Thursday, 24 April 2025

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 (Mark Hawkes)

Tubney Fen - Garganey reported 

Wicken Fen - Spoonbill (Roger Cresswell)

Wednesday, 23 April 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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)