Thursday 2 May 2024

Thursday, 2 May

Burwell Fen - drake Garganey, Hobby, 2 Wheatear (Richard Dale)

Ouse Washes - Little Gull, Common Sandpiper from Welches Dam hide (Derek benton)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

Wednesday, 1 May

Dernford Reservoir - Black Tern, Greenshank (Chris Ruis)

Berry Fen - 2 Black Fen (Nicola Ann)

Etton Pits - 3 Black Tern, also 2 Wheatear nearby (Hugh Wright); Short-eared Owl (Paul Bolton); drake Mandarin (Jonathan Taylor)

Nene Washes - 2 ad Mediterranean Gull over (Mike Weedon); in the March Farmers area, 4 Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 10 Ruff, Avocet, Turnstone, Whimbrel( Charlie Kitchin)

Burwell Fen - 2 Cuckoo, 4 Grasshopper Warbler 3 Marsh Harrier (Paul Pulham)

Ouse Fen - Hobby, Cuckoo reported

Ouse Washes - 5 Black Tern from Welches Dam hide (Paul Harrington) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Grey Plover (Duncan McNiven)


Tuesday 30 April 2024

Tuesday, 30 April

Great Stukeley - White Stork over south-east 10:45h (Robin Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Wood Sandpiper, Nightingale (Jon Heath); also Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Whinchat reported

Reach - Cuckoo between the Lode and the Village, Yellow Wagtail, Kingfisher (Kevin Wilson)

Etton Pits - 2 Curlew first thing (Hugh Wright); Hobby (Kevin Eldred)

Rings End to March Farmers - Greenshank, Avocet, Barnacle Goose, 26 Black-tailed Godwit (Paul Bolton)

Lockspits Mere - Crane, 2 Bittern (Tracey Graves) 

Fowlmere - 2 Hobby, Cuckoo, Marsh Harrier, Treecreeper (Ed Gill)


Monday 29 April 2024

Monday, 29 April

Harston - 6 WAXWING in a private garden (as per Rachel Lennard)

Fowlmere - 2 Hobby reported

Etton Pits - Hobby, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes - Sanderling, 50 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Whooper Swan, Wheatear, Hobby, Peregrine, Swift; in the pevious couple of days, Spotted Redshank, Avocet, Whimbrel, 2 Arctic Tern (Charlie Kitchin)

Peterborough - Bar-tailed Godwit on flood west of Millenium Bridge (Chris Jones)

Fen Drayton Lakes - White Strok over 11:30h (Gill Parrish)

Burwell Fen - Osprey over (Ian Barton)

Sunday 28 April 2024

Sunday, 28 April

Paxton Pits - Whimbrel (Mark Hawkes); VELVET SCOTER reported; but no sign this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Hobby (Mark Hawkes)

Soham - Swift over the railway station (Andy Hannaford)

Rings End/eastern end March Farmers - Turnstone, 2 wjimbrtel, 30 yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail (Josh Jones)

Eldernell - 3 Little Gull, Curlew, Cuckoo (Paul Bolton)

Ouse Washes - drake Garganey, Swifts, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Ruff, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine (James Littlewood)

Earith - 5 Grey Plover (Rachel Lennard); 23 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Crane over (David Nation)

Sutton - Whooper Swan nearby (Davoid Nation)

Westbrook - Whimbrel, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, Turtle Dove, Swift, 12 yellow Wagtails (Mark Thomas)

Fen Drayton Lakes - White Stork over (Simon Passey); Arctic Tern (Jeremy Lindsell)

Dernford Reservoir - Little Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Joe Parham)

Saturday, 27 April

Milton, Cambridge -  White Stork over 17:30h (Mike Wood)

Kingfishers Bridge - WAXWING over (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit & 4 Whimbrel over, 2 further Whimbrel (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - 3 Arctic Tern through (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Bar-tailed Godwit over, Arctic Tern, 25 Swift, drake Garganey (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - drake Garganey (Mark Hawkes)

Friday 26 April 2024

Friday, 26 April

Cambridge - 2 Little Ringed Plovers around Addenbrooke's helipad briefly (Sarah Howlett)

Upware lock - 3 Grey Wagtail, Wheatear nearby (Kevin Wilson)

Hobson's Park - Reed Warbler singing (Joe Parham)

Isleham Wash - drake Garganey, 2 Sedge Warbler reported

Brampton - 2 Crane over (Jamie Wells)

Ouse Washes - Scaup, Mediterranean Gull, 2 Caspian Gull, 20 Great Egret, 30 Ruff, Whimbrel (Jonathan Taylor)