Friday, 7 May 2021

Friday, 7 May

Hemingford Grey - pair of Mandarin (Mike Bending)

Ouse Washes - 2 Hobby, 2 Whooper Swan (Stu Elsom)

Crooked Drove to High Fen Drove, Warboys/Chatteris - 2 Wheatears (Stu Elsom)

Paxton Pits - Whinchat, drake Garganey, 3 Hobby (Mark Brandon) 

Kimgfishers Bridge - Turnstone, 10 Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Whinchat, Cuckoo, 6 Common Tern, 2 Hobby, Little Owl (Derek Benton)

Ouse Fen - drake Garganey, 13 Hobby through (Time Rea); 2 Whinchat, Grasshopper Warbler (Richard Thomas)

Nene Washes - Cattle Egret, 2 Whimbrel, 4 Greenshank, Whooper Swan (Nathan Stimpson); Wood Sandpiper, 3 Garganey, Hobby, 2 Barnacle Geese, possible Broad-billed Sandpiper heard after dark (Mark Hawkes, Duncan Poyser)

Wicken - Hobby, drake Garganey (Brendan Doe)

Thursday, 6 May 2021

Thursday, 6 May

Burwell Fen - 2 male Garganey, 2 fem Wheatear (Andy Hannaford)

Bakers Fen - Little Owl, 2 Barn Owl, 2 Garganey, 3 Cuckoo, 6 Cetti's Warbler, Hobby (Steve Dutton)

Cambridge - 2 Shelduck over Coldham's Common (Iain Webb)

Dernford Reservoir - Arctic Tern & Wheatear through (Carl Howard)

Ramsey - Hobby (John Wells)

West Brook - 23 Ringed Plover, Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper (Brendan Doe)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cuckoo (Richard Thomas)

Wilburton - Turte Dpve (David Narion)

Over - Grasshopper Warbler in the orchard (Lewis Hawkins)

Cam Washes - GLOSSY IBIS, Wood Sandpiper (Nigel Lister)

Devil's Dyke - Whinchat, Wheatear (Nigel Lister)

Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Wednesday, 5 May

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 8 Common Sandpiper, White Wagtail (Mark Hawkes) 

Devil's Dyke - RING OUZEL, Whinchat, 3 Wheatear, Fieldfare about halfway between A14 & B1102 (Richard Dale)

Cambridge - 2 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail from path from Grantchester Road to Coton Road (Peter Louden)

Burwell Fen - 8 Whimbrel, 3 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtial, 5 Swift, Common Tern (David Wege); GLOSSY IBIS briefly this evening (Brendan Doe)

Nene Washes - Cattle Egret, 2 Wheatear, Crane, 2 Whimbrel, 4 Greenshank, Hobby, Bittern, Cuckoo at March Farmers, 4 Crane, Bittern, Lesser Whitethroat, 10 Swift at Eldernell (Derek Benton)

Ouse Washes - 3 Great White Egret, 2 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, Whetaear, Whinchat between Mepal & Welches Dam (Stu Elsom)

Crooked Drove/High Fen Drove, Warboys/Chatteris - fem Merlin, 2 Wheatear (Stu Elsom)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Little Stint (Richard Thomas); Turtle Dove singing, 2 Arctic Tern (Mike Everett); Grasshopper Warbler (Jon Heath)

Marsh Lane GP - 3 Arctic Tern, Hobby nearby (Mike Everett)

Paxton Pits - 3 Hobby (Stu & Jill Elsom)

West Brook - Avocet, 13 Dunlin, 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 8 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Tern, Hobby, White Wagtail (Mark Hawkes); Sanderling & Avocet through this evening (Mark Thomas)

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Tuesday, 4 May

Grafham Water - 2cy male PIED FLYCATCHER at north end of dam, 7 Arctic Tern, Turnstone, 2 Sanderling, 5 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 16 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Over - RING OUZEL along the Ouse between Middle & Mare Fens (Richard Thomas)

West Brook - 13 Dunlin, 9 tundrae Ringed Plover, 6 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Thoams)

Cambridge - Osprey over Coldhams Lane 17:00h (Iain Webb)

Smithey Fen - 65 Dunlin through in two groups, 4 Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Brendan Doe, Ian Ellis)

Kingfishers Bridge - Turnstone, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Brendan Doe)

Bury Lug Fen - Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Richard Allison)

Monday, 3 May 2021

Monday, 3 April

Fen Drayton - male RING OUZEL still along Great Ouse between Ferry Lagoon and Mare Fen (Richard Thomas)

West Brook - 2 Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, White Wagtail (Mark Thomas)

Sunday, 2 May 2021

Sunday, 2 May

Kingfisher's Bridge - Great White Erget, Common Sandpiper, Little Gull, 10 Swift, RING OUZEL (Carlos Davies); Wheatear, White-fronted Goose (Graeme Reed)

Wicken area - Hobby, Greenshank, 4 Whimrel, Cuckoo, Little Owl, 3 Stonechat, Grasshopper Warbler (Carlos Davies)

Devil's Dyke - RING OUZEL north-west of A14, 4 Wheatear between A14 and Ditch Farm (Richard Dale)

Over - RING OUZEL but ethe Ouse (Jeremy Lindsell)

Paxton Pits - 1s Little Gull, Whimbrel, Great White Egret, 2 drake Red-crested Pochard, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 5 Nightingale, 3 Hobby (Jamie Wells); 2 Cuckoo, 2 Nightingale (Terry Brown)

March Farmers - Cattle Egret, Wheatear (Alan Bull)

Mare Fen - RING OUZEL (Richard Thomas)

Fen Daryton Lakes - Nightingale, Green Sandpiper, Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Cattle Egret (Andrew Maxwell)

Ouse Fen - 2 GLOSSY IBIS, Greenshank (David Nation)

Saturday, 1 May 2021

Saturday, 1 May

Dernford Reservoir - 2 Arctic Terns briefly, 6 Yellow Wagtail (Steve Dutton)

Burwell - Whinchat & Wheatear at Heath Road, 2 Whimbrel just NW of Reach, Grasshopper Warbler at Reach Lode, Raven south over Reach around 10:20h, drake Garganey, Green Sandpiper at Burwell Fen (Richard Dale); GLOSSY IBIS, Cuckoo, 9 Swift (Isaac Swift)

Haddenham - pair of Siskin (Babs York) 

Barton - Wheatear south of the village (Roger Hardie)

Ouase Washes - 8 Whimbrel, Greenshank, Avocet, Jack Snipe at Witcham Gravel (Duncan McNiven)

Kimngfsihers Bridge - 4 Arctic terns, 2 juv Little Gull, Hobby, Ring Ouzel, Wheatear. (David Nation)

Whittlesey - Laughing Kookaburra flew across recreation ground near Crescent Close 07:30h, also seen perched (Richard Allison). The origin of this certain escape is not yet known.