Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Wednesday, 30 April

Fen Drayton GP - Wood Sandpiper on north pit (per rarebirdalert.com)

St. Neots - OSPREY flew south over Paxton Mill at 10:49hr (Martin Davis)

Buckden GP - Black Tern, adult Little Gull, 2 Common Sandpipers (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Arctic Tern, Hobby, Wheatear (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Tuesday, 29 April

Junction of A1(M) and A14 - BLACK KITE heading west 10:20hr (Garry Heath)

Nene Washes, Central Drove - Whinchat, Spotted Redshank, 2 Avocet (John Saunders, Brian Stone)

High Wash, Holly Tree - 2 Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - Black Tern at the west end, with c.15 Common Terns (Mark Hawkes) FULMAR flew west at 17:45hr (Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - 3 Black Tern, 2-3 Arctic Tern, Little Gull, Greenshank, 10 Dunlin, White-fronted Goose, Little Egret, 2 Common Sandpiper(Mark Hawkes) c20 Common Tern, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton - 2 Whimbrel in field south of ferry lagoon, Marsh Harrier (Dave Anderson)

Toft golf course - 3 Wheatear (Clive Sinclair)

Monday, 28 April

Woodwalton Fen - Whimbrel 3 in fields from west barrier bank, Wheatear, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Nightingale (Mark Hawkes)

Cromwell Golf Course - Grasshopper Warbler (Frank James)

Milton CP - Nightingale, Turtle Dove (David Heath)

Sunday, 27 April 2008

Sunday, 27 April

Grafham Water - 1st-winter Little Gull still in lagoons, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes) Greenshank, 3 Dunlin, 1st sum ICELAND GULL (Jono Leadley)

Fen Drayton - 1st winter Little Gull over Moore Lake, Cuckoo, c100 Swifts,flock of waders flew south over Drayton Lagoon containing 8 Whimbrel, 6 Curlew and a Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Hobbies, c20 Common Terns (Andy Cotton)

St Neots - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling near rowing club (Chris Harbard)

Maxey Pits - 7 Whimbrel, 10 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, Wheatear (Mike Weedon) 2 Grey Plover, 2 Greenshank (Chris Lines & Bob & Sue Titman)

Woodwalton Fen - Hobby, Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler (Peter M Beesley)

Saturday, 26 April

Milton CP - Redstart, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler (Jonathan Heath)

Wicken Fen - 4 m Greenland Wheaters near Baker's Fen, 4 Hobby, Greenshank, Cuckoo (Owen Marks)

Grafham Water - Grasshopper Warbler reeling in lagoons, Whimbrel, 3 Arctic Tern, 10+ Common Tern Nightingale singing in lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - FIRECREST in the Wray House Garden (Heronry South), Greenshank, Hobby, pr Grey Partridge, White-fronted Goose, Red-crested Pochard, Grasshopper Warbler, Swift, 5+ Buzzard, 8 Whimbrel, 16 Dunlin, 2 male Wheatear (Jamie Wells)

Waterbeach - Little Owl and Barn Owl (Gavin Paterson)

Cambourne - Red Kite (Gavin Paterson)

Marsh Lane GP - 13 Nightingales - our most ever, 11 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 4 Garden Warbler, 12 Blackcap (Mike Everett)

Devil's Dyke - 3 Wheaters on Newmarket race course and 3 more north of the A14, in the adjacent sheep fields (Louise Bacon)

Ouse Washes RSPB - OSPREY low over Welches Dam, heading north east(Simon & Robin Henderson)

Haddenham - Tree Sparrow, Greenland Wheatear on North Fen, 4 Yellow Wagtails (Jake Alsop)

St. Ives GP - Arctic Tern, Swift (Alan Bull)

Friday, 25 April 2008

Friday, 25 April

Maxey Pits - Avocet, Whimbrel over, Cuckoo (Josh Jones); Wood Sandpiper although elusive, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone et al.)

Black Bush - DOTTEREL briefly at 06:43h (Josh Jones); present 11:05h at the northwest end of the pea field at c. TL253937 (BirdGuides)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Garden Warblers, Cetti's Warbler (Andy Cotton); 5 Swifts over (Dennis Hall)

Orton BP - 2 Nightingale, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat (Peter Beesley)

Thursday, 24 April 2008

Thursday, 24 April

Blackbush Drove - DOTTEREL in pea field at 08:30h, with 3 Golden Plovers (Brian Stone); still present 11:20h at TL253937 (John Saunders); still present 14:40h (Owen Marks); still present 17:20h (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Folksworth - male RING OUZEL still (Garry)

Ferry Meadows - Sandwich Tern east over Gunwade Lake 10:10h (Garry); c.40 Arctic Terns from 16:30h, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Matt Webb)

Christchurch - probable OSPREY over 15:30h (Andy Murray)

Queen Adeliade - Hobby over (Ben Green)

Sutton Gault - 2 Avocet, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 2 Ruff, 14 Black-tailed Godwit (Ben Green)

RAF Brampton - female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Richard Palmer)

Cambridge, Coleridge Road - Firecrest singing 07:00h (Richard Patient)

Fen Drayton Lakes - male Wheatear, Little Ringed Plover (Dennis Hall); 17 Arctic Tern, 2 Avocet, ad Little Gull, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Swift (Dave Anderson)

Nene Washes, Central Drove - 5 Avocet, 2 Little Egret, 500 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Dunlin, 4 tundrae Ringed Plover (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - 72 Arctic Terns off Mander CP 11:00h, a further 25 at 16:00h, Garden Warbler (Jono Leadley); male Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes); Little Gull, Little Ringed Plover at lagoons, Red Kite over (Richard Palmer)

Paxton Pits - 7+ Arctic Terns, c.15 Common Terns, Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat (Jamie Wells)

Maxey Pits - 3 Whimbrel, Dunlin, Common Tern (Richard Astle); WOOD SANDPIPER this evening (Leon Smith)

Huntingdon Road - Red Kite over towards UNEP-WCMC site (Ben Lascalles); subsequently over TRAFFIC offices and UNEP-WCMC (Richard Thomas)

Milton CP - 3 Swifts, 2 Reed Warblers (Jonathan & David Heath)

Orton BP - 2 Nightingales, 2 Whitethroats, Lesser Whitethroat (Paul Taylor)

Bainton Pits - 2 Nightingales, Cuckoo, Red Kite (Keith Lawton)