Monday, 31 March 2025

Monday, 31 March

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

Sunday, 30 March 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

Monday, 24 March

Hobson's park - Sand Martin (Howard Slatter)

Sunday, 23 March 2025

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 2025

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, 21 March 2025

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 2025

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, 18 March 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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)

Friday, 7 March 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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.