Thursday, 31 July 2008

Thursday, 31 July

Grafham Water - 52 Black Terns off Mander CP until departing east at c.08:40h (Jono Leadley); 56+ Black Tern off Mander CP but mobile, Mediterranean Gull, c.30 Yellow-legged Gull, Turnstone over east, 5 + Common Sandpiper, Mandarin east towards lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Isleham Water Meadows - 8 Green Sandpiper, 7 Common Sandpiper, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 7 Black-tailed Godwit (Ben Green)

Cam Washes - 12+ Avocet, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, c.20 Green Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Ruff (Jonathan Heath); Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Jonathan Heath & David Heath)

Paxton Pits - 2 Wood Sandpiper, 11 Green Sandpiper, Turnstone heard (Jamie Wells); 26 Little Egret, 11 Common Sandpiper, 50 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Yellow Wagtail (Martin Davis)

Wednesday, 30 July 2008

Wednesday, 30 July

Hardwick Wood - Hobby (Clive Sinclair)

Maxey GP - 3 Little Stint, 2 Ruff, 3+ Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpiper (John Saunders et al.)

Grafham Water - Osprey over north at midday (per rarebirdalert.com)

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Tuesday, 29 July

Maxey GP - 2 Ruff, Golden Plover, 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper (Brian Stone)

Wicken Fen - 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, fem Marsh Harrier, Turtle Dove (Peter Stockwell)

Paxton Pits - Greenshank, 5 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, 11 Ringed Plover this evening (Jamie Wells); 26 Little Egret, 9 Common Sandpiper, 64 Yellow-legged Gull, juv Yellow Wagtail, 383 Lapwing earlier in the afternoon (Martin Davis)

Toft - family of 4 Spotted Flycatchers (Clive Sinclair)

Cam washes, Waterbeach - 10 Little Egret, 10 Avocet, 20+ Green Sandpiper, 5+ Common Sandpiper, 5+ Snipe, Ruff, Dunlin, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank (Richard Hall)

Monday, 28 July 2008

Monday, 28 July

Paxton Pits - 26 Yellow-legged Gull, Turtle Dove, Hobby, Golden Plover, 3+ Green Sandpiper, 8+ Common Sandpiper, 27+ Little Egret (Martin Davis)

Eversden Wood - 5 Buzzard (Clive Sinclair)

Grafham water - 2 juv Mediterranean Gull off lagoons, Hobby over, 3 Common Sandpiper, 10+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Cottenham, Long Drove - Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Little Owl, Barn Owl (David Heath)

Sunday, 27 July 2008

Sunday, 27 July

Paxton Pits - 19 Little Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, 8+ Common Sandpiper, 6+ Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, & Buzzard over Diddington village (Jamie Wells); 25 Little Egret (Mark Hawkes); 5 Turnstone, 80+ Yellow-legged Gull, juv Mediterranean Gull this evening (Richard Patient)

Cam Washes - 5 Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Oystercatcher, 10 Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank, 10 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper (Jonathan and David Heath)

Grafham Water - 2 juv Mediterranean Gulls, 11+ Yellow-legged Gulls, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton - 4 Little Egret, Hobby, 5 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, fem Red-crested Pochard (Richard Patient)

Saturday, 26 July 2008

Saturday, 26 July

Witcham - BLACK STORK circled over at 10:10hr (David Hopkins)

Dry Drayton - possible Black Stork over 14:40h but very distant (Ken Hook)

Grafham Water - 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls off Mander mid-morning (Jono Leadley)

Cambs Washes - 9 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 7 Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 9 Golden Plover, Oystercatcher, 4+ Yellow Wagtail (Andy Massey)

Ferry Meadows - ad summer BLACK-NECKED GREBE on Overton lake this evening (Matt Webb)

Friday, 25 July 2008

Friday, 25 July

Paxton Pits - 3 adult Curlew Sandpipers, 16 Little Egrets, 4 Green Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 2 Ruff, (Martin Davis) 2 juv Mediterranean Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper (Jono Leadley)

Ouse Fen - Curlew on Cell 1 this morning (Andy Cotton)

Maxey GP - 8 Green Sandpiper, 7 Common Sandpiper (Brian Stone)