RSPB - Firecrest again this morning (Ade Cooper)

Cottenham, Long Drove - Raven, Peregrine (David Nation) 

Witcham  - probable Nordic Jackdaw in a private garden (Chris Boness)

Tiptree Marina - White Stork 09:50h (David & Sallie Jones); identified as 6E529 from The Netherlands although not located this afternoon (per Jon Heath)


Saturday, 25 March 2023

Saturday, 25 March

Fowlmere RSPB - Firecrest along loop trail at the centenary end 06:40h (Ade Cooper)

Grafham Water - Brambling, 6 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes) 

Cam Washes - colour-ringed White Stork, Green Sandpiper, 2 Barn Owl (Ian Burfield)

Cottenham, Long drove - 2 Caspain Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (David Nation)

River Ouse - ad Mediterranean Gull over north near Gravel farm, 300 Golden Plover (David Nation)

St. Ives - pair of Smew (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Washes - Garganey, Spotted Redshank, 4 Water Pipit (Brendan Doe)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Yellow Wagtail, 1500 Black-tailed Godwit (Rachel Lennard)

Woodwalton Fen - Bittern (Rachel Lennard)

Friday, 24 March

Fowlmere RSPB - mobile male Firecrest from broadwalk to bridleway 05:40-07:40h (Ade Cooper)

Grafham Water - 8 Sand Martin through, 45 Golden Plover over, 2 Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Milton CP - Barnacle Coose (Jon Heath)

Thursday, 23 March 2023

Thursday, 23 March

Burwell Fen - Wheatear (Stewart Feeney)

Grunty Fen - male Hen Harrier (Katherine Nation)

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Wednesday, 22 March

Grafham Water - 25 Siskin at lagoons (John Roe)

Barton - 2 Wheatear (Roger Hardie)

Tuesday, 21 March 2023

Tuesday, 21 March

Nene Washes - Grey Plover (Bob Davis) 

Fowlmere - Nordic Jackdaw in field adjacent to reswerve (Ade Cooper)

Monday, 20 March 2023

Monday, 20 March

Cambourne - 1st summer BLACK REDSTART in a private garden (James Hanlon)

Ferry Meadows - 10 Sand Martin (Steve Zealand)

Etton/Maxey Pits - fem Scaup, 20+ Sand Martin, male Merlin, 4 Whooper Swan nearby (Hugh Wright)

Sunday, 19 March 2023

Sunday, 19 March

Sawston/Babraham - Wheatear between the villages (Oliver Burton)

Kingfishers Bridge - Bittern, 5 Sand Martin, 4 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson)

Shropshires - ad Mediterranean Gull (David Nation)

Ouse Fen RSPB - Water Pipit, 123 Whooper Swan (Duerden Cormack)

Saturday, 18 March 2023

Saturday, 18 March

Bedford Purlieus - WOODLARK over (Mike Weedon)

Maxey Pits - 6 Sand Martin, 2 Peregrine (Chris Lines)

Grafham Water - 2 Little Ringed Plover (Chris Rider)

Cambridge Research park - 2 Wheatear (Jon Heath)

Friday, 17 March 2023

Friday, 17 March

Ferry Meadows - 2 ad Mediterranean Gull (Mike Weedon); 7 Sand Martin reported

Mare Fen - c.2500 Black-tailed Godwit (Jeremy Lindsell)

Thursday, 16 March

Burwell Fen - WHITE STORK of unknown origin, flew towards Cam Washes 10:10h (Ajay Tegala)

Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Wednesday, 15 March

Northstowe - 3 Little Ringed Plover (Christoph Zöckler)

Fen drayton Lakes - Great Egret (Christoph Zöckler)

Dernford reservoir - Sand Martin (Roger Hardie); 2 Oystercatcher (Andrew Dobson) 

Hobsons Park - Wheatear (Joe Parham)

Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Tuesday, 14 March

Maxey pits - Sand Martin (Terry Sims)

Monday, 13 March 2023

Monday, 13 March

Grunty Fen - male Hen Harrier (David Nation)

Cambridge Research Park - Woodcock (Marilyn Peterkin)

Foxton - KUMLIEN'S GULL on arable at TL398494 (Toby Austin)

Sunday, 12 March 2023

Sunday, 12 March

Grafham Water - 2cy drake WOOD DUCK of unknown origin, though unringed, fully-winged, flighty and vocal. Also 3 Avocet, Caspian Gull, drake Scaup (Mark Hawkes)

Pymoor - 2 Cattle Egret, 3 Barn Owl along embankment to Four Balls Farm (David & Sallie Jones)

Saturday, 11 March 2023

Saturday, 11 March

 Ely - 2 Peregrine on the Cathedral (David & Sallie Jones)

Friday, 10 March 2023

Friday, 10 March

Wicken - Crane heard, 3 Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, 20 Golden Plover over (Kevin Wilson)

Hare Park - 5 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Cambourne - 2 Redpoll, Cetti's warbler (Rachel Lennard)

Thursday, 9 March

Knarr Fen - 37 Crane (Austin Morley)

Cambridge, Mill Pond - drake Goosander (Geoff Barlow)

Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Tuesday, 7 March

Northstowe - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL on the middle lake, viewed from Rampton Road path or busway near the junction; TL413672 (Hugh Venables)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Crane, Whooper Swan, 2 Stonechat (David Nation)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Mandarin, Oystercatcher, 3 Stonechat (Steve Cooper)



Sunday, 5 March 2023

Sunday, March 5

Meadow Lane, St. Ives - 3 drake & a fem Smew (Stuart Butchart)

Grafham Water - 4 Common Scoter from Marlow point but distant, drake Scaup, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Shopshires Reservoir - Caspian Gull (David Nation)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL (James Robinson); likely the same bird at Heydon pig fields earlier in the day (Alan Harris)

Saturday, 4 March 2023

Saturday, 4 March

Grafham Water - Scaup, Caspian Gull, Marsh Tit (Mark Hawkes)

Hare Park - Brambling with finch flock (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Wednesday, 1 March

Grafham Water - KITTIWAKE in Valley Creek 11:15h (Ian Dawson)

Northstowe - 2nd win Caspian Gull (Christoph Zöckler)

Foxton - Brambling in a private garden (Marcus Kohler)

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Tuesday, 28 February

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Steve Cooper) 

St. Ives, Meadow Lane - pair of Smew (Marilyn Peterkin)

Monday, 27 February 2023

Sunday, 26 February

Fulbourn Fen - Tawny Owl, 110 Fieldfare (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 26 February 2023

Saturday, 25 February

Wilburton - 2 Crane over (Katherine Nation)

Grafham Water - 3cy Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Sutton Gault - 1,400 islandica Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward)

Manor Farm, Bourn - 2 Redpoll sp (Iain Webb)

Friday, 24 February

Cambridge University Botanical Gardens - Ring-necked Parakeet (Duncan Mackay)

Tuesday, 21 February 2023

Tuesday, 21 February

Hare park - Woodcock, Brambling (Kevin Wilson) 

Smithy Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Ian Ellis)

Monday, 20 February 2023

Monday, 20 February

Wicken area - Tawny Owl, pair of Stonechat, 3 pairs of Bullfinches, Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL (James Hanlon)

Sunday, 19 February 2023

Sunday, 19 February

Ouse Washes - drake Smew from Welches Dam hide, drake Scaup from Stockdales, pair of Glodeneye (Derek Benton)

Graham Water - 2 drake Scaup, Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 1500 Teal, 10 Siskin (Mark Hawkes)

Etton pits - 11 Whooper Swan (Bob Titman)

Cambourne - DARTFORD WARBLER, frequently with a pair of Stonechat (Ed Gill)

Saturday, 18 February

Ouse Washes - drake Smew from Rickwood, drake Scaup from Stockdales (Diana Leech)

Knarr Fen - 47 Crane (Bob Davis)

Saturday, 18 February 2023

Friday, 17 February

Ferry Meadows - ringtail Hen Harrier through (Don Gardener) 

Ouse Washes - drake Smew from Welches Dam/Rickwood Hide (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - drake Scaup, Peregrine over (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 15 February

Grunty Fen - Raven (David Nation)

Cambourne - DARTFORD WARBLER (Rachel Lennard)

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Tuesday, 14 February

Cheveley - 3+ Brambling at feeders in a private garden (Andrew Palmer)

Grunty Fen - Raven over (David Nation)

Wicken Fen - male Hen Harrier, 3 ringtail Hen Harrier, Barn Owl (Chris Boness)

Cambourne, Whomping willow Lake - DARTFORD WARBLER (Rachel Lennard)

Saturday, 11 February 2023

Saturday, 11 February

Ouse Washes area - 1200 Whooper Swan, 11 Egyptain Geese bewteen Chatteris & Chain Corner; 5 Great Egret, 400 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 265 Corn Bunting, Barn Owl between Sutton Gault & Chain Corner; 56 Barnacle Geese at Sutton North Fen; 4 Bewick's Swan at Stocking Drove; 10 Bewick's Swan between Chatteris & Somersham (Mark Ward)

Shropshire's Farm/Reservoir - fem Merlin through (David Nation)

Friday, 10 February

Guyhirn - fem Merlin nearby (Mark Ward)

Thursday, 9 February 2023

Thursday, 9 February

Smithy Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL 14:00-15:00h, Caspian Gull (Peter Leonard)

Grafham Water - 2 drake Scaup (Mark Ward)

Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Tuesday, 7 February

Snithy Fen - KUMLIEN'S GULL this afternoon, until 15:40h (Ian Ellis)

Wimpole - 29 Mandarin, Raven (Roger Hardie)

Needinworth STW - Siberian Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail (David Nation)

Monday, 6 February

Nene Washes - Long-eared Owl, 2 Short-eared Owl, Tawny Owl, 2 Barn Owl, Raven at Eldernell (Kevin Taylor); male Hen Harrier, 45 Crane, 4 Bewick's Swan, 500 Whooper Swan, 1500 Golden Plover (Roger Hardie)

Isleham Washes - 5 Avocet reported

Monday, 6 February 2023

Sunday, 5 February

Smithy Fen - Caspian Gull, 42 Whooper Swan, Peregrine (Peter Louden)

Sawston - Marsh Tit in a private garden (Andrew Knights) 

March Farmers - Spotted Redshank (Will Bowell)

Eldernell - Long-eared Owl, 3 Short-eared Owl, Tawny Owl (Ray McDonell)

St. Ives - 3 drake, 3 redhead Smew reported

Maxey - fem Scaup (Paul Bolton)

Ferry Meadows - pair of Goosander (Paul Taylor)

Saturday, 4 February

Grafham Water - 2 Scaup (Stewart Short)

March Farmers - Spotted Redshank (Mike Weddon)

Saturday, 4 February 2023

Friday, 3 February

Grafham Water - 2 drake Scaup (Mark Hawkes)

Nene washes - 45 Crane, Great Egret, 2 Stonechat, 250+ Black-tailed Godwit, Merlin, Peregrine (Ron Harold)

St. Ives, Meadow Lane pits - drake Smew (as per rarebirdalert)

Wicken area - Little Owl, Tree Sparrow (Kevin Wilson) 

Isleham Washes - Avocet reported


Thursday, 2 February 2023

Thursday, 2 February

 Fulbourn - Brambling with finch flock at New Shardlows Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Wednesday, 1 February

 Barton - 240 Corn Bunting at Lark Rise Farm (Roger Hardie)

Tuesday, 31 January

Earith - Pink-footed Goose with the Greylags (David Nation)

Wicken Fen - Tree Sparrow (Rachel Lennard)


Monday, 30 January 2023

Monday, 30 January

Cherry Hinton - Black Redstart at Kelsey Crescent this morning (Andrew Dobson); also along Windermere Close (Ed Gill)

Hare Park - Siskin singing (Kevin Wilson)

Eldernell - Long-eared Owl, 2 Short-eared Owl, 2 Barn Owl, male Hen Harrier, 20 Crane, 2 Great Egret over (Tim Watling)

Sunday, 29 January 2023

Sunday, 29 January

Cherry Hinton - Black Redstart still present (Paul Pulham)

Upwell - drake Goosander on 16ft drain south of the village (Chris Boness)

Grafham Water - drake Scaup, Raven over, 2 Siskin (David Nation)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Milton - Merlin, pair of Stonechat by the river (Mike Wood)

Maxey - 7 White-fronted Geese between the cut and south drain (Hugh Wright)

Saturday, 28 January

Eldernell - 2 male Hen Harrier (Ian Gordon)

Friday, 27 January 2023

Friday, 27 January

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

Grafham Water - imm drake Scaup, fem Goosander, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 2 drake Smew, redhead Goosander, 3 Red-crested Pochard, drake Scaup (Jamie Wells)

Cherry Hinton - Black Redstart (Jon Heath)

Landbeach - 35 Pink-footed Geese over west (Dick Newell)

Helpston - 7 European White-fronted Geese just north of the village (Mike Weedon)

Wicken Fen - 3 male Hen Harrier, Tree Sparrow (Ed King)

Thursday, 26 January 2023

Thursday, 26 January

Cherry Hinton - Black Redstart near Tenby Close/Fulbourn Old Drift Road junction (Iain Webb)

Nene Washes - 3 Short-eared Owl, 2 Long-eared Owl, 2 Barn Owl, Tawny Owl (Dick Burnham)

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Wednesday, 25 January

Ouse Washes - 8 White-fronted Geese, 50 Black-tailed Godwit to the north of Earith (Andrew Dobson); also 2 Pink-footed Geese, Spotted Redshank (David Nation)

Sutton North Fen - 56 Barnacle Geese, 102 Whooper Swan (David Nation)

Bainton Pits - fem Scaup (Hugh Wright)

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Tuesday, 24 January

Ouse Washes - 8 White-fronted Geese, Spotted Redshank north of Earith (Graeme Reed); 600 Whooper Swan at Block Fen; 500 Whooper Swans at Langwood Fen; 950 Whooper Swans Chatteris to Manea (Mark ward)

Manea - 400 Whooper Swan, Peregrine, 3 Stonechat at Bond's Farm (Mark Ward)

Monday, 23 January 2023

Monday, 23 January

Ouse Washes - 8 White-fronted Geese north of Earith (Andrew Dobson)

Helpston - Merlin, 6 Whooper Swan, Barn Owl along Maxey Road north of the village (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes - 2377 Whooper Swan, 167 Bewick's Swan, 80 Ruff, 7 Great Egret, 41 Crane to roost (Charlie Kitchin)

Sunday, 22 January 2023

Sunday, 22 January

Grafham Water - 2 Scaup, 2 Bewick's Swan, redhead Smew (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington, David Nation)

Ouse Washes - Bewick's Swan, 820 Whooper Swan Chatteris to Manea; 1225 Whooper Swan, 54 Barnacle Geese, 3 Egyptian Geese, Yellow-legged Gull at Sutton North Fen, 362 Whooper Swan, 2 Stonechat at Chain Corner; 350 Whooper Swan, 5 Bewick's Swan Chatteris to Somersham (Mark Ward)

Saturday, 21 January 2023

Saturday, 21 January

March - 15 Crane over south (Derek Benton)

Ouse Fen - 15 Bearded Tit, 4 Great Egret, 4 Stonechat (Sue Greenway)

Newmarket Heath - 120 Golden Plover (Paul Pulham)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL, 3 ad & 1st win Yellow-legged Gull, 1st win Caspian Gull at roost (Pete Holt); 3 Mediterranean Gull reported.

East side of Ousse Washes - 4 Bewick's Swan, 750 Whooper Swan at Block Fen; 4 Bewick's Swan, 2000 Whooper Swan near Littleport;1100 Whooper Swan at Langwood Fen, Chatteris; 1000 Whooper Swan between Pymoor railway bridge and Wardy Hill (Mark Ward)

Friday, 20 January 2023

Friday, 20 January

Wilburton - Pink-footed Goose with 230 Whooper Swan c.1mile south along Twenty Pence Road (David Nation)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL to roost, ad Yellow-legged Gull (Geoff Barlow)

Thursday, 19 January 2023

Thursday, 19 January

Wicken Fen - Little Owl, Short-eared Owl, 7 Redpoll (Sue Greenway)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL at 15:45h, ad Yellow-legged Gull, juv Mediterranean Gull (Diana Leech)

Tanholt - 1st win Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Nene Washes - 44 Crane at West Fen, Merlin, 36 Ruff, 90 Snipe at March Farmers (Charlie Kitchin)

Newmarket Heath - 100 Golden Plover (Paul Pulham)

Cow Lane GPs - Russain White-fronted Goose, Great Egret, Goosander (Stu & Jill Elsom)

St. Ives Meadow Lane pits - drake Smew (Jon Heath)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Goosander, Bittern (Jon Heath): 21 Great Egret, Peregrine (Ian Dawson)

Wednesday, 18 January

March -  4 Crane over south (Derek Benton)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 5 Great Egret, 2 Tawny Owl (Colin Kirtland)

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Tuesday, 17 January

Helpston - Merlin, 22 Whopper Swan over, to the north of the village (Hugh Wright)

St. Ives Meadow Lane pits - 2 male & a fem Smew, Cattle Egret over (David Nation)

Needingworth STW - Siberian Chiffchaff (David Nation)

Stretham - Peregrine over, 40 Golden Plover (David Nation) 

Tanholt - 1st win Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Monday, 16 January 2023

Monday, 16 January

 Earith - 2 Water Pipit next to car park still (Andrew Dobson)

Sunday, 15 January 2023

Sunday, 15 January

Dernford Reservoir - ad KUMLIEN'S GULL, ad & 1st winter Mediterranean Gull, 5 ad Yellow Legged Gull, ad & 2nd winter Caspian Gull (Chris Boness)

Needingworth STW - Siberian Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Godmanchester STW - Siberian Chiffchaff (Mark Ward)

Chatteris/Somersham - 140 Whooper Swan, 12 Bewick's Swan, 2 Egyptian Geese between the villages (Mark Ward)

Eldernell - 2 Male Hen Harrier, 2 Crane, Peregrine, 3 Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl, Tawny Owl, 3 Barn Owl (Hugh Wright)

Friday, 13 January 2023

Friday, 13 January

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

Grafham Water - 2 Scaup, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - ICELAND GULL, ad Mediterranean Gull (Andrew Dobson)

Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Wednesday, 11 January

Bainton pits - Bittern (Bob Titman) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Crane, 2 Great Egret (Andy Merryweather)

Great Abingdon - Brambling in a private garden (Andy Merryweather)

Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Tuesday, 10 January

Earith - Glossy Ibis, 2 Water Pipit in flooded field by car park (David Nation)

Monday, 9 January 2023

Monday, 9 January

Bainton Pits - drake Smew (Will Bowell)

Sixteen Foot Drain - Cattle Egret opposite Padgett's Road (David Nation)

Popham's Eau - 42 Goosander west of black sluice bridge on B1098 (David Nation)

St. Ives Meadow Lane pits - 3 drake & 2 female Smew, Great Egret, 8 Goldeneye (John & Sue Wells); Caspian Gull on sailing lake (Philip Bubb)

Dernford Reservoir - ad KUMLIEN'S GULL, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, 13 Mandarin (Brendan Doe)

Sunday, 8 January 2023

Sunday, 8 January

16 Foot Drain - 30 Goosander south of Three Holes (Mark Ward)

Earith Bridge - 10 Water Pipit (Mark Ward)

Chatteris/Somersham 13 Bewick's Swan and 1080 Whooper Swan between the villages (Mark Ward)
 
Grafham Water - 2cy drake Scaup at Dudney Creek (Mark Hawkes) 

A505 Melbourn Junction- ad ICELAND GULL, 2 Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull (Steve Cooper)

St. Ives Meadow Lane pits - 3 drake & 2 female Smew (Rachel Lennard)

Saturday, 7 January

Sutton North Fen - 2 Pink-footed Geese, 51 Barnacle Geese, ad Yellow-legged Gull; 9 Bewick's Swan, 400 Whooper Swan nearby (Mark Ward)

Sutton Gault - Water Pipit over (Mark Ward)

Friday, 6 January

Earith Bridge CP - 7 Water Pipit on flooded grassy area (Dean Harlow)

Burwell Fen - Little Owl in wood poile (Dean Harlow)

Friday, 6 January 2023

Thursday, 5 January

Cambridge Research Park - 2 Caspian Gull (Jon Heath)

St. Ives Meadow Lane pits - 3 male & 2 fem Smew, Goldeneye (Tim Watling); Great Egret (David & Sallie Jones)

Sixteen Foot drain - Cattle Egret at Bedlam Bridge (Andy Bayes)

Friday, 6 January

 Sixteen Foot drain - 20 Goosander between March & Upwell (Andy Bayes)

Wednesday, 4 January 2023

Wednesday, 4 January

St. Ives Meadow Lane pits - 3 drake, 2 fem Smew (Ian Dawson)

Tuesday, 3 January 2023

Tuesday, 3 January

St. Ives pits, Meadow Lane - 3 drake & a fem Smew (Marilyn Peterkin)

Monday, 2 January 2023

Monday, 2 January

Needingworth sewage works - Siberian Chiffchaff, 11 Chiffchaff, Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail (Steve & Ade Cooper

Barleycraft - Great Egret, 2 Red-crested Pochard (Steve & Ade Cooper)

Grafham Water - 2 Bewick's Swan, imm drake Scaup, 2 Raven (Mark Hawkes)

Northstowe - 2 Raven, Shelduck, 600+ Lapwing (Christoph Zöckler)

Granta Science Park - 2 Woodcock (Gareth Rees)

St. Ives pits, Meadow Lane - drake & 2 fem Smew (Tim Watling)

Nene Washes - 3 Short-eared Owl, 2 male Hen Harrier, Bittern, 2 Great Egret, 6 Barn Owl, 10 Stonechat, 50 Ruff, 400 Black-tailed Godwit, 80 Whooper Swan, 30 Bewick's Swan (Mark Ward)

Earith - 2nd cy Little Gull through north, 2 Great Egret, 14 Water Pipit, 7 Stonechat, 3 Barn Owl (Steve & Ade Cooper)

Camnbridge Research Park - Siberian Chiffchaff (David Heath)

Sunday, 1 January 2023

Sunday, 1 January

Grafham Water - 2 Bewick's swan, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Raven, imm drake Scaup off Plummer, Goosander, 2 Stonechat (Ian Dawson)

Earith - ringtail Hen Harrier, 9 Water Pipit (Brendan Doe)

Somersham - 44 Bewick's Swan, Pink-footed Goose with Whooper Swans nearby (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Washes - fem Merlin, Peregrine, 2 Stonechat at Welches Dam; 2 Bewick's Swan between reserve & Manea (David Nation); 1710 Lapwing (John Wells)

Eldernell - 4 Crane (David Nation); Hen Harrier (John Wells)

March Farmers - 200 Black-tailed Godwit, 300 Pintail (John Wells)