Welcome to the Cambridgeshire Bird Club website.  

Within these pages you will find frequently updated information provided by the CBC about birds and birding in Cambridgeshire.   We aim to provide a mixture of information, news and topical articles and photographs so there should be something for everyone with an interest in birds in the county.

To report a rare or interesting sighting in the county please don't delay and follow instructions on the 'What's About?' page.

We hope you enjoy your visit and come back soon.

Announcements:

Meet at 7p.m., in the car park of Monks Wood Centre for Ecology and Hydrology for a guided natural history walk with a warden. 

Booking is necessary for this event

Monks Wood NNR is one of the best examples of ancient ash-oak woodland in the East Midlands. Breeding birds include Tawny Owl, Nightingale, Marsh Tit and Woodcock. Plant life includes species typical of ancient woodlands and rarer species include greater butterfly orchid, violet helleborine and crested cow-wheat. A wide range of tree and shrub species are found in the reserve; the site is also notable for its population of rare wild service trees. Monks Wood is an important site for beetles with over 1000 species being recorded in the area, and butterflies, including the rare black hairstreak.

This year's Screaming Swifts Survey is a continuation of the surveys that we carried out in 2002 and 2006. We now want to extend coverage to the whole county, as well as to check up on colony locations found in previous surveys. We also want to gather sufficient data to monitor population levels in future years. For  details and instructions see here. We have plotted screaming Swift locations that we know about on this Google Map.

BTO/CBC Atlas 2007-2011

Why not get involved in Atlasing the county, winter and summer, during 2007-2011

See BTO Atlas page and the  CBC Atlas page for more details.

WILD BIRD FOOD

Members of the Cambridgeshire Bird Club can buy wild bird food at a 10% discount from Rectory Farm, Landbeach (on the A10 just over 1km N of the A14). Just show your most recent Bulletin or Annual Report as proof of membership. Just one more benefit of joining CBC.