Monday, 6 February 2012

Monday, 6 February

Crown Lakes, Farcet - 3 redhead Goosanders (Steve Dudley)

Mepal - fem Scaup on Outdoor Centre pit (David Hopkins)

Teversham Fen - pair of Peregrine (Colin Kirtland)

Nene Washes - redhead Smew, Woodcock, 2 Stonechat (Steve Dudley); also 2 Tundra Bean Geese, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, c.12 Short-eared Owls, 2 further Stonechat (Mark Missen)

Oxlode - Jack Snipe, ringtail Hen Harrier (Stuart Sharp)

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Sunday, 5 February

Little Paxton - 3 Pink-footed Geese south over village (Jamie Wells)

Paxton Pits - Bittern (Ian Dawson); 8 Smew, 12 Barnacle Geese, Common Sandpiper (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells); c.80 Yellowhammer in stubble adjacent to concrete road (Roger Hughes)

Eldernell - Short-eared Owl, Merlin (Matt Francis)

Little Shelford - Firecrest (Ali Cooper)

Tanholt GP - Sanderling, Grey Plover (Mike Weedon, Will Bowell)

Burwell Fen - male Merlin, rintail Hen Harrier, 2 Short-eared Owls (Andrew Knights)

Little Wilbraham Fen - 2 Peregrine (Saimon Clark)

Saturday, 4 February

Grafham Water - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER from fishing lodge, 1st-winter Shag on dam, 2 Sanderling, 3 Dunlin and Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); 2 GREAT NORTHERN DIVERS between Hill Farm and Savages Creek (Andy Massey); redhead Smew (James Pipe)

Cawdle Fen Way - GREAT GREY SHRIKE perching in bushes along the railway line between the rail bridge over the river and where the 'Ipswich line' joins the Kings Lynn line south of Ely station (Mark Grooms, Andrew Balmford)

Needingworth GP - 11 Smew, Green Sandpiper and 17 Black-tailed Godwits (Mark Eaton)

Cambridge - 12 WAXWINGS at the corner of Bateman St. and Hills Rd. (Paul Pulham)

Cam Washes - Goosander, 25 Little Grebes, Shelduck (David and Jon Heath)

 Ouse Fen - ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD,  Hen Harrier (Richard Thomas)

Mepal Pit - female SCAUP, 2 Smew (David Hopkins)

Paxton Pits - White-fronted Goose, 12 Barnacle Geese, 13 Smew (Jamie Wells)

Eldernell - 8 COMMON CRANE river bank west of Decoy wood,  2 Tundra Bean Geese (Steve Dudley)

Fowlmere - female Merlin, 7 Lesser Redpoll (Ade Cooper)

Tanholt GP - Sanderling, Green Sandpiper (Josh Jones)

Hartford - male Merlin towards Wyton (James Pipe)

Friday, 3 February 2012

Friday, 3 February

Oxlode - 44 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE and PINK-FOOTED GOOSE with Bewick's Swans in fields c.TL494852 (Mark Eaton); distrubed and flew in the direction of Welney early afternoon (Paul Mason)

Grafham Water - 2 GREAT NORTHERN DIVER from Hill Farm CP, 3 Smew at Savage's Creek (Derek Jackson)

Long Drove, Haddenham - c.200 Stock Doves (Paul Mason)

Stanley Park, Peterborough - 1st win Mediterranean Gull 10:55h (Brian Stone)

Ramsey Heights - 4 Tree Sparrows in a private garden (Dale Bateman)

Thursday, 2 February 2012

Thursday, 2 February

Bluntisham - ringtail Hen Harrier nearby (Mark Eaton)

Oxlode - 44 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE and PINK-FOOTED GOOSE with Bewick's Swans in fields c.TL494852 at 11:30h (David Hopkins)

Cawdle Fen Way, Little Thetford - GREAT GREY SHRIKE at Ely end (Rob Partridge)

Ferry Meadows - pair of Goosander (Matt Webb)

Nene Washes - 2 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE east of Eldernell CP, 7 ad Cranes east of Decoy Wood, 7 Short-eared Owls (Duncan Ritchie)

Roswell Pits, Ely - 6 Whooper Swans (Colin Kirtland)

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Wednesday, 1 February

Nene Washes - 2 BEAN GEESE with swans at western end of March Farmers (Charlie Kitchin); 2 Dunlin, 2 Egyptian Geese (Peter Beesley); ringtail Hen Harrier (Mark Hows)

Fen Drayton Lakes - ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD over north-west 13:40h (Andy Cotton)

Oxlode - 41 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE and a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE with Bewick's Swans in fields near potato packing farm 14:45h before flying to the Ouse Washes 15:00h (David Hopkins)

Burwell Fen - 5+ Short-eared Owls (Tim Dee)

Wicken Fen - male & 3+ ringtail Hen Harriers, 7 Marsh Harriers, 2 Barn Owl, 2 Woodcock (Colin Kirtland, Nick Davies)

Paxton Pits - KNOT, Common Sandpiper, 3 Goosanders (Martin Davis)

Tuesday, 31 January

Cawdle Fen Way - GREAT GREY SHRIKE at Ely end, near where railway crosses the Ouse (David Hopkins)