Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Wednesday, 15 April

Eton/Maxey pits - Red-crested Pochard (Malcolm Holley)

Great Gidding - RING OUZEL off Mill Road (Andy Frost) 

Tuesday, 14 April

Castor Hanglands - 9 Bullfinch (Paul Bolton); Common Redstart, 11 Nightingale singing, Grasshopper Warbler, 2 male Mandarin reported. 

Milton airstrip - 7 Wheatear (Don Gardener) 

March Farmers - Blue-headed Wagtail with 45 Yellow Wagtail west of March Farmers (Charlie Kitchin) 

 

Monday, 13 April 2026

Monday, 13 April

Hare Park - Crane over east (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - Cuckoo (Colin Addington)

Stourbridge Common - Cuckoo, Tanwy Owl (Rob Scoffin)

Ferry Meadows - 4 Wheatears along railway line towards Mill Lane (Don Gardener)

Maxey - male  Pied Flycatcher by the Cut, just west of green bridge on Woodgate Lane (Hugh Wright); also Cuckoo calling (Ray Bowell)

Whittlesey - Peregrine on St Marys (Dick Burnham) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Segde Warbler (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - ad Little Gull (Richard Palmer) 

Sunday, 12 April 2026

Sunday, 12 April

Hobson's Park - Wheatear, Willow Warbler, 2 Barnacle Geese (Joe Parham)

Southey Wood - pair of Crossbill (Mark Hawkes) 

Milton airfield - 6 Wheatear reported

Chesterton Fen - RING OUZEL still, viewable from the towpath (Jon Heath)

Etton/Maxey pits - 17 White Wagtail reported 

Milton - Raven over Fen Road (Mike Wood) 

Swaffham Bulbeck Lode - Raven over, Whitethroat (Kevin Wilson)

Devil's Dyke - 8 Wheatear (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 11 April 2026

Saturday, 11 April

Grafham Water - ad Little Gull, 6 Common Tern briefly, 5 Great Northern Diver, 50+ House Matins amongst 500+ hirundines (Mark Hawkes)

Northstowe - RING OUZEL at secondary college car park (Ed King)

Chesterton Fen - RING OUZEL (Simon Gillings) 

Swaffham Bulbeck Fen - 3 Wheatear (Giles Merritt)

Wicken & Burwell Fens - 3 Bittern, Grasshopper Warbler, Crane over (Christoph Zockler)

March Farmers - 6 Common Tern reported 

Friday, 10 April 2026

Friday, 10 April

Hobson's Park - Wheatear (Stuart Jack); Great Egret (Alan Fersht)

Cherry Hinton fishing lakes - Lesser Whitethroat (Iain Webb) 

March Farmers - significant numbers of Yellow Wagtails, 32 in one of several groups reported

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, 10 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail (Tim Rea)

Burwell Fen - 2 Redpoll (Christoph Zöckler) 

Thursday, 9 April 2026

Thursday, 9 April

Hobson's park - Wheatear sotuh of flood (Stuart Jack)

Devul's Dyke - RING OUZEL ranging between A14 and Ditch Farm. Also Fieldfares, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler in the area (Richard Dale) 

Hope Farm - RING OUZEL (Duerden Cormack)