Thursday, 30 April 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

Thursday, 16 April

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

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

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 2026

Friday, 3 April

Hobson's Park - 2 Swallow (S Eckhart)

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

Thursday, 2 April 2026

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 2026

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)