Sunday 31 March 2024

Sunday 31 March

Fen Drayton Lakes - 13 Little Gull, 20 Cattle Egret, 10 Black-tailed Godwit over, Bittern, Willow Warbler, 10 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow (Richard Allison)

Northstowe - 3 Little Gull (Hugh Venables)

Hobsons Park - Little Gull reported 

Brampton West Lakes - Little Gull (Steve Cooper)

Grafham Water - Curlew, Swallow (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 16 Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper, Avocet, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, 2 Redpoll  (Terry Brown)

Etton pits - Cattle Egret through, Red-crested Pochard, Curlew over, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Green Sandpiper, 5 Grey Wagtail, 28 Golden Plover over (Jonathan Taylor)

Saturday 30 March 2024

Saturday, 30 March

Ely - White Stork over (Duncan McNiven)

Sutton Gault - 3 albifronsWhite-fronted Geese (Rachel Lennard)

Isleham washes - 50 Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit (Colin Kirtland)

Grafham Water - Osprey (Mark Hawkes); Yellow Wagtail (Geoff Barlow)

Etton pits - pair of Avocet (Hugh Wright); Glossy Ibis (Mike Weedon)

Southey Wood - 6 Crossbill (Chris Lines)

Fen Drayton area - 30 Cattle Egret (Carlos Davies)

Wicken Fen - 3 Garganey (Carlos Davies)

Ouse Washes - Yellow Wagtails near Coveney, Garganey at Witcham, Pink-footed Goose at Oxlode (Brendan Doe)

Friday 29 March 2024

Friday, 29 March

Grafham Water -  2 Osprey on the shoreline (Mark Hawkes)

Peterborough - 6 WAXWING at Cardea (Jake Williams)

Thursday 28 March 2024

Wednesday, 27 March

Impington - 2 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover on flood at eastern edge of village by bend in Milton Road (Nigel Butcher)

Tuesday 26 March 2024

Tuesday, 26 March

Houghton/Wyton - White Stork (John Wells)

Grafham Water - 3 Black-necked Grebe from fishing lodge, pair of Common Scoter off dam (Mark Hawkes)

Peterborough - Opsrey reported over the station

Monday 25 March 2024

Monday, 25 March

St. Neots - 2 WAXWING at Wintringham (Nathan Long) 

Smithy Fen - 4 Little Ringed Plover (Marilyn Peterkin)

Teversham Fen - Little Ringed Plover (Chris Brown)

Milton - Caspian Gull and the Park & Ride (James Hanlon)

Sunday 24 March 2024

Sunday, 24 March

Isleham Washes - drake Garganey, 55 Avocet (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - 2 Short-eared Owl from Earith car park (Mark Hawkes)

Ely - Pink-footed Goose reported nearby 

Saturday, 23 March

Fen Drayton Lakes - 12 Sand Martin, 4 Cattle Egret, 52 Black-tailed Godwit (Carlos Davies)

Friday 22 March 2024

Friday, 22 March

Swaffham Prior Fen - 5 Wheatear (Ian Barton)

Prickwillow - Swallow (Mark Peck)

Fowlmere RSPB - Willow Warbler, 19 Chiffchaff, Peregrine through, 11 Raven nearby, 5 Jack Snipe in area with no public access (Ade Cooper)

Lockspit's Mere - 4 Bittern, 2 Great Egret (Tracey Graves)

Foxton - Wheatear south of Fowlmere Road (Guy Manners)

Cheveley Park - 12 WAXWING in a private garden briefly (Richard Jones)

Northstowe - male Wheatear near the college (Rachel Lennard)

Thursday 21 March 2024

Thursday, 21 March

Dernford Reservoir - Wheatear just to the east, 80+ Golden Plover over (Chris Ruis)

Northstowe - 3 Cattle Egret around Halcyon Mere (Jon Heath)

Wednesday 20 March 2024

Wednesday, 20 March

Bedford Purlieus - 30 Brambling (Adie Coe)

Maxey - Avocet at Green Lane flood and at Silt Pit (Chris Lines)

Graham Water - 3 Crane through (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday 19 March 2024

Tuesday, 19 March

Dernford Reservoir - Kittiwake, Short-eared Owl, 2 Mandarin (Chris Ruis)

Nene Washes - Merlin, Little Gull, 10 Crane, 35 Whooper Swan, Green Sandpiper, Tawny Owl reported

Monday 18 March 2024

Monday, 18 March

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over north (Howard Butler) 

Grafham Water - 4 Little Ringed Plover, sand Martin (Anthony Lowe)

Sunday, 17 March

Maxey - Avocet, Little Ringed Plover on flood at Green Lane (Hugh Wright); Goosander, Sand Martin reported at Pig-jaw pit 

Cardea - 5 WAXWING briefly (Mike Weedon)

Cambridge, Francis Crick Avenue - Black Redstart (Johnny Hook)

Wicken Fen - 2 Hen Harrier, 12+ Marsh Harrier, Crane, Tawny Owl (Nigel Butcher)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 17 Cattle Egret on north side of river (Simon Passey)

Pymoor - 10 Cattle Egret just to the south (James Hanlon)

Saturday 16 March 2024

Saturday, March 16

Dernford Reservoir - Kittiwake (Roger Hardie)

Maxey - Avocet between the cut and Green Lane, Great Egret on the pits (Hugh Wright)

Monday 11 March 2024

Monday, 11 March

Trumpington Meadows - Brent Goose over north, Cetti's Warbler (Iain Webb) 

Teversham Fen - 5 Brent Geese (Jon Heath)

Cambridge - 35 WAXWING (Jon Heath)

Sunday 10 March 2024

Sunday, 10 March

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Little Gull (Chris Ruis)

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

Saturday 9 March 2024

Friday, 8 March

Cambridge - 20 WAXWING on mistletoe off Huntingdon Road (Simon Passey)

Isleham Washes - 18 Avocet reported

Thursday 7 March 2024

Thursday, 7 March

Ouse Washes - drake Scaup from Stockdale's hide (Mark Ward)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

Wednesday, 6 March

Grafham Water - 5 Common Scoter (Colin Addington)

Sunday 3 March 2024

Sunday, 3 March

Ouse Fen - Starling murmuration, 2 Crane, 2 Short-eared Owl; Bittern, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler vocal (Marilyn Peterkin)

Paxton Pits - Kittiwake, 3 Great Egret, 3 Raven over (Jamie Wells)

Saturday, 2 March

Grafham Water - a county earliest record of Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Great Chishall - 530 Corn Bunting; also ICELAND GULL, 2 Caspian Gull (Steve Cooper)

Dernford reservoir - Siberian Chiffchaff along the stream although elusive, Raven, Stonechat (Steve Cooper)

Ouse Fen RSPB - 2 Crane, Short-eared Owl (Nath Comber); Siskin (Rich Atkins)

Waterbeach - White Stork )Daniel Osborne)

Peterborough - 6 WAXWING at Cardea (Mike Weedon)

Friday 1 March 2024

Friday, 1 March

Grafham Water - Brent Goose off Church Lane 16:05h (Mark Hawkes)

Peterborough - 6 WAXWING at Cardea (m.o.)

Thurday, 29 February

Granta Park - 26 WAXWING (Gareth Rees)