Wednesday, 27 May

Burwell - Spotted Flycathcer in a privet garden (Paul Craske); male Garganey on the Fen (Andy Hannaford)

Sunday, 24 May

Paxton Pits - PURPLE HERON flew in c.11:15h, seen in flight only (JP Hook)

Grafham Water - 3 Sanderling on dam (JP Hook)

Burwell Fen - Bittern, 3 Greenshank, 3 Avocet, 2 Kingfisher, Corn Bunting (Christoph Zöckler)

Saturday, 23 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling in dam (Mark Hawkes)

Ellington - Spotted Flycatcher (Stuart Elsom)

Etton/Maxey - 4 Sanderling, 14 Ringed Plover at Pig Jaw Pit (Hugh Wright) 

Isleham wash - Black Tern (Paul Whiteman)

Brampton - imm WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over (Jamie Wells) 

 

Friday, 22 may

Grafham Water - 2 Common Scoter from dam (Mark Hawkes); 2 Great Northern Diver reported

Etton/maxey - Curlew Sandpiper on Pig Jaw Pit (Hugh Wright); Kittiwake briefly, 6 Sanderling (Josh Jones); PURPLE HERON on the central meadow of the reserve (Hugh Wright) 

Eldernell/March Farmers - Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Gardener)

 

Thursday 21 May

Etton/Maxey - 3 Sanderling on Pig Jaw Pit (Hugh Wright)

Bedford Purlieus -  Spotted Flycatcher (Phill Hicks)

Wednesday, 20 May

Etton/Maxey - Grasshopper Warbler just west of Pig Jaw Pit, 2 Sanderling on Pig Jaw Pit, Glossy Ibis on the reserve (Josh Jones); PURPLE HERON from south hide on the reserve (Chris Orders)

Beebys East pit - Sanderling (Stephen McAvoy) 

Kingfishers Bridge - Glossy Ibis (Bruce Martin)

Grafham Water - 4 Sanderling on dam (Mark Hawkes) 

 

Tuesday, 19 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling on dam, 3 Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Cuckoo (Terry Brown)

Etton/Maxey - Glossy Ibis, Sanderling on the reserve, 3 Knot through Pig Jaw Pit, PURPLE HERON by the Cut briefly (Hugh Wright); reported later on the reserve but elusive and mobile

Monday, 18 May

 Great Chishill - HONEY BUZZARD departed roost 06:40h (Alan Harris)

Sunday, 17 May

Magog Trust - Quail singing in wheat crop (Mike Foley) 

Etton - Turnstone on Pig Jaw Pit still (Hugh Wright) 

Saturday, 16 May

Etton - 3 Sanderling, Turnstone, 13 Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Magog Trust - Quail singing in wheat crop (Mike Foley) 

Somersham GP - Bittern, Little Ringed Plover (Russell Watkins) 

Ouse Fen - FERRUGINOUS DUCK at Lockspit's Mere, also Turtle Dove at Overcote Marina (Carlos Davies) 

Friday, 15 May

Eldernell - Spoonbill over (Andrew Gardener); Spoonbill over again and Redwing reported

Etton - Sanderling, Turnstone, Common Sandpiper, 12 Ringed Plover, Avocet on Pig Jaw Pit (Hugh Wright)

Thursday, 14 May

Etton - 4 Turnstone, 12 Ringed Plover, 6 Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper at Pig Jaw Pit reported, also Wheatear, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail.

Wednesday, 13 May

Grafham Water - 6 Kittiwake (Richard Patient); 8 Arctic Tern through (Richard Patient, Mark Hawkes)

Etton - 2 Sanderling, 8 Avocet, 7 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper on Pig Jaw Pit (Hugh Wright) 

Tuesday, 12 May

Fen Drayton Lakes - BLACK-WINGED STILT on Ferry Lagoon (Richard Thomas)

Grafham Water - 3 Turnstone (Nigel Butler); 2 Sanderling (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 11 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling on dam this morning (Colin Addington); but not this evening. Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes) 

Etton - Turnstone on Pig Jaw Pit (Hugh Wright) 

Sunday, 10 May

Paxton Pits - male RED-FOOTED FALCON briefly from Hayden Hide, trying to relocate (JP Hook)

Gamlingay - 13 DOTTEREL from lower gate (Mark Thomas) 

Somersham - 2 Glossy Ibis over north (Russell Watkins) 

Grafham Water - 4 Great Northern Diver, 2 of which departed, 3 Arctic Tern through (Mark Hawkes)  

March Farmers - Knot, 5 Grey Plover (Jonathan taylor)

Etton - Turnstone, 3 Common Samdpiper, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Wheatear (Hugh Wright); also Grey Plover through (Josh Jones)

Saturday, 9 May

Ouse Fen - Osprey reported

Fowlmere - Glossy briefly (Rob Wilson)

Grafham Water - 5 Great Northern Diver, drake Common Scoter, 2 Sanderling (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - Spoonbill, Whimbrel, 4 drake Garganey (Brendan Doe)

Wicken area - 3 Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank at Burwell Fen, 2 Greenshank, Ruff on Baker's Fen (Chris Brown) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Tundra Bean Goose (Jeremy Lindsell) 

Friday, 8 May

Ouse Fen - TEMMINCK'S STINT on cell 10 (Andrew Tongue)

Etton - 2 Wood Sandpiper, 3 Avocet, 3 Red-crested Pochard, Goosander (Hugh Wright)

Southey Wood - Spotted Flycatcher, Crossbill, Nightingale (Kerry Harrison) 

Thursday, 7 May

Gamlningay - 5 DOTTEREL 13:40h (Tim Watling)

Burwell Fen - 4 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank (Andy Hannaford) 

Nene Washes - 4 Whooper Swan, 3 Cattle Egret, 2 Whimbrel over, Curlew, Fieldfare (Charlie Kitchin)

Grafham Water - Wheatear, Cuckoo (John Roe) 

Wednesday, 6 May

Gamlingay - 5 DOTTEREL still (Paul Whiteman)

Cam Washes, Upware - Bar-tailed Godwit (Richard Dale)

Tuesday, 5 May

Gamlingay - 5 DOTTEREL (Duncan McNiven)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver (John Roe)

Southey Wood - Spotted Flycatcher (Paul Bolton); also 2 Crossbill, Nightingale (Mike Weedon)

Etton - 3 Red-crested Pochard, Little Ringed Plover, Avocet on Pig Jaw Pit reported 

Monday, 4 May

Caxton Gibbet - ringtail Hen Harrier over north (JP Hook)

Fen Drayton Lakes Grey Plover on Moore Lake (Richard Palmer)

Etton - Sanderling, Tiurnstone, Avocet, 24 Ringed Plover at Pig Jaw Pit, 6 Wood Sandpiper briefly on the reserve (Hugh Wright); Whimbrel on Pig Jaw Pit (Mike Weedon)

Eldernell - Spoonbill over (Charlie Kitchin)

Grafham Water - 6 Great Northern Diver (Matk Hawkes) 

 

 

Sunday, 3 May

Ouse Fen - 28 Hobby, Wood Sandpiper, Grey Pover, Spotted Redshank (Mark Thomas)

Wicken area - 6 Hobby, 2 Bittern in flight (David Wege)

Burwell Fen - 2 Avocet, Garganey, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 5 Wood Sandpiper (Kevin Wilson) 

Etton - Little Tern briefly at Pig Jaw Pit, also Turnstone, Curlew through (Hugh Wright) 

Hobson's Park - 2 Common Tern through, Peregrine over, 5 Swift (Joanna Kubica)

Saturday, 2 May

Gamlingay - 11 DOTTEREL (Mark Thomas) 

Ferry Meadows - Whinchat (Don Gardener)

Tanholt - Bar-tailed Godwit (Chris Jones); also 2 Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper (Andy Golding)

 

Friday, 1 May

Ouse Washes - PURPLE HERON reported flying north from Four Balls Farm

Gamlingay - 11 DOTTEREL (m.o.) 

Burwell Fen - 7 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 9 Ruff, 2 Avocet, Cuckoo (Kevin Wilson)

Etton/Maxey Pits - Wood Sandpiper, Ruff on the reserve (Hugh Wright); On Pig-Jaw Pit Bar-tailed Godwit on  (Chris Lines) and Greenshank (Hugh Wright)

Tanholt - Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Sandpiper (Chris Jones)

March Farmers - Garganey, 2 Avocet, Greenshank reported

Smithy Fen - 2 Wood Sandpiper (Marilyn Peterkin) 

Thursday, 30 April

Gamlingay - 11 DOTTEREL (Mark Thomas) 

Etton - fem RING OUZEL, 5 Black Tern, Little Gull, Greenshank, 4 Ruff, 3 Common Sandpiper  at Pig Jaw pit, also 2 Wood Sandpiper, Ruff at the pits (Hugh Wright)

Hobson's Park - Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper (Joanna Kubica) 

Grafham Water - Arctic Tern through, 12 Common Sandpiper, 2 Great Northern Diver (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - 7 Wood Sandpiper, 8 Greenshank reported 

Wednesday, 29 April

Dry Drayton - Hobby over (Mike Clydesdale)

Ouse Washes - Curlew Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank at Weleche's Dam (Brendan Doe)

Etton/Maxey Pits - Wood Sandpiper, Black Tern, 3 Greenshank, 3 Ruff, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit briefly, 8 Greenshank briefly (Hugh Wright)

Tanholt - Wood Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Avocet briefly (Chris Lines)

Beeby's West pit - Greenshank (Chris Jones)

Gamlingay - 9 DOTTEREL (Mark Thomas) 

Marsh Lane GP - Nightingale (Michale Bending)

Witcham - Barn Owl, Cetti's Warbler (Chris Boness) 

Tuesday, 28 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Garganey, Wood Sandpiper at Ferry Mere (James Hammond)

Tanholt - Wood Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit still (Chris Jones)

Etton/Maxey Pits - 2 Arctic Tern, Bar-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper, Whooper Swan (Hugh Wright); Black Tern, 3 Hobby (Chris Lines)

March Farmers - 3 Greenshank, Whimbrel, 4 Cattle Egret (Charlie Kitchin) 

Monday, 27 April

Etton/Maxey Pits - Wood Sandpiper (Hugh Wright)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - 3 Wood Sandpiper still, reported

Tanholt - Wood Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper (Chris Jones)

Eldernell - RING OUZEL near car park (Andrew Gardener)

Hobson's Park - Channel Wagtail still (Joanna Kubica) 

Sunday, 26 April

Burwell Fen - 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, Cuckoo; also Cuckoo at Adventurer's Fen, Little Owl at Priory Farm (Kevin Wilson)

Dry Drayton - Yellow-billed Magpie of unknown origin briefly in a private garden (Michael Clydesdale)

Maxey Pits - Osprey over (Jake Williams)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - 3 Wood Samdpiper on pool to south of sluice (Mark Hawkes) 

Tanholt North Pit - Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruff (Chris Jones) 

Berry Fen - Wood Sandpiper briefly, 2 Whimbrel, 2 Garganey, Greenshank, 4 Bittern, Crane (Andrew Tongue)

Hobson's Park - brief snatch of Grasshopper Warbler song this morning (Andrew Dobson)

Swifts reported from Cambridge (David Wege) and Cottenham (Marilyn Peterkin); Berry Fen (Andrew Tongue)

Saturday, 25 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - PECTORAL SANDPIPER  at north end of Ferry lagoon (Mark Piercy)

Gamlingay - 7 DOTTEREL from here (Andy Clifton)

Soham - Grasshopper Warbler behind the railway station (Andy Hannaford)

Ouse Fen - Garganey (Mark Thomas); 2 Bittern, Cuckoo (Sara Anker); also 3 Hobby reported 

Grafham Water - 2 Black Tern, 2 Greenshank, Whimbrel, 6 Great Northern Diver, Nightingale (Mark Hawkes)

Tanholt - Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank (Chris Jones)

Eldernell - Grasshopper Warbler south-west of Lord's Holt (Andrew Gardener) 

Burwell Fen - Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Ruff (Kevin Wilson) 

Cambridge Research Park - 2 Bittern over reported 

Hobson's Park - Channel-type Wagtail still (Joe Parham) 

OUse Washes RSPB - Bittern, Cuckoo, 16 Whooper Swan, Spoonbill briefly, Spotted Redshank (Andrew Tongue)

Friday, 24 April

Paxton Pits - PURPLE HERON over north at dusk, 6 Black Tern, 4 Little Gull (Richard Dale);

Denford reservoir - 16 Black Tern, Cuckoo (Andrew Knights)

Great Wilbraham - fem RING OUSEL (Chris Boness)

Grafham Water - Little Gull, GreatNorthern Diver , Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Simon Gillings) 

Hobson's Park - Channel-type Wagtail still, Yellow Wagtail, 4 Little Ringed Plover (Pete Holt); 2 Wheatear (Joanna) 

Gamlingay - 6 DOTTEREL still, from lower gate path (JP Hook); Tree Pipit over (Mark Thomas); also Wheatear, 2 Raven over (Simon West)

Etton/Maxey Pits - Whimbrel briefly, reported

Nene Washes - Whimbrel, Blue-headed Wagtail between March Farmers and Plover field, 3 Little Gull through (Paul Bolton); 2 Black Tern over Reed Fen, reported

Ferry Meadows - 2 Black Tern on Gunwade Lake, reported 

Tanholt - Bar-tailed Godwit (Chris Jones) 

Ouse Fen - 2 Bittern, Crane, 15 Hobby, 3 Garganey (Chris Boness) 

Cambridge - Wheatear off Fen End Road (Mike Wood) 

Woodwalton Fen - Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler (John & Sue Wells) 

Thursday, 23 April

Grafham Water - 3 Great Northern Diver, 5 Sanderling, Greenshank, Dunlin, 3 Whimbrel through (Mark Hawkes); 2 Little Gull, 2 Greenshank (Andrew Tongue)

Tubney Fen - 8 Swift through (Chris Brown)

Burwell Fen - 2 Garganey, 2 Ruff, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Curlew (Richard Dale)

Abington -Swift over (Andy Merryweather)

Cambridge - 4 Swift over Pembroke College (Daniel Osborne) 

Gamlingay - 6 DOTTEREL west of road to Gransden 14:30h. Park on gravel by field gate (Mark Thomas)  

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Garganey, 2 Little Gull, 3 Ruff, White Wagtail, Nightingale, Hobby, 3 Common Tern (Dean Harlow)

Ferry Meadows - 2 Green Sandpiper at Ham Mere (Chris Park); Little Gull at Gunwade reported

Tanholt pit - Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank (Chris Jones) 

Nene Washes - 2 Whimbrel at March Farmers (Charlie Kitchin); 8 Hobby over Lords Holt, Bar-tailed Godwit, 7 Ruff, Curlew at Eldernell reported. 

Hobsons Park - Channel-type Wagtail, Wheatear, 4 Little Ringed Plover (Joe Parham) 

Wednesday, 22 April

Gamlingay - 6 DOTTEREL west of road to Gransden 14:30h. Park on gravel by field gate (Mark Thomas) 

Tubney Fen - 6 Bar-tailed Godwit briefly, pair of Garganey, Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Little-ringed Plover (Richard Dale)

Nene Washes - BLACK-WINGED STILT at March Farmers Jonathan Taylor); Swifts over Low Wash, Cuckoo at Lord's Holt (Andrew Gardener); Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit at Eldernell (Charlie Kitchin)

Eynesbury - Peregrine over (Andrew Tongue)

Grafham Water - 2 Great Northern Diver, 8 Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Common Sandpiper (Tim Rea)

Long Drove, Cottenham - 6 Green Sandpiper (Marilyn Peterkin) 

Hobsons Park - Channel-type Wagtail (Stuart Jack)  

Tuesday, 21 April

Gamlingay - 6 DOTTEREL west of road to Gransden 14:30h. Park on gravel by field gate (Mark Thomas); 3 still present 20:00h (Tim watling)

Etton/Maxey pits - 2 Bar-tailed Godwit over (Hugh Wright)

Swaddywell - Nightingale (Ray Mcdonnell)

Hobson's park - 2 Common Tern through (Gareth Rees)

Hemmingford Grey - Mandarin (Becky Webb) 

Grantchester Meadows - Cuckoo reported  

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Swift, Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 4 Common Tern, Nightingale (Gill Parrish) 

Monday, 20 April

Devil's Dyke - RING OUZEL in the Ditch farm area, 13 Wheatear opposite the farm, south-west of the Dyke (Richard Dale)

Long Drove - 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover at the north pools (Peter Leonard)

Grafham Water - Sandwich Tern briefly (Colin Addington)

Roswell Pits, Ely - Arctic Tern through reported

Yaxley -  Swift over (Kevin Eldred)

Grafham Water - 5 Swift (Mark Hawkes) 

Sunday, 19 April

Eldernell - 3 Spoonbill over, Cuckoo (Andrrw Gardener)

Nene Washes - Sponnbill, 2 Avocet at Low Wash, Grasshopper Warbler past Lords Holt (Paul Bolton); after 4pm, 3 Spoonbill, also Greenshank and Curlew through (Mike Weedon)

Etton/Maxey pits - pair of adult Mediterranean Gull through, pair of Kittiwake, 2 Common Sandpiper (Hugh Wright); Turtle Dove over towards the village reported

Burwell Fen - 3 Garganey, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 8 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (Richard Dale)

Tubney Fen - pair of Garganey, Dunlin, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Richard Dale) 

Saturday, 18 April

Wilbraham Fen - 2 GrasshopperWarbler, Cuckoo, Wheatear briefly (Simon Gillings)

Teversham Fen - 6 Wheatear, Whinchat (Jon Heath) 

Etton/Maxey pits - Whimbrel over (Hugh Wright); 2 Avocet off Green Lane, Garden Warbler reported

Eldernell pit - Cuckoo, Curlew (Andrew Gardener)

Milton airfield - 8 Wheatear (Paul Bolton) 

Friday, 17 April

March Farmers - 4 Cattle Egret, 22 Whooper Swan (Charlie Kitchin)

Whittlesey - HOOPOE reported from a private garden 

Ouse Fen - Garganey, Great Egret (Mark Golley) 

Kingfishers Bridge - Common Tern through (Kevin Wilson) 

Wicken Fen - 2 Crane, Cuckoo, Bearded Tit (Kevin Wilson) 

Thursday, 16 April

Grafham Water - 2 Arctic Tern 7pm (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 15 April

Eton/Maxey pits - Red-crested Pochard (Malcolm Holley)

Great Gidding - RING OUZEL off Mill Road (Andy Frost) 

Tuesday, 14 April

Castor Hanglands - 9 Bullfinch (Paul Bolton); Common Redstart, 11 Nightingale singing, Grasshopper Warbler, 2 male Mandarin reported. 

Milton airstrip - 7 Wheatear (Don Gardener) 

March Farmers - Blue-headed Wagtail with 45 Yellow Wagtail west of March Farmers (Charlie Kitchin) 

 

Monday, 13 April

Hare Park - Crane over east (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - Cuckoo (Colin Addington)

Stourbridge Common - Cuckoo, Tanwy Owl (Rob Scoffin)

Ferry Meadows - 4 Wheatears along railway line towards Mill Lane (Don Gardener)

Maxey - male  Pied Flycatcher by the Cut, just west of green bridge on Woodgate Lane (Hugh Wright); also Cuckoo calling (Ray Bowell)

Whittlesey - Peregrine on St Marys (Dick Burnham) 

Kingfishers Bridge - 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Segde Warbler (Kevin Wilson)

Fen Drayton Lakes - ad Little Gull (Richard Palmer) 

Sunday, 12 April

Hobson's Park - Wheatear, Willow Warbler, 2 Barnacle Geese (Joe Parham)

Southey Wood - pair of Crossbill (Mark Hawkes) 

Milton airfield - 6 Wheatear reported

Chesterton Fen - RING OUZEL still, viewable from the towpath (Jon Heath)

Etton/Maxey pits - 17 White Wagtail reported 

Milton - Raven over Fen Road (Mike Wood) 

Swaffham Bulbeck Lode - Raven over, Whitethroat (Kevin Wilson)

Devil's Dyke - 8 Wheatear (Kevin Wilson)

Saturday, 11 April

Grafham Water - ad Little Gull, 6 Common Tern briefly, 5 Great Northern Diver, 50+ House Matins amongst 500+ hirundines (Mark Hawkes)

Northstowe - RING OUZEL at secondary college car park (Ed King)

Chesterton Fen - RING OUZEL (Simon Gillings) 

Swaffham Bulbeck Fen - 3 Wheatear (Giles Merritt)

Wicken & Burwell Fens - 3 Bittern, Grasshopper Warbler, Crane over (Christoph Zockler)

March Farmers - 6 Common Tern reported 

Friday, 10 April

Hobson's Park - Wheatear (Stuart Jack); Great Egret (Alan Fersht)

Cherry Hinton fishing lakes - Lesser Whitethroat (Iain Webb) 

March Farmers - significant numbers of Yellow Wagtails, 32 in one of several groups reported

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, 10 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail (Tim Rea)

Burwell Fen - 2 Redpoll (Christoph Zöckler) 

Thursday, 9 April

Hobson's park - Wheatear sotuh of flood (Stuart Jack)

Devul's Dyke - RING OUZEL ranging between A14 and Ditch Farm. Also Fieldfares, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler in the area (Richard Dale) 

Hope Farm - RING OUZEL (Duerden Cormack)

Wednesday, 8 April

Ouse Washes - juv WHITE-TAILED EAGLE (m.o.)

Hobson's Park - Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 2 Barnacle Geese, 6 Great-crested Grebe (Alan Fersht); Sedge Warbler (Joe Parham)

Upware - 3 Wheatear reported

Woodhurst - 4 Raven over (Duncan McNiven)

Welney - Hobby through (David Hammond)

Nene Washes - 4 Garganey on Low Wash (Paul Bolton) 

Blackbush Drove - 2 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Eldred 

Shepreth Moor NR - Cuckoo (Iain Webb) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Nightingale, 3 Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Bittern, Kingfisher (Christoph Zöckler)

Grafham Water - ad Little Gull at Dudney Creek 15:50h, Grasshopper Warbler, 3 White Wagtail, 10 Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat, 6 Great Northern Diver still (Mark Hawkes)

 Ouse Washes - Spoonbill from Rickwood Hide (Roger Hardie) 

Guyhirn - Wood Sandpiper nearby (as per birdguides)

Castor Hanglands - Nightingale singing, Swallow (Bob Titman)

Farcet Fen - 5 Wheatear along Straight Drove (Paul Bolton) 

Woodwalton Fen - Willow warblers, Sedge Warblers, Reed Warbler reported 

Longstanton - Wheatear (Rachel Lennard)

Cambridge Research Park - 3 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 16 Cetti's Warbler reported 

 

Tuesday, 7 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over low (RichardThomas)

Hare Park - Raven, Swallow over (Kevin Wilson)

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver (Andrew Tobgue); 8 Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover reported. 

Molesworth - Yellow Wagtail, Swallow (Stewart Short)

Upware - 3 Wheatear, White Wagtail reported 

Nene washes - drake Garganey on pool by Dog-in-a-Doublet reported

Maxey pits - 3 House Martin (Chris Lines)

Hobson's Park - Reed Warbler at skatepark pond (Stuart Jack) 

Ellington - House Martin, Swallow (Stuart Elsom) 

Monday, 6 April

Hobson's Park - Great Egret, Water Rail, 2 Barnacle Geese (Joe Parham)

Soham - Swallow (Mat Wilson)

Oxlode - Jack Snipe (James Hammond)

March Farmers - 6 Yellow Wagtail nearby reported

Grafham Water - Great Northern Diver, Common Scoter, 5 Yellow Wagtail, Little Ringed Plovers, Common Sandpiper reported

Sunday, 5 April

Hobson's Park - Great Egret (Stuart Jack)

Tubney Fen - Little Ringed Plover, 2 Curlew, Snipe; 48 Fieldfare on White Fen (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - male Wheatear, 2 Swallow, 3 Sand Martin (Andrew Knights) 

Saturday, 4 April

Hobson's Park - Great Egret (Stuart Jack)

Etton - 2 Avocet on flood by Green Lane (Hugh Wright)

Etton/Maxey pits - Osprey, 2 Swallow,  Willow Warbler, Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Chris Lines); White Wagtail, 2 fem Goosander (Ian Musselbrook)

Nene washes - Merlin (Charlie Kitchin) 

Friday, 3 April

Hobson's Park - 2 Swallow (S Eckhart)

Grafham Water - Kittiwake from Mander CP 08:46h (Mark Hawkes) 

Thursday, 2 April

Grafham Water - pair of Red-breasted Merganser early morning (Richard Patient / Mark Hawkes); also 3 Great Northern Divers, Kittiwake (Mark Hawkes)

Hobson's Park - Great Egret on the pool (Gareth Rees)

Etton Pits - Common Sandpiper, White Wagtail reported 

Ouse Fen - Sedge Warbler reported

Ouse Washes - pair of Garganey from Stockdale's Hide (Richard Palmer); Bittern booming, Spotted Redshank, 200 islandica Black-tailed Godwit reported from Oxlode

Wednesday, 1 April

Beeby's Pit - 8 White-fronted Geese in fields to the south (Chris Jones)

Grafham Water - 8 Great Northern Diver, Sedge Warbler, 60 Sand Martin,  5 Swallow, 6 Avocet (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 31 March

Newmarket - 2 Curlew in field to the south-east, near golf course, c.TL635605, from B1061 (Kevin Wilson)

Isleham Wash - 24 Avocet, Swallow (Paul Whiteman) 

Cambridge - Peregrine at the University Library (Roger Horton) 

Ouse Washes, Fortrey's Hall - 5 Crane, 6 White-fronted Geese, Spotted Redshank (Brendan Doe)

 

Monday, 30 March

Sawston - Merlin off Babraham Road (Andrew Knights) 

Clopton - Wheatear, fem Merelin (Mark Thomas)

Isleham Wash - Little Ringed Plover, 19 Avocet (Paul Whiteman)

Cottenham Long Drove - Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper (Marilyn Peterkin) 

Southey Wood - pair of Crossbill reported 

Sunday, 29 March

Etton/Maxey pits - White Wagtail, 2 Goldeneye (Chris Lines); 2 Green Sandpiper (Stewart Short)

Saturday, 28 March

Fowlmere - Osprey over, Willow Warbler along the Shep (Ade Cooper)

Dry Drayton - Hobby over (Rowena Baxter)

Burwell - Black Redstart reported froma private garden 

Friday, 27 March

Beeby's Pit - 8 White-fronted Geese (Chris Jones)

Wicken Fen - Bittern heard, Little Owl on Priory Farm (Kevin Wilson) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Kittiwake (Richard Grimmett) 

Thursday, 26 March

Ouse Washes - Scaup, 3 Caspian Gull (Brendan Doe)

Nene Washes - Kittiwake east of March Farmers, Spotted Redshank, 440 Shoveler, 670 Black-tailed Godwit. At Eldernell roost, 60 Little Egret, 14 Great Egret, 2 Cattle Egret (Charlie Kitchin)

Litlington - 3 Wheatear (Geoff Barlow) 

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)