Sunday, 31 August 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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)