Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Wednesday, 29 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER still showing well (Henry Cook)

Tuesday, 28 May 2024

Tuesday, 28 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER still showing well (m.o.)

Molesworth - Spotted Flycatcher (Stewart Short)

Monday, 27 May 2024

Monday, 27 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER still showing well (m.o.); also 3 Bittern, 3 Bearded Tit, Hobby, Cuckoo (Ed Gill)

Fen Drayton Lakes - White Stork over (Henry Cook)

March Farmers - Turnstone, 2 Whimbrel, 3 Grey Plover (Charlie Kitchin)

Sunday, 26 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER still showing well (m.o.)

Grafham Water - Tawny Owl, 9 Sanderling on the dam (Mark Hawkes)

Etton Pits - Sanderling (Jonathan Taylor)

Sunday, 26 May 2024

Saturday, 25 May

Reach area - Hobby, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Corn Bunting (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 25 May 2024

Friday, 24 May

Wilbraham Fen -  4 Cuckoo, Barn Owl, Cattle Egret over (James Littlewood)

Thursday, 23 May 2024

Thursday, 23 May

Ouse Fen -  GREAT REED WARBLER (James Reader)

Fen Drayton Lakes - RED-FOOTED FALCON (Dave Anderson)

Etton Pits - Sanderling (Hugh Wright)

March Farmers - 2 Spoonbill reported over, also Red-crested Pochard, Whooper Swan

Barnack - WRYNECK reported

Wednesday, 22 May

Grafham Water - fem Common Scoter, 11 Sanderling (Nigel Butler)

Ouse Fen -  GREAT REED WARBLER, Great Egret, 3 Bittern, Cuckoo, 6 Water Rail, Bearded Tit (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - RED-FOOTED FALCON, 3 Hobby, 2 Bitter, 4 Cuckoo (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - Turnstone (Mark Hawkes)

Etton Pits - 2 Grey Plover, 3 Turnstone (Hugh Wright)

March Farmers -3 Sanderling,, 2 Grey Plover, Whimbrel, 40 Ringed Plover (Charlie Kitchin)

Westbrook - 2 Sanderling (Mark Thomas)

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Tuesday, 21 May

March Farmers - 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Grey plover (Charlie Kitchin)

Fen Drayton Lakes - RED-FOOTED FALCON at Elney (Graham Tucker)

Grafham Water - fem Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 20 May 2024

Monday, 20 May

Ouse Fen RSPB - GREAT REED WARBLER (Tim Watling); BLACK-WINGED STILT on pit east of Earith end CP (Chris Rider)

Fen Drayton Lakes - male RED-FOOTED FALCON reprted over Oxholme this morning, by Elney CP again this evening (Jeremy Lindsell); Bittern (Stuart Fox)

Ditton Park Wood - Spotted Flycathcer, Cuckoo (Chris Brown) 

Warboys - White Stork over (Richard Allison)

Sunday, 19 May 2024

Sunday, 19 May

Ouse Fen RSPB - GREAT REED WARBLER (m.o.)

Fen Drayton Lakes - BLACK-WINGED STILT,  departed c. 08:00h (Richard Bradbury); male RED-FOOTED FALCON from Elney CP (Richard Patient)

Coveney Byall Fen - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, departed 07:55h (Robert Martin)

Eldernell - Grey Plover, Whimbrel (Charlie Kitchin)

Great Fen - TEMMINCK'S STINT, just north of Holme Lode and immediately before the two houses (Chris Jones)

Wilbraham Fen - Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Cuckoo (James Littlewood)

Witcham - 3 Turtle Doves along Bury Lane (Jamie Evan)

Saturday, 18 May 2024

Saturday, 18 May

Coveney, Byall Fen - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (Alan Boddington)

Ouse Fen RSPB - GREAT REED WARBLER (Alan Boddington); Great Egret, Bittern (Tracey Graves)

Kingfishers Bridge - Avocet with chicks, 2 Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtail. Nearby, another Cuckoo, Hobby (Kevin Wilson)

Eldernell - GOLDEN ORIOLE briefly (Richard Patient)

Babraham - 7 Whimbrel over north (Daniel Field)

Smithy Fen - Quail calling (Rachel Lennard); also Crane briefly (Neil Howard)

Friday, 17 May 2024

Friday, 17 May

Ouse Fen - GREAT REED WARBLER on Crane Fen (m.o.) Please watch and listen from the viewing mound on cell 8, do not appraoch the reed edge. Also 2 Bittern, Great Egret, Barn Owl (Tracey graves)

Quy area - 2 Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler (Kevin Wilson)


Thursday, 16 May

Coveney Byall Fen - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (Paul Pulham)

Ouse Fen Gen - GREAT REED WARBLER on Crane Fen (Hannah Bernie). Please watch and listen from the viewing mound on cell 8, do not appraoch the reed edge.

Etton Pits - 3 Sanderling, Grey Plover over, Sandwich Tern over (HughWright)

Brampton Pits West - 2 Sanderling (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Wednesday, 15 May

Coveney Byall Fen - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (m.o.); also Grey Plover (Jonathan Taylor)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Grey Plover (Terry Brown)

Ouse Washes - 2 Sanderling, Grasshopper Warbler (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 14 May

Coveney Byall Fen - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (David Hopkins)

March Farmers - 7 Grey Plover, Greenshank, 4 Whooper Swan (Charlie Kitchin)

Sunday, 12 May 2024

Sunday, 12 May

Stirtloe - NIGHTJAR brielfy along the Anglian Water access road 21:50h, but not relocated (Stu Elsom)

Etton Pits - 3 Sanderling, 3 Black Tern (Jonathan Taylor)

Southey Wood - Spotted Flycatcher (Mike Weedon)

Ouse Washes, Earith - 2 drake Garganey, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 16 Black-tailed Godwit, Avocet, Common Tern, Bittern (David Nation)

Saturday, 11 May 2024

Saturday, 11 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - Grey Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3 Garganey, Mandarin, 3 Cuckoo, 2 Bittern (Carlos Davies) 

Westbrook - Turtle Dove, Cuckoo, Hobby, Kingfisher, Cetti's, Common Tern (Mark Thomas)

Soham - Nightingale (Chris Barker)

Friday, 10 May 2024

Friday, 10 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - Spoonbill (Tim Straw); Bittern, Black Tern, Great Egret (Tracey Graves)

Ouse Washes - Spoonbill past Welches Dam 10:05h (Jonathan Taylor)

Kingfishers Bridge - Cuckoo, 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Bittern (Ian Burfield)

Cam Washes, Upware - Pink-footed Goose, Cuckoo, 2 Great Egret (Ian Burfield)

West Brook - Wood Sandpiper (Mark Thomas) 

Maxey Pits - 6 Arctic Tern (Chris Lines); Little Gull (Josh Jones)

 

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Thursday, 9 May

Grafham Water - Grey Plover briefly (Colin Addington)

Etton Pits - Black Tern (Jonathan Taylor)

Wednesday, 8 May

March - Short-eared Owl (Derek Benton)  

Burwell Fen - Wood Sandpiper (Ian Barton)

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Tuesday, 7 May

Etton Pits - Cuckoo, Hobby, 2 Arctic Tern, 14 Common Tern (Brian Stone); 2 further Arctic Tern, 5 Red-crested Pochard reported

Nene Washes - 5 Cattle Egret (Paul Bolton) 

Westbrook - 3 Crane over (Duerden Cormack)

Thriplow - Cuckoo (Richard webber)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove, Cuckoo (John Hayward)

Cambridge Research Park - Wheatear (Jon Heath)

Cam Washes, Upware - Great Egret (Kevin Wilson)

Kingfishers Bridge - Bittern, 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover (Kevin Wilson)

White Fen -  Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 6 May 2024

Monday, 6 May

Etton Pits - Whimbrel, 2 Avocet; also 2 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Hobby along Green Lane (Chris Lines)

Nene Washes - 6 Cattle Egret, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Caspian Gull (Richard Patient)

 Dernford Reservoir - Black Tern (Andrew Knights)

Madingley Hall - Nuthatch (Ed Gill)

Swifts in low nunbers reported widely today

Sunday, 5 May 2024

Sunday, 5 May

Chatteris - 3 Swift over (Kevin Hand)

March Farmers - 2 Whimbrel (Jonathan Taylor)

Etton Pits - Wood Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Grey Plover over (Josh Jones); Caspian Gull (Jonathan Taylor)

Stapleford - Cuckoo (Stephen Sutton)

Impington - 2 Hobby (Nigel Butcher)

Nene Washes - 3 Great Egret, pair of Garganey, 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Whimbrel, Greenshank, 5 Dunlin, Black Tern, 4 Hobby, 2 Cuckoo at March farmers, also 5 Great Egret, 2 Bittern, Whooper Swan, 5 displaying 'limosa' Black-tailed Godwits elesewhere on the washes (Steve Cooper)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Turtle Dove, Bittern, Cuckoo (Nath Comber)

King's Ripton - White Stork over (Micahel Krause)

Saturday, 4 May 2024

Saturday, 4 May

Lockspit's Mere - Crane, 3 Bittern, Great Egret, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler (Tracey Graves)

Shepreth L-moor - Cuckoo (Guy Manners)

Cam Washes, Upware - 3 Barnacle Geese, Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Wilson) 

Soham - Cuckoo, 2 Swift (Chris Baker)

Cambridge - Swift over Birdwood Road (Pete Holt)

Fulbourn - Swift over (Colin Kirtland)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Bitter, Cuckoo, Nightingale (John Hayward)

Magog Down - White Stork over (Andrew Knights)

Nene Washes - 2 drake Garganey, 7 Crane, 8 Hobby, 2 Cuckoo, Bittern, 2 Yellow Wagtasil (Joe Taylor); also another drake Garganey, 2 Whimbrel, 3 Hobby & Cuckoo reported

Friday, 3 May 2024

Friday, 3 May

Grafham Water - 35 Arctic Tern thtough 14:05h, 16 Arctic Tern through 15:50h, Whimbrel (Mark Hawkes) 

Etton Pits - Greenshank, 2 Arctic Tern (Jonathan Taylor); 31 Arctic Tern through, 6 lingering (Hugh Wright)

Beebys Pit - Arctic Tern, Common Tern (Chris Jones)

Westbrook Pit - Black Tern (Duerden Cormack)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Grey Plover, Black Tern, 2 Arctic Tern, Little Ringed Plover (Terry Brown)

Ouse Washes - Little Tern, 6 Arctic Tern, 2 Common Tern (Mike Burdekin)

Thursday, 2 May 2024

Thursday, 2 May

Burwell Fen - drake Garganey, Hobby, 2 Wheatear (Richard Dale)

Ouse Washes - Little Gull, Common Sandpiper from Welches Dam hide (Derek benton)

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Wednesday, 1 May

Dernford Reservoir - Black Tern, Greenshank (Chris Ruis)

Berry Fen - 2 Black Fen (Nicola Ann)

Etton Pits - 3 Black Tern, also 2 Wheatear nearby (Hugh Wright); Short-eared Owl (Paul Bolton); drake Mandarin (Jonathan Taylor)

Nene Washes - 2 ad Mediterranean Gull over (Mike Weedon); in the March Farmers area, 4 Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 10 Ruff, Avocet, Turnstone, Whimbrel( Charlie Kitchin)

Burwell Fen - 2 Cuckoo, 4 Grasshopper Warbler 3 Marsh Harrier (Paul Pulham)

Ouse Fen - Hobby, Cuckoo reported

Ouse Washes - 5 Black Tern from Welches Dam hide (Paul Harrington) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Grey Plover (Duncan McNiven)