Friday, 30 April 2021

Friday, 30 April

Cambridge - 2 Raven over tennis Court Road (Clive T) and presumably the same two plus a third bird over Chesterton (Simon Gillings)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 Black Tern, Little Tern, Common Sandpiper, Cattle Egret, Cuckoo (Gill Parrish); Firecrest (Jonathan Taylor)

Paxton Pits - 2 Arctic Tern, Black Tern, Common Terns, Hobby, Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtail, 4 Nightingale, Grasshopper Warbler (Vince Lea & Louise Bacon); further Grasshopper Warbler, Nightingale and Cuckoo (Audrey & Gwyn Williams)

Thursday, 29 April 2021

Thursday, 29 April

Paxton Pits - 6 Arctic Tern through (Mark Ward) 

Grafham water - 3 Common Sandpiper, fem 'flava' type amongst the Yellow Wagtails (Mark Hawkes)

Kings / Abbots Ripton - male RING OUZEL by Bough Lane between the villages (Duncan Ritchie); also a fem RING OUZEL near Abbots ripton (Duncan McNiven)

Kingfishers Bridge - 5 Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2 Common Tern, 22 Swift, Wheatear (Gill Parrish & Don Donald)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Garden Warbler (Tracey Graves); 2 Black Tern (Pete Wood)

Longstowe - Avocet, Common Sandpiper (Pete Wood)

Dernford Reservoir - 11 Arctic Tern (Simon Gillings)

West Brook - Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper (Mark Thomas)

Ouse Fen - Wood Sandpiper (Jeremy Lindsell)

Smithy Fen, Cottenham - Wood Sandpiper, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 40 Yellow Wagtail (Brendan Doe) 

Fowlmere - 2 Wheatear near Manor Farm (Ian Dale)

Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Wednesday, 28 April

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, 2 Great Egret, Common Sandpiper (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Whimbrel, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); Sanderling (Colin Addington); ARCTIC SKUA through, also Curlew, 3 Greenshank through (Stu Elsom); 22 Arctic Tern over north, Whimbrel east (Mark Ward); 2 Sanderling, fem Black Redstart, 5 Whimbrel over (Mark Hawkes); RING OUZEL (Andrew Sharpe)

Paxton Pits - 11 Black Tern, 2 Arctic Tern (Geoff Barlow); 8 Arcitic Tern, 2 Great Egret, 5 Nightingale, Cuckoo, 2 Grasshopper Warbler (Duncan McNiven)

Burwell Fen - 9 Whimbrel, 5 Swift, 4 Wheatear, Hobby (David Wege)

Bakers Fen, Wicken - Spotted Redshank, Greenshank (Bob Humphrey)

Dernford Reservoir - 3 Arctic Tern, 2 Little Gull (Matt Mellor)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Black Tern, 4 Arctic Tern, Kittiwake through, Sanderling (Graeme Reed)

Etton Pits - 4 Sanderling (Hugh Wright); , Little Ringed Plover, 3 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (Paul Bolton)

Berry Fen - Wood Sandpiper, GLOSSY IBIS, 8 Greenshank over (Richard Thomas)

Comberton - 2 Wheatear (ed Gill)

Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Tuesday, 27 April

Grafham Water - RING OUZEL along path to Dudney Hide, Nightingale singing (Stu Butchart); Greenshank, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Tim Rea); 7 Swift, Hobby nearby (Stu Elsom)

Burwell Fen - 5 Whimbrel, 4 Wheatear, 2 Yellow wagtail, fem Blue-headed Wagtail (David Wege)

Kingfishers Bridge - RING OUZEL still in paddock (Keith Honnor); also albifrons White-fronted Goose, 8 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Whimbrel, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, Jack Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, Little Gull, 10 Common Tern, Barn Owl, Little Owl, 2 Tawny Owl, 2 Kingfisher, Hobby, 2 Raven, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Yellow Wagtail amongst 100 species seen at the site today (Graeme Reed); 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper (Ian Burfield)

Paxton Pits - Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 2 male Red-crested Pochard, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Mark Brandon)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Great Egret, Grey Plover, Greenshank, Little  Ringed Plover, Cuckoo (Gill Parrish)

Fowlmere RSPB - Jack Snipe, Water Rail chick (Colin Helliwell)

Berry Fen - Garganey reported

West Brook - Turtle Dove over (Mark Thomas)

Ferry Meadows - Osprey over (Mike Weedon)

Monday, 26 April 2021

Monday, 26 April

Devil's Dyke - RING OUZEL northwest of A14 (Richard Dale)

Grafham Water - RING OUZEL along path to Dudney Hide, Nightingale singing (Richard Palmer); 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper (Mark Ward); YellowxBlue-headed Wagtail with 72 Yellow Wagtail, 5 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Dernford Reservoir - 1st win KITIWAKE, ad Little Gull (Andrew Dobson); 17 Swift (Robin Cox)

Kingfsihers Bridge - RING OUZEL, White-fronted Goose, Little Gull, 2 Whimbrel, Avocet, Br-tailed Godwit (Sue Greenway et al.)

Roman Road, Abington - Short-eared Owl (Andy Merryweather)

Burwell Fen - 11 Whimbrel, 3 Wheatear, 6 Yellow Wagtail (David Wege)

Smithey Fen - Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover (David Nation)

Westbrook - Bar-tailed Godwit (Richard Thomas)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Greenshank, Grey Plover, Common Sandpiper, 12 Common Tern, 6 Swift (Andrew Maxwell)

Little Wilbraham - pair of Madarin on the river (Carlos Davies)

Etton Pits - Wood Sandpiper (Paul Bolton)

Sunday, 25 April 2021

Sunday, 25 April

Grafham Water - 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank (Mark Hawkes)

Smithey Fen, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL, Whimbrel, 3 Greenshank, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Cuckoo (Ian Ellis)

Buckden - 4 Arctic Tern over (Mark Ward)

Kingfishers Bridge - 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, Swift (Matt Mellor); RING OUZEL (Nick Cousins); Hobby, a fourth Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Gull, 2 Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (David Nation)

Molesworth - male Melin, Lesser Whitethroat (Stewart Short)

Wicken area - 10 Whimbrel, 60 Fieldfare between Baker's and Burwell Fens (Derek and Viven Gruar)

Dernford Reservoir - 6 Swift, Yellow Wagtail (Pete Wood) 

Westbrook - 7 Whimbrel, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper (Mark Thomas)

Ely - RING OUZEL (Neal Gates)

Cam Washes, Upware - Wood Sandpiper (David Nation)

Berry Fen - Garganey, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit (Simon Stirrup)

Saturday, 24 April 2021

Saturday, 24 April

Grafham Water - 4 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, White Wagtail, Swift, YellowxBlue-headed Wagtail hybrid (Mark Hawkes); 5 Little Gull, Bar-tailed Godwit (Richard Patient); 2 Little Ringed Plover (Stewart Short)

Stirtloe - RING OUZEL in sheepfields, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Cattle Egret, 2 Swift (Richard Allison); 12 Little Gull early a.m. (Jeremy Lindsell); 30 Little Gull and icrerasing (Andrew Maddocks, Jeff Stenning)

Paxton Pits - 8 Little Gull, 16 Common Tern (John Raven)

Nene Washes - at March Farmers Cattle Egret, Spotted Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Whimbrel; at Eldernell a flighty RING OUZEL west of CP, 7 Whimbrel (Richard Patient)

Kingfishers Bridge - RING OUZEL, Garganey, Little Gull, 4 Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit briefly, Wood Sandpiper (Ian Burfield); 4 Avocet (Andrew Maxwell); Arcric Tern, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper (Babs York); 2 Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Carlos Davies); also a second RING OUZEL, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper reported

Dernford Reservoir - Little Gull, Grey Wagtail (Matt Midgley & Rachel Gartner)

Berry Fen - 36 Little Gull, 11 of which lingered, Green Sandpiper (Philip Bubb)

Ouse Fen - 5 Hobby (Philip Bubb); Turtle Dove (Hugh Venables)

Over - Swift (Andy Jennings) 

Cam Washes, Up[ware - Whimbrel, Swift, 20 Yellow Wagtail (Jon & David Heath); GLOSSY IBIS, Wood Sandpiper (Carlos Davies)

Northstowe - 4 Avocet, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 27 Yellow Wagtail (Hugh Venables)

Ouse Washes - Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Little Gull, RING OUZEL, Brambling, Wheatear, 10 Crane, 8 Great White Egret, 45 Yellow Wagtail, ringtail Hen Harrier, Peregrine (Brendan Doe)

Wicken Fen - 8 Whimbrel, Hobby, 2 pair sof Stonechat, pair of Garganey, Leeser Whitehroat (Carlos Davies)