Thursday 29 September 2022

Thursday, 29 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still (Ian Dawson)

Grafham Water - PECTORAL SANDPIPER from Mander CP (Nigel Butler); also 5 Great Egret (Duncan McNiven); Golden Plover over (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret, Raven over (Howard Butler); 2 Stonechat (Andy Frost)

Sutton Gault - 6 Grey Wagtail & 6 Whooper Swan over (Rob Partridge)

Ouse Fen RSPB - 60 Bearded Tit (Anthony Helliwell)

Chatteris/Warboys road - juv GANNET which required assistance c.16:00h (Mark Ward)

Wednesday 28 September 2022

Wednesday, 28 September

Grafham Water - Red-throated Diver (Andrew Dobson); also 32 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail (Sue Greenway)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, Great Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper (Ian Dawson); Glossy Ibis (Terry Brown)

Wyton airfield - Short-eared Owl (Duncan McNiven)

Nene Washes - 15 Whopper Swans on Low Wash (Charlie Kitchin)

Tuesday 27 September 2022

Tuesday, 27 September

Grafham Water - Red-throated Diver (Nigel Butler)

Tanholt pits - 5 Great Egret, 2 Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Common Sandpiper (Howard Butler)

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Spoonbill, Little Stint, Greenshank, 4 Great Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 20 Ruff, Common Sandpiper (David Nation)

Ouse Fen - CORNCRAKE flushed from an area with no public access, last seen near cell 1 bridleway but not relocated (Tom Williams)

Monday 26 September 2022

Monday, 26 September

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, 2 Great Egret (Richard Allison); 7 Cattle Egret (Anastacia Aldrich)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Ruff, 3 Stonechat (Andrew Dobson)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Paul Taylor)

Tanholt - 2 Caspain Gull, 3 Great Egret (Paul Bolton)

Sunday 25 September 2022

Sunday, 25 September

Sutton Gault -  2 Redwing in a private garden (Rob Partridge) 

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still, Ruff (Paul Pulham)

Chippenham Fen - 110 Redwing over (Richard Dale)

Kingfishers Bridge - Little Stint, Spoonbill, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Hobby (Sue Greenway)

Wicken Fen - Hobby (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Glossy Ibis (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Curlew Sandpiper, 37 Dunlin, Greenshank (Mark Hawkes)

Saturday 24 September 2022

Saturday, 24 September

Grafham Water - Little Stint, Curlew, Greenshank, Raven, 3 Stonechat, Red-crested Pochard (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Ruff, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2 Stonechat (Pete Holt) 

Etton Pits - Little Stint, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Ferry Meadows - Raven over (Don Gardener)

Friday, 23 September

Grafham Water - Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 17 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Tubney Fen - Great Egret over, Whinchat, pair of Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Hope Farm RSPB - Merlin (Mark Ward)

Kingfishers Bridge - Spoonbill, Little Stint, Great Egret, Hobby (David Walsh)

Thursday 22 September 2022

Thursday, 22 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still (Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, Ruff (Mark Hawkes); Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 30 Ringed Plover, 30 Dunlin (Duncan Ritchie) 

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Mike Weedon)

Etton pits - Little Stint (Hugh Wright) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Great White Egret, Spoonbill, Peregrine, Little Stint, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Ruff, Whinchat, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Wilson)

Wednesday 21 September 2022

Wednesday, 21 September

Grafham Water - 2 Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 28 Pintail (Mark Hawkes)

Etton pits - Little Stint (Hugh Wright)

Tanholt - Whooper Swan, Great Egret, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Howard Butler)

Tuesday 20 September 2022

Tuesday, 20 September

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6 Ruff, 45 Golden Plover (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 60 Dunlin, 62 Ringed Plover, Tree Pipit over (Mark Hawkes)

Tanholt pits - Great Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Chatteris - Redwing over (Mark Ward)

Monday 19 September 2022

Monday, 19 September

Grafham Water - 2 Common Scoter, Caspian Gull, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 34 Dunlin, 38 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Curlew, Greenshank, 5 Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes -  Glossy Ibis, 3 Great Egret (Richard Allison)

Dernford Reservoir - Common Scoter until departing at 13:30, Pectoral Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 3 Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit over (Steve Cooper)

Fowlmere - 22 Raven at A505 junction (Steve Cooper)

Cambridge - RING OUZEL at a private site thius afternoon (Brendan Doe)

Sunday 18 September 2022

Sunday, 18 September

Grafham Water - 2 Caspian Gull, Curlew, 27 Dunlin, 34 Ringed Plover, 3 Greenshank, 5 Great Egret, 2 Stonechat, Siskin over (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 4 Curlew Sandpiper (Jon Heath)

Saturday 17 September 2022

Saturday, 17 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Simon Gillings)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, 19 Dunlin, Greenshank, 21 Ringed Plover, 4 Caspian Gull, 5 Great Egret, 2 Raven (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Howard Butler); Spotted Flycatcher (Kevin Eldred)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, Curlew over, 2 Hobby, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7 Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Lisa Newman)

Friday 16 September 2022

Friday, 16 September

Dernford Reservoir - PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Andy Hannaford)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, 6 Great Egret (Richard Patient)

Ferry Meadows - 60 Ring-necked Parakeet departed roost this morning (Don Gardener)

Thursday 15 September 2022

Thursday, 15 September

Dernford Reservoir - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER (Richard Fowling)

Etton pits - juv Spotted redshank, juv Curlew Sandpiper, 8 Green Sandpiper, 12 Golden Plover (Hugh Wright); 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret (Mike Weedon)

Grafham Water - Curlew, Turnstone, 3 Great Egret (Mark Hawkes)


Wednesday 14 September 2022

Wednesday, 14 September

Grafham Water - Grey Plover, Curlew (Colin Addington); Knot, 58 Ringed Plover, 3 Great Egret, 3 Greenshank, Hobby (Mark hawkes)

Grunty Fen - ad Turtle Dove (David Nation)

Smithey Fen - juv Turtle Dove (Ian Ellis)

Tuesday 13 September 2022

Tuesday, 13 September

Grafham Water - Common Scoter, 8 Greenshank, 6 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpiper, 56 Ringed Plover, 20 Dunlin, 2 Great Egret (Ian Dawson)

Ferry Meadows - WRYNECK east of Pyramid (Duncan McNiven); also Cattle Egret, 5 Whinchat (Howard Butler)

Barleycraft - 40 Cattle egret, 4 Great Egret, Glossy Ibis (Christoph Zöckler et al.)

Ouse Fen - Glossy Ibis, 3 Green Sandpiper (Christoph Zöckler et al.)

Monday 12 September 2022

Monday, 12 September

Ferry Meadows CP - WRYNECK near Pyramid statue, Cattle Egret, Whinchats (Mike Weedon)

Tubney Fen - juv Cuckoo, pair of Stonechat, Water Rail, fem Marsh Harrier (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - 3 Turnstone, 4 Great Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday 11 September 2022

Sunday, 11 September

Grafham Water - Knot, 31 Ringed Plover, 4 Caspian Gull, 50 Wigeon, Wheatear, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Whinchat, 2 Peregrine, 2 Hobby, 4 Raven, 60+ Chiffchaff (Mark Hawkes); Greenshank, Curlew, 2 Common Sandpiper, 17 Pintail, 2 Whinchat (David Nation)

Ouse Fen - Bittern, Redstart (Rich Atkins)

Paxton Pits - Osprey over, Green Sandpiper, Tree Pipit, 2 Wheatear, 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Jamie Wells)

Ferry Meadows CP - WRYNECK, 6 Whinchat (Mike Weedon); also Cattle Egret (Don Gardener

Saturday 10 September 2022

Saturday, 10 September

Grafham Water - 2 Common Scoter south of Hill Farm CP, Osprey over east, 2 Knot, 2 Turnstone, 29 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Caspian Gull, 2 Raven, Black-necked Grebe (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - Redstart at south-west end of Sophie's Pool (Roger Hardie)

Friday 9 September 2022

Friday, 9 September

Ouse Fen - male Redstart (Jeremy Lindsell)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Osprey (Jeremy Lindsell)

Grafham Water -Sanderling, 3 Turnstone, 35 Ringed Plover, 7 Ruff, 6 Greenshank, Raven (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - pair of Raven, Hobby (Jamie Wells)

Thursday 8 September 2022

Thursday, 8 September

Longstanton - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER on north pool (Brendan Doe); Wood Sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK still (Paul Pulham)

Grafham Water - 3 Turnstone, 2 Raven, 48 Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 21 Dunlin, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Whinchat (Howard Butler); 20 Ring-necked Parakeet (Don Gardener)

Tanholt - Whooper Swan (Paul Bolton)

Wednesday, 7 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern, knot, 5 Great Egret, 28 Dunlin, 32 Ringed Plover, 7 Ruff, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Tree Pipit, 10 Pintail (Mark Hawkes); Curlew, Turnstone, Comon Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson)

Barton - pair of Raven nearby (Roger Hardie)

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK & Whinchat still present just north of busway embankment (Paul Pulham)

Longstanton - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER on north pool (Brendan Doe)

Barleycraft - 60 Cattle Egret, 3 Great Egret, 8 Little Egret to roost (Christoph Zöckler)

Ouse Fen - Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 9 Ruff (Christoph Zöckler)

Castor Hanglands - Tree Pipit (Mike Weedon) 

Ferry Meadows - 2 Whinchat (Matt Webb)

Tuesday, 6 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK & Whinchat still present just north of busway embankment (Jon Heath)

Monday 5 September 2022

Monday, 5 September

Hobson's Park - WRYNECK west of railway & just north of busway embankment, 2 Whinchat (Howard Slatter); WRYNECK present until midday at least but elusive (Pete Holt)

Kingfishers Birdge - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Ruff, 25 Snipe, Great Egret, 2 Stonechat (Ian Burfield)

Ferry Meadows - Cattle Egret on Heron Meadow (Don Gardener)

Castor Mill - Cattle Egret (Don Gardener)

Peakirk - Redstart north-east of Sisson's Farm (Jonathan Taylor) 

Swaddywell - 2 Whinchat (Mike Weedon)

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank, 15 Greenshank, 4 Ruff, 16 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Whinchat (Mark Hawkes)

Hare Park - 2 Tawny Owl (Kevin Wilson)


Sunday 4 September 2022

Sunday, 4 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern, Garganey, Peregrine, 5 Caspian Gull, 11 Greenshank, 6 Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 12 Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes); Knot, Ruff, 3 Turnstone, 23 Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Wheatear (Rachel Lennard)

Great Fen - Whinchat near new Decoy CP (Andy Frost)

Swaddywell - 2 Whinchat (Josh Jones)

Etton Pits - Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Ruff, 3 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Wheatear (Hugh Wright); Curlew (Chris Lines)

Fowlmere - Redstart (Ade Cooper)

Eldernell - 2 Garganey on pit to west of CP (Kevin Eldred)

Kingfishers Birdge - Spotted Redshank, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Ruff, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Black-tailed Godwit (James Littlewood)

Saturday 3 September 2022

Saturday, 3 September

Tanholt - 5 Caspian Gull, 10 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Swaddywell - Tree Pipit, 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Josh Jones); 2 Whinchat (Mike Weedon)

Soham- 2 Whinchat along Lode behind station (Andy Hannaford)

Trumpington - Ring-necked Parakeet over (Andrew Dobson)

Grafham Water - 2 Caspian Gull, Knot, 18 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes); Curlew, 4 Turnstone, 2 Ruff, Great Egret, 8 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (Stu Elsom)

Longstanton - 6 Common Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Louise Bacon,V Vince Lea)

Paxton - Redstart, 2 Spotted Flycatcher at the farm, Raven (Jamie Wells)

Friday 2 September 2022

Friday, 2 September

Hail Weston / Great Staughton - NIGHTJAR briefly on road between the villages (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water - Knot, 4 Turnstone, 4 Caspian Gull, Little Ringed Plover, 12 Ringed Plover, Arctic Tern, Black Tern (Mark Hawkes); TEMMINCK'S STINT at Marlow Bay, 2 Spotted Redshank, 10 Pintail, Peregrine (Nigel Butler)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Great Egret over (Don Gardener)

Castor Mill - fem Redstart (Jonathan Taylor)

Castor Hanglnands - 2 Redstart 

Gravel Farm - 2 Whinchat along the River Great Ouse nearby (David Nation) 

George Neal Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe (Ian Burfield)

Dernford Farm Reservoir - Black tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 2 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Egyptian Geese (Steve Dutton) 

Ely/Soham - 42 Buzzard airborne, 70+ on the ground, 13 Kestrel, from layby on A142 at TL567768 again today (James Hanlon)



Thursday 1 September 2022

Thursday, 1 September

Shropshires Reservoir - Black-necked Grebe, Wheatear (David Nation)

Swaddywell pit - Whinchat (Josh Jones)

Castor Mill - Whinchat (Don Gardener)

Ellington - 13 Skua, either Arctic or Long-tailed, over high southwest, 13:15h (Stu & Jill Elsom)

Grafham Water - 7 Black Tern (Mark Hawkes); 6 Turnstone (Matthew Rodgers)

Nene Washes - Cattle Egret, Wheatear, 4 Whinchat (Charlie Kitchin)