Friday, 7 December 2012

Friday, 7 December

Ouse Washes - Cetti's Warbler at Gault Hole (Mark Eaton)

WAXWINGS today: 38 at Eland Way, Cherry Hinton; 3 at Werrington; 3 at Over; 2 over Ouse Washes; c.50 at Church Street, Stapleford; 30+ at egde of Foxton by Fowlmere Road; 30+ Huntingdon Road, Cambridge;

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Thursday, 6 December

Ouse fen - Bittern (Matt Mellor); pair Stonechat (James Hanlon)

Milton - 1st win GLAUCOUS GULL, ad Caspian Gull, 4+ Yellow-legged Gull in field north of Butt Lane again (James Hanlon)

Maxey Pits - 19 Goosander (Richard Astle)

Woodcock today: over Broadway in Peterborough; Barton; Windsor Road in Cambridge; 2 Thriplow Meadows

WAXWINGS today: 140+ at Crab & Winkle pub, Werrington; small numbers over Needingworth; 8 at Church End Road, Cherry Hinton; 1 Little Shelford; 30 Stretham; 2 at Giffords Way, Over; 20+ at Collier Close, Ely; in Cambridge 60 at Histon Road Cemetery, 5 over Windsor Road, 25+ West Cambridge site, c.120 at Storey's Way


Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Wednesday, 5 December

Ouse Fen - 2 PENDULINE TIT (Duncan Ritchie); 3 birds reported, with a second imm./fem bird present alongside the known imm. male and imm./female.

Maxey Pits - 13 Goosander (Richard Astle)

WAXWINGS today: 101 at Crab & Winkle pub, Werrington; 33 at Cage Lane, Stretham; 38 at Church Road, 48 Hauxton; 20+ Haddenham; 15 at Hurdles Way, Heathfield; 3 Cottenham; in Cambridge c.40 Histon Road Cemetery, 20+ Kendal Way, 20+ Stourbridge Common; 40+ at Henley Way, Ely; 25 Fowlmere;

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Tuesday, 4 December

Ouse Fen - 2 PENDULINE TIT from 11:30h (Phil Rogers)

Milton - 1st win GLAUCOUS GULL, 2 Caspian Gulls at the tip and then in fields north of Butt Lane (Richard Johnson)

WAXWINGS today: 79+ at Crab & Winkle pub, Werrington; 1 over West Cambridge site; 60+ by A605 c.1 mile east of B671 to Elton; 25 at Cage Lane, Stretham; 81 at Church Road, Hauxton; 12 over Searle Street, Cambridge; c.25 at Bell Road, Bottisham; 25 on Elton Furze GC;

Monday, 3 December 2012

Monday, 3 December

Ouse Fen - 2 fem/imm PENDULINE TITS (Jeremy Lindsell et al.). Please stick to public access. People are parking at TL370726 - that will find you near the bridleway gate (closest access point)at the end of Long Drove off Overcote Road. The Grid reference for the bird "hotspot" is TL375735, just head north along bridleway. 

Fowlmere - Bittern (Gary Thornton)

Wicken Fen - Peregrine, Woodcock (Dave Palmer)

Wlibraham Fen - Short-eared Owl, 2 Bar Owl, c.20 Golden Plover (John Roote)

WAXWINGS today: 50+ Longthorpe; 7 Bottisham; 20 Needingworth; 73 at Cage Lane, Stretham; 42 Crab and Winkle Pub, Werrington; 9 outside sewage works at Somersham; 1 at Brimley Road, Cambridge

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Sunday, 2 December

Ouse Fen - 2 fem/imm PENDULINE TITS (Richard Thomas et al.). Park just off Overcote Road at its junction with Long Drove: TL370713. If you're comfortable with driving the rough Long Drove road, then park close to Brownshill Staunch at TL371726. Once there, go under the conveyor belt between the tall (Cypress??) trees as noted above. An obvious track crosses the large field beyond the bridalway gate heading towards the canal. The birds were either along the canal or in the smallish area of reeds off to the northwest of this track at ca. TL378737.

Grafham Water - 2 Bewick's Swan, 8 Goosander, Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - Bittern, Bearded Tit (Gavin Paterson)

Fowlmere - male Bearded Tit (Ade Cooper); male Merlin, Bittern, 14 Siskins (Doug Radford)

Nene Washes - 6 Crane, Short-eared Owl (Matt Webb)

WAXWINGS today: 7 Trumpington; 20 at Kings Grove, Barton; Fletton BP; Jeavons Wood;

Saturday, 1 December

Southey Wood - 15 Crossbills, Woodcock (Matt Webb)

Castor Hanglands - 30 Bullfinch, Woodcock (Matt Webb)

Fowlmere - male Merlin (Matt Mellor)

Wicken Fen - 2 male & 2 ringtail Hen Harrier, Woodcock (David Heath)

WAXWINGS today: 11 at Norfolk Road, Ely; 14 West Cambridge site; 2 Little Paxton; 18 at Church Road, Hauxton; 2 Somersham; 8 Cromwell Golf Club; 25+ Barton; 30 Oakington; 1 Glinton; 2 Comberton