Thursday, 31 October 2024

Thursday, 31 October

Stretham - Hawfinch over (Ian Barton)

Mare Fen - 3 Hawfinch over (Richard Thomas)

Grafham Water - Short-eared Owl below dam (Colin Addington)

Wisbech - 2200 Pink-footed Geese over (Richard Caney)

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Wednesday, 30 October

Cambridge - Brambling over Mill Road (Iain Webb)

Clopton - 400 Redwing, 120 Fieldfare, 2 Peregrine over (Mark Thomas)

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Tuesday, 29 October

Woodwalton Fen - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER, Brambling, Siskin, Marsh Tit (Paul Bolton) 

Sutton Gault - 4 Redpoll over (Rob Partridge)

Clopton - Hawfinch (Mark Thomas)

Monday, 28 October 2024

Sunday, 27 October

Grafham Water - Hawfinch, Rock Pipit & Short-eared Owl over, 15 Great Egret, 6 Red-crested Pochard, fem Scaup, Caspain Gull (Mark Hawkes); GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Cookie Shorten)

Ouse Fen - Bearded Tits at Cuckoo Fen (Simon Passey)

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER reported

Ouse Washes - fem FURRUGINOUS DUCK just north of Pymoor railway bridge (Brendan Doe)

Saturday, 26 October 2024

Saturday, 26 October

Grafham Water - 12 Ring-necked Parakeet through, Caspian Gull, Brambling (Mark Hawkes)

Cambourne - 3 Brambling, 3 Redpoll, 4 Siskin through (James Hanlon)

Thorney Dyke - 15 Tree Sparrow & Brambling with Chaffinch flock and east end, several thousand flighty Golden Plover (Mike Weedon)

Burwell Fen - 360 Golden Plover over (Christoph Zöckler)

Friday, 25 October 2024

Friday, 25 October

Grafham Water - Osprey at Valley Creek (Richard Patient)

Hauxton - 500 Golden Plover over (Richard Palmer)

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Thursday, 24 October

Sawtry - vocal Hawfinch over (Mark Hawkes)

Stretham - Woodlark over (Ian Barton) 

Sutton Park - escape Harris's Hawk (Rachel Lennard)

Devil's Dyke - 136 Redwing & a Brambling over, 2 Merlin (Richard Dale)

Eldernell - 18 Great Egret, 17 Cattle Egret into roost along with 38 Little Egret (Charlie Kitchin)

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Wednesday, 23 October

Kingfishers Bridge - Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, Swallow, 18 Whooper Swan, Greenshank, Bittern, Brambling over (David Nation)

Cambridge - c.750 Golden Plover near Addenbrooke's Road/Hauxton Road junction (Andrew Dobson)

Sawtry - vocal Hawfinch over (Mark Hawkes)

Clopton - 2 Hawfinch over (Mark Thomas)

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Tuesday, 22 October

Sutton Gault - small party of Redpoll over (Rob Partridge)

Grafham Water - Slavonian Grebe (Nigel Butler); also Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Isleham - Peregrine over B1104 towards Prickwillow (Kevin Wilson)

Berry Fen - Great White Egret, possible Spotted Flycatcher heard (Tracey Graves)

Swaddywell - Hawfinch, 2 Brambling over (Josh Jones)

Monday, 21 October 2024

Monday, 21 October

Hemingford Grey - 6 Ring-necked Parakeet in a private garden (Clare Butcher)

Sunday, 20 October 2024

Sunday, 20 October

Berry Fen - BLACK-WINGED STILT reported

Sutton North Fen - 225 Egyptian Geese (Steve Cooper)

Colne Fen GP - Black-necked Grebe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Swallow through (Steve Cooper)

Saturday, 19 October 2024

Saturday, 19 October

Sutton Gault - 200+ Egyptian Geese on farmland (Rob Partridge)

Ferry Meadows - 1+ YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER around Heron Hide reported

Friday, 18 October

Lockspits Mere - Bittern, Great Egret, Bearded Tits (Tracey Graves)

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER by Ham Bridge, Brambling (Mike Weedon)

Etton/Maxey Pits - ad Mediterranean Gull briefly (Paul Bolton)

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Thursday, 17 October

Furtherford, Over - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER, Brambling (Richard Grimmett)

Ouse Fen - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER at west end of Cuckoo Drove (Steve Hutchinson); imm. PURPLE HERON in flight 11:00h (David Bradley)

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER by Willow Bridge (Don Gardener)

Clopton - 80 Redwing ringed & 800 over north-west, Short-eared Owl through (Mark Thomas)

Fulbourn - Raven over New Shardlows Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Whittlesey - 10 Cattle Egret on Common Wash (Charlie Kitchin)

Eldernell - 15 Cattle Egret (Mike Weedon)

Milton CP - Osprey (Jon Heath)   

Grafham Water - 2 Rock Pipit, Tawny Owl (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Wednesday, 16 October

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Paul Bolton)

Cambridge - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER heard at Nightingale Park (Guy Belcher)

Devil's Dyke - 1270 Redwing over south-west, also Fieldfare, 12 Golden Plover, Hobby (Richard Dale)

Grafham Water - Opsrey reported

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Tuesday, 15 October

Kingfishers Bridge - 19 Whooper Swan, 4 Swallow (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 14 October 2024

Monday, 14 October

Hare Park - 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Sutton Gault - 2 Swallow through (Rob Partridge)

Grunty Fen - Woodcock over Pools Road 19:30h (David Nation) 

Milton CP - Osprey (Jon Heath)

Sunday, 13 October 2024

Sunday, 13 October

Ferry Meadows - 2 YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER near Teal Hide picnic bench (Mike Weedon)

Fowlmere RSPB - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER along the plastic boardwalk but highly mobile (Ade Cooper)

Grafham Water - 4 Whooper Swan (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen RSPB, Bearded Tit, Stonechat, 20 Cattle Egret reported

Saturday, 12 October 2024

Saturday, 12 October

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER reported

Earith - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER with Long-tailed Tits (Graham Hirons)

Fowlmere RSPB - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Doug Radford)

Wicken Fen- YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Mark Peck)

Grafham Water - fem/imm Scaup, with drake Scaup-hybrid (Mark Hawkes)

Chippenham Fen - Jack Snipe, 70 Siskin, 170 Redwing over (Richard Dale)

Ouse Washes, Sutton Gault - 19 Whooper Swan (Rachel Lennard)

Ouse Fen RSPB - 7 Cattle Egret, Stonechat (Simon Passey)

Friday, 11 October 2024

Friday, 11 October

Etton/Maxey Pits - 2 GLOSSY IBIS off Green Lane (Paul Bolton)

Histon - 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (David Nation)

Milton CP - Osprey still present, 2 Kingfisher (Ed Gill)

Grafham Water - Osprey near Dudney Hide, Great Egret (Tracey Graves)

Thursday, 10 October 2024

Thursday, 10 October

Grafham Water - fem Scaup with Tufted Ducks (Tim Rea)

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Wednesday, 9 October

Etton/Maxey Pits - Gargaeny (Hugh Wright)

Cambridge - 400 Golden Plover at junction of Addenbrooke's Road and Hauxton Road this morning (Andrew Dobson); 100 Golden Plover in the air over M11/A10 junction this morning (Gareth Rees)

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Tuesday, 8 October

Baits Bite Lock - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER from tow path just south of bench south of danger sign (Marcus Kohler)

Littleport - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER reported, at 52.4593, 0.3177.

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, likely moulting drake (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 7 October 2024

Monday, 7 October

Baits Bite Lock - 2 YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Jon Heath)

Etton/Maxey Pits - male Bearded Tit (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - Osprey (John Roe)

Sunday, 6 October 2024

Sunday, 6 October

Etton Pits - Garganey, Black-tailed Godwit (Hugh Wright)

Sutton Gault - Brambing (Rob Partridge)

Kingfsiher's Bridge - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER in hedge by main track just SE of education centre, TL542725. 6 Whooper Swan briefly, Great Egret, 3 Ruff over (Ian Burfield)

Bretton - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER reported south of  Strawberry Avenue

Saturday, 5 October

Clopton - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER amongst the birds ringed this morning (Mark Thomas)

Baits Bite Lock - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER brifley this monrong (Marcus Kohler)

Friday, 4 October 2024

Friday, 4 October

Grafham Water - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER with tit flock at Gaynes Creek (Richard Patient)

Milton CP - Osprey still present (Ed Gill)

Sutton Gault - 2 Water Pipit, 3 Swallow, Kingfisher (Tracey Graves)

Etton Pits - Mediterranean Gull briefly, Black-tailed Godwit (Hugh Wright)

Thursday, 3 October 2024

Thursday, 3 October

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Matt Webb)

Grafham Water - Red-necked Grebe off Fishing Lodge (Richard Patient); also 3 Little Gull this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell - 30 Redwing over (Richard Dale)

Etton Pits - Rock Pipit (Mike Weedon)

Nene Washes - Whinchat reported

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Wednesday, 2 October

Sutton Gault - 70 Redwing over (Rob Partridge)

Nene Washes - 35 Crane, 2 Short-eared Owl reported