Tuesday, 30 April 2019

Tuesday, 30 April

Paxton Pits - drake AMERICAN WIGEON on Pumphouse Pit East (John Raven)

Cambridge Research Park - Bar-tailed Godwit briefly, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Jon Heath)

Ouse Washes - BLACK-WINGED STILT from Cadbury hide, 3 Great White Egret, 10 Greenshank, 5 Garganey, 10+ Yellow Wagtail, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Whooper Swan, Cuckoo, Hobby (Mark Hawkes)

Northstowe - male Scaup, Cuckoo (Hugh Venables)

Small numbers of Swifts reported widely in recent days

Monday, 29 April 2019

Monday, 29 April

Paxton Pits - drake AMERICAN WIGEON on Pumphouse Pit East. Also 3 Red-crested Pochard, Caspian Gull, Hobby, Cuckoo (Martin Davis); Avocet (John Raven)

Ouse Washes RSPB - BAIKAL TEAL (Neil Bramwell)

Cam Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit north, Greenshank, 2 Wheatear, 2 cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler, 20+ Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 10+ Yellow Wagtail (Jon Heath)

Grafham Water - Arctic Tern, 3 Goldeneye, 2 Caspian Gull (Mark Ward)

Tubney fen - 2 Short-eared Owl (Kevin Wilson)

Wicken Fen area - Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Kevin Wilson)

Dernford Reservoir - Arctic Tern briefly, 3 Mandarin, Whimbrel, 2 Common Sandpiper (Steve Cooper)

Hobson's Park - Arctic Tern (Jeffrey Stenning)


Sunday, 28 April 2019

Sunday, 28 April

Grafham Water - Turnstone (Mark Hawkes); 6 Arctic Terns (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - drake AMERICAN WIGEON on Pumphouse Pit East (Gary Rawlings)

Ouse Washes RSPB - male BAIKAL TEAL briefly before disappearing into the vegetation, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Whooper Swan (Louise Bacon)

Ferry Meadows - 2 ad Mediterranean Gull, 4 Arctic Tern (Matt Webb)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Hobby, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Swift, Arctic Tern (Sarah Howlett)

Saturday 27 April

Grafham Water - 32 Arctic Terns (Mark Ward); Caspian Gull (Matthew Rodgers)

Friday, 26 April 2019

Friday, 26 April

Devil's Dyke - Whinchat, 8 Wheatear, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Yellow Wagtail south of B1102 (Richard Dale)

Ouse Washes - 2 Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 140 Ruff, Peregrine (Mike Burdekin)

Waterbeach - Hobby through (Ian Burfield)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Hobby, Cuckoo, 3 Avocet, 4 Black-tailed Godwit (Gill Parrish)

Grafham Water - Sanderling, Swift (Colin Addington)

Thursday, 25 April 2019

Thursday, 25 April

Grafham Water - 2 Sanderling, Grey Plover, 2 Caspian Gull, 3 Whimbrel over east (Mark Ward); also 3 Black Tern, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes RSPB - Wood Sandpiper, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 135 Ruff (Jonathan Taylor)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 20 Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Mike Everett)

Paxton Pits - Little Gull, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Common Sandpiper (Martin Davis)

Little Wibraham Fen - 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Cuckoo (Ben Greig)

Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Wednesday, 24 April

Paxton Pits - Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Martin Davis); Garganey, Bar-tailed Godwit over, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Black Tern through, 3 Red-crested Pochard, Grasshopper Warbler, c.70 Fieldfare (Jamie Wells)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Little Gull, Cuckoo (Don Gardener); Black Tern (Matt Webb)