Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Monday, 7 July

Fen Drayton Lakes - c.700 Sand Martins, 200+ Swifts, Bittern briefly, 2 Little Egrets this morning (Mike Everett); 10+ Green Sandpiper, 14 Little Egrets this evening (Dave Anderson)

Cam Washes, Waterbeach - Little Ringed Plover, 3 Avocet, 5 Common Sandpiper, 6+ Green Sandpiper, 60+ Sand Martins, 2 Common Tern, Barn Owl, Marsh Harrier (David and Jonathan Heath)

Grafham Water - GREEN-WINGED TEAL in south-west corner of lagoons this evening, also female Mandarin, ad limosa Black-tailed Godwit (Jono Leadley)

Monday, 7 July 2008

Sunday, 6 July

Grafham Water - Green Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden GP - Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, male Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Cam Washes, Waterbeach - Little Egret, Hobby, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Greenshank, Dunlin, 5+ Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Turtle Dove (Jonathan & David Heath)

Chain Corner - 59 Little Egret, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Hobby, Spotted Redshank over (Richard Patient)

Paxton Pits - 3+ Little Egret, Peregrine over, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Turtle Dove (Jamie Wells)

Maxey GP - 7 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 9 Little Ringed Plover, 16 Common Tern (Mike Weedon)

Saturday, 5 July

Cam Washes, Upware - 5 Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Black-tailed Godwit (Gavin Paterson)

Paxton Pits - 6 Little Egret, Garganey, ad Yellow-legged Gull, Greenshank, Grasshopper Warbler still singing (Jamie Wells)

Chain Corner - 85 Little Egret, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, Hobby (Richard Patient)

Cottenham - 5 Crossbill at Monksilver Nursery c.15:ooh (Viv Connor)

Friday, 4 July 2008

Friday, 4 July

Grafham Water - ad RED-NECKED GREBE in Dudney Creek 09:25h (Colin Addington)

Monks Wood - c.30 Crossbills 05:30h (Mike Everett)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Green Sandpiper, Turtle Dove (Gavin Paterson)

Paxton Pits - 14 Little Egret, 1+ Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 20+ Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Common Tern, Grasshopper Warbler singing (Jamie Wells)

Landbeach - Quail this morning (Dick Newell)

Thursday, 3 July 2008

Thursday, 3 July

Grafham Water - ad RED-NECKED GREBE off Mander CP (Colin Addington); asleep in Littless Creek 13:30h (Mark Hawkes); Black Tern, Greenshank (Jono Leadley); 13 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Monks Wood - 11 Crossbills (Mark Hawkes)

Cambridge - Common Tern over the Cam along the college backs 06:30h (Peter Young)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Hobby (Andy Cotton)

Sutton Gault - 47 Little Egrets this evening (Mark Peck)

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Wednesday, 2 July

Stow Longa - BLACK STORK circling over Bicton Ind. Estate at 09:52-10.10hr, moving west (Allen Pocock)

Caldecote - Quail calling from a wheat field nearby 08:00h (Richard Jones) again at 19:00h, heard from field entrance at TL14648862 (Duncan Ritchie)

Cambridge - Crossbill south over Huntingdon Road 13:00h (Richard Hall)

Witcham - 3 Crossbills over this morning (David Hopkins)

Nr. Monks Wood - c50 Crossbills in a private wood with no public access (Richard Broughton)

Nene Washes - Corncrake calling 21:20h (Luise Addison)

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Tuesday, 1 July

Nene Washes - SPOONBILL again on High Wash two fields west of Dog-in-a-Doublet to 08:30h at least (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - Greenshank (Colin Addington)