Wednesday, 25 March

Fen Drayton Lakes - FERRUGINOUS DUCK (James Hanlon); Willow Warbler singing, Bittern booming (Terry Brown)

 

Tuesday, 24 March

Grafham Water - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL Gaynes Cove 07:05h (Mark Hawkes); RED-THROATED DIVER moving west from Gaynes Creek 18:00 (Jonathan taylor)

Ouse Fen - Wheatear (Barbara York) 

Monday, 23 March

Grafham Water - drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL Gaynes Cove (Richard Patient)

Isleham Wash - 22 Avocet (Paul Whiteman)

Ouse Fen - Sedge Warbler singing, 3 Crane, Little Ringed Plover, bearded Tit, 2 Stonechat (Kevin Clements)

Nene Washes - 2 Common Scoter, Scaup, Spotted Redshank at March Farmers, 2 Common Scoter off the Trig Point (Jonathan Taylor)

Saturday, 21 March

Ouse Washes - drake Smew from Stockdales Hide still (Rachel Lennard)

Etton/Maxey Pits - Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Green Sandpiper reported, also Merlin over.

Friday, 20 March

Beeby's East Lake - 8 White-fronted Geese still (Chris Jones) 

Ouse Washes - drake Smew, drake Scaup (Jonathan Taylor) 

Thursday, 19 March

Ouse Washes, Chain Corner - 2 Scaup (Jonathan Taylor)

Wednesday, 18 March

Hobson's Park - 3 Little ringed Plover on flood (Howard Slatter)

Farcet - Raven over (Kevin Eldred) 

Tuesday, 17 March

Burwell Fen - 2 pairs of Pintail, Peregrine over, Little Owl on logs by brick building on Priory Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Beeby's East Lake - 8 White-fronted Geese still (Chris Jones) 

Monday, 16 March

Grafham Water - 12 Sand Martin (Colin Addington)

Sunday, 15 March

Hobsons Park - 3 Little Ringed Plover on flood (Guy Belcher)

Saturday, 14 March

Beeby's East Lake, Hampton - 8 White-fronted Geese (Jonathan Newman)

Peterborough Sewage Farm - 2 ad Mediterranean Gull (Chris Jones)

Kingfisher's Bridge - 4 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover (Rachel Lennard)

Hobson's Park - Little Ringed Plover on the flood (Joanna Kubica) 

Upware - 2 White-fronted Geese towards Wicken (Gareth Rees) 

Friday, 13 March

Beeby's East Lake, Hampton - 4 White-fronted Geese (Chris Jones); later 8 birds (Paul Bolton)

Eldernell - 5 Great Egret, 2 Cattle Egret, 29 Little Egret ro roost, including a dark or intermediate form Little Egret (Charlie Kitchin) 

Isleham Washes - 42 Avocet (Paul Whiteman) 

Thursday, 12 March

Nene Washes, Low Wash - 1300 Whooper Swan, 500 Black-tailed Godwit, 21 Ruff (Charlie Kitchin)

Ouse Washes - Slavonian Grebe at Fortrey's Hall (Rachel Lennard) 

Wednesday, 11 March

Ouse Washes, Fourtrey's Hall - Slavonian Grebe, 4 Knot, Caspian Gull (Jonathan Taylor)

Tuesday, 10 March

Milton CP - drake Scaup on Todd's Pit, Kingfisher, Cetti's Warbler (Kevin Wilson)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Curlew (Rachel Lennard) 

Wicken & Burwell - 12 Marsh Harrier, Little Owl at Burwell Fen and near Bottisham Lode, 130 Shoveller ar Burwell, 2 Kingfisher (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - 9 Great Northern Diver from fishing lodge (Mark Hawkes) 

Monday, 9 March

Isleham Washes - 42 Avocet, 30 Snipe (Paul Whiteman)

Pidley Golf Course - Woodcock, Raven (Russell Watkins) 

Sunday, 8 March

Etton pits - ad sum Mediterranean Gull, 2 Ruff, Cetti's Warbler singing, Firecrest along South Drain (Hugh Wright)

Grafham Water - 8 Great Northern Diver, 2 Common Scoter, 2 Caspian Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Kingfishers Bridge - Great Egret, Avocet, 3 Egyprian Geese, 7 Redshank. Also 8 Corn Bunting between A11 and Swaffham Prior (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 7 March

Ferry Meadows - 2 ad sum Mediterrranean Gull; drake AMERICAN WIGEON from Meadow View platform (Don Gardener)

Berry Fen - 12 Sand Martin (James Hanlon)

Grafham Water - Short-eared Owl at lagoons briefly (JP Hook) 

 

Friday, 6 March

Grafham Water - 2 Little Ringed Plover, fem Common Scoter, 6 Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken area - 10 Marsh Harrier to roost, 2 Bittern to roost, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Barn Owl, Little Owl calling, 5 Pintail, Whooper Swans to roost (Christoph Zöckler)

From Wednesday, 4 March: Dernford Reservoir -  2 Shelduck, 3 Pintail, male Scaup, Oystercatcher over (Alan Harris)

Tuesday, 3 March

Overcote - 2 Sand Martin around Webb's Hole Sluice (Roger Hardie)

Monday, 2 March

Ferry Meadows CP -2 Sand Martin reported

Paxton Pits - Little Ringed Plover (Martin Davies) 

Bakers Fen - 8 White-fronted Geese, 2 Stonechat nearby (Kevin Wilson)

Wicken area - 4 Barnacle Geese, 2 Pintail,  500 Golden Plover over, 400 Fieldfare, 8 Chiffchaff (Christoph Zöckler)

Milton CP - drake Scaup (Jon Heath) 

Isleham Washes - 3 Redshank, 22 Avocet, 50 Snipe (Paul Whiteman) 

Sunday, 1 March

Grafham Water - Kittiwake, Red-necked Grebe, Whooper Swan, 6 Great Northern Divers, 5 Avocets, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Over - 973 Black-tailed Godwit (Duerden Cormack) 

Saturday, 28 February

Ouse Washes, Fortrey's Hall - male Smew, Spotted Redshank (Brendan Doe)

Friday, 27 February

Ouse Washes, Earith - Spotted Redshank with Black-tailed Godwit flock (Brendan Doe)

Thursday, 26 February

Fowlmere RSPB - male DARTFORD WARBLER in front of reedbed hide 08.05h, seen near the turning for the hide at 08.25h, before flying across the track and into dense cover. No further sign by 11.00 (Alan Collins, Ade Cooper)

Ouse Fen - Swallow reported 

Monday, 23 February

Wicken area - 2 Crane, fem Hen Harrier, 2 Stonechat, 6 Cetti's Warbler heard (Kevin Wilson)

Sunday, 22 February

Ouse Washes - Spotted Redshank, Ruff with Black-tailed Godwit (Brendan Doe)

Cam Washes - 10 White-fronted Geese reported

Wednesday, 18 February

Fen Drayton - 6 Russian White-fronted Goose,  9 Barnacle Gees, 24 Egyptian Geese among 131 Greylags on field south of entrance road to RSPB reserve (Peter Leonard)

Eldernell - 11 Great Egret, 18 Little Egret, 2 Cattle Egret to roost, 2 Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl (Charlie Kitchin) 

Tuesday, 17 February

Eldernell - 2 Long-eared Owl reported 

Saturday, 14 February

Murrow - just to the north-west, south-west of Parson Drove, 50+ White-fronted Geese, 3 Tundra Bean Geese, 2 Barnacle Geese amogst thousands of Pink-footed Geese (Mike Weedon)

Cam Washes - 10 White-fronted Geese (Jon Heath)

Smithy Fen - Green Sandpiper, Pintail, Shoveler on flood (Marilyn Peterkin)

Lockspits Mere - 2 pair of Crane, Water Rail (Tracey Graves) 

Ouse Washes -  4 Tundra Bean Geese, 2 White-fronted Geese by 100ft pumping Station, 2 Smew at Oxlode (Brendan Doe) 

 

Wednesday, 11 February

Fen Drayton Lakes - 5 Tundra Bean Geese in filed south-west of Bailey bridge (Richard Allsion)

Wicken Fen - 17 White-fronted Geese (Alan Fersht) 

Fowlmere - White-fronted Goose with greylags in field opposite Spring Hide (Andy Day)

Tuesday, 10 February

Ouse Washes - FERRUGINOUS DUCK (Kevin Taylor)

Monday, 9 February

Isleham Washes - 3 Avocet (Paul Whiteman)

Cottenham Long Drove - Knot, 11 Green Sandpiper (Brendan Doe) 

Wednesday, 4 February

Wicken area - 25 Marsh Harrier, Bittern, Merlin, Barn Owl, Bearded Tit, Grey Wagtail (Christoph Zöckler et al.) 

Sunday, 1 February

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake Smew on Far Fen Lake, 100 Black-tailed Godwit, 22 Pintail, 3 Great Egret, Barn Owl (Richard Allison)

Adventurer's Fen - 11 Marsh Harrier, ringtail Hen Harrier to roost (Christoph Zöckler) 

Saturday, 31 January

Nene Washes - drake AMERICN WIGEON just north west of Lord's Holt (Andrew Gardener)

Sutton North Fen - 38 Tundra Bean Geese, 40 White-fronted Geese, 60 Barnacle Geese (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Fen - 2 Crane and 2 more over reported 

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Barnacle Geese (Peter Leonard) 

Friday, 30 January

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake Smew reported on far Fen Lake

Wicken area - Bittern to roost, Peregrine, Barn Owl, Bearded Tit, 1800 Lapwing (Christoph Zöckler) 

Thursday, 29 January

March - 12 Branacle Geese, 20 Tundra Bean Geese with flock of c.2000 Pink-footed Geese on farmland between the townand Coates (David Hopkins)

Wednesday, 28 January

Eldernell - 4 Long-eared Owl, 52 Bewick's Swan, 18 Crane, 1500 Pink-footed Geese over (Josh Jones)

Hobson's Park  - up to 3 Peregrine over the lake (Alan Fersht) 

Wicken area - 26 Marsh Harrier to roost across four locations (Christoph Zöckler) 

Monday, 26 January

Ferry Meadows - drake AMERICAN WIGEON on grazing marsh, Common Scoter on Gunwade Lake (Richard Palmer)

Sunday, 25 January

Ferry Meadows - drake AMERICAN WIGEON on Gunwade Lake (m.o.)

Fen Drayton Lakes - drake Smew on Far Fen Lake, ad Caspian Gull on Ferry Lagoon, Merlin (James Hammond)

Saturday, 24 January

Ferry Meadows - drake AMERICAN WIGEON on Gunwade Lake (Matt Webb)

Chain Corner - FERRUGINOUS DUCK reported

Sutton North Fen - Tundra Been Geese & albifrons White-fronted Geese reported 

Friday, 23 January

Paxton Pits - Sanderling (Terry Brown)

March Farmers - 47 Tundra Bean Geese, 1800 Pink-foot Geese, 23 Bewick’s Swan (Jonathan Taylor) 

Eldernell -16 Great Egret, 16 Little Egret to roost, 3 Long-eraed Owl, Short-eared Owl (Charlie Kitchin) 

Thursday, 22 January

Swafham Bulbeck - Raven on the recreation ground this afternoon (Paul Craske)

Wednesday, 21 January

Nene washes - 1400 Pink-footed Geese reported onto the washes this evening

Tuesday, 20 January

Coates - 24 bewick's Swan to the east, south of A605 (Charlie Kitchin)

Goosetree - 302 Whooper Swan, also 2500 Lapwing in the area (Charlie Kitchin) 

Nene Washes WeBs and area - 2573 Whooper Swan, 56 Bewick's Swan, 460 Black-tailed Godwit, 600 Pintail, 15,000 Lapwing, 14,000 Wigeon, 62 Crane, 236 Pochard, 68 Ruff, 16 Marsh Harrier reported

Monday, 19 January

Thorney Dyke - 2 Bewick's Swan with 57 Whooper Swan nearby (Paul Bolton) 

Sunday, 18 January

Milton CP - drake Scaup (David Harris)

Colne Fen GP - redhead Smew, 2 Great Egret, 5 Siskin (Steve Cooper); also drake FERRUGINOUS DUCK (Mark Ward)

Sutton North Fen - 42 Tundra Bean Geese, 39 White-fronted Geese on arable (Steve Cooper); also 4 Bewick's Swan (Mark Ward)

Earith Washes - 2 Water Pipit (Mark Ward)

Monday, 19 January

Sutton North Fen - 42 Tundra Bean Geese (Mark Ward)

Saturday, 17 January

Grafham Water - 8 Great Northern Diver, drake Common Scoter, 2 Bewick's Swan, 3 Stonechat (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 16 January

Grafham Water - 9 Great Northern Diver, imm Scaup, 2 Common Scoter, Caspian Gull, 3 Bewick's Swan, 2 Stonechat (Mark Hawkes) 

Paxton Pits - 2 Red-crested Pochard (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 male Smew (Rachel Lennard)

Eldernell - Hen Harrier, 8 Great Egret, 8 Little Egret to roost (Jonathan Taylor)

Wednesday, 14 January

Ferry Meadows - WOODLARK still present with Skylarks though often difficult. Best viewing when the birds are south or the railway line (Paul Bolton, Howard Butler); approx. What3words ///data.firms.risen.

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Goosander, 5 Goldeneye, 2 Great Egret, Stonechat (Terry Brown)

Tuesday, 14 January

Ferry Meadows - WOODLARK again just north of the CP, difficult viewing (Paul Bolton)

Hare Park - Raven over (Kevin Wilson)

Monday, 12 January

Fen Drayton Lakes - Red-breasted Merganser west end of Ferry Lagoon (Richard Allison)

Ouse Washes - pair of Smew from Cadbury Hide reported 

Milton CP - FERRUGINOUS DUCK, Scaup (Jon Heath)

Sunday, 11 January

Paxton Pits - FERRUGINOUS DUCK, Goosander on Island Pit, 6 Red-crested Pochard, Caspian Gull on Pumphouse Pit, 2 Tree Sparrows over (Richard Patient) 

Ferry Meadows - WOODLARK reported

Cambridge Research Park - Woodcock (Andrew Tongue)

Saturday, 10 January

Long Road, Cambridge - Firecrest (Alan Fersht)

Ferry Meadows - WOODLARK with Skylark flock just west of the CP (Will Bowell)

Southy Wood - 6 Crossbills reported

Milton CP - Scaup reported

Fen Drayton Lakes - Red-breasted Merganser, Merlin, Goosander also 2 Smew on St. Ives GPs viewed from the reserve (Joe Parham)

Grafham Water - 8 Great Northern Diver (Richard Ostler)

Cambridge Research Park - 2 White-fronted Geese, Gosander reported

Diddington Pits - drake RING-NECKED DUCK, fem Scaup, redhead Smew, 10 Goldeneye (Duerden Cormack)

Wicken Fen - 21 Marsh Harrier, 2 Bittern, 250 Fieldfare to roost, Barn Owl (Christoph Zöckler)

Hare Park - 3 Tawny Owl hooting (Kevin Wilson)

Eldernell - Water Pipit (Toby Carter)

Friday, 9 January

Long Road, cambridge - singing Firecrest reported

Wednesday, 7 January

Grafham Water - Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Great Northern Diver reported 

Milton CP - drake Scaup on Todd's Pit (Jon Heath)

Monday, 5 January

Fordham/Chippenham - DARTFORD WARBLER still present, just north of the fen (Duncan Poyser)

Sunday, 4 January

Peakirk - viewed from NE of Sissons Farm, the SNOW GOOSE departed Deeping Lakes roost at 08.17h with Whoopers and crossed River Welland SE into Cambs airspace for c.15 seconds before returning to Lincs (Mark Hawkes); another brief sortie into Cambs space at 16:30h (JP Hook)

Grafham Water - Red-breasted Merganser, Common Sandpiper (Andy Frost); Woodcock over at dusk, 7 Great Northern Diver, Peregrine, 9 Pintail (Mark Hawkes)

March Farmers - 33 Ruff (Duncan McNiven)

Dernford Reservoir - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER, Siberian Chiffchaff, 10 Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, White-fronted Goose, Water Rail (Steve Cooper)

Saturday, 3 January

Long Road, Cambridge - vocal Firecrest reported this morning but not relocated

Hobson's Park - Siskin and Redpoll on alders by busway reedbed, 49 Lapwing over (Ollie King) 

Cambridge Research Park - Caspian Gull (Andrew Tongue)

Dernford Reservoir - probable YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER briefly (Richard Palmer)

Grafham Water - 2 Black-necked Grebe off Mander, Red-breasted Merganser, 4 Great Northern Diver, 3 Bewick's Swan, Caspian Gull, Jack Snipe flushed form ditch below dam (Mark Hawkes) 

Witcham - Raven over (Chris Boness)

 

Friday, 2 January

Southey Woods - 6 Crossbill (Eugene Flanz)

Knarr Fen Raod -  Bewick's swan (John Hague)

Maxey - 2 Cattle Egret at Cut (Chris Lines)

Nene Washes - 21 White-fronted Geese, 2500 Pink-footed Geese at March Farmers, 85 Crane moving between Eldernell and Knarr Fen, Cattle Egret (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - Red-breasted Merganser, drake Common Scoter north end of dam, distant juv Common Scoter Mander CP, Kittiwake west past Plummer CP, 5 Great Northern Diver, 3 Bewick's Swan, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Glossy Ibis, Cattle Egret (Nicola Ann)

Thursday, 1 January

Southey Woods - 3 Crossbill (Jonathan Taylor)

Thorney - 8 Bean Geese with 1400 Pink-footed Geese to the west of the Toll, 4 White-fronted Geese with 950 Pink-footed Geese at the end of the Dyke (Jonathan Taylor)

Dernford Reservoir - Siberian Chiffchaff by railway crossing (JP Hook) 

Kingfishers Bridge - Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 2 Treecreeper (Kevin Wilson)