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)