Saturday 29 July 2023

Saturday, 29 July

Ouse Fen - 2 Great Egret (Tracey Graves); Crane reported over

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Shelduck/Cape Shelduck (Ian Burfield)

Wicken Fen - 3 Garganey, Gasshopper Warbler (Stephen Buckle)

Friday, 28 July

Grunty Fen - Caspian Gull, juv Turtle Dove (David Nation)

Etton pits - 3 Goosander, Yellow-legged Gull, Mandarin, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Friday 28 July 2023

Thursday, 27 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Diana Leech)

Wednesday 26 July 2023

Wednesday, 26 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis (Marilyn Peterkin)

Maxey pits - Great Egret (Chris Lines)

Tuesday 25 July 2023

Tuesday, 25 July

Ouse Washes RSPB - PECTORAL SANDPIPER from Stockdales & then Cadbury Hide (Ade Cooper)

Smithy Fen - White Stork, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sandpiper (Marilyn Peterkin)

Grafham Water - Sandwich Tern (Richard Patient)

Hare Park - Peregrine over (Kevin Wilson)

Kingfishers Birdge - Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, Ruff; also par of Ruddy Shelduck (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, 5 Great Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

Tanholt - 2 Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Monday 24 July 2023

Monday, 24 July

Longstanton - Crossbill over norhtwest calling 15:10h (David Nation)

Grafham Water - Sanderling, Osprey (Richard Patient); Grey Plover over (Colin Addington)

Smithy Fen - 3 Green Sandpiper, 7 Little Ringed Plover (Peter Leonard)

Kingfishers Bridge - Ruff, Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Kevin Wilson)

Tanholt - 3 juv Caspian Gull, 12 Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Sunday 23 July 2023

Saturday, 22 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Great Egret (Gill Parrish)

Tanholt - juv Caspian Gull, 6 Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Friday, 21 July

Cherry Hinton - 2 Sandwich Tern over south (Carl Howard) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Glossy Ibis, Cattle Egret, 8 Great Egret, Hobby, Turnstone, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper (Alan Harris)

Thursday 20 July 2023

Thursday, 20 July

Ouse Fen - Bittern, 2 Great Egret, Hobby, Bearded Tit (Tracey Graves)

Grafham Water - 4 Mandarin, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, Goldeneye (Nigel Butler)

Wednesday, 19July

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, Bittern, 4 Great Egret, 5 Black-tailed Gdowit, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Alan Harris)

Tuesday 18 July 2023

Tuesday, 18 July

Sawtry - STONE CURLEW over  St Andrews Road/B1043 at 07:40h (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Black Tern off Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Monday 17 July 2023

Monday, 17 July

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 2 ad Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - Great Egret, Hobby, 2 Turtle Dove (Tracey Graves)

Kingfishers Bridge - Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Ruff (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 16 July

Heydon pig farms - 17 Yellow-legged Gull, 3cy caspain Gull, 29 Raven nearby (Steve Cooper)

Dernford reservoir - 6 Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, juv Yellow-legged Gull (Steve Cooper)

Saturday 15 July 2023

Saturday, 15 July

Grafham Water - Black Tern (Stewart Short)

Thursday 13 July 2023

Thursday, 13 July

Grafham Water - 2cy drake LESSER SCAUP from Plummer CP this afternoon (Yoav Perlman) 

Tanholt - juv Yellow-legged Gull, 3cy Caspian Gull (Paul Bolton) 

Nene Washes - Redstart, Cattle Egret reported 

Wednesday 12 July 2023

Wednesday, 12 July

Smithy Fen - White Stork, 4 Green Sandpiper, 8 Little Ringed Plover reported 

Grafham Water - 3 Common Sandpiper, 8 Little Ringed Plover, Mediterranean Gull, Black Tern, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Monday 10 July 2023

Monday, 10 July

Burwell Fen - male Whinchat (Chris Brown)

Dernford Reservoir - Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Roger Hardie)

Milton - White Stork over (James Hutchinson)

Sunday, 9 July

Smithy Fen - Little Stint (Rachel Lennard); White Stork, Little Ringed Plover (Rich Atkins)

Saturday, 8 July

Smithy Fen - White Stork, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Avocet, Little Ringed Plover (Rachel Lennard)

Friday 7 July 2023

Friday, 7 July

Grafham Water -2cy drake LESSER SCAUP in valley creek this morning (Richard Patient). A very subtle bird and easily over-looked amongst Tufted’s. Note that there is also an adult drake Tufted x Scaup-type hybrid around too. Park at Mander car park and walk west to valley creek hide (Mark Hawkes); Wimbrel, 8 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Curlew over, Yellow-legged Gull (Ian Dawson)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Cuckoo (Ian Burfield)

Burwell Fen - Green Sandpiper, Bearded Tits, 2 Barn Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Wednesday 5 July 2023

Wednesday, 5 July

West Brook Pit - Osprey over (Duerden Cormack)

Tuesday 4 July 2023

Tuesday, 4 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN 06:00h, not reported after this time (Steve Hutchinson)

Monday, 3 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN (Dave Anderson)

Saturday 1 July 2023

Saturday, 1 July

Wicken Fen - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Tree Sparrow, Little Owl at Priory Farm (Stephen Buckle)

Friday, 30 June

Fleam Dyke - Quail singing west of dyke, just north of disused railway; also 3 Corn Butning singing, Hobby (Iain Webb)