Grafham Water - GLOSSY IBIS briefly this morning (Richard Patient); Wood Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)
Saturday, 5 September 2026
Friday, 4 September 2026
Friday 4 September
Fen Drayton Lakes - PECTORAL SANDPIPER from Coucher Hide on Moore Lake (Dave Anderson)
Grafham water - Osprey over north shire at midday (Mark Hawkes)
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Thursday 3 September
Fen Drayton Lakes - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER from Coucher Hide on Moore Lake (Richard Thomas)
Grafham Water - Osprey over north shore 18:19h (Mark Hawkes)
Eldernell - 2 Redstart still (Andrew Gardener)
Milton Airfield - Whinchat (Chris Orders)
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
Wednesday 2 September
Grafham Water- Wood Sandpiper, 9 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 4 Ruff, 4 Little Ringed Plover at Gaynes Cove (Stewart Short)
Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Snipe, 80 Swallow, 75 Shoveller (Terry Brown)
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Tuesday, 1 September
Grafham Water - Common Sandpiper, Ruff, 7 Dunlin, 22 Ringed Plover, 30 Yellow Wagtail, Yellow-legged Gull at the dam (Tim Rea); Wood Sandpiper, 7 Green Sandpiper at Gaynes Cove (Mark Hawkes)
Eldernell - 2 Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher (Andrew Gardener)
Etton/Maxey pits - juv Mediterranean Gull, juv Yellow-legged Gull, Common Sandpiper (Joe Taylor)
Paxton Pits - 9 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Snipe, 155 Lapwing (Terry Brown)
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
Monday, 17 August 2026
Monday, 17 August
Grafham - 2 Sanderling on dam (Mark Hawkes)
Longstanton Lagoons - Glossy Ibis (Brendan Doe)