Monday, 31 August 2026

Monday, 31 August

Dernford Reservoir - 2 TEMMINCK'S STINT, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Pink-footed Geese briefly (Richard Palmer) 

Grafham Water - 2 Sanderling briefly, Little Stint, Wood Sandpiper Gaynes Cove, Caspian gull (Mark Hawkes); Wheatear at dam, Cattle Egret over west, Whinchat at hill Farm, juv Spotted redshank, 14 Greenshank, Goldeneye (Andrew Tongue)

Ferry Meadows - fem type Redstart at Coney Meadows scrub (Don Gardener); imm WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over

Etton - Pied Flycatcher at Vergette Meadow, between south drain and stick pit (Hugh Wright) 

Cambridge Research Park - Osprey (Jon Heath); Pied Flycatcher (Lucas Burfield)

Ely Beet Factory - 9 Ringed Plover, 10 Black-tailed Godwits, 21 Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 5 Greenshank, 18 Ruff, 4 Dunlin (Simon Gillings) 

Hare Park - Hobby over (Kevin Wilson)

Fulbourn Fen - 3 Spotted Flycatchers (Kevin Wilson) 

Pymoor - 50 Crane into roost reported 


Sunday, 30 August 2026

Sunday 30 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - Wood Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover on Moore Lake, Bittern over the busway, reported; ad Caspian Gull on Ferry Mere (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Osprey over 09:52h (Mark Hawkes); Wood Sandpiper at Plummer (Andrew Tongue); Spotted Redshank at Savages (Stewart Short)

Milton airfield - 2 Whinchat (Matt Webb) 

Etton/Maxey pits - Whinchat in willow saplings on western side (Jonathan Taylor) 

Dernford Reservoir - HONEY BUZZARD over north (Jon Heath) 

Saturday, 29 August 2026

Saturday 29 August

Grafham Water - RED-NECKED PHALAROPE this evening (Matthew Rodgers); 8 Spotted Redshank early morning, Redstart at Savages Wood, Wood Sandpiper near lagoons, Little Stint, 14 Greenshank, 4cy Caspian Gull, Whinchat (Mark Hawkes)

Milton airfield - Whinchat, Wheatear, Curlew over (Josh Jones); 4 Wheatear (Paul Bolton) 

Castor Hanglands - male Redstart, 2 Pied Flycatcher (Jonathan Taylor)

Dernford Reservoir - 2 TEMMINCK'S STINT, favouring east side of reservoir (Stephen Dutton) 

Woodhurst - male Redstart at south end of Butt Lane (Duncan McNiven) 

Friday, 28 August 2026

Friday 28 August

Dernford Reservoir - 2 TEMMINCK'S STINT, 4 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Dobson)

Wicken Fen - juv GOSHAWK chasing Teal, also at Burwell Fen Green Sandpiper, Wheatear (Christoph Zöckler)

Isleham Wash - Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Paul Whiteman) 

Grafham Water - Little Stint (Mark Hawkes) 

Thursday, 27 August 2026

Thursday 27 August

Grafham Water - Little Stint (Andrew Tongue); 7 Turnstone in Dudney Creek (Mark Hawkes); 26 Turnstone through early morning (Richard Patient)

Etton/Maxey pits - 8 Turnstone, 4 Ruff (Hugh Wright); 4 Black Tern through (Josh Jones)

Beeby's East pit - Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5 Yellow Wagtail (Stephen McAvoy) 

Wednesday, 26 August 2026

Wednesday 26 August

Beeby's East Lake - Curlew Sandpiper (Josh Jones); Common Sandpiper (Chris Jones)

Eldernell - 17 Cattle Egret (Andrew Gardener)

Grafham Water - Little Stint, Turnstone, Caspian Gull at dam (Mark Hawkes);14 Black Tern from Mander CP reported

 

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Tuesday, 25 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - NIGHTJAR hunting around junction of Middle Fen and River Drive (Richard Thomas)

Grafham Water - Little Stint north end of dam (Peter Swinden); Curlew Sandpiper, Turnstone, 2 Barnacle Geese, Whinchat, Wheatear (Mark Hawkes); also Little Ringed Plover (Andrew tongue)

Etton/Maxey pits - Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 3 Ruff, Dunlin (Josh Jones)

Farcet Fen - Sandwich Tern & Swift over (Kevin Eldred) 

Monday, 24 August 2026

Monday 24 August

Welches Dam - ad male HONEY BUZZARD (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - juv Turnstone, 17 Egyptian Geese, Caspian Gull, Peregrine over (Mark Hawkes) 

Sunday, 23 August 2026

Sunday, 23 August

Chippenham Fen - 2 Tree Pipit, 1cy Redstart (Richard Dale) 

Fen Drayton Lakes - Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Great Egret from Coucher Hide (Pete Holt) 

Nuthatches at Hare Park (2 birds) and Anglesey Abbey (Kevin Wilson) 

Stow Cum Quy Fen - Water Rail (Kevin Wilson) 

Newmarket area - juv GANNET over (Paul Craske)

Grafham Water - Wheatear, 2 juv Yellow-legged gull, 12 Ruff, 4 Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Ringed Plover at the dam (Andrew Tongue) 

Litlington - 4 Wheatear (Geoff Barlow)

Hobson's Park - 2 Raven over  (Sabine Eckert)

Ouse Washes - Spotted Flycatcher, Crane, Snipe, Ruff (Rachel Lennard) 

Saturday, 22 August 2026

Saturday, 22 August

Grafham Water - Tree Pipit over east with Yellow Wagtails (Mark Hawkes)

Fulbourn Fen NR - 3 Spotted Flycatcher, Nuthatch (Kevin Wilson) 

Chippenham Fen - 2 Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher (Richard Dale) 

Friday, 21 August 2026

Friday, 21 August

Grafham Water - Knot near Marlow CP (Nigel Butler) 

Hobson's Park - Wheatear to east of pool, 2 Yellow Wagtail over, Kingfisher (Joanna Kubica) 

A peak count of 188 Raven at a South Cambs roost site recently (Steve Cooper)

Thursday, 20 August

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 2 Sanderling, 2 Dunlin, 5 Little Ringed Plover, Yellow-legged Gull at dam (Stewart Short); Redstart near Dudney Creek (Andrew Tongue)

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Wednesday, 19 August

Fen Drayton Lakes-  Greenshank, Common Sandpiper on Moore Lake (Terry Brown)

Grafham Water -  16 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Stewart Short); also juv Garganey in Dudney Creek, 10 Snipe (Mark Hawkes); juv Turnstone, ad Sanderling on dam (Andrew Tongue)

Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Tuesday, 18 August

Grafham Water - Osprey (Jon Roe)

Monday, 17 August 2026

Monday, 17 August

Grafham - 2 Sanderling on dam (Mark Hawkes)

Longstanton Lagoons - Glossy Ibis (Brendan Doe)

Sunday, 16 August

Bassingbourn Solar Farm - Wheatear (Gareth Rees)

Grafham Water - islandica Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Hawkes) 

Longstanton lagoons - Whinchat (Rachel Lennard)

Chippenham Fen - NIGHTJAR, 2 Tree Pipit (Richard Dale)  

Saturday, 15 August 2026

Saturday, 15 August

Horningsea - Osprey over noirth (James Hanlon)

Grafham Water - 3 Turnstone though, 3 Hobby over, tree Pipit over, Golden Plover, 8 Greenshank, 13 Redshank (Mark Hawkes)

Etton pits - 2 juv Yellow-legged Gull, Ringed Plover (Josh Jones) 

Chippenham Fen - 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit briefly (Richard Dale) 

Friday, 14 August 2026

Friday, 14 August

Etton/Maxey pits - Turnstone, Greenshank, 5 Common Sandpiper, 10 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3 Avocet, 10 Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine (Hugh Wright)

Thursday, 13August

Cambridge Research Park - PIED FLYCATCHER, Bittern (Lucas Burfield)

Thursday, 13 August 2026

Wednesday, 12 August

Etton/Maxey pits - 4 Greenshank,, 3 Common Sandpiper, 11 Green Sandpiper, juv Yellow-legged Gull (Paul Bolton)

Grafham Water - 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull, 50 Yellow Wagtail (Andrew Tongue) 

Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Tuesday, 11 August

Etton - WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN briefly, headed north (Paul Bolton)

Ouse Fen - Black-necked Grebe reported

Stow Cum Quy Fen - 2 Raven (Kevin Wilson) 

Monday, 10 August 2026

Monday, 10 August

Etton/Maxey pits - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 4 Black-tailed Godwit (Hugh Wright); later, up to 5 Green Sandpiper, also 5 Ringed Plover (Paul Bolton)

Sunday, 9 August 2026

Sunday, 9 August

Etton pits - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 16 Snipe (Hugh Wright)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 juv Curlew, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Great Egret, Cattle Egret at Moore Lake (Sarah Howlett, Pete Holt); Caspian Gull, 36 Cattle Egret at Ferry Mere (Sarah Howlett) 

Burwell Fen - Quail singing brielfy, juv Garganey, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Golden Plover, 30 Yellow Wagtail (Brendan Doe)

Saturday, 8 August

Etton - Spotted Flycatcher (Hugh Wright); Osprey over Pig Jaw Pit, also Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull (Joe Taylor)

Friday, 7 August 2026

Friday, 7 August

Fen Drayton Lakes - Bittern over Elney Lake reported

Thursday, 6 August 2026

Thursday, 6 August

Ouse Fen - Black-necked Grebe  viewable from Lockspit's Mere viewpoint (Paul Whiteman)

Somersham GP - juv Greenshank (Russell Watkins) 

Monday, 3 August 2026

Monday, 3 August

Grafham Water - 13 Black Tern from Plummer CP this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Gamlingay - Merlin nearby (Mark Thomas) 

Sunday, 2 August 2026

Sunday, 2 August

Chippenham Fen - 1cy NIGHTJAR ringed this morning, Quail singing just north-west, pre-dawn (Richard Dale)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Cattle Egret, 4 Great Egret, 6 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper at Moore Lake, Nuthatch (Pete Holt)

Etton - juv Caspian Gull at Rectory Pit (Paul Bolton)

Nene Washes - Golden Plover, Bittern (Charlie Kitchin) 


Saturday, 1 August

Witcham - BEE-EATER over south (David Hopkins)

Somersham GP - Turtle Dove (Russell Watkins)


Saturday, 1 August 2026

Friday, 31 August

Grafham Water - 2 Black-necked Grebe, Greenshank, juv Mediterranean Gull, Caspian Gull, 10 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)