Saturday, 13 December

Eastgate St. James - 2 Glossy Ibis in an Elm tree briefly, just inside the county (Bob Titman)

E;dernell - 12 Great Egret, 18 Little Egret, 12 Cattle Egret to roost (Charlie Kitchin)

Ely - Ring-necked Parakeet over pocket park (David Hammond)

Thursday, 11 December

Soham Mere - 200 Whooper Swan (Andy Hannaford)

Wednesday, 10 December

Grafham Water - 4 Great Northern Diver, 3 Bewick's Swan (Stuart Mandy)

Foul Anchor -  RAZORBILL reported flushed from River Nene (unknown obsever)

Tuesday, 9 December

Nene Washes area WeBS count - 2532 Whooper Swan, 20 Bewick's Swan, 3,000 Golden Plover, 5000 Wigeon, 36 Ruff, 33 Cattle Egret, Merlin, Jack Snipe. Also 55 Crane at Knarr Fen.

 

Sunday, 7 December

Knarr Fen - 200 Whooper Swan, 6 Pink-footed Geese, Great Egret north of Thorney Drove; 160 Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, 45 Pink-footed Geese south of Dairy Drove reported

Grafham Water -6 Great Northern Diver, juv fem Scaup, ad Caspian Gull, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Bewick's Swan (Mark Hawkes)

Swaffham Bulbeck - 2 Raven with corvids near church (Giles Merritt)

Saturday, 6 December

Berry Fen - Garganey (Andrew Tongue)

Knarr Fen - 69 Pink-footed Geese, distant 42 Crane (Mike Weedon)

Thorney Dyke - distant pair of Bewick's Swan with Whoopers (Mike Weedon)

Friday, 5 December

Hobson's Park - 2 Raven over (Joanna)

Ouse Washes - Brent Goose, 2 Raven, 8 Cattle Egret, 4 Great Egret, 4 Crane, Peregrine (James Littlewood) 

Eldernell - 11 Great Egret, 7 Cattle Egret, 17 Little Egret to roost, 2 Long-eared Owl (Charlie Kitchin)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Red-necked Grebe, Glossy Ibis, Goosander (Lucas B)

Thursday, 4 December

Fen Drayton Lakes - Red-necked Grebe (Stewart Short)

Over - Firecrest (Steve Cooper, Richard Thomas)

Wednesday, 3 December

Wicken Fen - 19 Marsh Harrier to roost, 3 Bearded Tit, Barn Owl, Kingfisher, Woodcock (Christoph Zöckler)

Tuesday, 2 December

Fen Drayton Lakes - Red-necked Grebe south-east corner of Ferry Lagoon, 16 Goldeneye, Goosander, Caspian Gull, 17 Great Egret, 2 Stonechat (Steve Cooper)

Sunday, 30 November

Fordham - DARTFORD WARBLER still present just to north-west side of Chippenham Fen. Also 3 Crossbill Raven, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Burwell Fen - Little Owl, Barn Owl (Paul Craske)

Grafham Water-  2 Great Northern Diver, 2 Common Scoter from Mander (Stewart Short) 

Fen Drayton Lakes-  Glossy Ibis at Ferry Lagoon (Terry Brown)

Saturday, 29 November

Fordham/Chippenham Fen - DARTFORD WARBLER still present (Ade Long)

Grafham Water - 3 Bewick's Swan, Great Northern Diver off Mander, juv Scaup, 2 fem Common Scoter off Plummer (Stu Butchart)

Friday, 28 November

Nene washes - Brent Goose reported at east end of March Farmers

Thursday, 27 November

Burwell Fen - pair of Peregrine, departing before dark (Isaac Swift)

Wednesday, 26 November

Eldernell - 4 Great Egret to roost, 3 Long-eared Owl (Charlie Kitchen)

Fordham/Chippenham Fen - DARTFORD WARBLER still present (Duncan Poyser)

Tuesday, 25 November

Eldernell - 41 Crane east of the CP (Steve Ouditt)

Monday, 24 November

Ouse Washes - RED-THROTED DIVER at Fortrey's Hall (Rahcel Lennard) 

Fordham/Chippenham Fen - DARTFORD WARBLER still present 52˚18'15' N 0˚24'45" E (Paul Whiteman)

Diddington - FERRUGINOUS DUCK and Caspian Gull at pit here (Duerden Cormack)

Sunday, 23 November

Cambridge - Firecrest in a private garden off Trumpington Road (Matt Midgley & Rachel Gartner)

Saturday, 22 November

Ouse Washes, Eaith - RED-THROATED DIVER just north of industrial estate (Hugh Venables)

Ely - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER heard, with tit flock, along Stuntney causeway (Duncan McNiven) 

Wimpole - 65 Golden Plover just north east of Thorn Hill (Kevin Wilson)

Friday, 21 November

Ouse Washes, Eaith - RED-THROATED DIVER (Rachel Lennard)

Grafham Water - 3 Bewick's Swan, 2 Great Northern Diver, 2 Common Scoter, Goosander (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 20 November

Chippenham Fen - DARTFORD WARBLER just to the north-east, what three words ///amazed.blows.brilliant.

Willow Hall Lane - 190 Whooper Swan, 5 Bewick's Swan reported

Knarr Fen - 2 Crane over, 330 Whooper Swan, 12 Pink-footed Geese, Great Egret over reported

Hobson's Park - Green Sandpiper (Joanna)

Tuesday, 18 November

Grafham Water - 3 Bewick's Swan, 4 Whooper Swan, 3 ad Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - 2 Little Gull north of Earith industrial estate (Duncan McNiven)

Wicken Fen - GOSHAWK with a fresh kill (Joe Holt)

Hare Park - Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Monday 17 November

Hobson's Park - 2 Black Redstart (Joanna)

Ouse Washes - 7 Little Gull at south end, from Earith industrial estate (Dean Harlow)

Sunday, 16 November

Grafham Water- 2 Great Northern Diver off Plummer, Common Scoter off south end of dam (JP Hook)

Brampton - FERRUGINOUS DUCK still (JP Hook)

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Howard Butler)

Saturday, 15 November

Grafham Water - 8 Brent Geese east past Mander 08:05h, 3 Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes); 4 Great Northern Diver (Richard Patient); 17 Little Gull through (Matthew Rodgers)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Little Gull through, 14 Goosander, 4 Goldeneye  (Hugh Wright)

Friday, 14 November

Grafham Water - 90 Little Gull off Mander before moving east 15:25h , 7 Little Gull through east at 15:55h (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 13 November

Wicken - 273 Whooper Swan on Soham Mere viewed from end of Hawes Lanr (Andy Hannaford)

Tuesday, 11 November

Barford Road Pocket Park, St. Neots - 3 redhead Goosander (Andrew Tongue)

Monday, 10 November

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Howard Butler)

Sunday, 9 November

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Don Gardener)

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver, 3 Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes) 

Ouse Washes - Mediterranean Gull to roost, 79 Crane near Four Balls Farm (Brendan Doe)

Saturday, 8 November

Ouse Washes RSPB - GREEN-WINGED TEAL from Stockdales Hide (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water - 10 Common Scoyer through 07:30h, Mediterranean Gull, 3 Caspian Gull, 5 Whooper Swan, Brambling (Mark Hawkes); Red-necked Grebe off Mander (Richard Patient); also 2 Great Northern Diver (Duerden Cormack)

Longstanton - Black Redstart briefly (Brendan Doe) 

Late news from 6 November: Byall Fen - RICHARD'S PIPIT from passive audio recorder (Simon Gillings)

Friday, 7 November

Grafham Water - 3 rehead Red-breasted Merganser off Mander CP before flying east, 1CY male Scaup by tower, 5 Whooper Swan, Brambling over (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Howard Butler)

Thursday, 6 November

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Paul Bolton)

Wednesday, 5 November

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Don Gardener)

Harrison's Drove -30 Whooper Swan over north (Paul Craske)

Hinxton-Ickleton - Green Sandpiper along the River Cam (Iain Webb)

 

Tuesday, 4 November

Nene Washes - 16 Crane east of March Farmers (John Wells)

Wicken Fen - 18 Marsh Harrier to roost, Bittern, Sparrowhawk, Merlin, Bearded Tit, Water Rail (Christoph Zöckler)

Sunday, 2 November

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Don Gardener)

Southey Wood - 20 Crossbill reported

Nene washes - 20 Cattle Egret between Millenium Bridge & Peterborough Embankment (James Pender)

Saturday, 1 November

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (Howard Butler)

Friday, 31 October

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER still (JP Hook)

Ouse Washes RSPB - 36 Crane from Cadbury Hide (Terry Brown) 

Ouse Washes - SNOW BUNTING on a private farm access road nearby, parallel to Vermudens Drain (Richard Cutting)

Thursday, 30 October

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER calling in hedge between Overton & Lynch Lakes (Chris Jones)

Grafham Water - 5 Crossbill, 6 Redpoll & a Brambling over (Mark Hawkes) 

Waterbeach - 2 Ring-necked Parakeet over Waterbeach Court (Daniel Osborne)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, 15 Great Egret (Tracey Graves) 

Wicken Fen - 8 Marsh Harrier & 2 Bittern to roost, Kingfisher, Bearded Tits and Water Rails also present (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday, 29 October

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER calling in hedge between Overton & Lynch Lakes,  Mediterranean Gull on Overton (Don Gardener)

Cottenham Long Drove - 4 Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Tuesday, 28 October

Ferry Meadows - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER calling in hedge between Overton & Lynch Lakes (Don Gardener); ad Mediterranean Gull (Matt Webb)

Grafham Water - 5 Whooper Swan at Valley creek (Mark Hawkes); Glossy Ibis reported from Littless hide 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Glossy Ibis at Moore Lake (Dave Anderson)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Ruddy Shelduck, 3rd winter Caspian Gull (David Nation) 

Eldernell - Short-eared Owl roosting (Dick Burnham)

Monday, 27 October

Brampton East Pit - fem FERRUGINOUS DUCK 07:35h but viewing difficult in the wind (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 26 October

Grafham Water - 3 Crossbill at Littless Creek (Andrew Tongue); 4 Whooper Swan from Valley Creek hide (Mark Hawkes)

Lockspit's Mere - 5 Whooper Swan, Kingfisher (Tracey Graves)

Saturday, 25 October

Brampton - fem FERRUGINOUS DUCK, imm SCAUP (Duerden Cormack)

Grafham Water - juv Merlin, 2 Glossy Ibis, 3 Whooper Swan through, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Brambling, 2 Ruff (Mark Hawkes) 

Ouse Washes - 93 Crane (Rachel Lennard)

Late news from 22 October: 104 Crane over Manea early morning.

Friday, 24 October

Barford Road Pocket Park - pair os Stonechat (Andrew Tongue)

Grafham Water - 2 Glossy Ibis at Littless Creek, also distant Harrier sp. strongly suggestive of Pallid (Mark Hawkes, Matthew Rodgers)

Wednesday, 22 October

Ferry meadows CP - Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret, Water Rail (Don Gardener)

Tuesday, 21 October

Frank's Pit, Helpston -  Jack Snipe, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, Water Rail (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - 2 Glossy Ibis at Littless Creek (Nigel Butler); reported later at Savages Creek

Monday, 20 October

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER in trees by Mound/Gunwade 07:48h (Mike Weedon) 

Fulbourn - Marsh Harrier over Balsham Road nearby, Raven over Fulbourn Fen (Kevin Wilson)

Frank's Pit, Helpston -  Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 4 Black-tailed Godwit (Hugh Wright)

Sunday, 19 October

Ferry Meadows CP - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER reported

Etton Maxey pits - RING OUZEL (Hugh Wright)

Frank's Pit, Helpston - Jack Snipe, also Brambling over (Hugh Wright); RING OUZEL over (Mike Weedon)

Saturday, 18 October

Ouse Washes - 27 Cattle Egret reported, also 13 Siskin over

Grafham Water - Brambling over, Curlew (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 17 October

Grafham Water - Jack Snipe, 5 Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes) 

Isleham Washes - c.100 Whooper Swan (Paul Whiteman)

Thursday, 16 october

Woodwalton Fen - 9 Marsh Harrier to roost (John Wells)

Wednesday, 15 October

Chatteris - Glossy Ibis over (Derek Benton) 

Ferry Meadows - Scaup on Overton Lake (as per Mike Weedon) 

Nene Washes - Merlin (Brian Hedley)

Pink-footed Geese reported over Sutton, Wisbech & Witcham

Tuesday, 14 October

Ouse Fen RSPB - FERRUGINOUS DUCK reported, from Lockspit path (as per Sue Greenway) 

Ferry Meadows - 23 Brent geese over (Matt Webb)

Woodwalton Fen - 15 Pink-footed Geese over 

Etton/Maxey Ppits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Great Egret, Rock Pipit, Stonechat, 18 Golden Plover over (Brian Stone)

Cottenham Long Drove - Mediterranean Gull (Brendan Doe)

Monday, 13 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - 2cy Mediterranean Gull at Mander CP (Andrew Tongue) 

Isleham Wash - Merlin but distant (Paul Whiteman)

Dernford Reservoir - Rock Pipit, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank (Carl Howard)

Sunday, 12 October

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 38 Golden Plover over (Carlos Davies)

Chippenham Fen - Fieldfare, 20 Redwing, Brambling, 40 Siskin, 30 Redpoll, 20 Golden Plover, 2 Hobby (Richard Dale)

Cuckoo Fen - 20 Bearded Tit, pair of Stoenchat (Simon Passey)

Saturday, 11 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Cattle Egret, 11 Whooper Swan (Hugh Wright)

Kingfishers Bridge - 26 Whooper Swan (Kevin Wilson)

Friday, 10 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank, 6 Whooper Swan; also 50 Golden Plover, 16 Redwing over (Hugh Wright)

Bythorn/Clopton track - 350+ Linnet (Stewart Short)

Hare Park - 2 Tawny Owl, Nuthacth, Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Pymoor - c.70 Crane reported

Thursday, 9 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS (Paul Bolton)

Burwell Fen - Little Owl at Priory Farm (Paul Craske)

Wednesday, 8 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Black-tailed Godwit (Hugh Wright); 4 Whooper Swan (Bob Titman)

Tuesday, 7 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS,  Rock Pipit, Great Egret (Hugh Wright)

Clopton - Woodlark, 6 Redwing over (Mark Thomas) 

Sutton Gault - 7 Redwing (Rob Partridge)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Whooper Swan, departed 14:15h (Mike Clydsedale) 

Littleport - 25 Redwing over just to the north (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 6 October

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit (Mark Hawkes); Whooper Swan (Rob O'Connor); 2 ad Yellow-legged Gull (Tim Rea)

Clopton - Whooper Swans over calling early morning (Mark Thomas) 

Nene Washes - 34 Whooper Swan, also 13 Pink-footed Geese over & 8 Crane reported

Burwell fen - Green Sandpiper, Tree Pipit (Paul Craske)

Etton/Maxey pits - 5 Whooper Swan, Rock Pipit, 6 Goosanders (Paul Bellamy) 

Frank's Pit - 7 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret (Paul Bellamy)

Sunday, 5 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS departed 07:44h, 2 Green Sandpiper(Hugh Wright); TEMMINCK'S STINT, 2 Rock Pipit (Mike Weedon))

Saturday, 4 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank (Hugh Wright); Rock Pipit, Caspian Gull briefly (Paul Bolton)

Friday, 3 October

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank, 200 Golden Plover circling (Paul Bolton)

Nene Washes, High Wash - Glossy Ibis, Stonechat (Charlie Kitchen)

Grafham Water - fem/imm Scaup off fishing lodge (Mathew Rodgers)

Thursday, 2 October

Isleham Washes - Spotted Redshank, 4 Ruff, 12 Snipe (Paul Whiteman)

Babraham - 2 Redwing over (Andrew Knights) 

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank (Paul Bolton)

Ouse Washes RSPB - 8 Glossy Ibis briefly (Kevin Taylor)

Wednesday, 1 October

Isleham Washes - Spotted Redshank (Mush Ahmad); also 3 Green Sandpiper (Paul Whiteman)

Tuesday, 30 Septemebr

Etton/Maxey pits -  LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes, Hgh Wash pool - Glossy Ibis, Cattle Egret (Charlie Kitchin) 

Wicken area - 8 Stonechat, 3 Bearded Tit, Hobby over Adventurer's Fen (Kevin Wilson)

Grunty Fen - WOODLARK, Tree Pipit, 2 Siskin over, 2 Raven (David Nation)

Monday, 29 September

Wicken area - 2 Beareded Tit at Adventurer's Fen, 2 Kingfisher along Wicken Lode (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Dave Anderson)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over (Dean Harlow)

Nene Washes, High Wash pool - Glossy Ibis, Littel Ringed Plover, 9 Cattle Egret reported

Etton/Maxey pits - Rock Pipit reported 

Oakington - 9 Glossy Ibis over (Andy Levitt)

Sunday, 29 September

Castor Hanglands - 20 Redpoll reported

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS (Mike Weedon) 

Franks Pit - 11 Black-tailed Godwit (Paul Bolton)

Saturday, 27 September

Grafham Water - Grey Plover briefly (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 26 September

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Grey Plover through (Hugh Wright)

Chippenham Fen - WOODLARK over 09:15h, other passge included a Hobby, Curlew, 30 Redpoll, 50 Siskin; Redstart, 22 Lesser Redpoll, Stonechat amongst the birds ringed this morning (Richard Dale)

Thursday, 25 September

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank, 5 Green Sandpiper, 4 Goosander, Great Egret, Curlew briefly (Hugh Wright); also 13 Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton)

Grafham Water - Common Scoter off dam early morning, Rock Pipit & 3 Redwing over (Mark Hawkes) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 9 Cattle Egret at north-east side of Ferry Lagoon (Peter Leonard)

Sutton Gault - Jack Snipe over south (Rob Partridge) 

Great Shelford - Redwing over (Peter Bircham)

Wednesday, 24 September

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank (Hugh Wright); also 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Dunlin, Great Egret (Brian Stone)

Frank's Pit - 18 Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret (Brian Stone)

Elney - Hobby over (Mike Clydesdale)

Tuesday, 23 September

Isleham Wash - PECTORAL SANDPIPER this morning (Chris Brown); still present 15:45h (JP Hook)

Etton/Maxey pits - BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL (as per Will Bowell); LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - Glossy Ibis at Dudney Creek (Colin Addington)

Monday, 22 September

Grafham Water - GREAT SKUA off Mander CP 07:00h, then east of fishing lodge 07:13h before flying and landing further north on the reservoir (Mark Hawkes); also 4 Redpoll, Peregrine; GANNET briefly late afternoon (Richard Patient)

Ellington - imm GANNET over south towards Grafham (Stuart Elsom)

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS still, Greenshank (Hugh Wright); also Little Stint (Mark Hawkes); Red-crested Pochard reported

Soham - a MANX SHEARWATER taken into care, unfortunatley much lighter than the recent Haddenham bird (Simon Stirrup)

Sunday, 21 September

Grafham water - GANNET, 2 Sandwich Tern from Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - 2 Whooper Swan, 5 Ruff, distant Cattle Egret at High Wash pool (Charlie Kitchin) 

Etton Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS still (m.o.); 2 Wheatear (Mike Weedon); 7 Whooper Swan over (Hugh Wright)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Garganey, 15 Cattle Egret north of river, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Kingfishers Bridge - 4  ad Whooper Swan (David Nation)

Sutton West Fen - 16 Whooper Swan (Rob Partridge)

Saturday, 20 September

Etton Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS (m.o.); 4 Golden Plover to the east (Chris Lines); Spotted Redshank through reported

Stretham - Short-eared Owl nearby (Katherine & David Nation)

Witchford - Woodcock over (Katherine & David Nation)

Dimmocks Cote - Whinchat nearby (Katherine & David Nation)

Grafham Water - Knot at Farm Bay (Jon Roe)

Haddenham Manx Shearwater released successfully at Hunstanton by Chris Percival today. 

Ouse Fen - Glossy Ibis (Richard Thomas)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Dave Anderson); a second Glossy Ibis (Max Bradley)

Ouse Washes - Glossy Ibis reported from Stockdales hide 

Sutton Gault - 2 Hobby south with migrating hirundines (Rob Partridge) 

Kingfishers Bridge - Hobby, Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Great Egret (James Littlewood)

Friday, 19 September

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (m.o.); also several Hobby over the Cut (Jerry Jolly)

 Ouse Fen - DOTTEREL over towards Fen Drayton calling (Richard Grimmett)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Alice Groom) 

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, 7 Cattle Egret, 2 Whinchat (Charles Kitchin); aslo Curlew Sandpiper reported

Thursday, 18 September

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS at south-east corner of Rectory Pit early morning. Also around the pits Greenshank, Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Over - dark phase HONEY BUZZARD low over south (Jeremy Lindsell)

Franks Pit - 2 Green Sandpiper, 13 Black-tailed Godwit (Paul Bolton)

Grafham Water - Meadow Pipit passage at c.500 per hour this morning, also 23 Siskin over (Richatrd Patient); Ruff, Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 4 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6 Great Egret, Wheatear around the reservoir (Andy Day)

Nene Washes - Short-eared Owl, Greenshank, 6 Whinchat reported

Hobson's Park - 2 Wheatear reported 

Sutton Gault - 200 Meadow Pipit in a single field (Rob Partridge)

Wednesday, 17 September

Nene Washes, High Wash - Wood Sandpiper (Charles Kitchin) 

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS at Rectory Pit, also GREY PHALAROPE briefly, 4 Glossy Ibis (HughWright)

Grafham Water - 2 Sanderling on dam (Mark Hawkes)

 

Tuesday, 16 September

Etton/Maxey pits - LESSER YELLOWLEGS briefly before flying off. Also 7 Ruff, 6 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright); Greenshank, 5 Goosander, Green Sandpiper (Paul Bolton)

Ouse Washes RSPB - Knot, Wood Sandpiper, 4 Glossy Ibis (Brendan Doe) 

Nene Washes, High Wash - 2 Whinchat, 8 Cattle Egret (Charles Kitchin)

Haddenham - MANX SHEARWATER picked up this evening, being taken into care.

Sunday, 14 September

Soham Lode - Peregrine nearby (Chris Barker)

Sutton Gault - strong southerly movement of House Martin and Swallow, also Hobby, Yellow Wagtail (Rob Partridge) 

Nene Washes, High Wash - Wood Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Ruff (Charles Kitchin); 7 Cattle Egret (Paul Bolton)

Saturday, 13 September

Hare Park - Hobby through (Kevin Wilson)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, 6 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit (Kevin Wilson)

Friday, 12 September

Iselham Wash - LESSER YELLOWLEGS until departing north-east at 09:05h (Andrew Tongue)

Nene Washes - Curlew Sandpiper, 29 Ruff, 15 Cattle Egret, Hobby, 3 Whinchat (Charles Kitchin) 

Franks Pit - 2 Green Sandpiper, 14 Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret (Brian Stone)

Hare Park - Raven over (Kevin Wilson) 

Hobsons Park - Hobby through (Gareth Rees)

Grafham Water - Spotted Flycatcher at Valley Creek Hide, 3 Black Tern from Mander CP, 3 Whinchat below dam (Mark Hawkes); 17 Vurlew Sandpiper reported

Longstanton - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff Greeen Sandpiper (Duncan McNiven)

Thursday, 11 September

Ouse Washes - 19 Glossy Ibis from Stockdales Hide reported

Clopton - male Redstart ringed this morning (Mark Thomas)

Etton/Maxey pits - Cattle Egret (Chris Lines) 

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, 28 Ruff (Charles Kitchin); 3 Cattle Egret reported

Wicken area - 2 Hobby, 2 Green Sandpiper, Whinchat at Honeywell (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - 5 Black Tern (mark Hawkes); 11 Curlew Sandpiper (Stewart Short)

Wednesday, 10 September

Ouse Washes - 19 Glossy Ibis from Stockdelas Hide (Keith Honnor)

Grafham Water - at Valley Creek, juv Black Tern, 10 Curlew Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank briefly (Mark Hawkes)

Longstanton - Curlew Sandpiper (Marilyn Peterkin)

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, 10 Ruff, 2 Whinchat at High Wash (Charlie Kitchin)

Tuesday, 9 September

Nene Washes - 19 Cattle Egret, Hobby at Low Wash, 31 Snipe at High Wash (Paul Bolton)

Cambridge - 3 Ring-necked Parakeet over the city centre (Daniel Osbourne) 

Ouse Washes - 19 Glossy Ibis from Stockdales Hide, 84 Crane (Brendan Doe)

Monday, 8 September

Grafham Water - SQUACCO HERON at Gaynes Creek 18:30h, flew into willows 18:55h. Car park closes at 19:00h (Rob Connor, Mark Hawkes); earlier 9 Curlew Sandpiper, 10 Dunlin, 9 Ruff from Valley Creek Hide, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank at Dudney Creek (Mark Hawkes)

Pymoor - 74 Crane reported

Ferry Meadows - Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher at Heron Meadow (Don Gardener)

Nene Washes, High Wash - Garganey, 7 Ruff (Paul Bolton)

Whittlesey - 4 Cattle Egret on Common Wash (John Pegden) 

Longstanton - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Ruf (JP Hook)

Clopton - 2 Whinchat, Grasshopper Warbler ringed this morning (Mark Tomas)

Sunday, 7 September

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Glossy Ibis over east, 12 Cattle Egret, 7 Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail (Richard Allison)

Ditton Meadows - 2 Pied Flycatcher, 7 Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher; also recentlyRedstart, Grasshopper Warbler, Tree Pipit (Noah Bailey) 

Grafham Water - 9 Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 10 Dunlin, 8 Ruff, Little Ringed Plover, 5 Greenshank, 2 Caspian Gull, 3 Hobby, Peregrine, Whimbrel over (Mark Hawkes)

Granta Park, Great Abington - Common Sandpiper, 4 Mandarin, Nuthatch (Andy Merryweather) 

Ferry Meadows - Redstart, Spotted Flcatcher at Heron Meadow (Don Gardener)

Milton airfield - Whinchat, Corn Bunting reported 

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Great Egret, Hobby, 4 Green Sandpiper, 12 Snipe (Kevin Wilson)

Longstanton - 3 Curlew Sandpiper (Brendan Doe)

Saturday, 6 September

Fowlmere - a flock of 10 Glossy Ibis over south-east at 10:31h (Ade Cooper)

Ouse Fen - 17 Glossy Ibis (Richard Bradbury)

Ferry Meadows - Redstart at Heron Meadow (Don Gardener)

Clopton - 2 Nightjar, 3 Whinchat ringed this morning (Mark Thomas) 

Grafham Water - 2 Sandwich Tern at Mander (Mark Hawkes); Little Stint at Valley Creek (Richard Patient)

Cambourne - 2 Tree Pipit (JP Hook)

Litlington clunchpit - 2 Whinchat (Geoff Barlow)

Etton/Maxey Pits - Opsrey over reported

Friday, 5 September

Grafham Water - Arctic Tern, Garganey, Caspian Gull, Osprey, 6 Ruff, 6 Greenshank, Goldeneye, 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - Wood Sandpiper from Cadbury Hide (Andrew Tongue); Wheatear (Rahcel Lennard)

Frank's Pit - Osprey over, Great Egret (Ian Musselbrook); 3 Garganey, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, Hobby (Vin Fleming) 

Etton/Maxey Pits - Glossy Ibis, 2 Little Ringed Plover, also 2+ Spotted Flycatcher around Etton village (Hugh Wright) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Raven, Bittern (Saimon Clark)

 

Thursday, 4 September

Frank's Pit, Helpston - 5 Garganey, Wood Sandpiper, 24 Black-tailed Gowdit, Green Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes, HIgh Wash - 3 Wood Sandpiper, 13 Ruff (Charles Kitchin) 

Ouse Fen - Curlew Sandpiper (Rachel Lennard)

Wednesday, 3 September

Nene Washes, High Wash - 2 Wood Sandpipers, 24 Ruff, Whinchat (Charles Kitchin); 44 Cattle Egret (Jonathan Taylor)

Etotn/Maxey pits - Osprey (Hugh Wright)

Tuesday, 2 September

Grafham Water - Whinchat amonsgt solar panels, Wheatear, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Caspian Gull at dam (Tim Rea); 4 Trunstone this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Clopton - Whinchat ringed (Mark Thomas) 

Blackbush, Whittlesey - Whinchat (Charlie Kitchin)

Nene Washes Hgh Wash - 3 Wood Sandpiper, 17 Ruff, Peregrine at High Wash pool, 24 Cattle Egret, 2 Whinchat (Charlie Kitchin); PURPLE HERON in flight at March Farmers reported

Franks Pit, Helpston - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Garganey, 19 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Etton/Maxey pits - Wheatear, 2 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Grunty Fen - Raven (Andrew Tongue) 

Bainton pits - Wood Sandpiper (Paul Bolton)

 

Monday, 1 September

Grafham Water - Spotted Redshank at Gaynes Creek (Tim Rea)

Etton/Maxey pits - Redstart, Glossy Ibis departed 08:15 (Hugh Wright); also Wheatear reported

Frank's Pit, Helspton - Osprey, Wood Sandpiper, Garganey, Bittern, 18 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Great Egret, 2 Raven, Peregrine (Hugh Wright)

Sunday, 31 August

Frank's pit - Osprey briefly, Wood Sandpiper, 18 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Garganey, Great Egret, 3 Water Rail (Mike Weedon)

Grafham Water - Turnstone, Spotted Redshank (Mark Hawkes) 

Ouse Washes - 40 Cattle Egret near Welches dam (Andrew Tongue)

Saturday, 30 August

Chippenham Fen - 2 Tree Pipit, 9 Crossbill (Richard Dale)

Grafham Water - 2 Turnstone on dam (Mark Hawkes)

Castor Hanglands - Redstart reported

Nene Washes - 2 Wood Sandpiper, 15 Ruff on High Wash (Charles Kitchin)

Etton/Maxey pits - Ruff (Paul Bolton) 

Ouse Washes - 55 Crane from Cottier Hide (Rachel Lennard)

Friday, 29 August

Milton airfield - Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher (Chris Orders)

Grafham Water - 2 Spotted Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 28 August

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 5 Common Sandpiper at Farm Bay (Jon Roe)

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, 15 Ruff, Cattle Egret on High Wash pool (Charles Kitchin) 

Hare Park - Quail calling nearby, in set aside field between Allington Hill and the A1304 (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday, 27 August

Etton/Maxey pits - fem redstart, Yellow-legged Gull reported

Grafham Water - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpiper, Hobby over at Gaynes Creek (Dean Harlow); 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper at Valley Creek, 3 Greenshank, Common Sandpiper from Dudney Hide (Stewart Short); 2 Spotted Redshank at Savages Creek, Wood Sandpiper at Dudney creek, 14 Greenshank, 17 Common Sandpiper 4 Ruff, Hobby, Caspian Gull elsewhere around the reservoir (Nigel Butler)

Clopton - 2 Redstart ringed (Mark Thomas)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Common Sandpiper (Mike Foley)

Tuesday, 26 August

Grafham Water - juv Spotted Redshank at Gaynes Creek (Mark Hawkes); Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper (Stewart Short)

Milton Airfield - 3 Whimbrel over Golden Plover, Whinchat  reported

Etton/Maxey pits - Glossy Ibis reported

Monday, 25 August

Clopton - NIGHTJAR ringed at dawn (Mark Thomas)

Fen Drayton Lakes - juv WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN at Moore Lake still (Tim Rea)

Fowlmere RSPB - PIED FLYCATCHER in a hedgerow on the boundary of the reserve but lost as it moved into the dense scrub (Ade Cooper) 

Ely - PURPLE HERON one on west bank of River Great Ouse north of A142 bridge reported

Sunday, 24 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN, 7 Turtle Dove, Whinchat, 2 Garganey, Hobby, 3 Common Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Wood Sandpiper at Farm Bay (Jon Roe); Osprey (Marilyn Peterkin)

Chippenham Fen - 3+ Tree Pipit (Richard Dale)

Saturday, 23 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN on Moore Lake (Richard Allison); RING-NECKED DUCK, 2 Garganey, Turnstone, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Cattle Egret, 2 Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 7 Great Egret (Carlos Davies)

Chain Corner - GUILLEMOT heading towrds this location (Rob Partridge) and past Chain Corner south towards Earith (Mark Peck)

Chippenham Fen - NIGHTJAR ringed, 2 Tree Pipit, Crossbill (Richard Dale)

Ouse Washes - 59 Cattle Egret from Stockdales Hide (Rachel Lennard)

Grafham Water - Wheatear below dam (Tom Rea)

Clopton - 2 Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Nightingale, Redstart (Mark Thomas) 

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper (Chris Jones)

Friday, 22 August

Ferry Meadows - Whinchat reported

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Sandwich Tern (Chris Lines) 

Milton Airfield - Short-eared Owl, 2 Whinchat, fem Redstart  reported

Clopton - 3 Redstart ringed, 3 Crossbill over (Mark Thomas)

Thursday, 21 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - PURPLE HERON on Moore Lake but disappeared into reeds (David Anderson)

Burwell Fen - PURPLE HERON (as per birdguides) 

Etton/Maxey pits - Turnstone , Glossy Ibis, 2 Green Sandpiper (Hugh Wright); Osprey over (Howard Butler)

Wednesday, 20 August

Brownshill Staunch - deceased Guillemot (Richard Thomas)

Grafham Water - 4 Greenshank at Farm Bay (Jon Roe) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - eclipse male RING-NECKED DUCK, Hobby, Turtle Dove, 4 Cattle Egret, 4 Great Egret, Bittern, Yellow-legged Gull (Alan Harris)

Dernford Reservoir - Hobby, 2 Greenshank, 3 Ruff, 5 Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 4 Yellow Wagtail (Alan Harris)

Tuesday, 19 August

Brownshill Staunch - juv GUILLEMOT (as per Mark Hawkes)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Great Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, Ruff (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Curlew Sandpiper (David Dives) Ruff, 4 Common Sandpiper reported

Clopton - Redstart ringed, Tree Pipit (Mark Thomas) 

Grafham Water - Wood Sandpiper (Tim Rea)

Monday, 18 August

Dernford Reservoir - Greenshank, 2 Ruff, 5 Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 4 Yellow Wagtail. 75 Little Grebe (Steve Cooper)

Sunday, 17 August

Thrope Meadows - KITTIWAKE through (Joe Taylor)

Grafham Water - Wood Sandpiper, 6 Greenshank, 5 Red-crested Pochard, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes); 2 Black-tailed Godwit (Diana Leech)

Woodhurst - 4 Raven (Duncan McNiven) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - RING-NECKD DUCK, 5 Garganey, 6 Great Egret, 19 Cattle Egret, Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, Hobby, Stonechat (Steve Cooper)

Chippenham Fen - 4 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Tree Pipit, Redpoll sp over (Richard Dale) 

Dernford Reservoir - Greenshank, Ruff, 5 Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 40 Little Egret, 2 Hobby, Kingfisher, 6 Yellow Wagtail Steve Cooper)

Saturday, 16 August

Wicken Fen - 6 Green Sandpiper, Great Egret (Kevin Wilson)

Chppenham Fen - GOSHAWK, Spotted Flycatcher (Bendan Doe, Rachel Lennard)

Friday, 15 August

Grafham Water - Osprey over west, Caspian Gull, Wood Sandpiper, 7 Great Egret, 16 Yellow-legged Gull, Greenshank (Mark Hawkes)

Wimpole Hall - 6 Spotted Flycatcher around  the top lake reported

Chippenham Fen - STONE CURLEW over, NIGHTJAR, Tree Pipit briefly, 11 Crossbill (Richard Dale)

Thursday, 14 August

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, Ruff, 3 Avocet, 3 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 7 Goosander, 3 Raven, Hobby, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright) 

Whittlesey - Tree Pipit over (Charles Kitchin)

 

Wednesday, 13 August

Etton/Maxey pits - Glossy Ibis, Ringed Plover through (Hugh Wright) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - RING-NECKED DUCK still (Richard Grimmett)

Wicken Fen - 11 Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Garganey, Stonechat; also Green Sandpiper, 4 Corn Bunting at Burwell and 2 Hobby at White Fen (Christoph Zöckler) 

Cottenham Long Drove - 5 Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Monday, 11 August

Dernford Reservoir - 7 Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson)

Wandelbury CP - family of 5+ Spotted Flycatcher, 20+ Mistle Thrush recently (James Littlewood)

Grafham Water - Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, Sandwich Tern briefly (Mark Hawkes) 

Hare Park - 2 Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 10 August

Clopton - 2 Tree Pipit (Mark Thomas)

Southey Wood - 3 Crossbill over (Paul Bolton) 

Chippenham Fen - 2 Tree Pipit ringed, 8 Crossbill, Siskin (Richard Dale)

Fen Drayton Lakes - RING-NECKED DUCK, 8 Cattle Egret, 3 Great Egret (Kevin Wilson)

Burwell Fen - 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Bearded Tit (David Wege)

Saturday, 9 August

Great Shelford - Black Redstart (Tony Warne) 

Chippenham Fen - Crossbill, Tree Pipit, Hobby, 3 Grasshopper Warbler (Richard Dale)

Friday, 8 August

March Farmers - juv PURPLE HERON reported

Thursday, 7 August

Etton/Maxey pits - Turnstone briefly (Hugh Wright) 

March Farmers - PURPLE HERON reported

Grafham Water - ad Caspian Gull, 1CY Mediterranean Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Cottenham Long Drove - Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe) 

Witcham Toll - large grey Gyr-like falcon of unknown origin just to the south (Chris Boness)

Wednesday, 6 August

Nene Washes - PURPLE HERON at March Farmers briefly, then flew west, possibly dropping in west of trig point (as per Peterborough Bird News)

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 5 August

Etton/Maxey pits - Glossy Ibis (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - juv KITTIWAKE briefly (Mark Hawkes); ad Caspian Gull (Tim Rea) 

Swavesey/Fen Drayton - 4 Cattle Egret from the busway between the villages (Tracey Graves)

Monday, 4 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - RING-NECKED DUCK at Drayton Lagoons (Hugh Venables)

Wicken area - 11 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank on Baker's Fen (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 3 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - RING-NECKED DUCK at Drayton Lagoons (Richard Grimmett); also 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Diana Leech)

Saturday, 2 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - RING-NECKED DUCK at Drayton Lagoons (Richard Bradbury)

Grafham Water - Sandwich Tern, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 31 July

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, 6 Ruff, 17 Cattle Egret reported

Wednesday, 30 July

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 7 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper reported

Paxton Pits - 2 Great Egret, Green Sandpiper (Terry Brown)

Tuesday, 29 July

Wicken Fen - 9 Green Sandpiper, garganey, fem Mandarin, 2 Great Egret, Peregrine, 4 Stonechat, Crossbill over (Christoph Zöckler) 

Etton/Maxey pits - Glossy Ibis, juv Caspian Gull reported

Cottenham Long Drove - 5 Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe) 

Paxton Pits - 5 Gren Sandpiper (Terry Brown)

Monday, 28 July

Hare Park - Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 27 July

Kingfishers Bridge - PURPLE HERON on the mere 10:30h ; also Great Egret, 2 Ruff (Kevin Wilson)

Chippenham Fen - Crossbill. Also 11 Grassshopper Warbler ringed over the weekend (Richard Dale)

Saturday, 26 July

Kingfishers Bridge - juv PURPLE HERON flushed between the reserve and marina, lost to view on east bank (Ian Dillon); 5 Garganey (David Nation)

Etton/Maxey pits - 3 Garganey briefly (Hugh Wright)

Chippenham Fen - 4 Crossbill, Green Sandpiper (Richard Dale) 

Friday, 25 July

Wicken Fen - 11 Green Sandpiper, Garganey, male Stonechat feeding young; also 7 Corn Bunting at Burwell Fen (Christoph Zöckler)

Etton/Maxey pits - Osprey (Chris Lines)

Thursday, 24 July

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 8 Great Egrets, Caspian Gull, 7 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Crossbill over (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken area - 12 Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Great Egret (Christoph Zöckler) 

Ditton Meadows - Grasshopper Warbler singing (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday, 23 July

Grafham Water - ad Caspian Gull/hybrid, 3 Greenshank,  5 Green Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 22 July

Nene Washes - 3 Wood Sandpiper, 5 Ruff, Little Ringed Plover reported

Southey Wood - 5 Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Hare Park - Raven over (Kevin Wilson) 

Ouse Fen - Spoonbill, Garganey, Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper; Hobby, Bittern, Great Egret, 11 Cattle Egrets, Wood Sandpiper, Peregrine over (James Hanlon)

Sunday, 20 July

Etton/Maxey pits -  Wood Sandpiper, Ruff, 6 Green Sandpiper, 8 Common Sandpiper,Yellow-legged Gull (Hugh Wright)

Welches Dam - 7 Crossbill over (Andrew Tongue) 

Bakers Fen - Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (Kevin Wilson)

Hare Park - Hobby, 2 Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 19 July

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, Ruff (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes) 

Cottenham Long Drove - juv Mediterranean Gull (Brendan Doe)

Friday, 18 July

Chippenham Fen - Tree Pipit ringed, Crossbill (Richard Dale)

Etton/Maxey pits -Wood Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull, Turtle Dove reported

Paxton Pits - 5 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Terry Brown)

Thursday, 17 July

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit. Also Turtle Dove nearby (Hugh Wright); 7 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull reported

Southey Wood - 3 Spotted Flycatcher (Paul Bolton) 

Grafham Water - 15 Crossbill over east (Richard patient)

Burwell - Ring-necked Parakeet at Heath Road (Richard Dale)

Wednesday, 16 July

Grafham Water - 11 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Siskin (Mark Hawkes) 

Cottenham Long Drove - 6 Caspian Gull, 35 Yellow-legged Gull (Dave Foster)

Ouse Fen - Spotted Redshank (Dave Foster)

Tuesday, 15 July

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, Curlew over, 5 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Paxton Pits - 5 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret (Terry Brown) 

Great Widgham Wood - 2 Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Late news - DARK-EYED JUNCO in a private garden in Ely on 9 July, but no further sign.

Monday, 14 July

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper (Chris Lines)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Little Ringed Plover (Stephen Dutton) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Turtle Dove, Yellow Wagtail (Tim Caldicott)

Sunday, 13 July

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 7 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Greenshank, 6 Great Egret, 6 Common Sandpiper, 8 Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Colne Fen GP - drake FERRUGINOUS DUCK viewed from the bridleway at TL38027737, also Mandarin, Bittern, Great Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier, juv Cuckoo (Steve Cooper)

Sutton North Fen GP - 85 Barnacle Geese, 102 Egyptian Geese, 3 Oystercatcher, Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull (Steve Cooper)

Ouse Fen Cell 10 - Spoonbill, 32 Little Egret, 3 Great Egret, 3 Garganey, 2 Oystercatcher, Golden Plover, Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Ruff, 3 Greenshank (Steve Cooper)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 9 Turtle Dove heard (Tim Caldicott) 

Chippenham Fen - 2 Tree Pipit (Richard Dale)

 

Saturday, 12 July

King's Dyke NR - PURPLE HERON, please note the resere is currently closed (George Walthew) 

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Curlew, 6 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, Ruff (Hugh Wright)

Friday, 11 July

Dernford Reservoir - Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher reported

Maxey - 3 Turtle Dove at green bridge, Woodgate Lane (Chrus=is Lines)

Sunday, 6 July

Cambourne - Quail singing along footpath to Bourne Ford (JP Hook)

Dernford Reservoir - SPOTTED SANDPIPER showing well on west side until at least 11:00h (Steve Cooper) 

Hare Park - 2 Crossbill (Kevin Wilson)

Friday, 4 July

Pymoor - Corncrake singing nearby (Anthiny Lowe)

Southey Wood - Crossbill (Rachel Lennard)

Monday, 30 June

Ouse Fen - HOOPOE heard twice from car park 05:20h, no sign of the Pratincole (Stu Butchart)

Etton/Maxey pits - Sanderling, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Sunday, 29 June

Ouse Fen - COLLARED PRATINCOLE on Cell 10 this evening (Rachel Lennard)

Etton/Maexy pits - Glossy Ibis (Hugh Wright)

Southey Wood - 10 Crossbill (Mike Weedon)

Thursday, 26 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove (Gill Parrish)

Helpston - Osprey over (Hugh Wright)

Monday, 23 June

Histon - 3 Crossbill over west 17:15h (David Nation)

Sunday, 22 June

Grafham Water - Common Scoter, 2 Sandwich Tern (Richard Patient)

Dernford Reservoir - Mediterranean Gull briefly, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Steve Cooper)

Friday, 20 June

Offord Darcy - Redstart reported from a private garden briefly (Kevin Walton)

Wednesday, 18 June

Longstanton - Turtle Dove, possibly 2 birds, along busway towards Swavesey (Christoph Zöckler)

Tuesday, 17 June

Wicken Fen - BLACK KITE over (Duncan Poyser)

Wicken/Burwell Fens -  9 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Garganey, Great Egret, 30 Little Egret, Hobby, Kingfisher, Barn Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Sunday, 15 June

Etton/Maxey pits - 4 Green Sandpiper (Chris Lines)

Grafham Water - Osprey (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday, 14 June

Etton/Maxey pits - Spotted Redshank (Chris Line)

Ellington - HONEY BUZZARD over south (Tim Rea)

Friday, 13 June

Needingworth pits - Turtle Dove (Harrry Orchard)

Thursday, 12 June

Grafham Water - drake LONG-TAILED DUCK off Dudney (Richard Patient) 

Nene Washes - Short-eared Owl, Green Sandpiper reported

Wednesday, 11 June

Etton/Maxey pits - ad Mediterranean Gull (Hugh Wright)

Reach -  SQUACCO HERON flushed, flying south-west, from the small fishing pond just west of Reach Lode this morning but not relocated https://maps.app.goo.gl/3mLs2wGvobibFff99 (Richard Dale) 

Tubney Fen - Garganey (Richard Dale)

Ouse Fen - White Stork circling, 5 Bittern, 7 Bearded Tit, Peregrine, Hobby (Stuart Elsom) 

Grafham Water - 3 Black-necked Grebe (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 10 June

Etton/Maxey pits - Sanderling, 2CY Mediterranean Gull (Hugh Wright)

Sunday, 8 June

Fen Drayton lakes - male RED-BACKED SHRIKE along entrance road (Andrew Dobson)

Graham Water - PURPLE HERON flew north from lagoons this morning (Richard Patient)

Saturday, 7 June

Fen Drayton lakes - male RED-BACKED SHRIKE on gate on right hand side of entrance road briefly (Paul & Jack Brackley); present on the reserve this afternoon (Rachel Lennard)

Friday, 6 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN (Chris Orders)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2CY Mediterranean Gull (Hugh Wright) 

Wicken area - Bittern, Little Ringed Plover, Great Egret in Burwell area, Cuckoo, Barn Owl at Bakers Fen (Kevin Wilson)

Thursday, 5 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN (m.o.)

Wednesday, 4 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN (Simon Freedman)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2CY Mediterranean Gull (Hugh Wright)

Tuesday, 3 June

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER reported

Fowlmere - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN reported 

Etton/Maxey pits - 2CY Mediterranean Gull (Hugh Wright)

Monday, 2 June

Etton/Maxey pits - Curlew over (Hugh Wright)

Sunday, 1 June

Grafham Water - 4 Sanderling, Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail (Mark Jackson)

Haddenham - HOOPOE reported

Friday, 30 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - Sanderling, Bittern, Garganey (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - Bittern (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 28 May

Fen Drayton Lakes -  Turtle Dove, 2 Cuckoo, 15 Cattle Egret, Great Egret (Terry Brown)

Tuesday, 27 May

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 5 Sanderling (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 26 May

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 5 Ringed Plover (JP Hook); Marsh Tit, 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 25 May

Grafham Water - Opsrey, Turnstone, 4 Sanderling (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday, 24 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER still (Tom Wilson)

Grafham Water - 8 Arctic Tern from Mander, 4, Sanderling, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Mediterranean Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 22 May

Etton/Maxey pits -4 Turnstone (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - Sandwich Tern over, 2 Sanderling (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 20 May

Burwell Fen - 11 Hobby in the area, Spoonbill briefly, Great Egret, Garganey, Golden Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Christoph Zöckler)

Ouse Washes - Grey Plover from Stockdales Hide, 9 Whooper Swan (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 19 May

Grafham Water - KENTISH PLOVER very briefly on the dam this morning, also Grey Plover, 3 Sanderling (Richard Patient)

Ouse Washes - fem RED-FOOTED FALCON reported from Cadbury Hide

Isleham Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper (Paul Whiteman)

Etton/Maxey pits - Turnstone, 2 Avocet (Hugh Wright); Greenshank through 

Sunday, 18 May

Somersham - Raven over (Russell Watkins)

Needingworth - 3 Turtle Dove (Derek Benton)

Saturday, 17 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling (JP Hook)

Ouse Washes - Spoonbill, Grey Plover, Garganey, 3 Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Isleham Washes - 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Paul Whiteman); Little Gull reported this morning

Friday, 16 May

Fowlmere - fem RED-FOOTED FALCON (m.o.)

Little Downham - HONEY BUZZARD reported over

Godmanchester GPs - Arctic Tern through east (JP Hook)

Burwell Fen - Sanderling (Ian Barton); Spoonbill reported

Hobson's Park - Hobby through, Little Ringed Plover (Gareth Rees)

Etton/maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes - 2 Spoonbill, Turnstone, Grey Plover (Charles Kitchin)

 

Thursday, 15 May

Nene Washes - Sanderling (Paul Bolton)

Wednesday, 14 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (Rich Atkins)

Grafham Water - 2 GLOSSY IBIS through south, 2 Sanderling on dam (Richard Patient)

Needingworth pits - Turtle Dove, Bittern, Cuckoo (Harry Orchard)

Nene Washes - Sanderling (Paul Bolton)

Tuesday, 13 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - 3 Black Tern, 2 Arctic Tern, Grey Plover, 3 Sanderling, 6 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Dean Harlow)

Etton/Maxey pits - Grey Plover Hugh Wright); Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Great Egret (Kevin Eldred)

Nene Washes - Turnstone, Greenshank (Charles Kitchin)

Hobson's Park - 4 Common Sndpiper reported

Monday, 12 May

Grafham Water - Grey Plover at Marlow, 5 Black Tern distantly this morning (Stewart Short); 8 Black Tern, 5 Arctic Tern this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Etton/Maxey pits - Grey Plover, 6 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright); Sanderling (Josh Jones)

Sunday, 11 May

Swaffham Prior Fen - male & fem RED-FOOTED FALCON, ranging between tubney Fen & Burwell, 2 Hobby (Simon Gillings)

Saturday, 10 May

Ouse Fen - RED-FOOTED FALCON over cell 5 (JP Hook); Peregrine (Rob Scoffin)

Southey Woods - 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Martin Browne)

Lode - Osprey over Bottisham fen (Simon Gillings)

Friday, 9 May

Ouse Washes - RED-FOOTED FALCON reported hunting with Hobbies 

Bunitisham - RED-FOOTED FALCON in a private garden for 10 minutes late afternoon (Brian Groombridge)

Swaffham Prior Fen - male & fem RED-FOOTED FALCON (Ian Barton, Kathleen Rosewarne). Park at Burwell Fen Split Drove car park and walk to view.

Ouse Fen - TEMMINCK'S STINT on cell 10 (Chris Boness)

Burwell Fen - Spotted Redshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank (Ian Barton)

Etton Maxey pits - 2 Wood Sandpiper briefly, Whimbrel (Hugh Wright) 

Southey Woods - 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Ian Gordon)

Hobson's Park - Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Water Rail, Barnacle Goose (Pete Holt) 

Little Fen, Earith - 6 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank (Jeremy Holding)

Isleham Wash - 3 Wood Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Paul Whiteman)

Thursday, 8 May

Ouse Washes - fem RED-FOOTED FALCON between Cadbury & Cottier hides (Jonathan Taylor)

Ouse Fen - 43 Hobby from Sophies pool (Mark Hawkes); 66 Hobby from Eairth end (Simon Gillings); TEMMINCK'S STINT on cell 10 (Mark Thomas)

Wicken area - Great Egret, Garganey, 2 Greenshank, 2 Hobby, Cuckoo at Burwell Fen,  Great Egret, Cuckoo at Baker's Fen (Kevin Wilson)

Etton/Maxey pits - Grey Plover, Wood Sandpiper (HughWright)

Wednesdsay, 7 May

Etton/Maxey pits - Grey Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank (Hugh Wright)

Great Fen - White Stork of unknown origin north-east of cleared poplar plantation near Holme Lode (Mike Weedon) 

Kingfishers Bridge - Cuckoo, Nightingale, Common Sandpiper, 5 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson) 

Nene Washes - 5 Greenshank at March Farmers, 4 Cattle Egret at Stanground Wash (Charles Kitchin)

Tuesday, 6 May

Hobson's Park - Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson); Yellow Wagtail calling (John Meed)

Welches Dam - WRYNECK along footpath to hide (Jonthan Taylor) 

Grafham Water - SPOTTED SANDPIPER at south end of dam, along shorline towards Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes)

Etton/Maxey pits - Grey Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Whimbrel, 2 Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright); a second Wood Sandpiper (John Rimes); 2 Turtle Dove behind Etton Church (Dick Burnham)

Burwell Fen - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, Garganey, Hobby reported 

Cambridge - Hobby over city centre (Rob Scoffin)

Monday, 5 May

Ouse Fen - 2 fem RED-FOOTED FALCON, 4 Wood Sandpiper, 5 Red-crested Pochard, Arctic Tern briefly (Sean Minns)

Hobson's Park - possible TEMMINCK'S STINT briefly but not relocated, 3 Peregrine over (Joe Parham)

Grafham Water - SPOTTED SANDPIPER (Andy Bartlett)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2cy male RED-FOOTED FALCON (Chris Orders); 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 6 Arctic Tern over (Paul Bolton)

Burwell Fen - 7 Wood Sandpiper, 5 Greenshank (Ian Barton) 

Dernford Reservoir - Hobby (Andrew Knights)

Swifts reported widely today

Sunday, 4 May

Grafham Water - SPOTTED SANDPIPER (birdguides.com); Smew (Richard Ostler)

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (birdguides.com)

Saturday, 3 May

Grafham Water - SPOTTED SANDPIPER at Plummer, later at south end of dam (m.o.); Sanderling (Andy Bartlett)

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER still present, fem RED-FOOTED FALON over cell 10, Black Tern over cell 8, White Stork over (Duncan McNiven); Osprey over (James Hanlon)

Ouse Washes - WRYNECK feeding near the houses at visitor centre 08:00h (Mike Burdekin) 

Etton/Maxey pits - TEMMINCK's STINT, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Avocet (Hugh Wright); Black Tern, a second Wood Sandpiper (Mike Weedon)

Chippenham Fen -  QUAIL singing until c05:00h, 4 Grasshopper Warbler trapped this morning (Richard Dale)

Woodwalton Fen - Nightingale (Derek Benton)

Southey Wood - Spotted Flycatcher, Nightingale (Howard Butler)

March Farmers, 4 Wood Sandpiper, 9 Greenshank (Charles Kitchin)

Friday, 2 May

Grafham Water - SPOTTED SANDPIPER north end of dam (Guy Belcher); Whinchat, Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Dean Harlow)

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (Andy Clements); also 20 Hobby, Bittern (Chris Boness); male and female RED-FOOTED FALCON over cell 5 (Richard Grimmett)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank (Hugh Wright); 2 Hobby (Chris Lines)

Kingfishers Bridge - Spotted Redshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Cuckoo (James Littlewood)

Wicken Fen - 30 Hobby (David Wege)

Southey Wood - 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Paul Bolton)

 

Thursday, 1 May

Grafham Water - ad SPOTTED SANDPIPER at north end of dam; also Smew in lagoons and 2 Sandwich Tern through east (Richard Patient). For dam, park at Marlow and walk south.

Roswell Pits, Ely - Nightingale (David Hammond)

Etton/Maxey pits -  2 Wood Sandpiper, Whimbrel over (Hugh Wright)

Swaadywell - Nightingale (Howard Butler)

Wednesday, 30 April

Hobson's Park - KITTIWAKE briefly (Gareth Rees)

Grafham water - Black Tern through west (Mark Hawkes)

Caxton Gibbet - Greenshank briefly; Wood Sandpiper (JP Hook)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Wood Sandpiper, Garganey, 4 Cuckoo (Dean Harlow)

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper briefly (Hugh Wright); Hobby (Chris Lines)

Southey Wood - Spotted Flycatcher (Mike Weedon)

Soham - 10 Swift over (Chris Barker) 

Cambriudge, Cherston - 2 Swift (Pat Reynolds)

Ouse Washes - Hobby (Cliff Carson); Wood Sandpiper, Garganey, Whmbrel reported

 

 

Tuesday, 29 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER on perimeter canal near west corner of Crane Fen, 3 Wood Sandpiper on cell 10 (Hugh Venables)

Kingfishers Bridge - Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank (Keith Honnor) 

Etton/Maxey pits - Spotted Redshank, 3 Greenshank (Hugh Wright); a second Spotted Redshank (Howard Butler); 3 Little Gull (Josh Jones)

Castor Hanglands - REDSTART (Ian Humphrey) 

Swaddywell - Nightingale (Brian Lawrence)

Isleham Wash - 4 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Paul Whiteman)

Grafham Water - 2 LITTLE TERN through, 2 Arctic Tern through, 3 Black Tern, 2 Little Gull, Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes) 

Burwell Fen - pair of Garganey, 4 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Whimbrel, 5 Ruff, 2 Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Burwell - 3 Swift (Paul Craske)

Monday, 28 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (Harry Orchard); at Lockspit Mere, 150m west of viewing mound, this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell Fen - Greenshank, pair of Garganey, Bittern (Andy Hannaford)

Eldernell - 4 Whimbrel to west of Lord's Holt (Andrew Gardener) 

Reach - Cukoo, Kingfisher (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 27 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER (m.o.)

Hobson's Park - Wheatear, Barnacle Goose (Joe Parham); 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Peregrine reported

Etton/Maxey pits - Black Redstart, though elusive (Mike Weedon)

Nene Washes - Greenshank at March Farmers (Charles Kitchin); 2 Greenshank east of March Famers, Wood Sandpiper on Low Wash (Paul Bolton)

Grafham Water - Peregrine, Great Egret over, Nightingale at Lagoons, Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

 

Saturday, 26 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER cell 8 (JP Hook)

Grafham Water - Cuckoo (Jon Roe); 2 Great Northern Diver, 6 Swift (Mark Hawkes);12 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Goldeneye (Carlos Davies)

Etton/Maxey pits - Bar-tailed Godwit (Paul Bolton); Whimbrel through (Hugh Wright) 

Burwell Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Garganey, Merlin through (Richard Dale)

Witcham - Peregrine over (Chris Boness) 

Nene Washes - Spotted Redshank, Spoonbill, 3 Whopper Swan, 9 Ruff (Charles Kitchin)

Fowlmere - WRYNECK photopraphed (Steve Moore-Vale)

Friday, 25 April

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER heard at cell 8 (Richard Grimmett)

Dernford Reservoir - Little Gull (Gareth Rees); Black Tern (Matthew Mellor)

Etton pits - 2 Whimbrel briefly (Hugh Wright)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Nightingale singing (Kevin Wilson) 

Somersham - Raven west of the village (Russell Watkins)

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver, Little ringed Plovers on dam, Arctic Tern, 2 Whimbrel through (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 24 April

Teversham - Hobby (Iain Webb) 

Etton/Maxey pits - Curlew (Hugh Wright); Turtle Dove by footbridge, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Avocet reported 

Hobsons Park - Lesser Whitethroat (Rachel Lowry); Common Sandpiper reported

Grafham Water - Black redstart on water tower roof, White Wagtail; 8 Yellow Wagtail at Mander CPl (Mark Hawkes)

Tubney Fen - Garganey reported 

Wicken Fen - Spoonbill (Roger Cresswell)

Wednesday, 23 April

Hobsons Park - Common Sandpiper reported; Osprey reported over the pool heading north-west 19:45h

Cambridge/Lanbeach - Osprey on a telegraph pole along Mere Way (Kevin Hand)

Ouse Fen - Arctic Tern on cell 10 (Dean Harlow); pair of Garganey, Wood Sandpiper reported

Byron's Pool - Firecrest reported singing nearby

Grafham Water - fem Black Redstart on solar panels below dam (Tim Rea); 4 & 2 Arctic Tern through (Mark Hawkes); SERIN seen twice at north end of dam, flushed at 13:30h and not relocated (No=igel Butler)

West Brook - 2 Arctic Tern through (JP Hook) 

Fletton Lake - Nightingale (Kevin Eldred)

Castor Hanglands - 7 singing Nightingale reported

Swaddywell - Nightingale reported 

Tubney Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Curlew, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Yellow Wagtail, Cuckoo (Richard Dale)

 

 

 

Tuesday, 22 April

Hobson's Park - Common Sandpiper, Ring-necked Parakeet reported

Paxton Pits - 6 Nightingale along the road from Stirtloe (Tony Lowe) 

Byall Fen - White Stork of unknown origin (David Hammond)

Etton pits - Curlew (Hugh Wright)

March Farmers -2 Spoonbill (Stewart Short);  Garganey, 8 Yellow Wagtail reported 

Fletton Lake - Nightingale (Phill Hicks)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Whimbrel, Black-tailed Godwit, Cuckoo (Colin Kirtland)

Monday, 21 April

Kingfishers Bridge - Bittern, Nightingale (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes - DOTTEREL around Stockdale pool, departed 13:00h, 7 Bar-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, Whimbrel, 4 Greenshank, 17 Ruff, Garganey (Ade Cooper)

Ely - Nightingale at end of Kiln Lane reported 

Grafham water - 10 Arctic Tern through 08:04h, 13 Arctic Tern through 15:33h (Mark Hawkes)

Croxton - Arctic Tern through, Whimbrel (Mark Thomas)

Northstowe - 6 Wheatear, 5 Yellow Wagtail on the rugby pitch (JP Hook)

Etton Pits - Caspian Gull, 2 Avocet, Whimbrel, 12 Arctic Tern through (Hugh Wright) 

Nene Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit on Low Wash (Paul Bolton)

Hobson's Park - Yellow Wagtail, 2 Wheatear reported

 

 

Sunday, 20 April

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northeren Diver, Whimbrel north (Mark Hawkes)

Roswell Pits, Ely - Nightingale singing (David Hammond) 

Caxton pit - Whimbrel through, 8 Little Ringed Plover (Richard Thomas)

Etton Maxey Pits - Great Egret (Malcolm Holley) 

Swaddywell Pit - RING OUZEL (Josh Jones)

Coates - Whinchat (Paul Bolton)

Saturday, 19 April

Wicken Fen - Bittern; also Little Ringed Plover, Curlew, Hobby, Cuckoo, 3 Reed Warbler at Burwell Fen (Kevin Wilson); 8 Garganey at Tubney Fen, Yellow Wagtail, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Avocet, Grasshopper Warbler, second Cuckoo (Carlos Davies)

Burwell Fen - RING OUZEL (Rachel Lennard)

Devils Dyke - RING OUZEL, Cuckoo at the Burwell end (Kevin Wilson); also fem Merlin, 2 Curlew (Richard Dale)

March - RING OUZEL in horse field at junction of Elm Road & Longhill Road (Paul Harrington)

Etton pits - Whimbrel briefly, Common Sandpiper, Grasshopper Warbler (Hugh Wright); 3 Little Ringed Plover, second Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, White Wagtail (Howard Butler)

Eastrea/Coates - 2 Whinchat, Wheatear, 40 Corn Bunting at horse paddocks along the footpath between the villages (Andrew Gardener)

Caxton pit - 13 Whimbrel through (Richard Thomas) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Arctic Tern, Caspian Gull, 5 Garden Warbler (James Hamlon)

Fen Drayton village - Ring-necked Parakeet opposite Three Tuns (Richard Allison)

 

Friday, 18 April

Eastrea/Coates - 2 Whinchat still 300 yards north of horse paddocks along the footpath between the villages (Andrew Gardener); a third Whinchat (Jonathan Taylor)

Etton pits - 2 Avocet, Common Sandpiper (Dominic Wright)

Nene Washes - Hobby, Osprey east at Eldernell, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 3 Garganey, Whimbrel at March Farmers (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - 10 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Little Ringed Plover (Jon Roe) 

Burwell Fen - male RING OUZEL at cattle pens (Andy Hannaford); 8 Garganey (Christoph Zöckler)

Wicken Fen - 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, Cuckoo (Christoph Zöckler)

Hobson's Park - Ring necked Parakeet reported; Gadwall (Pete Holt)

Thursday, 17 April

Godmanchester - RING-NECKED DUCK though can be elusive (Mark Hawkes)

Lark Rise Farm, Barton - Wheatear reported

Burwell Fen - 7 Garganey, Wheatear; also Cuckoo at Tubney Fen (Chris Brown)

Eastea/Coates - Whinchat along footpath bewteen the villages (Andew Gardener); a second Whinchat (Mike Weedon)

Ferry Meadows - Grasshopper Warbler (Don Gardener)

Etton pits - Curlew, 3 Dunlin, 2 White Wagtail, Wheatear (Hugh Wright); Green Sandpiper (Martin Browne); Little Gull, Common Sandpiper, a second Green Sandpiper reported

Castor Haglands - Nightingale, pair of Mandarin, 2 Fieldfare (John Rimes)

Eldernell - Whinchat near Lord's Holt (Andrew Gardener) 

Soham Lode - Grasshopper Warbler behind the railway station (Andy Hannaford)

Grafham Water - Whinchat (Jon Roe); 2 White Wagtail, 4 Common Sandpiper, Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

March - Hobby over (Alan Bull)

Longstanton - Yellow Wagtails (Rachel Lennard)

Northstowe - 4 Wheatear  (Rachel Lennard)

 

Wednesday, 16 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - Swift (Richard Bradbury)

Tuesday, 15 April

March Farmers - 3 Bittern, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Great Egret (John Wells)

Hobson's Park - 2 Arctic Tern, Yellow Wagtail (Gareth Rees)

Etton/Maxey pits - 7 Avocet, Grasshopper Warbler (Hugh Wright)

Ferry Meadows - Black Tern on Gunwade Lake (Don Gardener); Peregrine through, scaring off Black Tern (Kevin Eldred)

Ouse Fen - 5 Black Tern on cell 10 (Graham Tucker) 

Isleham Wash - 3 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Avocet reported

Hope Farm - 2 RING OUZEL reported 

Godmanchester - RING-NECKED DUCK (JP Hook)

Monday, 14 April

Burwell Fen - RING OUZEL (Stewart Feeney)

Houghton - Ring-necked Parakeet (John Wells)

White Fen - fem Merlin (Kevin Wilson)

Earith - 2 pairs of garganey, 8 Yellow Wagtail at pool by bridge (David Sinclair)

Cambridge - 2 Ring-necked Parakeet over Garrett Hostel Lane reported

Etton/Maxey Pits - Green Sandpiper, islandica Black-ailed Godwit, Yellow Wagtails (brian Stone)

Sunday, 13 April

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver, Lesser Whitethroat (Mark Hawkes)

Fowlmere RSPB - Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 6+ Cetti's Warbler (Pete Holt) 

Helpston - Grasshopper Warbler, Wheatear nearby (Hugh Wright)

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, Glossy Ibis (Hugh Wright) 

Eastrea/Coates - RING OUZEL in paddocks along bridleway between the villages (Andrew Gardener)

Eldernell - 7 Crane, Tawny Owl, Yellow Wagtail reported 

Burwell Fen - Grasshopper Warbler, 7 Garganey, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Willow Warbler reported

Ouse Fen - Short-eared Owl (Harry Orchard) 

Great Fen/Holme Fen - 4 Wheatear (Andy Frost)

Saturday, 12 April

Dernford Reservoir - 54+ Little Gull Through, Whimbrel (John Heath)

Hobsons Park - ad Little Gull over the pond (Howard Slatter)

Grafham Water - 26 Little Gull 09:28h, another bird through 10:28h; Cuckoo, Nightingale, 2 Common Tern (Mark Hawkes)

March Farmers - Wheatear (Dominic Wright); 10 Yellow Wagtail (Dick Burnham)

Etton/Maxey pits - Glossy Ibis, Grasshopper Warbler, Greenshank, Little Ringed Plovers (Hugh Wright); Cuckoo (Bob Titman); White Wagtail to the west (Bob Titman)

Rings End - 2 Red-breasted Merganser briefly, Garganey (Paul Bolton) 

Castor Hnglands - 2 Nightingale (Jonathan Taylor)

Stanground Wash NR - RING OUZEL, Wheatear, Whitethroat reported

Friday, 11 April

March Farmers - male RING OUZEL 100 yards west of car park, departed 11:05h (Chris Orders); pair of Garganey reported

Woodwalton Fen - Grasshooper and Sedge Warblers today (Tel Cooper)

Blackbush - 14 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail (Kevin Eldred)

Etton/Maxey pits - Glossy Ibis (Hugh Wright) 

Wicken Fen area - Bittern, 2 Great Egret, pair of Garganey at Burwell Fen, Short-eared Owl near Reach Bridge (Kevin Wilson); also 4 Barn Owl, Yellow Wagtail, possible Grasshopper Warbler (James Littlewood)

Grafham Water - Black Tern, Great Northern Diver (Geoff Barlow); 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2nd Great Northern Diver, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - Black Redstart reported

 

Thursday, 10 April

Nene Washes, Rings End - GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 2 Whimbrel, 2 Garganey (Jonathan Taylor)

Burwell Fen - 4 Garganey, Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Barn Owl & a Harris Hawk. Also Little Owl at White Fen (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday, 9 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - 12 Cattle Erget (Terry Brown)

Eldernell - Glossy Ibis (Charles Kitchin)

Tuesday, 8 April

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 3 Common Tern, Great Northern Diver off Mander (Richard Patient); also second Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Etton Pits -  Curlew through (Hugh Wright)

Ferry Meadows - RING OUZEL on Coney Meadow (Don Gardener) 

Woodwalton fen - Willow Warblers (Tel Cooper)

Marcha Farmers - 2 Spotted Redshank, 12 Ruff, 14 Whooper Swan (Charles Kitchn)

 

Monday, 7 April

Hobson's Park - Reed Warbler singing, Little Ringed Plover, Grey Partridge

March Farmers - Sandwich Tern (Mike Weedon); White Stork reported 

Ouse Fen - Short-Eared Owl (Simon Passey)

Sawston - Willow Warbler (Andrew Knights)

Sunday, 6 April

Grafham Water - Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail along dam (John Dingemans)

Fen Drayton - White Stork of unknown origin north of Swavesey Lake (Guy Manners) 

Etton Pits - male flava & flavissima Yellow Wagtail, Whte Wagtail (Hugh Wright)

Nene washes, Low Wash - Grey Plover, drake Garganey (Paul Bolton) 

Ouse Washes - Knot, Spotted Redshank, 6 Grey Plover, 1000 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Avocet (Rachel Lennard)

Saturday, 5 April

Wicken Fen - 2 Curlew, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 60 Golden Plover over, Sedge Warbler singing, 100 Fieldfare (Carlos Davies)

Nene Washes - male Garganey, Spotted Redshank, Grey Plover, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Mike Weedon)

Hobsons Park - Little Ringed Plover (Stuart Jack)

Friday, 4 April

Grafham Water - 5 Garganey, Little Gull, Great Northern Diver, Rock Pipit (Mark Hawkes); Yellow Wagtail reported

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Little Gull (Diana Leech)

Ouse Washes - Spoonbill, 400 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Grey Plover, Pink-footed Goose, 11 Whooper Swan, 4 Ruff (John Wells) 

Nene washes - Grey Plover, Curlew, Garganey, 6 Cattle Egret on Low Wash

Etton Pits - Brent Goose (Paul Bolton) 

March - fem Black Redstart in a private garden (Andy Bayes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Little Ringed Plover, Bittern, 19 Goldeneye, 8 Cattle Egret (Carlos davies)

Small numbers of Swallow reported across the county

Thursday, 3 April

Wicken Fen - Swallows (Marilyn Peterkin)

Woodwalton Fen - Swallow through (Tel Cooper) 

Ouse Fen - 2 Bittern, 2 Avocet, Greenshank, Short-eared Owl (Colin Kirtland, Owen Marks, Dick Newell)' Glossy Ibis at Fortreys Hall (Rachel Lennard)

Ouse Washes - Spoonbill at Oxlode (Vince Lea); 11 Cattle Egret (Colin Kirtland, Owen Marks, Dick Newell)

Brampton - HAWFINCH briefly (Jamie Wells)

Wednesday, 2 April

Grafham Water - drake Garganey in lagoons (Colin Addington); Yellow Wagtail, Little Ringed Plover on dam (Stewart Short)

Maxey Pits - 2 House Martin, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine (Chris Lines)

Nene Washes, Low Wash - 2 Grey Plover (Paul Bolton)

 

Tuesday, 1 April

Burwell Lode - 42 Fieldfare (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - 6 Little Gull east past Mander CP, 2 Great Northern Diver, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers off Mander, 10 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes); 2 further Red-breasted Mergansers past lagoons (Richard Patient)

Monday, 31 March

 Barnwell East NR, Cambridge - Willow Warbler singing (Ian Webb)

Sunday, 3 March

Isleham Washes - 7 Little Ringed Plover (Paul Whiteman)

Burwell Fen - Little Ringed Plover, Great Egret (Kevin Wilson)

Hobson's Park - Little Ringed Plover (Howard Slatter) 

Tubney Fen - Little Ringed Plover (Carlos Davies)

Alconbury Weston - WHITE STORK of unknown origin over (Bob Steel)

Saturday, 29 March

Etton village - Willow Warbler singing (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes -  male Hen Harrier over Low Wash (Dick Burnham); Willow Warbler singing reported at Eldernell

Isleham Washes - 2 Little Ringed Plover reported 

Clopton - 2 Wheatear in the area, Swallow through (Mark Thomas)

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake FERRUGINOUS DUCK (Mark Hawkes); 2 Bittern, 60 Sand Martin, singing warblers included Willow Warbler, 14 Cetti's Warbler, 68 Chiffchaff, 25 Blackcap (Tim Caldicott)

Barleycraft - pair of Red-crested Pochard (Harry Orchard)

Friday, 28 March

Hobson's Park - Barn Owl near DNA path (Joe Parham)

Nene washes, Low Wash - 3 Swallow, male Hen Harrier, 12 Cattle Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Curlew, Whooper Swan (Paul Bolton)

Fen Drayton Lakes - male & female FERRUGINOUS DUCK, 38 Goldeneye, Cetti's Warbler singing, apir Grey Wagtail (Colin Kirtland) 

Ouse Fen - Wheatear reported

Isleham Wash - 9 Little Ringed Plover (Paul Whiteman)

Thursday, 27 March

Teversham - 3 Cattle Egret nearby, just along the Fulbourn Road (Giles Merritt)

Lockspit's Mere - 2 Spoonbill, 2 Crane, Short-eared Owl,  Barn Owl, Bittern (Tracey Graves)

Fullers Hill - Wheatear reported 

Eldernell - 97 Little Egret, 22 Great Egret, 2 Cattle Egret to roost (Charles Kitchin)

Wednesday, 26 March

Grafham Water Osprey ove (Colin Addington)

Burwell Fen - Osprey over 14:50h (Owen Marks)

Cherry Hinton Hall - small flock of Redwing reported

Tuesday, 25 March

Burwell Fen - Crane, 3 Great Egret, 3 Stonechat; also Great Egret on Bakers Fen and 3 Kingfisher along Wicken Lode (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - female FERRUGINOUS DUCK reported  

Grafham Water - 11 Little Ringed Plover on the dam (Ray Hooper); also 2 Common Sandpiper (Stewart Short)

Little Shelford - 7 Barnacle Geese nearby (Mike Thompson)

Monday, 24 March

Hobson's park - Sand Martin (Howard Slatter)

Sunday, 23 March

Hobson's Park - possible Cetti's Warbler by skatepark pool this morning (Stuart Jack)

Etton Pits - 8 Green Sandpiper,  Peregrine, 2 Little Ringed Plover through (Andy Frost)

March Farmers/Rings End - Little Gull (Mike Weedon)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - 13 Cattle Egret in sheep field northeast along B1040 (Mike Weedon)

Saturday, 22 March

Honson's Park - Wheatear on the mound 12:30 (Howard Slatter)

Etton/Maxey Pits - 2 Glossy Ibis, male flava Yellow wagtail (Hugh Wright); 2 ad Mediterranean Gull briefly (Mike Weedon)

Ouse Washes - 7 Little Gull at Oxlode (Rachel Lennard); 34 Golden Plover, 200+ Whooper Swan, White-fronted Goose drake Smew (Carlos Davies)

 

Friday, March 21

Hobson's Park - Little Ringed Plover on spit in main lake (Howard Slatter)

March farmers - GREEN-WINGED TEAL at east end (Jonathan Taylor); also male Hen Harrier, Curlew, 2 Avocet (Mike Weedon)

Etton Pits - flava Yellow Wagtail (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - 2cy Kittiwake over 15:33h, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes); Great Northern Diver (Tim Rea)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Little Gull (Terry Brown) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Green Sandpiper, 4 Great Egret, 8 Goldeneye, 50 Shoveler (Terry Brown)

Needingworth - 2 Spoonbill over (Harry Orchard)

Thursday, 20 March

Grafham Water - 2 ad Little Gull off Marlow Point, Great Northern Diver off Mander (Mark Hawkes) 

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Glossy Ibis (Andrew Wappet); male Hen Harrier reported

Whittelsey - 4 Raven over (Charles Kitchin) 

Ferry Meadows - pair of Garganey (Don Gardener, Paul Bolton)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Spoonbill (Tracey Graves)

Wednesday, 19 March

Etton/Maxey Pits - 2 Glossy Ibis (Hugh Wright)

Great Shelford - Black Redstart still in the allotment area, but favouring the Community Garden (Tony Warne)

Ouse Washes - fem RING-NECKED DUCK from Cadbury Hide, drake Smew at Cottier Hide area (Rachel Lennard)

Tuesday, 19 March

Ouse washes, north of Earith - 2 Spoonbill (Richard Palmer); fem RING-NECKED DUCK, drake Smew from Cadbury Hide (Jonathan Taylor)

Trumpington- Black Redstart at More's Meadow allotments periodically, since Sunday (Tony Warne) 

Wicken Fen - 24 Hen Harrier, ringtail Hen Harrier, Bittern, 3 Great Egret, 200 Feildfare to roost, also male Garganey at Baker's Fen (Christoph Zöckler)

Nene washes - 9 Cattle Egret, 2 Curlew on Low Wash (Paul Bolton)

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over (Don Gardener)

Eldernell roost - 31 Great Egret, 74 Little Egret, 8 Cattle Egret (Charles Kitchin)

Monday, 17 March

Nene Washes - GREEN-WINGED TEAL between Ring's End and March farmers, also 14 Crane (Paul Bolton); 2160 Shoveler, 3000+ Teal (Jonathan Taylor); Grey Plover heard, 17 Crane in to roost (Mike Weedon)

Ouse washes, north of Earith - 2 Spoonbill, 15 Great Egret reported

Upware - 10 Avocet reported

Ouse Fen - 7 Sand Martin, 2 Crane (Paul Whiteman)

Sunday, 16 March

Berry Fen - 20 Sand Martin (Andrew Tongue)

Hobson's Park - 1, possibly 2, Black Redstart briefly, 2 Water Rail (Joanna) 

Burwell Fen - Barn Owl, Kingfisher, 3 Pintail (also one on Bakers Fen), 2 Egyptian Geese (Kevin Wilson)

Wicken Fen - male Hen Harrier reported this evening

Ouse Washes - fem RING-NECKED DUCK north of Cottier Hide (Brendan Doe); 2 Spoonbill reported near Earith

Grafham Water - Little Ringed Plover (James Walsh)

Saturday, 15 March

Ouse Washes - fem RING-NECKED DUCK from Stockdales Hide, drake Smew from Cadbury Hide (Keith Langdon)

Wicken area - fem RING OUZEL, 4 Great Egret, 5 Cattle Egret, 7 singing Cetti's Warbler reported
Trumpington Meadows - 200 Fieldfare (Richard Palmer)

Friday, 14 March

Isleham Washes - Little Ringed Plover, 34 Avocet (Paul Whiteman)

Grafham Water - Little Ringed Plover reported

Somersham - Little Owl (Russell Watkins)

Thursday, 13 March

Grafham Water - fem Red-breasted Merganser (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 12 March

Etton Pits - 3 Little Ringed Plover, 8 Green Sandpiper, 7 Golden Plover, 5 Dunlin (Hugh Wright)

Milton CP - Green Sandpiper on flood by railway (David & Sallie Jones)

Ouse Washes - male Scaup from Cadbury Hide (Terry Brown)

Tuesday, 11 March

Fowlmere - 3 Cranes in fields north of reserve viewable from car park (Richard Palmer) 

Maxey Pits - 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Whooper Swan, pair of Goosander, Grey Wagtail reported

Sunday, 9 March

Hare Park - 2 Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Fen - 3 Sand Martin (Harry Orchard)

Eldernell - Curlew through (Andrew Gardener)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Caspian Gull (Rachel Lennard)

Saturday, 8 March

Etton Pits - 3 Black-tailed Godwit (Malcolm Holley)

Thorpe Meadows - Yellow-legged Gull (Joe Taylor)

Fen Daryton Lakes - FERRUGINOUS DUCK reported on Elney Lake again

Waterbeach - 2 Crane over (Shaun Sowden)

Friday, 7 March

Etton Pits - Hawfinch over (Hugh Wright)

Fowlmere - White-fronted Goose (Stuart Fox)

Ouse Fen - Bittern (Harry Orchard)

Thursday, 6 March

Barbraham - Black Redstart (Andrew Knights)

Magog Trust - 500 Golden Plover just south-west of trust land (Mike Foley)

Wednesday, 5 March

Fowlmere - White-fronted Goose (Terry Brown)

Monday, 3 March

Hare Park - Woodcock (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes - Smew from Cottier Hide (Andrew  Dobson)

Fowlmere - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF by River Shep bridge (Geoff Barlow)

Sunday, 2 March

Upware washes - drake Garganey, dark-bellied Brent Goose (David Nation)

Tongue End - 4 Cattle Egret from South Fen Road (Martin Browne)

Eldernell - 6 Crane, 3 Cattle Egret, 5 Great Egret, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared owl, Tawny Owl reported

Fowlmere - White-fronted Goose (Anthony Lowe)

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diuver distantly form Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - White-fronted Goose from Cottier Hide, drake Smew (Andrew Tongue)

Lockspit's Mere - Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, 2 Great Egret, Egyptian Geese (Tracey Graves)

Saturday, 1 March

Fowlmere - White-fronted Goose with Greylags near reserve entrance (Ade Cooper)

Ouse Washes - Short-eared Owl, 3 Barn Owl (Russell Watkins)

Fen Drayton Lakes - FERRUGINOUS DUCK on Elney late morning (Diana Leech)

Burwell & Bakers Fen - 5 male, 3 female Pintail, Barn Owl, Kingfisher (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes - male Smew from Cottier Hide (Jill Aldred)

Southorpe wood - Hawfinch (Makr Hawkes). Please stick to the footpaths and do not walk on the grass area south of the main wood.

Sunday, 23 February

Tongue End - 3 Cattle Egret by South Fen Road (Martin Browne)

Saturday, 22 February

Hare Park - Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Beeby's West Pit - Great Northern Diver (Mike Weedon)

Ouse Washes - Spotted Redshank (Brendan Doe)

Friday, 21 February

Beeby's West Pit - Great Northern Diver (Mike Weedon)

Pymoor - 16 Cattle Egret (Chris Boness) 

Burwell Fen - pair of Garganey reported (photographed)

Fen Drayton Lakes - FERRUGINOUS DUCK (Terry Brown)

Tuesday, 18 February

Barnack – from Bridleway to the West of the Walcot Hall Park, c.TF075034, up to 18 Hawfinch still present but mobile (Josh Jones)

Tongue End - 2 Cattle Egret north of River Glen, off South Fen Road (Martin Browne)

Northstowe - Black Redstart at Heron Road reported 

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Divers, Pink-footed Goose (Mark Hawkes)

Beeby's West Pit - Great Northern Diver (Mike Weedon)

Monday, 17 February

Grafham Water - probable adult RING-BILLED GULL on boom at fishing lodge 15:30-16:00h (Colin Addington)

Fen Drayton Lakes - FERRUGINOUS DUCK, Bittern, 2 Great Egret (James Hanlon)

Barnack – from Bridleway to the West of the Walcot Hall Park, c.TF075034, up to 9 Hawfinch still present in high trees at 14.15, also 3 Raven (Chris Boness)

Waterbeach - Black Redstart at north-east corner of wildwoods area, but mobile (Chris Brown)

Cambridge - 2 Peregrine (Richard Gregory)

Isleham Washes - 7 Avocet reported

Wicken Fen - ad male & female Hen Harrier to roost, fem Merlin (Chris Boness)

Sunday, 16 February

Hampton - Great Northern Diver on Beeby's West pit (Chris Jones) 

Barnack - 20 HAWFINCH nearby, feeding on Yew trees at southern boundary of Walcott Hall, approx. here (Jonathan Taylor)

St. Ives - drake Smew on lake by park and ride (Stewart Carswell)

Saturday, 15 February

Hampton - Great Northern Diver on Beeby's West pit (Chris Jones)

Friday, 14 February

Hampton - Great Northern Diver on Beeby's West pit (Chris Jones)

Thursday, 13 February

Grunty Fen - Caspian Gull (David Nation)

Hampton - Great Northern Diver on Beeby's West pit (Mike Weedon)

Earith/Colne GPs - Pink-footed Goose, Goldeneye, peregrine (Rachel Lennard)

Wednesday, 12 February

Hampton - Great Northern Diver on Beeby's West pit (Chris Jones)

Sunday, 9 February

Dog-in-a-Doublet - 8 Cattle Egret just north east (Mike Weedon)

Longstanton - White-fronted Goose (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Fen - GLAUCOUS GULL (Gareth Rees)

Saturday, 8 February

Etton/Maexy Pits - 2 White-fronte Geese, 2 Whooper Swan, 2 Pintail briefly (Hugh Wright) 

Bainton Pits - Red-breasted Merganser (Jonathan Taylor)

Cottenham Long Drove - 165 Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Friday, 7 February

Ouse Washes - drake Scaup from Welches Dam hide this morning (Paul Harrington)

Cambourne - Great Egret at Redgrave Lake (as per Louise Bacon)

Ferry Meadows - Great Northern Diver briefly (Don Gardener)

Thursday, 6 February

Etton/Maxey Pits - Red-breasted Merganser briefly, 2 Whooper Swan, 14 Goosander (Hugh Wright)

Hare Park - Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Tuesday, 4 February

Peakirk - 2 Cattle Egeret adjacent to Sissons Farm livery yard (Paul Bolton)

Peterborough - Black Redstart singing from roo of City Hospital (Kevin Wolstencroft)

Bainton Pits - Red-breasted Merganser (Paul Bolton)

Ouse Fen RSPB - juv GLAUCOUS GULL to roost on cell 10, also 8 Caspian Gull, 2 Crane, 6 Great Egret (Mark Ward)

Monday, 3 February

Peakirk - 2 Glossy Ibis, 2 Cattle Egeret adjacent to Sissons Farm livery yard (Paul Bolton)

Sunday, 2 February

CEGB Reservoir/Teardrop Lake - fem Common Scoter reported; Black Redstart on roofs of Bennington Road nearby (Mike Weedon)

Peterborough -  male Black Redstart on roofs near Tilgate Road (Mike Weedon)

Swavesey - 13 Cattle Egret by busway (Christoph Zöckler)

Hare Park - 122 Linnet, 4 Brambling with finch flock (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 1 February

 Etton/Maxey Pits - Red-breasted Merganser, with 16 Goosander, until flying at 07:39 (Hugh Wright)

Friday, 31 January

Swavesey - 11 Cattle Egret in horse field by busway, 7 Cattle Egret along Cow Fen Drove (David & Sallie Jones)

Pymoor - 11 Cattle Egret between Pymmor and the railway bridge (David & Sallie Jones)

Thursday, 30 January

Burwell Fen - Cattle Egret, also 2 Short-eared Owl at Burwell Fen (David Wege)

Ouse Washes RSPB - drake Smew from Cottier Hide (Paul Harrington)

Litlington Sewage Works - Black Redstart (Geoff Barlow)

Wednesday, 29 January

Wicken area - 28 Marsh Harrier to roost, Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl at Burwell Fen, pair of Crane near Tubney Fen, 1200 Lapwing at Swaffham Prior Fen (Christoph Zöckler)

Thorney - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE opposite Poplar Tree Farm still (Paul Bolton)

Tuesday, 29 January

Whittelsey - to the north, along the B1040, opposite Poplar Tree farm, 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE with 112 Pink-footed Geese & Whooper Swan reported

Sunday, 26 January

Kingfishers Bridge - TUNDRA BEAN GOOSE with Greylags along entrance road (Steve Cooper)

St. Ives Meadow Lane GPs - 2cy LESSER SCAUP relocated on northern most pit, which is private (Joe Parham). Possibly viewable from footpath along north-eastern shore

Saturday, 25 January

Waterbeach - Black Redstart in Kendale Road area still, Peregrine nearby (Carlos Davies)

Ouse Fen - 6 Bearded Tit (Mark Jackson)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - in the first field to the north, Whooper Swan flock 126 Pink-footed Geese, 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE, viewable from entrance to Poplar Tree Farm (Mike Weedon)

Friday, 24 January

Northstowe - Bearded Tit (Hugh Venables)

Wilbraham Fen - White-fronted Goose, Merlin (Jon Heath)

Thursday, 23 January

Fen Drayton Lakes - Black-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon (Richard Palmer)

Wednesday, 22 January

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK (Stewart Short)

Tuesday, 21 January

Ely - 70 Whooper Swan, 5 Bewick's Swan on field opposite the University Boat Club (Andy Hannaford)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Black-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon (Mike Clydesdale)

Monday, 20 January

Ouse Washes RSPB - drake Smew from Rickwood Hide (Jonathan Taylor)

Sunday, 19 January

Burwell Fen - 2 Short-eared Owl, male Merlin (Christoph Zöckler)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Knot (Rachel Lennard)

Swaffham Prior Fen - 2 Crane (Christoph Zöckler)

Wicken Fen - roost count of 24 Marsh Harrier, 2 male Hen Harrier, Merlin, 2 Barn Owl, Bittern (as per Christoph Zöckler)

Waterbeach - Black Redstart at the end of Kendale Road (David & Sallie Jones)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Pink-footed Geese with Greylags & 12 more over (David Nation)

Somersham/Chatteris - Woodcock along the old railway line (Russell Watkins)

Singay/Wendy area - Little Owl, Woodcock, 80 Redwing (Gareth Rees)

Eldernell - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE still, south of A605 & viewable from entrance to Eldernell Farm (Mike Weedon)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - 4 Cattle Egrets in fields to the north (Mike Weedon)

Helpston - Hawfinch over (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - Brent Goose, 2 Great Northern Diver from Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday, 18 January

Fowlmere RSPB - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF near the old cresshut pool (Ade Cooper)

Eldernell - 2 Long-eared Owl, 2 Short-eared Owl; also 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE with 120 Pink-footed Geese, east of Coates/south of A605 near Eldernell Farm (Mark Hawkes)

Waterbeach - Black Redstart at the end of Kendale raod (Diana Leech)

Friday, 17 January

Hobson's Park - 3 Redpoll with Goldfinch flock in alders by skate park pond (Howard Saltter)

Ouse Washes - 315 Bewick's Swan (Jonathan Taylor)

Burwell Fen - Short-eared Owl (Finley Croxon)

Earith Washes - Pink-footed Goose, Water Pipit, 65 Pochard, 15 Dunlin (Simon Gillings)

Wednesday, 15 January

Burwell Fen - Short-eared Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Swaffham Prior Fen - 2 Crane, 100 Golden Plover over (Christoph Zöckler)

Anglesey Abbey - Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler)

White Fen - Little Owl nearby (Christoph Zöckler)

Tuesday, 14 January

Dernford Reservoir - ad & 2CY Mediterranean Gull, 2 Mandarin, fem Goosander (Steve Cooper) 

Eldernell - 34 Crane, 2 Long-eared Owl (Tim Appleton)

Nene Washes - 3899 Whooper Swan, 96 Bewick's Swan (Charles Kitchin)

Thorney Dyke - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE, 85 Pink-footed Geese, 100 Whooper Swan (Tim Appleton)

Waterbeach Barracks - Black Redstart (Rachel Lennard)

Monday, 13 January

Eldernell - 3 Long-eared Owl, 2 Short-eared Owl, 4 Crane over, 5 Cattle Egret over (Chris Boness)

Trumpington Meadows - Black Redstart (Tim Watling)

Sunday 12 January

Tumpington Meadows - fem Black Redstart (Jill Aldred)

Cottenham Long Drove - 1CY GLAUCOUS GULL reported 

Thorpe Meadow - 2CY Mediterranean Gull briefly (Joe Taylor)

Knarr Fen/Thorney Dyke - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE with 75 Pink-footed Geese and a few hundred Whooper Swan (Mike Weedon)

Fowlmere - Tawny Owl, Barn Owl, Woodcock, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler (Andy Goodey)

Saturday, 11 January

Cottenham Long Drove - Brambling with finch flock, 250 Linnet (Stewart Short)

Burwell Fen - Bittern, Short-eared Owl, 3 Kingfisher, 7 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson); also 150 Corn Bunting to roost, Barn Owl (James Littlewood)

Wilbraham/Teversham Fens - male Hen Harrier & 9 Marsh Harriers to roost, Bearded Tit, Cetti's Warbler and Water Rail all calling (Chris Brown)

Hobson's Park - Redpoll & Siskin in the area, probable Cetti's Warbler along the brook reported

Cambs Research Park - 10 Caspian Gull (Jon Heath, Duerden Cormack)

Cottenham Long Drove - 2 GLAUCOUS GULL, leucistic Great Black-backed Gull (Brendan Doe)

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, 2 Great Northern Diver, Bittern, Red-necked Grebe, 3 Goosander (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 10 January

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver, drake LONG-TAILED DUCK (Simon Gillings)

Hare Park - 3 Brambling with finch flock (Kevin Wilson)

Thursday, 9 January

Eldernell - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE with Pink-footed Geese still, also 5 Whooper Swan, Ruff, opposite entrance to Eldernell farm, to south of A605 (Gerv Orton)

Cottenham Long Drove - Raven over, male Merlin through, Great Egret, female Brambling with finch flock (Chris Boness) 

Peterbrough - 22 Chiffchaff at the sewage works, 2 Raven, Peregrine, Cattle Egret, Green Sandpiper and 13 Black-tailed Godwit along the north bank (Howard Butler, Andy Frost)

Wednesday, 8 January

Manea area - Whooper Swan flock, Crane from Days Lode, Great Egert (Kevin Taylor)

CEGB/Teardrop Lake - 2 Barnacle Geese (Mike Weedon)

Tuesday, 7 January

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK (Geoff Barlow); Great Northern Diver (Richard Palmer)

Eldernell - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE still, viewed from entrance to Eldernell farm, near A605 (Paul Bolton)

Wicken Fen - 21 Marsh Harrier to roost, 2 Merlin, Bittern, 2 Raven, 5 Water Rail (Christoph Zöckler) 

Swaffham Prior Fen - 2 Peregrine, 2 Crane nearby (Christoph Zöckler) 

Hare Park - 2 Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 6 January

Eldernell - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE still, viewed from entrance to Eldernell farm, near A605 (Diana Leech)

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK (Stewart Short)

Sunday, 5 January

Roughly half-way between Eldernell and March Farmers, from A605 - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE with c.250 Pink-footed Geese to south of road (Mike Weedon)

Cottenham ong Drove - 3CY GLAUCOUS GULL (JP Hook)

Saturday, 4 January

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver, Red-necked Grebe from lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Cottenham Long Drove - 3CY GLAUCOUS GULL briefly (Simon Gillings)

Maxey - 8 White-fronted Geese north-west over cut (Hugh Wright)

Tongue End - 5 Cattle Egret (Vin Fleming)

March Farmers - Spotted Redshank through, Peregrine (Charlie Kitchin)

Earith/Colne GPs - 2 White-fronted Geese (Rachel Lennard)

Friday, 3 January

Cottenham Long Drove - 1st win GLAUCOUS GULL (Jonathan Taylor)

Ouse Fen - LESSER SCAUP cell 10 (JP Hook)

Parsons Drove - 500+ Pink-footed Geese (Stuart Elsom)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 5 Grey Partridge nearby, 5 Great Egret, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Egyptian Geese (Tracey Graves)

Thursday, 2 January

Nene Washes - 15 Cattle Egret & 7 Great Egret to roost, 10 Crane, 100s of Black-tailed Godwit, 1000s of Whooper Swan, 300 Pink-footed Geese (Charlie Kitchin)

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK (Simon Gillings); Red-necked Grebe (Paul Cooper); also 2 Great Northern Diver, 2 Black-necked Grebe, Pink-footed Goose, Peregrine (Richard Patient)

Swaffham Bulbeck - fem BLACK REDSTART at Red Tile Farm (Giles Merritt)

Wednesday, 1 January

Grafham Water - LONG-TAILED DUCK, 2 Great northern Diver (Stewart Short, Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - LESSER SCAUP on cell 10 (Richard Thomas)

Cottenham Long Drove - GLAUCOUS GULL (Rachel Lennard)

Ouse Washes - GLAUCOUS GULL, 4 Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Ward, Rachel Lennard)

Tuesday, 31 December

Smithy Fen - 2 GLAUCOUS GULL (Ian Ellis) 

Grafham Water - Red-necked Grebe, Great Northern Diver, 2 Bewick's Swan, 2 Stonechat, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)