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)