Just how many species have the top Cambs listers seen in Cambridgeshire? Click here to compare the county lists of some of Cambridgeshire's best known birders.
To add your own list to this page or to have your entries updated, please contact Jim Lawrence by e-mail at jim.lawrence@aol.com.
The record is currently held by Mark Hawkes, with an amazing 214 species recorded in Cambs during 2003. To view the details of Mark's incredible year in Cambs click here.
The seven year record held by 'The Cambs Diehards' (Steve Cooper,
Alan Hitchings, Richard Patient and Jonathan Taylor) of 130 on May 13th
2000, was finally beaten by 'Team Cambirders' (Ben Green, Mark Hawkes,
Jono Leadley and Duncan Poyser) on May 2nd 2007 with a total of 131
species. For more details click here
However, from their many years of 'birdracing' in Cambridgeshire, the
'Cambs Diehards' (Richard Patient, Steve Cooper, Jonathan Taylor and
Mark Ward) always felt a mark of 135 species was possible and on 10 May
2008, they finally reached their goal.
This record is currently held by Steve Cooper and Richard Patient and was set on 1st January 2002, with a total of 95 species.
Richard Porter (now living in Norfolk) has set the pace with a mind-blowing combined list of 154! species from his two virtually adjacent gardens in Roundhouse Drive, Perry, overlooking Grafham Water. When Richard lived at number 17, between 1982 - 1988 he totalled an impressive 120 species and a staggering 143 when he lived at number 21, between 1988 - 1999. Mike Everett is in second place with an amazing 140 species since 1980 in his garden at Hemingford Grey and Mark Peck is in third place with a substantial 129 species recorded since November 1997 in his garden at Sutton Gault.
To add your own list to this page or to have your entries updated, please contact Jim Lawrence by e-mail at jim.lawrence@aol.com.
Mark Hawkes has compiled a useful summary of key facts about birds in Cambs. To view the details click here.
A list of the birds that have been recorded from the Fen Drayton gravel pit complex has been compiled by Richard Patient. To view the list click here.