Wednesday 30 December 2020

Wednesday, 30 December

Ouse Washes - 2 Tundra Bean Geese, 5 Russian White-fronted Geese, "good numbers" of Bewick’s & Whooper Swans, 7 Common Crane over north at 07:45h, 5+ Stonechat, 40+ Pintail together opposite Four Balls Farm (Stu Elsom)

Wimpole - Tundra Bean Goose, 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Barnacle Geese, Mandarins (Richard Palmer)

Eynesbury - male Goosander near Coneygear Bridge (Andrew Sawyer)

Paxton Pits - 2 redhead Smew, Woodcock (Mark Brandon)

Grafham Water - fem Common Scoter (Christoph Zöckler)

Wicken area - 2 Barn Owl, Little Owl at Priory Farm (Paul Craske)

Heydon pig fields - 2cy KUMLIEN'S GULL, later following sugar beet harvesting at Fowlmere and then to Dernford Reservoir to roost; also 3 Caspian Gull, 7 Yellow-legged Gull. Short-eared Owl nearby at Heydon Grange (Steve Cooper)

Needingworth - 3 male Smew, 2 Great White Egret (Bredan Doe)

Aldreth - Great White Egret on the Great Ouse near Nine Acre Wood (Simon Stirrup)

Tuesday 29 December 2020

Tuesday, 29 December

Chesterton Fen - GLOSSY IBIS in flooded field by A14, viewable from tow-path (Elaine & John Proctor; Sean Rouse)

Grafham Water - fem/imm Common Scoter, fem Scaup, 4 Great Northern Diver, Common Sandpiper, 2 Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes); Firecrest south-west corner of Gaynes Cove, 2 Bewick's Swan & Raven over (Richard Patient)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret nearby (Richard Allison)

Monday, 28 December

 Chesterton Fen - GLOSSY IBIS in flooded field by A14, viewable from tow-path (Rob Law)

Sunday 27 December 2020

Sunday, 27 December

Chesterton Fen - GLOSSY IBIS in flooded field by A14, viewable from tow-path (Pete Wood)

Great Fen, northern loop - male Hen Harrier, 2 Short-eared Owl (Stu Elsom)

Cuckoo Fen -  roingtail Hen Harrier (Tony Plant)

Ouse Washes, Four Balls Farm -12 Tundra Bean Geese, 5 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2+ Bewick's Swan  amongst 1500 Whooper Swan. Also Crane over west, 8 Dunlin south and 2 Goldeneye (Brendan Doe)

Teversham Fen - 75+ Corn Bunting to roost (Michael Holdsworth)



Saturday, 26 December

Spaldwick - Short-eared Owl to the west, near A14 (Stewart Short)

Godmanchester - Merlin over Crowhill (Jamie Wells)

Haddenham/Earith - 2 Great Egret at Hill Row Dales (Simon Stirrup)

Friday 25 December 2020

Friday, 25 December

Fowlmere - White-fronted Goose around the reserve for 45min this morning; 2 Raven over (Ade Cooper)

Great Fen - male Hen Harrier, Raven (Duncan McNiven)

Hare Park - Tawny Owl, Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Burwell Fen - Whooper Swan (Kevin Wilson)

Thursday, 24 December

Fen Drayton Lakes - 12 Russian White-fronted Geese (Duncan McNiven)

Grafham Water - 3 fem Common Scoter, fem Scaup, Great White Egret (Ian Dawson)

Tubney Fen - 4 Crane over towards Burwell 11:15h, 2 Crane back towards Swaffham Prior 11:30h (Jamie Evan)

Chesterton Fen - GLOSSY IBIS on the flooded fields next to the Cam at Chesterton Fen this morning, viewed from the tow path south of the A14 bridge, TL483613. Also Green Sandpiper. (Jon Heath)

Wednesday, 23 December

 Wimpole - 36 Mandarin, 2 White-fronted Geese, Bean Goose (Ian Ellis)

Tuesday 22 December 2020

Tuesday, 22 December

Haddenham/Earith - several hundred Whopper Swan opposite Eight & Twenty farm (David & Sallie Jones)

Paxton Pits - 30 White-fronted Geese over north (Ian Dawson); 2vWoodcock in flight (Stu Elsom)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS still (Stewart Short)

Fen Drayton lakes - 2 GLOSSY IBIS still (Peter Appleton)

Smithey/Setchel Fen, Cottenham -  male Hen Harrier (Simon Gillings)

Wimpole Hall - Bean Goose, 2 White-fronted Geese,Mandarin, Raven over, 250+ Greenfinch (Ian Burfield)

Sunday 20 December 2020

Sunday, 20 December

Grafham Water - 3 Great Northern Diver, fem Scaup, 2 Common Sandpiper (Richard Patient); 2 Brent Geese (Matthew Rodgers)

Ouse Washes - 2 Brent Geese from Rickwood Hide, 2 fem Scaup at Fortrey's Hall (Ade Cooper)

Cherry Hinton - 200+ Greenfinch to roost near the fishing pits (Pete Holt)

Saturday, 19 December

Cow Lane GP - ad Russian White-fronted Goose, Great White Egret, Ring-necked Parakeet (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Biukden Pits - Great White Egret (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Friday 18 December 2020

Friday, 18 December

Pidley - WHITE STORK on or near the golf course (John Wright)

Burwell Fen - 118 Whooper Swan, 200+ Golden Plover (Kevin Wilson)

Earith - GLOSSY IBIS (David & Sallie Jones)

Grafham Water - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF along west side of Valley Creek (as per RBA)

Thursday 17 December 2020

Thursday, 17 December

 Barway - Great White Egret, Whooper Swan (Andy Hannaford)

Pidley Golf Course - WHITE STORK of unknown origin but no obvious rings (Alison Edwards)

Stretham - 140 Whooper Swan (Andy Hannaford); later 180 Whooper Swan (Bruce Martin)

Kingfishers Bridge - 10 White-fronted Geese (Bruce Martin)

 Aldreth - 200 Whooper Swan on fields to the west, roosting by the old west River (Simon Stirrup)

Wednesday 16 December 2020

Wednesday, 16 December

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS c.10:00h (Neil Howard)

Tuesday 15 December 2020

Tuesday, 15 December

Aldreth - DUSKY WARBLER showing exceptionally well in the sunshine at Aldreth at midday in the willows by the bridge at The Boot (Duncan McNiven)

Trumpington Street, Cambridge - Peregrine (Colin Kirtland)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 GLOSSY IBIS, 2 Great Egret; 2 Green Sandpiper at Springhill (Dave Anderson)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS 12:50h (Roger Hardie); departed 15:55h (Duncan McNiven)

Wimpole Hall - Tundra Bean Goose, 2 White-fronted Geese (James Hanlon); Raven, Nuthatch (Steve Dutton)

Monday 14 December 2020

Monday, 14 December

Aldreth - DUSKY WARBLER still (Sue Greenway)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS (Sue Greenway)

Teversham Fen - 2 Raven, Mediterranean Gull over (Carl Howard)

Sunday 13 December 2020

Sunday, 13 December

Aldreth - DUSKY WARBLER showing fairly frequently on and off between 10-11 this morning, around the pond and in the ditches at the start of 'The Boot', most of the time low down in the nettles and brambles. Calling regularly (Jamie Wells); Great Egret to east of causeway (Simon Gillings)

Colne Fen - Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Steve Cooper)

Sutton Gault - Great Egret (Steve Cooper)

Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS still (Steve Cooper)

Willingham - 4 Cattle Egret (Steve Cooper)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great Egret, Goldeneye; also 2 Raven at the busway near Longstanton (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - 4 Great Northern Diver, 2 Great Egret, 191 Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes, Richard Patient, Chris Shurlock)



Saturday 12 December 2020

Saturday, 12 December

Aldreth - DUSKY WARBLER, though extremely elusive. Not quite at The Boot this morning - it's literally just out of the village, in the area around the first bridge (Richard Patient)

Earith sluice - 3 GLOSSY IBIS by the bridge (Mark Hawkes)

Sutton - 8 White-fronted Geese just to the south-west (Mark Hawkes)

Willingham - 4 Cattle Egret at West Fen (Stu Elsom, Richard Bayldon)

Pidley - WHITE STORK of unknown origin on the golf course, viewable from public footpath from Fen Road (John Wright)

Wimpole Hall - Tundra Bean Goose, 2 White-fronted Geese, 2 Raven, 6 Mandarin (Ade Cooper)

Friday 11 December 2020

Friday, 11 December

Aldreth - DUSKY WARBLER reported.

Wimpole Hall - Tundra Bean Goose, 2 White-fronted Geese, 2 Barnacle Geese with Greylag Goose flock 09:00h; also Peregrine, Raven, 10 Mandarin (Richard Palmer)

Burwell Fen - male and ringtail Hen Harrier (Diana Leech)

River Cam - Firecrest by path along the river between Horningsea & Waterbeach (Christoph Zöckler)

Thursday, 10 December

Grafham Water - 3 Great White Egret, c.400 Cormorant. Nearby, 2 Brambling, Merlin (Carlos Davies)

Wimpole Hall - Tundra Bean Goose, 2 White-fronted Geese, 2 Barnacle Geese, Egyptian Goose (Andrew Dobson)

Wednesday 9 December 2020

Wednesday, 9 December

Grafham Water - Red-breasted Merganser (Colin Addington)

Great Fen - 6 Short-eared Owl, Peregrine, male Hen Harrier (Ron Harold)

Godmanchester - fem Merlin (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 GLOSSY IBIS, 2 Great White Egret, 6 White-fronted Geese (Terry Brown)

Tuesday, 8 December

 Dimmock's Cote - 175 Whooper Swan to the east (Colin Kirtland)

Tuesday 8 December 2020

Monday, 8 December

Fen Drayton - 3 Green Sandpiper (Dave Anderson)

Ouse Fen - Great Egret, 60+ Whooper Swan, Bearded Tit (Christoph Zöckler)

Wicken - Barn Owl, Little Owl at Priory Farm (Paul Craske)

River Cam, Waterbeach to Ely - Little Owl, Green Sandpiper, Great White Egret (Carlos Davies)

Sunday 6 December 2020

Sunday, 6 December

Hare Park - Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Cambridge - possible White-fronted Goose flock over calling c.10pm (Iain Webb)

Late news from Friday, 27 November: Grafham Water - Purple Sandpiper, photographed by a fisherman

Saturday 5 December 2020

Saturday, 5 December

Aldreth/Haddenham Long Drove - Great White Egret, 400 Whooper Swan, 2 Green Sandpiper (Simon Stirrup)

Paxton Pits - Great White Egret, 26 Goldeneye (Jamie Wells)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL (Steve Dutton)

Trumpington Meadows - 6 Mandarin on flodded meadows (Jill Aldred)

Wicken area - 87 Whooper Swan, 2 Stonechat on Burwell Fen, Little Owlat Priory Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Buckden GP - Great White Egret (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Cow Lane GP - Great White Egret (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Earith - 4 GLOSSY IBIS opposite the sluice (Brendan Doe)

Willingham - 5 Cattle Egret at West Fen Road (Brendan Doe)

Fortrey's Hall - Water Pipit, Bearded Tit, 590 Whooper Swan (Brendan Doe) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 GLOSSY IBIS ovr west at dusk (Christopher Hughes)

Friday, 4 December

 Earith - 3 GLOSSY IBIS over (Graham Hirons)

Tuesday 1 December 2020

Tuesday, 1 December

Haslingfield - 5 BEAN GEESE, probably Tundra, north-west of Cantelupe Road c.TL412534 (Rob Pople); 28 White-fronted Geese in the adjacent field, TL406536 (Mark Thomas)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret, 2 Goldneneye (Steve Dutton)

Anglesey Abbey - juv Goshawk (Mike Wood)

Grafham Water - 30 Goldeneye, Great Northern Diver (John Le Gassick)

Great Shelford - GLOSSY IBIS over south-west (Peter Bircham)

Cambridge - Peregrines at King's College and the URC (Andrew Bryce)

Over - 5 Cattle Egret in flight towards Fen Drayton 16:15h (Christopher Hughes)

Monday 30 November 2020

Monday, 30 November

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 GLOSSY IBIS until flushed at 10:00h; Goosander over west (Jon & David Heath); later from Middle Fen Drove c.100 yards north of guided busway (Gill Parrish); and back at Swavesey lake in the afternpoon (Carlos Davies)

Burwell Fen - 2 Turnstone briefly, 4 Whooper Swan, 3 Stonechat, flock of Golden Plover (Andy Hannaford)

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL 10:15-12:00h at least (Carlos Davies)

Milton CP - fem Red-breasted Merganser on Dickerson's Pit (John Proctor)

Grafham Water - 2 Bewick's Swan, 3 Great Northern Diver (Colin Addington)

Ouse Washes - 7 Pink-footed Geese north-east over Pymoor 07:45h (Stu Elsom)

Sunday 29 November 2020

Sunday, 29 November

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 GLOSSY IBIS 07:25h (Richard Allsion); still present at dusk (Christoph Zöckler)

Reach Lode - GLOSSY IBIS over towards Wicken 11:15h (Jamie Evan) 

Northstowe - male Hen Harrier (Hugh Venables) 

Barleycraft GP - redhead Smew, 1cy Caspian Gull (Steve Cooper)

New Shardlows Farm - Raven over 13:37h (Kevin Wilson) 

Dernford Reservoir - KUMLIEN'S GULL, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Short-eared Owl (Richard Gregory) 

Trumpington Meadows - male Goosander briefly (Mike Wood) 

Saturday 28 November 2020

Saturday, 28 November

Grafham Water - 18 Whooper Swan over (David Hollin); fem Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Great Northern Diver, 2 Great Egret, fem Goosander, Green Sandpiper (Richard Patient)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 GLOSSY IBIS (David Little); a third GLOSSY IBIS this afternoon (Chris Rider)

Paxton Pits - Firecrest briefly (Jamie Wells); 3 Goosander, Woodcock (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Willingham - 6 Cattle Egret (as per RBA)

Wicken fen - 2 Little Owl, 16 Whopper swan, Peregrine, Stoenchat (Gill Parrish and Don Donald)

Dernford Reservoir - ad Yellow-legged Gull, 2cy Caspian Gull (Richard Gregory)

Friday, 27 November

Dernford Reservoir - 2cy KUMLIEN'S GULL (reported previously as Iceland Gull) (Steve Cooper)

Fen Drayton - 5 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Friday 27 November 2020

Thursday, 26 November

Grafham Water - 4 Bewick's Swan, 2 Great White Eget, 3 Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - ICELAND GULL until 12:10h, Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull (Andrew Dobson); Short-eared Owl (David Griffiths)

Fen Drayton - 5 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Wednesday, 25 November

Milton CP - redhead HGoosander on Dickeron's Pit (Michael Wood)

Tuesday 24 November 2020

Tuesday, 24 November

Dernford Reservoir - ICELAND GULL (Andrew Dobson)

Buckden - 2 Great White Egret (Stu Elsom) 

Offords - ringtail Hen Harrier in the area (Martin Sreeves)

Wicken - 2 Little Owl at Priory Farm (Paul Craske)

Fen Drayton - 4 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)


Monday 23 November 2020

Monday, 23 November

Ouse Fen - 2 Great Egret, Bittern, 2 Bearded Tit; also nearby 68 Whooper Swan, Merlin, 20 Golden Plover (Christoph Zöckler); also Water Pipit (Simon Gillings)

Paxton Pits - Bearded Tit briefly on Hayling (Mark Brandon)

Fen Drayton - 4 Cattle Egret (John Le Gassick)


Sunday 22 November 2020

Sunday, 22 November

Fen Drayton - 5 Cattle Egret again (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - 3 Great Northern Diver, Great White Egret, Peregrine over (Mark Hawkes); a fourth Great Northern Diver (David Fisher); 3 Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull in a large gull roost this evening (Mark Ward)

Ouse Fen - GLOSSY IBIS c.11:30h, 2 Bittern (Mark Brandon); also 4 beareded Tit, Great White Egret, 4 Cetti's Warbler (Steve Dutton)

Cambridge - Great White Egret over c.16:00h (James Littlewood)

Nene Washes - 49 Crane, 23 Whooper Swan, 3 Great White Egret, 1000+ Golden Plover (Duncan McNiven)

Great Fen - 4 Short-eared Owl (Duncan McNiven)

Buckden GP - Great White Egret (Andrew Dobson)

Hare Park - 3 Brambling, Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - 2c.y. ICELAND GULL this morning, also 2 Caspian Gull (Steve Cooper)

Brampton Wood - 75 Lesser Redpoll (Mark Ward)

Ely Beet pits - ringtail Hen Harrier with Marsh Harriers at roost (Duncan Poyser)

Saturday 21 November 2020

Saturday, 21 November

Fen Drayton - 5 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Wistow Toll - GLOSSY IBIS this morning (Rob Amos)

Ouse Fen - Bittern 2 Great Egret, Bearded Tit (Christoph Zöckler); GLOSSY IBIS this afternoon (Graeme Reed)

Girton - Great White Egret over (David Heath)

Cottenham Long Drove - ad Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Grafham Water - 4 Great Northern Diver, Great White Egret, 3 Goosander (Matthew Rodgers)

Dernford Reservoir - 2c.y. ICELAND GULL briefly (Guy Belcher)

Hare Park - Brambling, Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Oakington - Great White Egret at a garden pond (as per David Heath)

Friday 20 November 2020

Friday, 20 November

Fen Drayton - 4 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison); a 5th bird later (Dave Anderson)

Cambridge - Peregrines on the University Library & King's College Chapel (Peter Louden)

Grafham Water - Great White Egret, 2 Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - GLOSSY IBIS, 2 Great White Egret, Bittern (Duncan McNiven)

Wistow Toll - GLOSSY IBIS photographed this afternoon (Rob Amos)


Thursday 19 November 2020

Thursday, 19 November

 Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Priory Farm, Wicken - 2 Barn Owl, Little Owl (Paul Craske)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Whooper Swan, Great White Egret, Brambling (Barbara York)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

Wednesday, 18 November

 Ouse Fen - GLOSSY IBIS, Great White Egret, Bittern, 3 Bearded Tit (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Monday 16 November 2020

Monday, 16 November

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison); later a third Cattle Egret (Gill Parrish); 5 Green Sandpiper (Dave Anderson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Great White Egret, 2 Goldeneye (Gill Parrish)

Grafham Water - 10 Crossbill over, 2 Great Northern Diver, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - Whooper Swan, Little Owl, 4 Stonechat, Siskin (Kevin Wilson) 



Sunday, 15 November

Fen Drayton - 3 Cattle Egret astill (Richard Allison)

Colne Fen - Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Grren Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull (Steve Cooper)

Sutton North Fen - 33 Barnacle Geese, 25 Egyptian Geese, Yellow-legged Gull (Steve Cooper)

Saturday 14 November 2020

Saturday, 14 November

Fen Drayton - 3 Cattle Egret opposite Dove Cote Close (Richard Allison)

Cambridge - Brambling over Nuttings Road (Iain Webb)

 Ouse Washes - Scaup, 2 Water Pipit at Sutton Gault, 2 Great White Egret (Brendan Doe)

Friday 13 November 2020

Friday, 13 November

Fen Drayton  - 5 Cattle Egret in field opposite Diove Cote Close (Richard Allison) 

Dimmocks Cote - 40+ Whooper Swan nearby (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - Short-eared Owl, Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull at roost (Andrew Dobson)

Wimpole Hall - Swallow (Christopher Hughes)

Thursday 12 November 2020

Thursday, 12 November

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret in the area (Richrd Allison) 

Ouse Fen - GLOSSY IBIS, Great Egret, Bearded Tits (Duncan McNiven)

Little Shelford - Firecrest in a private garden (Ali Cooper)

Grafham Water - Great White Egret, 2 Great Northern Diver; 2 more Great Northern Diver reported (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday 11 November 2020

Wednesday, 11 November

Fen Drayton - 4 Cattle Egret still (Richard Allison)

Graham Water - Bittern, 3 Great Northern Diver, Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell Fen - 16 Whooper Swan, 500+ Golden Plover in the area (Andy Hannaford)

Grantchester Meadows - Woodcock, Stonechat (David Heath)

Milton - Woodcock over (Ian Ellis)

Tuesday 10 November 2020

Tuesday, 10 November

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison); 4 Cattle Egret later in the day (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - 2 Bearded Tit, Bittern (Mark Hill)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, 75 Whooper Swan (Colin Kirtland)

Monday, 9 November

Fen Drayton - 3 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - 2 Bearded Tit, 3 Great Northern Diver, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes); 4 Common Scoter (Colin Addington)

Ouse Fen - 'lots of Bearded Tit', Stonechat (Mark Austin)

Sunday 8 November 2020

Sunday, 8 November

Fen Drayton - 3 Cattle Egret opposite Dove Cote Close, Great Egret on pool at south-east corner of Far Fen Lake, Peregrine (Richard Allison)

Kingfishers Bridge - 75 Whooper Swan (Ian Burfield)

Little Thetford - 3 Stonechat  at moorings (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday 7 November 2020

Saturday, 6 November

Kingfishers Bridge - 55 Whooper Swan & 10 over, Great White Egret (David & Sallie Jones)

Grafham Water - 4 Great Northern Diver, 4 Great White Egret, 10 Bearded Tit, Tree Pipit over (Richard Patient); also 1st winter male Scaup (Matthew Rodgers)

Hare Park - Tawny Owl, Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Buckden - Great White Egret (Jamie Wells)

Brampton Wood - 10 Redpoll, Marsh Tit (Jamie Wells)

Cuckoos Hollow, Werrington - 5 Bearded Tit (Nathan Simpson) 

Fen Drayton - 3 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Friday 6 November 2020

Friday, November 6

Grafham Water - 4 Great Northern Divers, 1st winter male Scaup (Mark Hawkes); 6 Brent Geese over, Common Sandpiper (Ian Dawson)

Fen Drayton - 3 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Ouse Fen - Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, 15 Bearded Tit, 4 Stonechat (Christoph Zöckler)

Cam Washes - Cattle Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper, 10 Stonechat, (Jon Heath)

Wicken area - 3 Kingfisher, Barn Owl, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson); Little Owl, Great White Egret over (Gill Parrish & Don Donald)

Kingfishers Bridge - 58 Whooper Swan (Gill Parrish & Don Donald)

Thursday 5 November 2020

Thursday, 5 November

Fen Drayton - 3 Cattle Egret, 8 Whopper Swan over (Richard Allison)

Ferry Meadows - 5 Raven over (Don Gardener)

Grafham Water - 3 juv Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday 4 November 2020

Wednesday, 4 November

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison); a third Cattle Egret (Duncan McNiven); Great White Egret (Christoph Zöckler)

Dernford Reservoir - Kittiwake (Andrrw Merryweather)

Grafham Water - 3 Great Northern Diver, ad Mediterranean Gull (Richard Patient, Mark Hawkes)

St. Ives - Great White Egret (Richard Allison)

Burwell Fen - Little Owl at Priory Farm, Short-eared Owl reported (Paul Craske)

Tuesday 3 November 2020

Tuesday, 3 November

St. Neots - 2 WAXWING over (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes); a second Great Northern Diver (John Roe)

Dernford Reservoir - Kittiwake over 14:45h (as per Oliver Burton)

Monday, 2 November

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - 2-3 Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday 1 November 2020

Sunday, 1 November

Godmanchester - Hooded Merganser "is clamouring for bread with mallards and is green ringed" (Mark Ward)

Ferry Meadows - GLOSSY IBIS in south-east corner of Heron Meadow. 27 Ring-necked Partakeet (Don Gardener)

Bassingbourn - 3 Lesser Redpoll in a private garden (Gareth Rees)

Grafham Water - male Scaup, 10 Goldeneye (Ian Dawson); 2 Great Northern Divers (Peter Louden); male Scaup-like hybrid duck, Caspian Gull x Herring Gull 3rd c.y. hybrid gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Raven over (Mark Hawkes)

Kingfishers Bridge - 5 Cattle Egret briefly early morning (Gaeme Reed)

Chain Corner - 3,500 Golden Plover, Great White Egret over, Peregrine, 10 Whopper Swan (Mark Hawkes, Duncan Poyser)

Saturday 31 October 2020

Saturday, 31 Oxctober

Ferry Meadows - GLOSSY IBIS (Don Gardener)

Grafhm Water - 3 Great Norhern Diver (Richard Patient, Matthew Rodgers)

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret (Edward King); 5 Green Sandpiper at Springhill (Dave Anderson)

Godmanchester - Peregine. Also fem Hooded Merganser photographed on the river yestrday (Jamie Wells)

Friday 30 October 2020

Friday, 30 October

Ferry Meadows - GLOSSY IBIS (Howard Buler)

Grafham Water - juv Great Northern Diver (Lee Evans); also Brambling, 3 Common Sandpiper (Richard Patient)

Fen Drayton - 2 Cattle Egret opposite Dove Cote Lane (Richard Allison)

Ouse Fen - Great Egret, 2 Bittern, Green Sandpiper, 4 Stonechat (Christoph Zöckler)

Thursday 29 October 2020

Thursday, 29 October

Milton CP - redhead Goosander on Milton Pit (Jon Heath) 

Fen Drayton  - 2 Cattle Egret (Richard Allison)

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Wednesday, 28 October

Fen Drayton - Cattle Egret opposite Dove Cote Close (Richard Allison); second Cattle Egret 12:15h (Ian Dawson)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 27 October

 Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Monday 26 October 2020

Monday, 26 October

Cambridge - Brambling briefly in a Huntingdon Road garden (Christoph Zöckler)

Marsh Lane Pits, Hemingford Grey - fem Goosander (Chris Bowden)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 redhead Goosander over west (Richard Thomas)

Barleycraft - Great White Egret (Andrew Dobson)

Wicken - 2 Bearded Tit, 7 Redpoll over, Little Owl at Priory Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 25 October 2020

Sunday, 25 October

Eldernell - 56+ Crane, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Cattle Egret (Simon Stirrup)

Grafham Water - 2400 Tufted Duck, Common Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gull als Crossbill, 2 Barambling, Redpoll, 12+ Siskin over (Mark Hawkes)

Eynesbury - Crossbill over (Mark Hawkes)

Southey Wood - 24 Crossbill (Jonathan Taylor)

Landbeach - Crossbill over (Dick Newell)

Ouse Washes - pair of Scaup, , 2 Goldeneye, 4 Crane but distant (James Littlewood)

Hare Park - 2 Nuthatch, 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 24 October

Fen Drayton - 9 Green Sandpiper at Spring Hill (Dave Anderson)

Saturday 24 October 2020

Friday, 23 October

Yelling - GREAT GREY SHRIKE along the field-edge ditch near the St Neots Model Flying club area, about TL 25419 61558 (Sharon Williamson)

 Chesterton - Hawfinch, Brambling, Lesser Redpoll over (Simon Gillings) 

Burwell - Little Owl, 2 Stonechat (Steve Dutton)

Wicken - 3 Brambling over (Kevin Wilson)

Friday 23 October 2020

Thursday, 22 October

Nene Washes - 78 Crane to roost, 6 Great White Egret, 3 Cattle Egret (Mark Hawkes); also male Hen Harrier, Bittern, fourth Cattle Egret (Ian Gordon)

Fen Drayton - Cattle Egret (Dave Anderson)

Grafham Water - Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 21 October

Nene Washes - 68 Crane to roost, 101 Whooper Swan, 10+ Marash Harrier, 4 Great White Egret (Matthew Lonsdale)

Tuesday 20 October 2020

Tuesday, 20 October

Fen Drayton - Cattle Egret opposite Dove Cote Close (Richard Allison)

Monday 19 October 2020

Monday, 19 October

Grafham Water - male RED-BREASTED MERGANSER from the dam (Matthew Rodgers)

Cambridge Research Park - Great White Egret over (Jon & David Heath)

Teversham Fen - 20 Golden Plover nearby (Carl Howard)

Nene Washes - 66 Crane, 6 Great White Egret, 3 Cattle Egret, 30 Pink-footed Geese, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit (Matthew Lonsdale); also Merlin (Richard Allison)

Sunday 18 October 2020

Sunday, 18 October

Fen Drayton - CATTLE EGRET opposite Daintrees Road (Richard Allison)

Dernford Reservoir - Whinchat (Matt Midgley & Rachel Gartner)

Ouse Washes - 10 CATTLE EGRET south of Four Balls Farm, 2 Great Egret at Sutton Gault, Water Pipit at Chain Corner (Bendan Doe)

Longstanton - pai of Stonechat (Mark Austin)

Hoston - Crossbill over (Christoph Zöckler)

Saturday 17 October 2020

Saturday, 17 October

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Great White Egret, CATTLE EGRET opposite Daintrees Road, 2 Bittern (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - summer plumage Great Northern Diver (Mike Drew)

Friday 16 October 2020

Friday, 16 October

Ferry Meadows - 3 Goosander, Crossbill over (Don Gardener, Mike Weedon)

Wicken - 2 Little Owl at Priory Farm, 3 Stonechat at Sedge Fen (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - RING OUZEL in lagoons, Rock Pipit (Richard Patient)

Thursday 15 October 2020

Thursday, 15 October

Grafham Water - Bittern in lagoons (Colin Addington)

Cambridge - Great White Egret over the north of the city late morning (Jon Heath)

St. Neots - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER briefly in Riverside Park near miniature railway (Richard Patient)

Ellington - RICHARD'S PIPIT over south-west 11:47h (Stu and Jill Elsom)

Hare Park - Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday 14 October 2020

Wednesday, 14 October

Nene Washes - 50+ Crane, 100+ Whooper Swan, Great White Egret (Paul Burrows); CATTLE EGRET (Mark Hill)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver (Colin Addington)

Wandlebiry CP - HAWFINCH briefly (Rob Pople)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Great White Egret (Carlos Davies)

Tuesday, 13 October

Somersham GPs - 2 Wood Sandpiper viewed east from TL369791 (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - winter plumage Great Northern Diuver (David Hollins) 

March Farmers - 18 Crane (David Withrington)

Monday 12 October 2020

Monday, 12 October

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver (Matthew Rodgers, Mark Hawkes)

Hare Park - 2 Brambling (Kevin Wilson)

Somersham - imm GANNET over c.12:30h (as per rarebirdalert)


Sunday 11 October 2020

Sunday, 12 October

LAMMERGEIER from A47 west of Thorney, flew south at c.11:00h and reported heading south over Sawtry c.11:45h (as per Steve Dudley)

Devil's Dyke - RING OUZEL, 50 Golden Plover near Ditch Farm (Richard Dale)

Nene Washes - 63 Crane, 54 of which at Eldernell (Charlie Kitchin); 2 Great Egret (Steve Dudley)

Grafham Watyer - Great Northern Diver (Diana Leech)

Kingfishers Bridge - Hawfinch, 3 Brambling through, 3 Great Egret (Graeme Reed)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Whinchat, 3 Stonechat (Steve Cooper)

Wimpole - 7 Hawfinch over (Louise Bacon)

Fieldfare and especially Redwing reported widely across the county over the last 24h

Saturday 10 October 2020

Saturday, 10 October

Nene Terrace - LAMMERGEIER 1st-summer female still in field by B1040 by Singlesole Farm; please park carefully and do not obstruct vehicular access. Please do not park on the hardstanding, the farmer is lifting his sugarbeet and requires the use of this area (as per birdguides.com); later from Nipcut Road just east of Eye Green.

Cambridge - male Hen Harrier over south-east (Jon Heath)

Wimpole Hall - 2 Marsh Tit (Kevin Wilson)

Friday 9 October 2020

Friday, 9 October

Nene Terrace - LAMMERGEIER in poplar tree by B1040 to the south west c.14:15h (Mark Hawkes)

Fowlmere - 2 HAWFINCH over low the reserve car park (Katie Fuller, Kelly Thomas) 

Grafham Water - imm male Scaup (Tim Rea)

Barton - 200 Golden Plover over Canteloupe Farm (Roger Hardie)

Sutton Gault - ringtail Hen Harrier, Peregrine, Hobby over farmland (Rob Partridge)

Broad Lane, Cottenham - 17 Golden Plover, male Hen Harrier (Vicki Harley)

Eldernell - 7 Great Egrets, 12 Whooper Swan (Steve Cooper)

Thursday, 8 October

Castor Mill - Little Owl at he old windmill nearby (Howard Butler)

Wednesday 7 October 2020

Wednesday, 7 October

Paxton Pits - Hobby (Mark Brandon)

Somersham GPs - 2 Wood Sandpiper (Russell Watkins)

Orton Wistow - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER inca aprivate garden briefly again (Matt Webb)

Ouse Washes - 59 Crane, 3 Great Egret, 8 Cattle Egret, 170 Golden Plover (Steve Cooper)

Tuesday 6 October 2020

Tuesday, 6 October

Peakirk - RADDE'S WARBLER. Elusive, showing on and off around 07:55h, below west side of road by river (Mark Hawkes). In second hawthorn bush south of the big willo at 13:15h (Duncan McNiven). Take the Thorney road out of Peakirk then turn left just beyond the level crossing, park carefully by Sisson's Farm/Delfield Motor Repairs and walk south to view. 

Grafham Water - ad summer Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Bittern, Green Sandpiper (David Anderson)

Godmachester - Merlin over (Jamie Wells)

Little Paxton - Hobby over (Mark Brandon)

Ouse Washes - Whinchat, Wheatear, Grey Plover, 30+ Ruff, 1300 Canada Geese (Jonathan Taylor)

Monday 5 October 2020

Monday, 5 October

Peakirk - RADDE'S WARBLER. Elusive, seen once by 10:00h. Take the Thorney road out of Peakirk then turn left just beyond the level crossing, park carefully by Sisson's Farm/Delfield Motor Repairs and walk south to view. Also Hawfinch over (Mark Hawkes)

Cambridge - GANNET over Newmarket Road towards the city c.09:05h; 12 Crossbill over Chesterton (Simon Gillings) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret, 7 Cetti's Warbler (Richard Allison)

Wicken - Hobby (Kevin Wilson)

Foxton - Short-eared Owl (Marcus Kohler)

Sunday, 4 October

Peakirk - RADDE'S WARBLER. Take the Thorney road out of Peakirk then turn left just beyond the level crossing, park a little beyond Sisson’s farm/MOT garage ( Jonathan Taylor)

Sunday 4 October 2020

Saturday, 3 October

Orton Wistow - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER with tit flock in a private garden briefly (Matt Webb)

Werrington - Redstart in a private garden (as per Howard Butler)

Thursday 1 October 2020

Thursday, 1 October

Grafham Water - Great White Egret, 7 Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes); Rock Pipit (Ian Dawson)

Ouse Fen - Whinchat, Great White Egret, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Stonechat, also Bittern reported (John Roe)

Colne Fen - Whooper Swan, 4 Green Sandpiper, Rock Pipiot (Steve Cooper)

Sutton North Fen - 15 Whooper Swan, 1230 Greylag Geese, 82 Egyptian Geese, 40 Barnacle Geese, Hobby, Ruff (Steve Cooper)

Ouse Washes - 4 CATTLE EGRET, 47 Crane, Jack Snipe, 3 Short-eared Owl, 90 Whooper Swan, 30 Ruff (Jonathan Taylor) 

Nene Washes - Merlin (Paul Pateman)

Wednesday 30 September 2020

Wednesday, 30 September

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Stint on Ferry Mere (Duncan McNiven)

Ouse Fen - 3 Great Egret, Bittern, Green Sandpiper, Bearded Tits (Duncan McNiven)

Ouse Washes - 49 Crane, CATTLE EGRET at Pymoor (Andy Massey)

Dernford Reservoir - Whinchat, 42 Wigeon (Chris Hewson)

Tuesday 29 September 2020

Tuesday, 29 September

Ferry Meadows - 25 COMMON SCOTER briefly (Don Gardener) 

Grafham Water - Great White Egret, Stonechat (Mark Hawkes)

Longstanton - Great White Egret (Mark Austin)

Dernsford Reservoir - Grey Wagtail (Mark Austin)

Monday 28 September 2020

Monday, 28 September

Grafham Water - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER in small pine plantation south of Hill Farm car park 13:00-13:30h. Tree Pipit & Rock Pipit over, Stonechat, Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Lode - juv GANNET over north (Andrew Maddocks)

Dernford Reservoir - Spotted Redshank (Stuart Fox)

Ouse Washes - 51 Crane (Richard Palmer)

Sunday 27 September 2020

Sunday, 27 September

Grafham Water - Phalarop sp. in flight 08:10h, Arctic Tern, 2 Spotted Redshank over, 47 Redwing through (Mark Hawkes); 4 Whooper Swan (Richard Patient)

Derbford Reservoir - Spotted Redshank, Knot, Rock Pipit (Carl Howard)

Ouse Washes - 62 Crane, 60+ Pink-footed Geese over north, 170 Whooper Swan (Brendan Doe)

Saturday 26 September 2020

Saturday, 26 September

West Wratting - 40 Golden Plover towards Green End Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - Spotted Redshank, Knot (Chris Hewson)

Friday 25 September 2020

Friday, 25 September

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Knot (Chris Hewson)

Thursday 24 September 2020

Thursday, 24 September

Needingworth - RING-NECKED DUCK, also Great White Egret reported (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Curlew Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Granta Science Park - Wheatear (Gareth Rees)

Nene Washes - Wheatear, 3 Stonechat, Osprey over (Matthew Lonsdale)

Longstanton - Great White Egret, Wheatear, 5 Sedge Warbler (Mark Austin) 

Great Haddon - 2 Hobby (Stuart Elsom)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Hobby (Duncan McNiven)

Ouse Fen - 2 Great White Egret, Bearded Tits (Duncan McNiven)

Wednesday 23 September 2020

Wednesday, 23 September

Needingworth - RING-NECKED DUCK (Jem Holding)

Earith - Hawfinch over (Graham Hirons)

Longstanton - Great White Egret (Mark Austin)

Nene Washes - 3 CATTLE EGRET, 5 Great White Egret, Spotted Redshank, 4 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Merlin (Matthew Lonsdale)

Tuesday 22 September 2020

Tuesday, 22 September

Grafham Water - fem Merlin over south (Richard Patient)

Trumpington Meadows - 2 Crossbill over (Iain Webb)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Great White Egret, Hobby, Green Sandpiper (Brendan Doe)

Longstanton - Great White Egret (Brendan Doe)

Monday 21 September 2020

Monday, 21 September

Fowlmere - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER in a private garden briefly this morning (Doug Radford)

Wicken - Little Owl, Barn Owl from Harrison's Drove (Paul Craske) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Great White Egret, Bittern (Gill Parrish)

Sunday, 20 September

Barton - 2 Crossbill on the active MOD site, no access (Louise Bacon)

Needingworth - AMERICAN WIGEON, RING-NECKED DUCK (Stewart Short) 

Dry Drayton - Hobby (Rowena Baxter)

Fulbourn - 2 Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Wilson)

Hare Park - 2 Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Stapleford - Ring-necked Parakeet over (Stephen Sutton)

Saturday, 19 September

Cherry Hinton chalk pits - Crossbill over (Ian Ellis)

Friday 18 September 2020

Friday, 18 September

Ouse Fen - 2 Great White Egret, Bearded Tit (Christopoh Zöckler)

Thursday 17 September 2020

Thursday, 17 September

 Ferry Meadows - Raven, Yellow-legged Gull (Don Gardener et al.)

Hemingford Grey - c.30 Siskin over (Mike Everett)

Kingfsiher's Bridge - 2 Great White Egret (Bruce Martin)

Wednesday 16 September 2020

Wednesday, 16 September

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret (Colin Kirtland)

Fowlmere - rintail Harrier sp. north-west over the village 16:00h (Doug Radford)

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Tuesday, 15 September

 Hobson's Park - Whinchat along lake edge nearest to houses (Ali Cooper)

Monday, 14 September

Ellington - 3 Raven, 2 Hobby over (Stuart & Jill Elsom)

Burwell Fen - Whinchat in nearby maize field (David Wege)

Fen Drayton - Hobby over, 2 Siskin (Richard Allison)

Wicken - Bearded Tit (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 13 September 2020

Sunday, 13 September

Ferry Meadows - Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Wood Sandpiper (Mike Everett)

Saturday 12 September 2020

Saturday, 12 September

Grafham Water -  4 Sanderling, Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Longstanton - Wheatear (Mark Austin)

Trumpington Meadows - 53 Golden Plover over (Andrew Dobson)

Ouse Washes - 4 CATTLE EGRET, 48 Crane, 456 Golden Plover, 47 Yellow Wagtail (Brendan Doe)

Madingley - juv Hobby (Ben Greig)

Wednesday 9 September 2020

Wednesday, 9 September

Grafham Water - Shag, 45+ Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit over (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 40+ Siskin (Stewart Short)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Whinchat, Curlew Sandpiper, Great White Egret (Josh Carter); Wood Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Venables)

Tuesday, 8 September

 Ferry Meadows - 23 Ring-necked Parakeet, Lesser Redpoll, Spotted Flycatcher (Don Gardener)

Ouse Fen - Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, 70+ Lapwing, 2 Water Rail, Wheatear (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - Shag (Mark Hawkes)

Monday 7 September 2020

Monday, 7 September

Grafham Water - Shag, Common Sandpiper (Jon Roe)

Sunday, 6 September

Ferry Meadows - 2 Whinchat (Don Gardener)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Whinchat, Tree Pipit over (Chris Rider)

Four Balls Farm - 31 Crane (Andy Hannaford) 

Grafham Water - Shag, 2 Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - Spotted Redshank (Ian Burfield)

Impington - 2 Hobby, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Nigel Butcher)

Saturday 5 September 2020

Saturday, 5 September

Ferry Meadows - 2 Whinchat (Don Gardener)

Trumpkjngton Meadows - Spotted Flycatcher (Jill Aldred) 

Grafham Water - Shag, Great White Egret, Hobby, 25 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Elton - ad and 2 young Goosander (Heather Donoyou)

Dernford Rservoir - Spotted Redshank still, Hobby over (Ed Gill)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Redstartt, Whinchat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Great White Egret (Carlos Davies)

Northstowe - 4 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Golden Plocer (Chrsitoph Zöckler)

Friday, 4 September

Dernford Reservoir - Spotted Redshank (Ali Cooper; Terry Brown)

Ouse Washes - 3 Great White Egret, 3 Greenshank, 3 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear, 2 Hobby (Charlie Kitchin); 40 Crane (Norman Sills)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Bittern (Dave Anderson)

Thursday 3 September 2020

Thursday, 3 September

Grafham Water - 2 Shag (Colin Addington)

Dernford Reservoir - Spotted Redshank (Andrew Dobson)

Wednesday 2 September 2020

Wednesday, 2 September

 Ferry Meadows - Redstart (Howard Butler)

Tuesday 1 September 2020

Tuesday, 1 September

Grafham Water - 2 Shag, Caspian Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Osprey, Great White Egret, 8 Yellow-legged Gull, 30 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Siskin over (Mark Hawkes)

Trumpington Meadows - Wheatear (Jill Aldred)

Eldernell - 4 Crane, Hobby, Great White Egret over (Ian Gordon)

Hobson's Park - Whinchat (Andrew Dobson)

Manea - Redstart in a private garden (Graham Cole)

Monday 31 August 2020

Monday, 31 August

Woodhurst - Redstart along Butt Lane (Duncan McNiven)

Paxton Pits - Shag (Jamie Wells); 2 Shag, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Whinchat, Great White Egret, 2 Hobby (Martin Davis)

Great Stukeley - Redstart, Long-eared Owl, Hobby (Robin Ward)

Grafham water - Little Stint (Tim Rea); Mediterranean Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Ramsey/Bury - Hobby, Raven nearby (Mark Brandon)

 

Sunday, 30 August

Woodhurst - Redstart along Butt Lane (Duncan McNiven)

Sunday 30 August 2020

Saturday, 29 August

 Grafham Water - Hobby (Chris Rider); Phalarope sp. off Mander briefly (Richard Patient); Little Gull, Osprey (Stewart Short)

Saturday 29 August 2020

Friday, 28 August

Buckden - Great White Egret north of A14 (Stuart Elsom)

Fenstanton - Great White Egret nearby (Stuart Elsom)

Grafham Water - 4 Red-crested Pochard, Sandwich Tern over, Goldeneye, Great White Egret, 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Richard Patient) 

Wimpole Hall - 2 Spotted Flycatchers, Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Andrew Dobson)

Cambridge Research Park - Pied Flycatcher briefly (Jon and David Heath)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Great White Egret (Mike Everett)

Thursday 27 August 2020

Thursday, 27 August

Ellington - Tree Pipit over (Stuart Elsom)

Stuntney - Tree Pipit over (Duncan Poyser)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great White Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper (Dave Anderson)

Grafham Water - Osprey (Peter Louden)

Wimpole Ridge - Wheatear, Spotted Flycatchers (Ken & Maggie hook)

Wednesday 26 August 2020

Wednesday, 26 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - Redstart (Dave Anderson)

Grafham Water - KITTIWAKE off dam 10:20h for five minutes (Ian Dawson)

Paxton Pits - Great White Egret (Mark Brandon)

Tuesday, 25 August

Harston - Curlew over (Stuart Elsom)

Haslingfield - Wheatear (Stuart Elsom)

St. Neots - CATTLE EGRET near riverside park (Richard Bashford) 

Ferry Meadows - 3 Shag (Don Gardener)

Monday, 24 August

Ferry Meadows - Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher (Don Gardener)

Paxton Pits - 2 Redstarts (Mark Brandon)

Wilbraham Fen - Whinchat, Hobby (Carl Howard)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover; also Mediterranean Gull over (Carl Howard)

Sunday 23 August 2020

Sunday, 23 August

Fowlmere - 2 Tree Pipit in cattle paddock 08:50h before flying south (Ade Cooper); 3 Wheatear between the village and Thriplow (Brian Wallace)

Paxton Pits - 2 Redstart, 14 Green Sandpiper, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Ian Dawson)

Ferry Meadows - 17 Ring-necked Parakeet, including single yellow and blue birds (Don Gardener)

 Ouse Washes - 39 Crane (Steve Cooper)

Saturday, 22 August

RAF Molesworth - Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Impington - Hobby (Nigel Butcher)

Friday, 21 August

Dernford Reservoir - Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Ali Cooper)

Thursday 20 August 2020

Thursday, 20 August

Grafham Water - Osprey (John Roe)

Ouse Washes - 24 Crane, Hobby (Kevin Taylor)

Great Fen - fem Redstart, Hobby, near Tower Farm (Ron Harold)

Kingfisher Bridge - Great White Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, Hobby (John Hoppett)

 Fen Drayton Lakes - Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Wednesday 19 August 2020

Wednesday, 19 August

 Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, Hobby nearby (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Stewart Short)

Tuesday 18 August 2020

Tuesday, 18 August

Grafham Water - Osprey, Black Tern (Mark Hawkes); 12+ Yellow Wagtail (Carlos Davies)

Burwell Fen - Whinchat, Hobby, 2 Yellow Wagtail (David Wege)

Dernford Reservoir - Sanderling, 2 Greenshank, 5 Common Sandpiper, Whinchat (Richard Palmer)

Castor - 2 Whinchat at Mill Lane (Don Gardener)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Venables)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, 2 Whinchat (Graham Cole)

Paxton Pits - 13 Green Sandpiper (Carlos Davies)

Monday 17 August 2020

Monday, 17 August

Grafham Water - BONXIE, Mediterranean Gull, Little Gull (Richard Patient); Black Tern and a second Little Gull (Ian Dawson); Osprey (Colin Addington); 5 Green Sandpiper (Jon Roe); also Great White Egret, Caspian Gull, 7 Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great Egret (Richard Allison)

Great Stukeley - PIED FLYCATCHER in a private garden (Matthew Rodgers)

Cam Washes - 2 Garganey, Avocet (Carl Howard)
 
Dimmock's Cote - Hobby, 6 Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Redshank heard (Carl Howard) 

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper (Norman Ratcliffe)

Fowlmere - Tree Pipit briefly 17:50h (Ade Cooper)



Sunday 16 August 2020

Sunday, 16 August

Grafham Water - 3 BONXIE, 2 Little Gull, Black Tern, Osprey, Sanderling, Great White Egret, Garganey, Hobby, Peregrine, 8 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Hadenham - PIED FLYCATCHER at North Fen Drain (Brendan Doe)

Burwell - PIED FLYCATCHER at Heath Road (Richard Dale) 

Cambridge Research Park - REDSTART (Jon & David Heath)

Ferry Meadows - Hobby, 9 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Kingfishers Bridge - fem Goosander, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper (Sue Greenway); PIED FLYCATCHER in north belt near river, also Wood Sandpiper (Graeme Reed)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Greenshank, 4 Common Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret (Stephen Dutton)

Paxton Pits - Sandwich Tern, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Spotted F;lycatcher (Martin Davis); 2 Turnstone (Jamie Wells); 2 Red-crested Pochard (Neal Parkin)

Sutton North Fen - Turnstone (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Washes - 3 CATTLE EGRET, 24 Crane (Brendan Doe)

Cam Washes - 2 Garganey, 5 Wigeon, 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, 10 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Hobby (Jon & David Heath)


Saturday, 15 August

 Burwell Fen - Whinchat, Green Sandpiper (David Wege)

Longstanton - 6 Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper (Mark Austin) 

Grafham Water - Sanderling, Great White Egret, 14 Yellow Wagtail (Tim Rea); also BONXIE at Mander CP, Little Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Friday 14 August 2020

Friday, 14 August

 Grafham Water - Osprey over, Great Egret, Hobby (Mark Hawkes); Wheatear (Tim Rea)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, 8 Common Sandpiper; also Meditrranean Gull reported (Andrew Dobson)

Longstanton - Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret (Mark Austin)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great White Egret, 2 Green Sandpoper, 3 Common Sandpiper (Gill Parrish & Don Donald)

Bourne - 2 HONEY BUZZARD over the airfield (Chris Went)

Thursday 13 August 2020

Thursday, 13 August

 Grafham Water - Great White Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - 12 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank (Andrew Dobson)

Cam Washes - 3 CATTLE EGRET , 3 Garganey, 2 Avocet, Green Sandpiper (Jon & David Heath)

Wednesday 12 August 2020

Wednesday, 12 August

 Grafham Water - possible Roseate Tern 09:30h but no sign since (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - Greenshank, 5 Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Andrew Dobson)

Lomgstanton - Greenshank (Mark Austin)

Tuesday, 11August

 Kingfishers Bridge - 7 CATTLE EGRET, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Green sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper, 5 Ruff, Greenshank, 2 Gargaeny, 62 Little Egret (Graeme Reed)

 Wicken Fen - 7 CATTLE EGRET to roost, 4 Green Sandpiper (Brendan Doe)

Grafham Water - Osprey, Caspian Gull, 8+ Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Common Sandpiper, 3 Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Molesworth - Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Longstanton - Greenshank, 6 Little Egret (Mark Austin)

Monday 10 August 2020

Monday, 10 August

 Fen Drayton Lakes - Black-necked Grebe, 4 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Richard Allison); Turtle Dove (Gill Parrish)

Grafham Water - ad Caspian Gull, 2 juv Mediterranean Gull, 5+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday 9 August 2020

Sunday 9 August

 Grafham Water - Great White Egret, Osprey, 7 Green Sandpipers (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton - 3 Red-crested Pochard on N side of Ferry. Hobby Turtle Dove S of Elnley (Edward King); 1-2 Greenshank at Longstanton Lagoons, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Ian Burfield)




Saturday, 8 August

 Grafham Water - Peregrine, 3 Raven, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Richard Patient); also 8 Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes); Turnstone, Osprey (as per rarebirdalert.com)

Wednesday 5 August 2020

Wednesday, 5 August

Fen Drayton - 2 Great White Egret over Home Farm 06:40h (Richard Allison)

Marsh Lane GP - Great Egret (Neil Whitaker)

Grafham Water - 20+ Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (Tim Rea)

Tuesday 4 August 2020

Tuesday, 4 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Turtle Dove (Richard Allison)

Godmanchester - Crossbill over (Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper (Ian Dawson); also Black Tern briefly, 5 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - juv CATTLE EGRET north of railway viaduct, also Crane viewable from the same area. Currently no access to RSPB hides from Welches Dam due to reservoir bank works (Jonathan Taylor)

Monday 3 August 2020

Monday, 3 August

Paxton Pits - Great White Egret, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Martin Davis)

Landbeach - Crossbill over (Dick Newell)

Sunday 2 August 2020

Sunday, 2 August

Grafham Water - 2 juv Mediterranean Gull, ad Caspian Gull, 6 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 3+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - CATTLE EGRET, Whinchat, 3 Green Sandpiper (Martin Davis)

Marsh Lane GP - Great Egret (Mike Bending)

Cottenham Long Drove - 10 ad Yellow-legged Gull (Graham Cole)

Baker's Fen - 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 5 Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Little Owl (Colin Kirtland)

Saturday 1 August 2020

Saturday, 1 August

Fen Drayton - Turtle Dove (Richard Allison); Bittern in flight (Ben ?)

Grafham Water - Osprey, ad Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes, Matthew Rodgers); 3 juv Mediterranean Gull, Goldeneye, Hobby (Mark Hawkes); Whimbrel through (Matthew Rodgers)

Paxton Pits - 2 Whinchat, 2 Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier (Mark Brandon)

Burwell Fen - 10 Garganey, 5 Ruff, 7 Green Sandpiper, c.50 Little Egret (James Littlewood); also Golden Plover with Lapwing (Andrew Dobson)

Baker's Fen - 2 Whinchat, 2 Green Sandpiper, 17 Black-tailed Godwit (James Littlewood)

Friday 31 July 2020

Friday, 31 July

Grafham Water - Wheatear with Yellow and Pied Wagtails near the dam (Stewart Short)

Baker's Fen - Whinchat, 2 Green Sandpiper, 12 Black-tailed Godwit (Sue Greenway)

Thursday 30 July 2020

Thursday, 30 July

Grafham Water - Osprey, ad Caspian Gull (Mark Brandon); also 8 Crossbill over, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Devil's Dyke - Whinchat just south-east of B1102 (Richard Dale)

Wednesday 29 July 2020

Wednesday, 29 July

Grafham Water - Crossbill over, Osprey, ad Caspian Gull, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 30+ Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken area - 17 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Grasshopper Warbler  at Baker's Fen; 51+ Little Egret, Little Owl at Burwell Fen (Christoph Zöckler)

Tuesday 28 July 2020

Tuesday, 28 July

Grafham Water - Osprey, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, Common Sandpiper (Ian Dawson)

Dernford Reservoir - juv Mediterranean Gull, also 18 Mandarin in flight along the River Cam (Steve Cooper)

Monday 27 July 2020

Monday, 27 July

Burwell Fen - 2 CATTLE EGRET, 2 Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 37 Little Egret (Andy Hannaford)

Grafham Water - 2 Little Gull (Colin Addington)

Sunday 26 July 2020

Sunday, 26 July

Brampton A1/A14 pits - adult Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 16 Common Tern, 2 Egyptian Geese, 4 Little Egret (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Ellington village/Grove Lane - Hobby, Peregrine, 2 Little Egret, 6 Common Tern (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Saturday 25 July 2020

Saturday, 25 July

Baker's Fen - CATTLE EGRET 09:00h briefly, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Jackson); Whinchat (James Littlewood)

Burwell Fen - 6 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 30 Little Egret (James Littlewood)

Wednesday 22 July 2020

Wednesday, 22 July

Grafham Water - Black-necked Grebe, 2 Goldeneye, 5 Pochard (Richard Patient)

St.Ives Golf Course - 15 Egyptian Geese (John Le Gassick)

Tuesday, 21 July

Fowlmere RSPB - Grasshopper Warbler (Terry Brown)

Monday 20 July 2020

Monday, 20 July

Burwell Fen - 3 Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Ruff, Common Sandpiper (Sue Greenway)

Sunday 19 July 2020

Sunday, 19 July

Grafham Water - Black-necked Greb, Turnstone (Nigel  Butler); 5 Common Scoter, 5 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Southey Wood - c.24 Crossbill (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Common Scoter (Richard Patient)

Baker's Fen - Greenshank, 2 Ruff, 10 Black-tailed Godwit (James Littlewood)

Burwell Fen - 2 Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Little Ringed Plover, Garganey (James Littlewood); Whimbrel, Curlwe through (Brendan Doe)

Saturday 18 July 2020

Saturday, 18 July

Southey Wood - flock of 13+ Crossbill (Mike Weedon)

Crossbills reported also over Tubney Fen (9), Paxton Pits (3), Cambridge, Cottenham and Magog Down

Friday, 17 July

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 10 Yellow Wagtail, Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Northstowe - Black Redstart on Strling way, Green Sandpiper on southern phase 2 lake (Hugh Venable)

Thursday 16 July 2020

Thursday, 16 July

Grafham Water - Osprey, Whimbrel over west, 400+ Swifts (Richard Patient)

Bakers Fen - Greenshank, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff (Kevin Wilson)

Cambridge - 2 Crossbill & a Siskin over (Jon Heath)

Wednesday 15 July 2020

Wednesday, 15 July

Burwell Fen - 35+ Little Egret, Garganey, Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank (Simon Stirrup)

Tuesday 14 July 2020

Tuesday, 14 July

Burwell Fen - 39 Little Egret, Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, Peregrine (Monica & Owen Marks)

Grafham Water - 2 Osprey over (Colin Addington)

Fen Drayton - Turtle Dove (Richard Allison); 5 Crossbill over, Great White Egret (Hugh Venables)

Ditton Park Wood - Crossbill, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Marsh Tit, 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Kevin Wilson) 

Buckden - Greenshank, 2 Yellow-legged Gull & 79 Lapwing over north, Grasshopper Warbler (Mark Ward)

Tubney Fen - Water Rail (Giles Merritt)

Monday 13 July 2020

Monday, 13 July

Burwell Fen - 4 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 48 Little Egret (Andy Hannaford)

Adventurer's Fen -  2 Greenshank over (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 12 July

Weston Colville - 2 Nuthatch in Lower Wood (Kevin Wilson)

Ditton Park Wood - Siskin, small flock of Crossbill over (Duncan Poyser)

Saturday 11 July 2020

Saturday, 11 July

Bakers Fen - 5 Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Little Owl (Peter Loudon)

Fowlmere - 3 Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby (Ed Gill)

Friday 10 July 2020

Friday, 10 July

Isleham Wash - Cinnamon Teal of unknown origin still present (Tim Rea)

Godmanchester - 10 Siskin over (Jamie Wells)

Thursday 9 July 2020

Thursday, 9 July

Isleham Wash - Cinnamon Teal unknown origin still present (Tony Weston)

Wednesday 8 July 2020

Wednesday, 8 July

Chesterton - Whimbrel (Simon Gillings)

Burwell Fen - Garganey, Ruff, Curlew, 47 Little Egret (Chris Rider)

Tuesday 7 July 2020

Tuesday, 7 July

Cambridge - 2 Siskin over (Jon Heath)

Fowlmere village - Nuthatch (Doug Radford)

Isleham Wash - drake Cinnamon Teal with no leg rings and appearing fully-winged, of unknown origin (Paul Whiteman, as per Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 6 July

March - 2 Crane over (Derek Benton)

Little Paxton - Crossbill over (Ian Dawson)

Sunday 5 July 2020

Sunday, 5 July

Grafham Water - Osprey over 10:37h (Mark Hawkes)

Tubney Fen - BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL (Brendan Doe)

Burwell Fen - Little Ringed Plover (Brendan Doe)

Baker's Fen - Greenshank, 6 Black-tailed Godwit (Brendan Doe)

Colne Fen - Mediterranean Gull, 3 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Hobby (Steve Cooper)

Saturday 4 July 2020

Saturday, 4 July

Burwell fen - 2 Little Ringed Plover, Avocet briefly, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, Grasshopper Warbler, c.40 Little Egret (Mark Brandon)

Friday 3 July 2020

Friday, 3 July

Burwell Fen - 2 Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Ruff, 34 Little Egret (Tim Rea)

Hare Park - Hobby (Kevin Wilson)

Maxey Pits - Green Sandpiper (David Withrington)

Paxton Pits - 4 Green Sandpiper (Terry Brown)

Thursday 2 July 2020

Thursday, 2 July

Burwell Fen - 40 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Garganey (Nigel Lister)

Bakers Fen -  Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 24 Black-tailed Godwit, Grasshopper Warbler (Nigel Lister)

Grafham Water - Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Caspian Gull (Tim Rea)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - Hobby (David Withrington)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (Chris Rider)

Tuesday 30 June 2020

Tuesday, 30 June

Grafham Water - Raven over, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Avocet, Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell Fen - Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 26 Little Egret, 3 Common Tern (Monica & Owen Marks)

Monday 29 June 2020

Monday, 29 June

Burwell Fen - Little Ringed Plover (Andrew Dobson)

Hare Park - Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 28 June 2020

Sunday, 28 June

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Green Sandpiper, Nightingale, Hobby (Mark Hawkes)

Brampton - Caspian Gull, 4+ Yellow-legged Gull, pair of Spotted Flycatcher (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 2 Green Sandpiper (Martin Davis)

Burwell Fen - 2 Wood Sandpiper, 4+ Green Sandpiper, Greenshank (James Littlewood)

Saturday, 27 June

Grafham Water - Wood Sandpiper (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - Great White Egret (Martin Davis)

Friday 26 June 2020

Friday, 26 June

Cambridge - Siskin, Yellow Wagtail over (Jon Heath)

Wimpole Hall - Spotted Flycatchers with young (Ed Gill)

Burwell Fen - Ruff, 3 Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Garganey, 33 Little Egret (Brendan Doe)

Thursday 25 June 2020

Wednesday, 25 June

Milton CP - 2 Nuthatch (Jon Heath)

St. Neots - Siskin over (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday 23 June 2020

Tuesday, 23 June

Adventurer's Fen - Spotted Redshank (Gareth Rees)

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Little Wilbraham Fen - Nuthatch (Jon Heath)

Monday, 22 June

Ouse Fen - juv CROSSBILL along Fen End Road this evening (Richard Thomas)

South Witcham - Hobby over (Chris Boness)

Sunday 21 June 2020

Sunday, 21 June

Cambridge - BEE-EATER over Nuttings Road calling 13:55h (Iain Webb)

Saturday 20 June 2020

Saturday, 20 June

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Great Shelford - Nuthatch in a private garden (Guy Belcher)

Friday, 19 June

Grafham Water - male RED-FOOTED FALCON hawking over trees behind the bay halfway between Church Hill & Marlow CP until c.21:30h, when it dropped down behind the trees and was lost from view (Stuart Elsom)

Thursday 18 June 2020

Thursday, 18 June

Fowlmere - 3 Nuthatch in a private garden (Doug Radford)

Eynesbury - fem Siskin on feeders in a private garden (as per Richard Bashford)

Wednesday 17 June 2020

Wednesday, 17 June

Grafham Water - 2 Green Sandpiper, Avocet (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 16 June

Buckden - Peregrine (David Woolven)

Burwell Fen - 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Hobby (David Wege)

Sunday 14 June 2020

Sunday, 14 June

Paxton Pits - Black Tern briefly (Mark Brandon)

Saturday 13 June 2020

Saturday, 13 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - 1st summer female RED-FOOTED FALCON still, from south-east corner of Ferry Lagoon (Gill Parrish)

Ouse Washes - SPOONBILL reported (as per Mark Hawkes)

Friday 12 June 2020

Friday, 12 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - 1st summer female RED-FOOTED FALCON, viewable from guided busway at south-east corner of Ferry Lagoon (Neil Howard); Grasshopper Warbler briefly (Christoph Zöckler)

 Wicken Fen - MARSH WARBLER still (Neil Howard)

Northstowe - Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler (Jon Roe); Black Tern (Jmes Hutchison)

Thursday 11 June 2020

Thursday, 11 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - 1st summer female RED-FOOTED FALCON, viewable from guided busway at south-east corner of Ferry Lagoon (Ken Hook)

Grafham Water - 4 Black Tern, Caspian Gull (Richard Patient); Avocet, Nightingale, 2 Cuckoo (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Wednesday, 10 June

Paxton Pits - FULMAR briefly low over bund and north end of pumphouse pit (Martin Davis)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 1st summer female RED-FOOTED FALCON, viewable from guided busway at south-east corner of Ferry Lagoon (Richard Allison)

Ferry Meadows - Hobby, Cuckoo, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Grafham Water - LITTLE TERN off Marlow (Richard Patient)

Hilton - Red-crested Pochard nearby (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - MARSH WARBLER singing at north end of Baker's Fen until 11:00h at least (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 9 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - 1st summer female RED-FOOTED FALCON, viewable from guided busway at south-east corner of Ferry Lagoon. Also 3 Grasshopper Warbler between Swavesey Middle Fen and Fen Drayton (as per Pete Wood)

Eldernell - Hobby, 4 Cuckoo, 5 Bittern (Ian Gordon)

Wicken area - Turtle Dove, Hobby, Little Owl, 3 Cuckoo, 2 Grasshopper Warblers, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Wilson)

Tuesday 9 June 2020

Monday, 8 June

Prickwillow to Isleham road - 5 Barn Owl this evening (Ian Seamark)

Impington - Cuckoo, Turtle Dove (Nigel Butcher, Sam Boden)

Saturday 6 June 2020

Saturday, 6 June

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, Sanderling (Richard Patient)

Late news from Monday, 1 June/Tuesday, 2 June: Gamlingay - ROSE-COLOURED STARLING reported from a private garden, initally unidentified 

Friday 5 June 2020

Friday, 5 June

Wicken Fen - 4 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Cuckoo, also Garageny on Baker's fen (Kevin Wilson)

Late news from Monday, 1 June: Little Abington - BEE-EATER in a private garden briefly (as per Andy Merryweather)

Wednesday 3 June 2020

Wednesday, 3 June

Grafham Water - 8 COMMON SCOTER, Caspian Gull, also diver sp. reported in Savage;s Creek, no sign c.11:00h (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Turtle Doves (Christoph Zöckler)

Tuesday 2 June 2020

Tuesday, 2 June

Fen Drayton Lakes - Osprey over (Dave Anderson)

Monday 1 June 2020

Monday, 1 June

Wicken - Garganey, 6 Cuckoo, 13 Cetti's Warbler (Colin Kirtland)

Grafham Water - 2 Sanderling, 2 Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday 31 May 2020

Sunday, 31 May

Grafham Water - 4 Black Tern viewed from bridleway on north shore; main car parks and other areas are still closed (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell/Wicken Fen - 2 Crane, 3 Hobby, 2 Cuckoo, Barn Owl, Grasshopper Warbler (Sue Greenway)

Saturday 30 May 2020

Saturday, 30 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove, Cuckoo (Gill Parrish)

Grantchester  - Yellow Wagtail towards M11 (Jeff Riley)

Hartford - fem HAWFINCH in a private garden briefly (Jim Deacon)

Thursday 28 May 2020

Thursday, 28 May

Eldernell & March Farmers - RED-NECKED PHALAROPE briefly, pair of Garganey, Bittern, Crane, 2 Cuckoo (Derek Benton)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Black Tern (Andrew Dobson)

Wednesday 27 May 2020

Wednesday, 27 May

Isleham Water Meadows - 8 Avocet, Oystercatcher, Cuckoo (Ian Seamark)

Burwell Fen - BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL, 2 Cuckoo (David & Sallie Jones)

Willingham - Cuckoo (Josh Carter)

Waterbeach Station - 2 Cuckoo nearby (Josh Carter)

Landbeach - Tree Pipit over (Josh Carter)

Fen Drayton - 2 Raven over (Richard Allison)

Tuesday 26 May 2020

Tuesday, 26 May

Hare Park - pair of Yellow Wagtail, 2 Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Monday 25 May 2020

Monday, 25 May

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over 08:15h (Howard Butler)

Soham - Spotted Flycatcher (Sue Greenway)

Hare Park - Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 24 May 2020

Sunday, 24 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove (Gill Parrish)

Teversham Fen - Greenshank (Carlos Davies)

Saturday, 23 May

Teversham Fen - Greenshank (Peter Louden)

Thursday 21 May 2020

Thursday, 21 May

King's Hedges - Cuckoo (Mark Jackson)

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Wednesday, 20 May

Buckden - GLOSSY IBIS over north 18:34h (Mark Ward)

Bassinbourn - Cuckoo (Gareth Rees)

Ferry Meadows - Common Sandpiper (Mike Weedon); Cuckoos, Cetti's Warbler, Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener); Nightingale (David Withrington)

Cam Washes - SPOONBILL this morning, not seen this evening (Hugh Venables)

Sunday 17 May 2020

Sunday, 17 May

Soham - Common Sandpiper (Sue Greenway)

Ouse Fen - 13 Hobby (Hugh Venables)

Molesworth - Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Impington - 3 Cuckoo nearby, pair of Turtle Dove (Sam Boden)

Foxton - Turtle Doive in a private garden briefly (Matthew Mellor)

Landbeach - 3 Tuirtle Dove, 3 Cuckoo in the area (Dick Newell)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Garganey, Turtle Dove (Bruce Martin)

Saturday 16 May 2020

Friday, 15 May

Soham - 4 Yellow Wagtail (Sue Greenway)

Hare Park - Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher (Kevin Wilson)

Cherry Hinton fishing pits - Cetti's Warbler & Garden Warbler in the south-eastern most corner (Pete Holt)

Thursday 14 May 2020

Thursday, 14 May

Holme Fen - Raven (Mark Brandon); 15 Woodcock, Hobby (Robin Ward)

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Wednesday, 13 May

Ferry Meadows - 2 Curlew over, Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Bittern, 2 Hobby (Ken & Maggie Hook)

Tuesday 12 May 2020

Tuesday, 12 May

Haddenham - Turtle Dove nearby (Mark Peck)

Old Weston - Turtle Dove, Cuckoo & Yellow Wagtail between the village and Clopton (Stewart Short)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 male Goosander, Common Sandpiper, 2 Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler (Andrew Dobson)

Hobson's park - Wheatear (Andrew Dobson)

Sunday, 10 May

Ellington - Great White Egret over between the village and Woolley (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Saturday 9 May 2020

Saturday, 9 May

Fen Drayton lakes - 60+ Garden Warbler (Hugh Venables)

Soham - Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Cuckoo, Marsh Harrier (Sue Greenway)

Cambourne - Grasshopper Warbler south-east of Whomping Willow (Martin Leader)

Waterbeach - Short-eared Owl (Carlos Davies)

Aldreth - Grasshopper Warbler singing between the village and Haddenham (Simon Stirrup)

Ellington - Peregrine, Hobby, Little Gull over (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Friday 8 May 2020

Friday, 8 May

Dernford Reservoir - male Goosander (Peter Louden)

Longstanton - Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo (Edward King)

Thursday 7 May 2020

Thursday, 7 May

Fowlmere - Spotted Flycatcher in a village garden (Doug Radford)

Soham - Spotted Flycatcher (Sue Greenway)

Ellington - several Hobby, Marsh Harrier over (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Bassingbourn - Whinchat (Gareth Rees)

Buckden - Whimbrel and Avocet over (Mark Ward)

Wednesday 6 May 2020

Wednesday, 6 May

Hare Park - Spotted Flycatcher (Kevin wilson)

Great Shelford - GLOSSY IBIS over south-east 11:45h (Jez Smith)

Coveney/Byall Fen - CATTLE EGRET, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Ringed Plover (Monica & Owen Marks)

Ferry Meadows - male and female Whinchat (Don Gardener, Mike Weedon)

Buckden - 6 Hobby, Ring-necked Parakeet, 8 Nightingale, 4 Cuckoo, 13 Cetti's Warbler, 25 Lesser Whitethroat (Mark Ward)

Tuesday 5 May 2020

Tuesday, 5 May

Swifts reported widely across Cambs in the last few days

Monday 4 May 2020

Monday, 4 May

Hare Park - Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Wicken area - Cuckoo, Little Owl, Bittern, Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 3 May 2020

Sunday, 3 May

St. Neots Pocket Park - Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Stirtloe/Pumphouse Road, Paxton - 3 Cuckoo, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Redwing (John Roe)

Ferry Meadows - Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Ring-necked Parakeet, Barn Owl (Don Gardener)

Hare Park - WOODLARK singing (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday 2 May 2020

Saturday, 2 May

Eynesbury - Hobby and Yellow Wagtail over (Mark Hawkes)

Barway fen - Whimbrel (Sue Greenway)

Trumpington Meadows - 2 Wheatear (Jill Aldred)

Ellington - 2 Osprey and 2 Hobby over (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Friday 1 May 2020

Friday, 1 May

Bassingbourn - 24 Corn Bunting (Gareth Rees)

Kneesworth - Wheatear (Gareth Rees)

Northstowe - 2 Avocet, Yellow Wagtail (John Hoppett); 2 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Venables)

Ferry Meadows - Hobby, Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener); WOOD WARBLER through (Mike Weedon)

Hemingford Grey - Whimbrel over (Mike Everett)

Thursday 30 April 2020

Thursday, 30 April

Northstowe - 4 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (Christoph Zöckler); 3 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Venables)

Soham - Whimbrel at Barway Fen, Grasshopper Warbler (Sue Greenway)

Trumpington Meadows - Wheatear, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler (Jill Aldred)

Ferry Meadows - Hobby, Common Sandpiper (Don Gardener)

Hare Park - Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson) 

Wednesday 29 April 2020

Wednesday, 29 April

Soham - Grasshopper Warbler (Andy Hannaford)

Hemingford - 4 Arctic Tern over (Chris Bowden)

River Cam, Kingfisher's Bridge - 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper also 2 Cuckoo (David Wege)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Hobby, Cuckoo, Whimbrel, Black-tailed Godwit (Michael Clydesdale)

Ferry Meadows - Arctic Terns through, Whimbrel over, 2 Common Sandpiper (Don Gardener)

Cottenham - Turtle Dove (Josh Carter)

Buckden - Hobby, Greenshank over (Mark Ward)

Tuesday 28 April 2020

Tuesday, 28 April

Wilburton - 2 Turtle Dove (David Nation)

Grafham Water - 200+ House Martin, 25 Swallow, several Swift & Sand Martin (John Roe)

Dernford Reservoir - 73 Arctic Tern, 4 Goosander, 8 Mandarin, 2 Whimbrel, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear (Steve Cooper)

Buckden - 4 Little Ringed Plover, Arctic Tern at north end of Paxton Pits (Mark Ward)

Ferry Meadows - 8 Arctic Tern through (Don Gardener)

Monday, 27 April

Ferry Meadows - Common Sandpiper (Don Gardener)

Wicken area - Wheatear, Stonechat, Grasshopper warbler, Little Owl, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Buckden - 8 Nightingale (David Woolven)

Sunday 26 April 2020

Sunday, 26 April

Buckden Marina to Paxton Pits - 3 Nightingale, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Cuckoo, Fieldfare (Steve Austin)

Buckden - 2 Whinchat, Wheatear near Stirtloe sewage works, 4 Cuckoo, Short-eared Owl, 6 Nightingale, 7 Cettti's Warbler, 15 Lesser Whitethroat (Mark Ward)

Stretham - Grasshopper Warbler along the Great Ouse (Jamie Evan)

Ely - Firecrest (Duncan Poyser)

Aldreth - Reed Warbler in a private garden (Simon Stirrup)

Saturday 25 April 2020

Saturday, 25 April

Histon - Turtle Dove (David Wege)

Sutton Gault - Turtle Dove (Rob Partridge)

Trumpington Meadows - Wheatear, Cetti's Warbler (Jill Aldred)

Buckden - 3 Nightingale, Cuckoo (David Woolven)

Wicken/Burwell - 5 Wheatear to south-east of Cock-up Bridge, 3 Hobby, Bittern (Kevin Wilson)

Friday 24 April 2020

Friday, 24 April

Eynesbury - Sedge Warbler in a pivate garden (Mark Hawkes)

Chetserton, Cambridge - 3 Yellow Wagtail over (Simon Gillings)

Cambridge - Garden Warbler in a private garden, also Yellow Wagtail over (Jon Hetath)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Whimbrel, 2 Crane over (Philip Bubb); 16 Common Tern (Gill Parrish); 4 Avocet (Michael Clydesdale)

Trumpington Meadows - Wheatear, 3 Cuckoo (Andrew Dobson)

Hemingford - Cuckoo (Chris Bowden)

Thursday 23 April 2020

Thursday, 23 April

DOTTEREL at an undisclosed site (Robert Humphrey)

Landbeach - 2 Fieldfare, 3 Lesser Whitethroat (Robert Humphrey)

Godmanchester - Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Black Tern (Dean Harlow); 3 Avocet (Gill Parrish)

Godmanchester NR - Nightingale (Martin Sreeves)

Swifts reported in small numbers across the county in recent days

Wednesday 22 April 2020

Wednesday, 22 April

Ellington - RING OUZEL, Fieldfare, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Yellow Wagtail (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Cambridge - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over Bolton's Pit briefly 12:30h (James Cadbury)

Buckden - pair of Grey Wagtail (Mark Ward)

Dry Drayton to Hardwick - 3 Wheatear (Ken & Maggie Hook)

Farcet Fen - RING OUZEL, Grasshopper Warbler, 7 Wheatear, 2 Lesser Whitethroat (Steve Dudley)

Tuesday 21 April 2020

Tuesday, 21 April

Comberton - 3 Wheatear nearby (Ed Gill)

Godmanchester NR - Nightingale (Jamie Wells); Cuckoo (Martin Sreeves)

Buckden - Short-eared Owl (Mark Ward) 

Monday 20 April 2020

Monday, 20 April

DOTTEREL at an undisclosed location (Dick Newell)

Litlington - Whinchat (Geoff Barlow)

Wicken - Bittern, 2 Hobby, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Paxton Pits - 3 Arctic Tern, a few Swifts (Mark Ward)

Sunday 19 April 2020

Sunday, 19 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cuckoo, Bittern, Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Goldeneye, 4 Fieldfare (Gill Parrish); 16 Common Tern (Dave Anderson)

Trumpington Meadows - 2 Goosander over (Jill Aldred)

Cambridge - Osprey over (Rob Pople)

Ellington - RING OUZEL (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Needingworth Pits - pair of Smew (Jeremy Holding)

Comberton - 3 Wheatear nearby (Ed Gill)

Soham - 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Grey Wagtail (Sue Greenway)

Saturday 18 April 2020

Saturday, 18 April

Over - Swift (Andy Jennings)

Comberton - 3 Wheatear nearby (Ed Gill)

Knapwell - 2 Wheatear nearby (Martin Leader)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Tern  (Dave Anderson)

4 DOTTEREL at an undisclosd site (Dick Newell)

Friday 17 April 2020

Friday, 17 April

Ouse Fen - Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit (Graham Hirons)

Little Paxton - RING OUZEL on private land nearby (Martin Davis)

Paxton Pits - 5 Wheatear, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Pink-footed Goose, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, 2 Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat; also Whinchat reported in Diddington village (Martin Davis)

Devils Dyke - RING OUZEL (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 13 Common Tern (Dave Anderson)

Burwash - Wheatear (Louise Bacon)

Thursday 16 April 2020

Thursday, 16 April

Stapleford - 2 Wheatear (Mike Foley)

Wimpole - c.40 Fieldfare (Richard Palmer)

Comberton - Wheatear (Vince Lea)

Coldhams Common - Wheatear (Carlos Davies)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Avocet, Common Tern, 2 Goldeneye (Dave Anderson); Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler (Gill Parrish)

Barton - Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Cuckoo (Vince Lea)

Great Wilbraham Common - 3 RING OUZEL (Carl Howard)

Little Wilbraham Fen - 3 Lesser Whitethroat (Carl Howard)

Teversham Fen - Wheatear, Little Ringed Plover (Carl Howard)

Paxton Pits - 2 Wheatear, Mediterranean Gull, Pink-footed Goose, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Nightingale, Garden Warbler (Martin Davis)

Wednesday, 15 April

Litlington clunch pit - male Whinchat (Geoff Barlow)

Ellington - RING OUZEL between the village nd Woolley (Stuart Elsom)

Girton - Lesser Whitethroat (Keith Honnor)

Buckden - Tawny Owl, Short-eared Owl, Raven, 3 Greenshank over,  Cuckoo between the marina and Pumphouse Pit (Mark Ward)

Over - grey harrier species over in the direction of Ouse Fen (Andy Jennings)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Spotted Redshank, Common Tern, Goldeneye (Dave Anderson)

Wednesday 15 April 2020

Tuesday, 14 April

Impington - 2 Wheater, Corn Bunting, Barn Owl (Nigel Butcher)

Monday 13 April 2020

Monday, 13 April

Rampton - 3cy ICELAND GULL just to the norrth (Neil Howard)

Cambourne to Knapwell - Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail (Martin Leader)

Woodhurst - fem Merlin (Duncan McNiven)

Sunday 12 April 2020

Sunday, 12 April

March - HOOPOE over, also Cuckoo (Derek Benton)

Wicken - Cuckoo at Hundred Acra Farm, Wheatear south of New River (Kevin Wilson)

Eynesbury - Black Redstart, 2 Peregrine circling, Yellow Wagtail & House Martins over (Mark Hawkes)

Soham - Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Barn Owl, Egyptian Goose (Sue Greenway); Whitethroat (Chris Barker)

Eaton Ford - Sedge Warbler (Richard Patient)

Alconbury - Grasshopper Warbler (Peter Rowlings)

Devil's Dyke - RING OUZEL, fem Merlin, 3 Wheatear (Richard Dale)

Trumpington Meadows - Whitethroat (Jill Aldred)

Cherry Hinton Lakes - Cetti's Warbler (Dave Barr)

Saturday 11 April 2020

Saturday, 11 April

Soham - 2 Reed Warbler, Grey Wagtail, 2 House Martin, Green Sandpiper, Barn Owl (Sue Greenway)

Grafham Water - Goosander in flight (Jon Roe)

Hemingford Grey - Common Tern over (Mike Everett)

Dogsthorpe Star Pit - Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, probable Bearded Tit (David Withrington)

Friday 10 April 2020

Friday, 10 April

Farcet Fen - 5 Wheatear, Reed Warbler, ringtail Hen Harrier, Curlew over (Steve Dudley)

Soham - 2 Whitethroat (Andy Hannaford)

Cottenham Lode - Yellow Wagtail (Josh Carter)

Trumpington Meadows - Sedge Warbler (Andrew Dobson)

Eynesbury - 2 Yellow Wagtail over (Makr Hawkes)

Hare Park - Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Godmanchester - 4 House Martin over (Martin Sreeves)

Isleham Washes - 26 Avocet (Anthoiny Weston)

Thursday 9 April 2020

Thursday, 9 April

Soham - Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler (Sue Greenway)

Farcet Fen - 3 Yellow Wagtail (Steve Dudley)

Marsh Lane GP - 5 Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Nightingale (Mike Everett)

Lark Rise Farm - Short-eared Owl over (Vince Lea)

Ellington - Hobby over (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Rampton - 50 Corn Bunting, 30 Yellowhammer along great north fen drove (Brendan Doe)

Wednesday 8 April 2020

Wednesday, 8 April

Great Wilbraham - RING OUZEL (Carl Howard)

Teversham - 7+ Tree Pipit, 2 Mandarin over (Carl Howard)

Paxton Pits - Nightingale, Sedge Warbler (Martin Davis)

Kings/Abbots Ripton - RING OUZEL between the villages briefly (Duncan Ritchie)

Soham - Willow Warbler (Sue Greenway)

Orton Waterville - Woodcock over (Howard Butler)

Barton - Yellow Wagtail over (Vince Lea & Louise Bacon)

Burwash Ponds - Woodcock (Vince Lea & Louise Bacon)

Farcet Fen - Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Raven (Steve Dudley)

Tuesday 7 April 2020

Tuesday, 7 April

Barton - RING OUZL on farmland nearby, Swallow & House Martin over, Whitethroat reported (Vince Lea)

Devil's Dyke - male Wheatear, 54 Fieldfare (Richard Dale)

Hardwick - pair of Grey Partridge in a private garden briefly (Ed Gill)

Teversham Fen - White Wagtail (Nigel Lister)

Lode - 2 Yellow Wagtail (Iain Webb)

Cambridge - Redstart, Swallow, Willow Warbler, 60 Fieldfare to the east (Carlos Davies)

Tanholt Pits - Sedge Warbler (David Withrington)

Paxton Pits - Nightingale (Ann Scott)

Monday 6 April 2020

Monday, 6 April

Suton Gault - Sedge Warbler (Rob Partridge)

Alconbury - Raven over (Peter Rowlings)

Eynesbury - House Martin over (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Common Tern, 6 Goldeneye (Philip Bubb)

Barnwell East LNR - Willow Warbler singing (Iain Webb)

Sunday 5 April 2020

Sunday, 5 April

Ouse Fen (from the perimeter) - Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret, Smew (Craig Carney)

March - Ring-necked Parakeet, House Martin over (Derek Benton)

Evesden Wood - fem Hen Harrier nearby (Chris Rider)

Duxford - ringtail Hen Harrier at Coploe Hill (Steve Cooper)

Ellington - 2 Raven over nearby (Stuart & Jill Elsom)

Small numbers of Swallows reported widely in the last couple of days

Saturday, 4 April

Soham - Raven over (Sue Greenaway)

Eynesbury - Psprey over north-west (Mark Hawkes)

Devils Dyke - c.58 Filedfare, 52 Corn Bunting (Richard Dale)

Saturday 4 April 2020

Friday, 3 April

Cambridge - Osprey over (Jon & David Heath)

Thursday 2 April 2020

Thursday, 2 April

Grafham Water - imm. WHITE-TAILED SEA-EAGLE over south-east, departing 09:46 towards St. Neots (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - 25 Fieldfare, 8 Redwing, 3+ Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Wednesday 1 April 2020

Wednesday, 1 April

Sutton Gault - 500+ Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, Great Egret (Rob Partridge)

Eaton Ford - pair of Smew over (Mark Ward)

Godmanchester - 75 Golden Plover & 20 Fieldfare over (Jamie Wells)

Orwell - Swallow over (Richard Gregory)

Tuesday 31 March 2020

Tuesday, 31 March

Barton - pair of Mandarin  (Louise Bacon)

Sutton Gault - 1000 Black-tailed Godwit, 50 Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Kingfisher, 25 Corn Bunting, 4 Crane over (Rob Partridge)

Trumpington Meadows - 250 Fieldfare at the southern end (Andrew Dobson)

Orwell - Raven over (Richard Gregory)

Eldernell - 12 Crane (David Withrington)

Monday 30 March 2020

Monday, 30 March

Barton - 22 Corn bunting (Vince Lea)

Trimpington Meadows - 30 Filedfare, 200 Golden Plover (Richard Palmer)

Farcet Fen - 22 Fieldfare, 38 Golden Plover (Steve Dudley)

Ferry Meadows - Great Egret, Redwings (Mike Weedon)

Kneesworth/Bassingbourn - 106 Yellowhammer with Corn Buntings, Linnets & Chaffinches (Gareth Rees)

Barrington/Orwell - 150 strong flock of Yellowhammers, Linnets, Chaffinches, Reed Buntings; als 30 Fieldfare (Diana Leech)

Hare Park - Peregrine, pair of Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 28 March

Hare Park - 28 redwing still (Kevin Wilson)

Soham - Redwing (Andy Hannaford)

Duxford - 20 Golden Plover (Ann Beeby)

Barton - 16 Fieldfare (Vince Lea)

Ferry Meadows - Black Redstart reported (as per Mike Weedon)

Friday 27 March 2020

Friday, 27 March

Somersham - Mediterranean Gull over south (Russell Watkins)

Hare Park, Six-Mile Bottom - pair of Nuthatch, 20+ redwing (Kevin Wilson)

Thursday 26 March 2020

Thursday, March 26

Comberton - fem Black Restart at the South Street allotments briefly (Vince Lea)

Ferry Meadows - Swallow, Ring-necked Parakeet, 30+ Snipe (Don Gardener)

Wednesday 25 March 2020

Wednesday, 25 March

Cambridge Science Park - Sedge Warbler at the lake (Jon Heath)

Ferry Meadows - Ring-necked Parakeet, 20+ Chiffchaff, singing Redwing (Don Gardener)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 7 Little Gull until 16:15h (Richard Allison); also Bittern (Michael Clydesdale)

Melbourn - 2 Crane over (Steve Cooper)

Tuesday, 24 March

Eaton Ford - Osprey over north (Richard Patient)

Monday 23 March 2020

Monday, 23 March

Nene Washes - Grey Plover, Great White Egret, also Garganey reported (Robin Ward)

Needingworth - 5 Smew (Tony Plant)

Southey Wood - pair of Ring-necked Parakeey (Keith Lievesey)

Ouse Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Great Egret, 300 Whooper Swan, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 11 Crane, 480 Black-tailed Godwit, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail (Steve Cooper)

Sunday 22 March 2020

Sunday, 22 March

Ferry Meadows - Grey Plover, Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Ouse Washes - 2 Water Pipit at Sutton Gault, 5 Great Egret, 40+ Little Egret, 10+ Sand Martin, 45 Golden Plover at the Earith end (Mark Hawkes); 13 Crane at Four Balls Farm, Little Ringed Plover at Oxlode, Yellow Wagtail, Mediterranean Gull, Little Ringed Plover at Witcham Gravel (Brendan Doe)

Paxton Pits - 8 Smew,  Red-crested Pochard, 6 Pintail, pair Scaup (Martin Davis)

Haddenham Long Drove - 2+ Wheatear (Stuart Elsom)

Beery Fen - 60+ Sand Martin, 3 House Martin, 2 Swallow, Great Egret (Stuart & Jill Elsom)

The English School of Falconry (Wilstead, Beds) is missing a Turkey Vulture: "Unfortunately our baby vulture got frightened yesterday during his training and has managed to get himself lost. Please could we ask you to keep your eyes open for him and if you do see him please call Sarah on 07803017145. If you do see him please don’t approach him, he is not dangerous in any way but will be scared. Thank you."

Saturday, 21 March

Paxton Pits - 6 Smew, pair of Scaup (Mark Ward)

Haddenham Long Drove - 4 Wheatear (Brendan Doe)

Ouse Washes - Great Egret at Chain Corner, 6+ Water Pipit at Sutton Gault, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Water Pipit, Caspian Gull, 330 Black Tailed Godwit at Witcham Gravel (Brendan Doe)

Fen Drayton Lakes - juv ICELAND GULL, 2 Fieldfare, 10 Chiffchaff singing (Carlos Davies)

Nene Washes - male Garganey west of Lord's Holt (Duncan McNiven)

Friday, 20 March

Toft - male Wheatear (Louise Bacon & Vince Lea)

Bassingbourn - 60+ Yellowhammer (Gareth Rees)

Thursday 19 March 2020

Thursday, 19 March

Grafham Water - 5 COMMON SCOTER, 50 Sand Martin (Richard Patient); also 3 Common Sandpiper, 25 Snipe (Tim Rea)

Ferry Meadows - 6 Sand Martin, 11+ Chiffchaff, Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Cam Washes - 2 Garganey, 9 Avocet (Jon & David Heath)

Knarr Fen - 320 Whooper Swan, 9 Crane (David Withrington)

Dernford reservoir - 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Goosander (Nigel Lister)

Wednesday, 18 March

Fowlmere - juv ICELAND GULL by A505 (Steve Cooper)

Dernford Reservoir - 11 Sand Martin, 3 Goosander, pair of Mandarin (Steve Cooper)

Tuesday 17 March 2020

Tuesday, 17 March

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2cy Caspian Gull (Richard Palmer)

Ferry Meadows - 12 Sand Martin, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Monday 16 March 2020

Monday, 16 March

Ferry Meadows - Peregrine, c.10 Siskin, Water Rail, Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardner)

Sunday 15 March 2020

Sunday, 15 March

Stow-cum-Quy - 2 Crane over (Mat Wilson)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Sand Martin (Don Gardener)

Saturday, 14 March

Wicken Fen - 3 Hen Harrier, 2 Crane, 5 Barn Owl, Little Owl, Woodcock (Norman Ratcliffe)

Nene Washes - 2 Great Egret, 16 Crane, 1800 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 1000+ Shoveler, 500+ Gadwall, 500 Whooper Swan, 14 Buzzard (Steve Cooper)

Isleham - male Hen Harrier over (Ian Seamark)

Fen Drayton Lakes - juv ICELAND GULL, Great Egret, 400+ Black-tailed Godwit (Hugh Venables)

Saturday 14 March 2020

Friday, 13 March

Fenstanton - fem Merlin (Mike Everett)

Friday 13 March 2020

Thursday, 12 March

Fen Drayton Lakes - 800+ Black-tailed Godwit, Barn Owl, 3 Stonechat (Barbara York); 2 Great Egret, juv ICELAND GULL, Sand Martin, 50+ Pintail (Hugh Venables)

Isleham Water Meadows - 67 Avocet (Mark Ward)

Wednesday 11 March 2020

Wednesday, 11 March

Dry Drayton - Merlin (Rowena Baxter)

Ouse Fen - Bittern, 60 Black-tailed Godwit over (Carl Howard)

Tuesday, 10 March

Cambridge Research Park, Waterbeach - 3rd c.y. ICELAND GULL briefly (Jonathan Heath)

Ferry Meadows - pair of Goosander, Cetti's Warbler (Don Gardener)

Tuesday 10 March 2020

Monday, 9 March

Nene Washes - 1830 Black-tailed Godwit, 39 Dunlin, 31 Ruff, 3 Avocet, Brent Goose, 536 Whooper Swan, 7221 Wigeon, 269 Pintail, 169 Shelduck, 1036 Shoveler, 522 Gadwall, 1814 Coot (Charlie Kitchin)

Sunday 8 March 2020

Sunday, 8 March

Graham Water - 3 Avocets (Mark Hawkes); Sand Martin at Gaynes Cove this morning (Carol Hollin)

Waterbeach Long Drove - 2 Green Sandpiper (Carl Howard)

Friday 6 March 2020

Thursday, 5 March

Grunty Fen - ad Mediterranean Gull (David Nation)

Ferry Meadows - 5 Whooper Swan, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 1600+ Black-tailed Godwit, including 24 colour-ringed birds, also Dunlin, 10+ Ruff, 2 Curlew over (Robin Ward et al.)

Wednesday 4 March 2020

Wednesday, 4 March

Magog Down - 6 Stonechat (Mike Foley)

Granta Park - Brambling by Milstein building feeders briefly (Garteh Rees)

New Shardlows Farm - 115+ Linnet to roost (Kevin Wilson)

Wicken Fen - 3 Hen Harrier, Merlin, roding Woodcock, Barn Owl, Tawny Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

Tuesday, 3 March

Nene Washes - 21 Crane at Eldernell, 3 fem Scaup at March Farmers (Ian Gordon)

Grafham Water - 2 Avocet (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 2 March

Fen Drayton Lakes - c.500 Black-tiled Godwit, 2 Kingfisher (Mike Everett)

Sunday 1 March 2020

Saturday, 29 February

Quy Water - 3 male & a female Mandarin (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday 29 February 2020

Jackdaw

Jackdaw, Willingham, 29th February 202 © Colin Brown

Friday 28 February 2020

Friday, 28 February

Ferry Meadows - pair of Goosander (Don Gardener)

Wednesday 26 February 2020

Wednesday, 26 February

Sutton Gault - 3 White-fronted Geese; none at Longstanton shortly after (Peter Leonard)

Tuesday, 25 Febraury

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 c.y. ICELAND GULL until 16:25h (Geoff Barlow)

Sunday 23 February 2020

Sunday, 23 February

Paxton Pits - 500 Black-tailed Godwit (John Raven); ad Kittiwake (Jamie Wells)

Isleham Washes - 17 Avocet, Banracle Goose with Greylags (Anthony Weston)

Derbford reservoir - ICELAND GLL, White-fronted Goose (Andrew Dobson)

Caldecote - Raven over (Andy Massey)

Ouse Washes - Water Pipit near A142, 'large fock of Golden Plover' on mitigation area (James Littlewood)

Saturday, 22 February

Aldreth Fen - 400 Whooper Swan (David & Sallie Jones)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 600 Black-tailed Godwit, 28 Pintail (Chris Rider); 6 Little Egret in a field from busway near Swavesey (Martin Kendall)

Clayhithe - male Hen Harrier over (Rob Law)

Friday 21 February 2020

Friday, 21 February

Ferry Meadows - 57 Pintial, Goldeneye (Don Gardener)

Cambridge - Woodock off Huntingdon Road (Sean Rouse)

Melbourn - 2 c.y. ICELAND GULL, Caspian Gull along New Road (Steve Cooper)

Wicken Fen - 4 male & 4 ringtail Hen Harrier (John Hoppett)

Thursday, 20 February

Paxton Pits - Great Egret, 3 Smew, Kingfisher (Martin Davis)

Haddenham Long Drove - 730 Whooper Swan (Mike Everett)

Wednesday 19 February 2020

Wednesday, 19 February

March - fem Merlin at Burrow Moor (Peter Beckenham)

Eynesbury Pocket Park - Jack Snipe (Richard Bashford)

Dernford Reservoir - White-fronted Goose with Greylags, fem Goosander (Steve Cooper)

Saturday 15 February 2020

Saturday. 15 February

Longstanton - 3 White-fronted Geese (Hugh Venables)

Cottenham Long Drove - 3 c.y. ICELAND GULL (Brendan Doe)

St. Ives - male and 3 female Smew on water-skiing put (Tony Plant)

Friday 14 February 2020

Friday, 14 February

Longstanton - 3 White-fronted Geese (Peter Leonard)

Isleham Washes - Barnacle Goose, 4 Egyptian Geese, 13 Avocet, Chifchaff (Andrew Dobson)

Wicken Fen - 5 male & 3 ringtail Hen Harrier (Chris Boness)

Rings End - Merlin nearby (Derek Benton)

Thursday, 13 February

Wimpole  - White-fronted Goose with the Greylags and Canadas, 6 Mandarin, Peregrine (Ade Cooper)

Longstanton - 3 White-fronted Geese (Peter Leonard)

Whittlesey - CATTLE EGRET just to the north (David Withrington)

Knarr Fen - 4 Crane (David Withrington)

Wednesday 12 February 2020

Wednesday, 12 February

Wimpole - Raven (Ed Gill)

Longstanton - 3 White-frontd Geese, Stonechat (Brendan Doe)

Holme Fen - Hen Harrier, 2 Crane, Barn Owl 4 Stonechat from the northern loop (Mark Brandon)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

Tuesday, 11 February

Grafham Water - Woodcock in Savage's Spinney (John Roe)

Soham - Woodcock along the old railway sidings (Andy Hannaford)

Saturday 8 February 2020

Saturday, 8 February

Needingworth -3 male & 4 female Smew, 3 White-fronted Geese on Berry Fen Meadow (Simon Freedman)

Grafham Water - 2 Woodcock (Jon Roe)

Milton CP - fem Goosander (Carlos Davies)

Fen Ditton Meadows - 2 Woodcock over north (Carlos Davies)

Wicken Fen - 7 Pintail, White-fronted Goose, 2 Little Owl (Carlos Davies)

Friday 7 February 2020

Friday, 7 February

Little Paxton - Peregrine over (Mark Brandon)

March Farmers - 4 Scaup, 5 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Goldeneye (Owen Marks)

Fen Drayton Lakes - fem Goosander briefly, 35 Goldeneye (Jon & David Heath)

Wicken Fen - 2 male and a female Hen Harrier, Merlin, 3 Barn Owl (Christian Boness)


Thursday, 6 February

Needingworth Pits - 3 Smew (Tony Plant)

Dernford Reservoir - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF, Cetti's Warbler, Barnacle Goose with Greylags (Steve Cooper)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Tuesday, 4 February

Longstanton - 3 White-fronted Geese still (Brendan Doe)

Sunday 2 February 2020

Sunday, 2 February

Longstanton - 3 Russian White-fronted Goose (Andrew Dobson)

St. Neots - Peregrine over St. Mary's Church (Jamie Wells)

Ouse Washes - ad Mediterranean Gull at Witcham Gravel briefly, 2 Water Pipit at Sutton Gault (Brendan Doe)

Saturday 1 February 2020

Saturday, 1 February

Milton CP - fem Goosander, 2 Kingfisher (David & Sallie Jones)

Eldernell - Short-eared Owl, 2 Crane (Paul Burrows)

Needingworth - 4 Smew (Tony Plant)

Longstanton - 3 Russian White-fronted Geese (Brendan Doe)

Cottenham Long Drove - 3 Caspain Gull (Brendan Doe)

Friday, 31 January

Portholme Meadow - Great Egret (Jon Roe)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 70 Black-tailed Godwit (Clive Sinclair)

Friday 31 January 2020

Thursday, 30 January

Ferry Meadows -  2 Woodcock in flight at dusk (Don Gardener)

Wednesday 29 January 2020

Wednesday, 29 January

Ferry Meadows - Peregrine, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Milton CP - fem Goosander sill (Jon Heath)

Tuesday, 28 January

Thorney - A2 Crane, 5 Bean Geese from 47 layby opposite Knarr Fen Road (Stuart Ball)

Monday 27 January 2020

Monday, 27 January

Grafham Water - Great Egret, fem Scaup, Goosander, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday 26 January 2020

Sunday, 26 January

A47, Thorney - 6 Tundra Bean Geese, 5 Crane (Brendan Doe)

Paxton Pits - 2 Smew (Jamie Wells)

St. Ives - Smew, 5 Goldeneye (Tony Plant)

Grafham Water - Goosander, 2 Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, 90 Goldeneye (Mark Ward)

March Farmers - Pink-footed Goose, 4 fem Scaup, Merlin (James Littlewood)

Longstanton - 3 White-fronted Geese until 16:20h (Chris Rider)

Saturday 25 January 2020

Saturday, 25 January

Grafham Water - 2 Great Egret, Caspian Gull also ICELAND GULL to roost (Richard Patient)

Godmanchester - FIRECREST along Cow Lane still (Jamie Wells)

Dernford Reservoir - Yellow-legged Gull (Andrew Dobson)

A47, Thorney - 5 Bean Geese, 4 Crane, 50+ Whopper Swan (Mark Hill)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 4 c.y. ICELAND GULL, 4 Caspian Gull (Steve Cooper)

Ouse Washes Sutton Gault - 20 Whooper Swan, 4 Goldeneye (JulianWheel)

Chain Corner - fem Merlin (Chris Rider)

Longstanton pools - 3 White-fronted Geese (Brendan Doe)

Burwell Fen - 3 Barn Owl, 2 Little Owl, Short-eared Owl (Andrew Dobson)

Needingworth - 6 Smew (Geoff Barlow)

Paxton Pits - 4 Smew (Mark Ward)

Friday 24 January 2020

Friday, 24 January

Dernford Reservoir - male Goosander (Neil Howard)

Grafham Water - Great Egret (Jon Roe)

Cam Washes - Pink-footed Goose (Chris Rider)

Thursday, 23 January

Cow Lane , Godmanchester - FIRECREST favouring ivy-covered trees by second gate to sewage works (Geoff Barlow)

Wednesday 22 January 2020

Wednesday, 22 January

Ferry Meadows - 2 Whooper Swn, 45 Siskin (Don Gardener)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

Tuesday, 21 January

Brampton/Portholme - 3 Great Egret along Bromholme Lane (Stu Ellington)

Godmanchester - FIRECREST along Cow Lane by Sewage works but mobile & elusive (Mark Hawkes)

Suton Gault - Peregrine predated a Barn owl (Rob Partridge)

Heydon Grange - Hen Harrier over GC, 42 Corn Bunting (Steve Cooper)

Barrington - 127 Corn Bunting along Orwell Road (Steve Cooper)

Thorney - 5 Tundra Bean Geese from A47 bypass (Mat Wilson)

March Farmers - Red-necked Grebe, 3 Scaup (Mat Wilson)

Monday 20 January 2020

Monday, 21 January

Ferry Meadows - 3 Crane over (Howard Butler)

Milton CP - fem Goosander (Clin Kirtland)

A47 bypass east of Thorney - 6 Tundra Bean Geese, c.180 Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, 3 Crane (Ian Gordon)

Hare Park - 2 Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday 19 January 2020

Sunday, 19 January

Milton CP - fem Goosander (Andrew Maxwell)

Grafham Water - Great Egret (Richard Patient); fem Scaup (Jamie Wells)

March Farmers - Red-necked Grebe (Derek Benton); 5 Scaup (Ian Gordon)

Eldenell - 4 Crane (Ian Gordon)

Wicken area - Little owl, 2 Short-eared Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Cow Lane, Godmanchester - FIRECREST (Steve Cooper)

Cam Washes - 3 White-fronted Geese, 2 Hen Harrier over towards Wicken, Peregrine (Jon & David Heath)

Saturday, 18 January

Milton CP - fem Goosander (Ed Gill)

Godmanchester GP - Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Meadow Lane GPs - fem Scaup (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - fem Scaup, Common Sandpiper (Ian Dawson)

Paxton Pits - 3 Smew, 23 Pintail, Great Egret, Green Sandpiper (Jamie Wells)

Ouse Fen - 3 Smew, 2 Great Egret (Norman Ratcliffe)

Godmanchester - 2 Raven over (Martin Sreeves)

Friday 17 January 2020

Friday, 17 January

Nene Washes - 3 Scaup, 3000 Lapwing, 22 Black-tailed Godwit over (John Wells, Stephen Heather)

Baker's Fen, Wicken  - 4 Whooper Swan, 3 White-fronted Geese, 2 Little Owl, 1500 Lapwing (Colin Kirtland)

Woodwalton Fen - ringtail Hen Harrier, 2 Peregrine, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Andy Frost)

Thursday 16 January 2020

Thursday, 16 January

March Farmers - pair of Scaup (Tim Rea)

Southoe - Nuthatch on garden feeders (George Lendrum)

Wednesday 15 January 2020

Wednesday, 15 January

New Shardlows Farm, Fulbourn - fem Merlin, 20 Corn Bunting (Kevin Wislon)

Wicken Fen - 2 male Hen Harrier, Merlin, 2 Barn Owl (Norman Sills)

Tuesday 14 January 2020

Tuesday, 14 January

Milton CP - fem Goosander on Dickerson's Pit (David Jones)

Grafham Water - male Goosander from fishing lodge (Mark Hill)

Great Abington - Brambling on garden feeders (Andrew Merryweather)

Monday 13 January 2020

Monday, 13 January

Milton CP - fem Goosander (Christopher Hughes)

Nene Washes - 5 Scaup, 528 Pochard, 745 Pintail, 642 Shoveler, 8394 Wigeon, 36 Ruff, CATTLE EGRET (Charlie Kitchin)

Sunday 12 January 2020

Sunday, 12 January

Needingworth Lakes - 3 redhead Smew, Great Egret (Julian Wheel)

Paxton Pits - 3 redhead Smew, pair of Raven over (Jamie Wells)

Cam Washes - 3 White-fronted Goose (James Littlewood)

Kingfishers Bridge - White-fronted Goose, 2 Crane, 2 Great Egret (James Littlewood)

Baker's Fen - Mediterranean Gull, Caspian Gull (James Littlewood)

Burwell Fen - Short-eared Owl (James Littlewood)

Mepal - 2 Water Pipits (Steve Cooper)

Sutton North Fen GP - 37 Barnacle Geese, Yellow-legged Gull, 21 Tree Sparrow (Steve Cooper)

Fen Drayton Lakes - fem Scaup (Sarah Howlett)

Saturday, 11 January

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Great Egret, CATTLE EGRET across the Cam (Julian Wheel)

Wicken Fen - 3 male & 2 female Hen Harrier to roost (Carlos Davies)

Dernford - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF, 9 Mandarin (Steve Cooper))

Fowlmere - Short-eared Owl nearby (Steve Cooper)

Friday, 10 January

Eldernell - Short-eared Owl (Ian Gordon)

Cam Washes - 3 White-fronted Geese, 15 Whooper Swan (Jon & David Heath)

Paxton Pits - redhead Smew, Woodcock (Martin Davis)