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What was About Jan-April 2008

Wednesday, 30 April

Fen Drayton GP - Wood Sandpiper on north pit (per rarebirdalert.com)

St. Neots - OSPREY flew south over Paxton Mill at 10:49hr (Martin Davis)

Buckden GP - Black Tern, adult Little Gull, 2 Common Sandpipers (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Arctic Tern, Hobby, Wheatear (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 29 April

Junction of A1(M) and A14 - BLACK KITE heading west 10:20hr (Garry Heath)

Nene Washes, Central Drove - Whinchat, Spotted Redshank, 2 Avocet (John Saunders, Brian Stone)

High Wash, Holly Tree - 2 Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - Black Tern at the west end, with c.15 Common Terns (Mark Hawkes) FULMAR flew west at 17:45hr (Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - 3 Black Tern, 2-3 Arctic Tern, Little Gull, Greenshank, 10 Dunlin, White-fronted Goose, Little Egret, 2 Common Sandpiper(Mark Hawkes) c20 Common Tern, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton - 2 Whimbrel in field south of ferry lagoon, Marsh Harrier (Dave Anderson)

Toft golf course - 3 Wheatear (Clive Sinclair)

Monday, 28 April

Woodwalton Fen - Whimbrel 3 in fields from west barrier bank, Wheatear, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Nightingale (Mark Hawkes)

Cromwell Golf Course - Grasshopper Warbler (Frank James)

Milton CP - Nightingale, Turtle Dove (David Heath)

Sunday, 27 April

Grafham Water - 1st-winter Little Gull still in lagoons, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes) Greenshank, 3 Dunlin, 1st sum ICELAND GULL (Jono Leadley)

Fen Drayton - 1st winter Little Gull over Moore Lake, Cuckoo, c100 Swifts,flock of waders flew south over Drayton Lagoon containing 8 Whimbrel, 6 Curlew and a Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Hobbies, c20 Common Terns (Andy Cotton)

St Neots - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling near rowing club (Chris Harbard)

Maxey Pits - 7 Whimbrel, 10 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, Wheatear (Mike Weedon) 2 Grey Plover, 2 Greenshank (Chris Lines & Bob & Sue Titman)

Woodwalton Fen - Hobby, Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler (Peter M Beesley)

Saturday, 26 April

Milton CP - Redstart, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler (Jonathan Heath)

Wicken Fen - 4 m Greenland Wheaters near Baker's Fen, 4 Hobby, Greenshank, Cuckoo (Owen Marks)

Grafham Water - Grasshopper Warbler reeling in lagoons, Whimbrel, 3 Arctic Tern, 10+ Common Tern Nightingale singing in lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - FIRECREST in the Wray House Garden (Heronry South), Greenshank, Hobby, pr Grey Partridge, White-fronted Goose, Red-crested Pochard, Grasshopper Warbler, Swift, 5+ Buzzard, 8 Whimbrel, 16 Dunlin, 2 male Wheatear (Jamie Wells)

Waterbeach - Little Owl and Barn Owl (Gavin Paterson)

Cambourne - Red Kite (Gavin Paterson)

Marsh Lane GP - 13 Nightingales - our most ever, 11 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 4 Garden Warbler, 12 Blackcap (Mike Everett)

Devil's Dyke - 3 Wheaters on Newmarket race course and 3 more north of the A14, in the adjacent sheep fields (Louise Bacon)

Ouse Washes RSPB - OSPREY low over Welches Dam, heading north east(Simon & Robin Henderson)

Haddenham - Tree Sparrow, Greenland Wheatear on North Fen, 4 Yellow Wagtails (Jake Alsop)

St. Ives GP - Arctic Tern, Swift (Alan Bull)

Friday, 25 April

Maxey Pits - Avocet, Whimbrel over, Cuckoo (Josh Jones); Wood Sandpiper although elusive, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone et al.)

Black Bush - DOTTEREL briefly at 06:43h (Josh Jones); present 11:05h at the northwest end of the pea field at c. TL253937 (BirdGuides)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Garden Warblers, Cetti's Warbler (Andy Cotton); 5 Swifts over (Dennis Hall)

Orton BP - 2 Nightingale, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat (Peter Beesley)

Thursday, 24 April

Blackbush Drove - DOTTEREL in pea field at 08:30h, with 3 Golden Plovers (Brian Stone); still present 11:20h at TL253937 (John Saunders); still present 14:40h (Owen Marks); still present 17:20h (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Folksworth - male RING OUZEL still (Garry)

Ferry Meadows - Sandwich Tern east over Gunwade Lake 10:10h (Garry); c.40 Arctic Terns from 16:30h, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Matt Webb)

Christchurch - probable OSPREY over 15:30h (Andy Murray)

Queen Adeliade - Hobby over (Ben Green)

Sutton Gault - 2 Avocet, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 2 Ruff, 14 Black-tailed Godwit (Ben Green)

RAF Brampton - female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Richard Palmer)

Cambridge, Coleridge Road - Firecrest singing 07:00h (Richard Patient)

Fen Drayton Lakes - male Wheatear, Little Ringed Plover (Dennis Hall); 17 Arctic Tern, 2 Avocet, ad Little Gull, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Swift (Dave Anderson)

Nene Washes, Central Drove - 5 Avocet, 2 Little Egret, 500 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Dunlin, 4 tundrae Ringed Plover (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - 72 Arctic Terns off Mander CP 11:00h, a further 25 at 16:00h, Garden Warbler (Jono Leadley); male Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes); Little Gull, Little Ringed Plover at lagoons, Red Kite over (Richard Palmer)

Paxton Pits - 7+ Arctic Terns, c.15 Common Terns, Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat (Jamie Wells)

Maxey Pits - 3 Whimbrel, Dunlin, Common Tern (Richard Astle); WOOD SANDPIPER this evening (Leon Smith)

Huntingdon Road - Red Kite over towards UNEP-WCMC site (Ben Lascalles); subsequently over TRAFFIC offices and UNEP-WCMC (Richard Thomas)

Milton CP - 3 Swifts, 2 Reed Warblers (Jonathan & David Heath)

Orton BP - 2 Nightingales, 2 Whitethroats, Lesser Whitethroat (Paul Taylor)

Bainton Pits - 2 Nightingales, Cuckoo, Red Kite (Keith Lawton)

Wednesday, 23 April

Grafham Water - Wood Warbler 08:10h, Egyptian Goose (BirdGuides.com); 1st-summer ICELAND GULL in roost from 19:15h, 40+ Arctic Terns, 2 Little Gulls (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes).

Fowlmere - Swift over the reedbed 09:10h (Doug Radford)

Ouse Washes - Turtle Dove calling just south of visitor centre (Alex Thomas)

Sutton Gault - probable LESSER YELLOWLEGS flew off 16:45h, 2 Avocet, 4 Garganey (Ben Green); also Greenshank, 70 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Ruff (Mark Peck)

Ferry Meadows - Arctic Tern on Gunwade Lake 09:00h (Mike Weedon); 200+ Arctic Terns this lunchtime, 165 still present at 13:20h but many departed north-east (Brian Stone); still c.100 Arctic Terns on Gunwade Lake this afternoon, also ad Little Gull (Kevin Du Rose)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 7 Common Terns around Moore Lake, singing Garden Warbler, Swift over Oxholme (Dennis Hall); 2 Hobbies mid-afternoon (Dave Anderson)

Paxton Pits - male Whinchat (Jamie Wells); 79 Arctic Terns, 3 Little Gulls, Whimbrel, Hobby, Grasshopper Warblers, Goldeneye (Martin Davis, Mark Ward)

Wicken Fen - Spotted Redshank on Bakers Fen (Duncan Poyser)

Over Fen - Garganey, 2 Whimbrel (Sarah Kelman)

Ely BF - 2 Ruddy Duck and a probable Argentinian Bluebill (Ben Green)

Tuesday, 22 April

Ferry Meadows - Sandwich Tern 06:50h, 3 Arctic Terns, 2 Whitethroats, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, Yellow Wagtail (Matt Webb); 5 Arctic Terns this morning (Mike Weedon, Don Gardener); 32 Arctic Terns this lunchtime (Mike Weedon); 33 Arctic Terns c.16:45 (Josh Jones)

Fen Drayton - Black Tern, 3 Arctic Tern, 15 Common Terns, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 3 Whitethroats (Andy Cotton); 5 Arctic Terns, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Hugh Venables)

Grafham Water - OSPREY over Savages Creek c.09:00h, 16 Arctic Terns flew east, 3 ad Little Gulls past mader CP this evening (Jono Leadley); male Garganey and Little Gull in lagoons, 2 Cuckoos, Yellow-legged Gull, Redpoll over (Mark Hawkes)

Folksworth - male RING OUZEL along Morborne Road 07:00h (Brian Stone) 3 male and a female RING OUZEL present this lunchtime (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Ely, Roswell Pits - RING OUZEL 12:45h (Robin Henderson); 2, possibly 3, RING OUZEL this evening (Duncan Poyser)

Marholm - male RING OUZEL by Woodcroft Road between the village and Etton with c.200 Fieldfares; just north of the line of pylons by the bend in the road heading towards Woodcroft Castle if coming from Marholm (Josh Jones)

Ouse Washes - 3 pairs of Garganey, Cetti's Warbler, c.30 Little Egrets, 300 Black-tailed Godwits, 15 Ruff (Paul Harrington)

Paxton Pits - Red Kite over, Curlew, Greenshank, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Wheatear, White Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Buzzard (Martin Davis)

Marsh Lane GP - Hobby over west, 5+ Nightingales (Mike Everett)

Longstowe - 22 Arctic Terns over 07:30h (Ian Dillon)

Maxey GP - 2 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone)

Cambridge - Buzzard east over the Addenbrooke's site 11:06h (Sarah Howlett)

Monday, 21 April

Ouse Washes - LESSER YELLOWLEGS at Earith still Park by KLM factory in Earith Ind. Estate, and walk north on raised bank for c.1 mile (per rarebirdalert.com); 3 Greenshank, 4 Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover (Alex Thomas, Owen Marks); 3 Whimbrel behond Cottier Hide (Paul Harrington); 4 Greenshank, 2 Ruff, 10 Dunlin 19:00h (Ian Dillon)

Old Hurst, Huntingdon - WRYNECK in private front garden of in morning (per Georgie Godby)

Folksworth - 3 male RING OUZEL along Morborne Road 07:45h but 2 males and a female bird early afternoon, Brambling also (John Saunders)

Nene Washes - 3 COMMON CRANE, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail at March Farmers (Charlie Kitchin); 2 Garganey, 2 Pintail, 1000+ islandica Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Little Egret at Central Drove (Brian Stone); Wheatear at Eldernell (Max Catterwell); also Whitethroat, Water Pipit, Peregrine, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits (Jonathan Taylor)

Ely, Roswell Pits - RING OUZEL still (Bruce Martin)

Paxton Pits - 1st-summer ICELAND GULL briefly before flying south, Nuthatch, 2 Grey Plover over, Arctic Tern, 4+ Common Terns, ad Little Gull, Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Whimbrel over, 3 Wheatear, Green Sandpiper, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Nightingale, Lesser Whitehroat, Reed Warbler (Martin Davis, Steve May, Mark Ward, Jamie Wells)

Shepreth L-moor - Redstart (Toby Austin)

Grafham Water - Little Gull, Nightingale (Jono Leadley); fem Marsh Harrier and Greenshank over (Colin Addington)

Fen Drayton - ad Little Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Buzzard (Andy Cotton)

Wicken Fen - Hobby, Little Egret, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Marsh Harrier (Dave Palmer)

Brampton - Hobby over (Martin Smith)

Ferry Meadows - Arctic Tern on Gunwade Lake 14:00h (Will Bowell); 40 terns including 3+ Arctic Terns this evening (Brian Stone)

Woodwalton fen - 3 Marsh Harriers, Red Kite, 3 Buzzards, Cuckoo, 2 Grasshopper Warblers, ringtail Hen Harrier (Duncan McNiven)

Yaxley - Red Kite over (Kevin Wicks)

Little Gransden - Peregrine over 10:30h (Graham Askew)

Foxton - Red Kite and Marsh Harrier over (Toby Austin)

Fulbourn - 92 Golden Plovers off the Shelford Road nearby (Mike Foley)

Sunday, 20th April

Ouse Washes - LESSER YELLOWLEGS relocated on the west side of the Washes up from Earith. It is on the second lot of pools towards the Jolly Bankers (Richard Patient); also 2 Grey Plover, 4 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4+ Greenshank, Yellow Wagtail (James Hanlon) 6 drake Garganey and drake Scaup at Chain Corner (Monica & Owen Marks)

Nene Washes - 60 Bar-tailed Godwit, Grey Plover and Spotted Redshank, 4 Avocet, 4 Little Egret, 3 Garganey, Water Pipit (Mike Weedon). 2 COMMON CRANES in evening (Jonathan Newman)

Maxey GP - 2 Ruff, Dunlin, 200 Golden Plover, 200 Sand Martin, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone); 5 Little Gulls briefly this morning, 4 again in the afternoon, Greenshank briefly, 4 Bar-tailed Godwits (Will Bowell); Whimbrel briefly, Common Tern (Richard Astle)

Folksworth - 3 RING OUZEL (Kevan Wolstencroft & Howard Butler)

Paxton Pits - Caspian Gull, Little Egret, Wheatear, 7+ Yellow Wagtail, 4+ White Wagtail, Cuckoo (Jamie Wells)

Sutton Gault - 3 Little Egret, Garganey, Grey Plover, Green Sandpiper, 15 Ruff, 3 Marsh Harrier, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Water Pipit, Wheatear, 2 Sedge Warble, Lesser Whitethroat (Mark Peck)

Grafham Water - 2+ Arctic Tern, 12 Whimbrel flew east, Sanderling on dam, Little Gull, Cuckoo in lagoons (Mark Hawkes); 5+ Yellow Wagtail (James Hanlon)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still present (Mark Hawkes)

Over - 8 adult Little Gulls and 2 Arctic Terns flew east between village and Ouse Fen (Richard Thomas)

Fen Drayton - 6 Little Gull, Common Tern (Richard Allison); Turnstone (Neil Renwick); 7 Little Gull & Little Stint this evening (Dave Anderson); also Cetti's Warbler singing (Mark Hawkes)

Lt Wilbraham - 2 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard and COMMON CRANE along the drove between Newmarket Road and Little Wilbraham. The Crane took flight and headed west (Saimon Clark)

Cam Washes, Waterbeach - Arctic Tern, 2 Egyptian Geese (Peter Herkenrath)

Cambridge - 3 Whimbrel east over Mill Road this afternoon (Rich Broughton)

Southoe - Cuckoo (George Lendrum)

Shepreth L-moor - Redstart (James Hanlon)

Wooodwalton Fen - Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Cuckoo (David & Jonathan Heath)

Toft - Grey wagtail, 3 Siskin (Clive Sinclair)

Saturday, 19 April

Berry Fen RSPB- LESSER YELLOWLEGS on the new flooded meadow south of Bluntisham. Park east of Bluntisham, and walk south along track past floods. At T-junction, turn right, and walk SW for 1/4 mile to view south end of flood TL373737, also Grey Plover (Richard Grimmitt); 2 Green Sandpipers, 150+ Black-tailed Godwits (Mark Hawkes)

Old Hurst, Huntingdon - WRYNECK in a private garden 16:00h (Georgie Godby)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still, 3 Little Egrets, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, Common Tern (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Greenshank, Swift, 2 Common Terns (Mark Hawkes); Little Gull (Colin Addington).

Fen Drayton GP - 2 Sanderling, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Common Tern, Little Egret, Turtle Dove, 2 Ringed Plover, 4 Redshank, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler (Gavin Paterson)

Cam Washes Upware - 27 Avocet, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Shelduck (Gavin Paterson)

Waterbeach Fen - 60 Fieldfare (Gavin Paterson)

Otron BP - Cuckoo (Dave Bradley)

Ouse Washes - 2 Grey Plovers, Knot, male Scaup, Garganey, Greenshank (Duncan Poyser, Ben Green)

Paxton Pits - 3 Nightingales singing (George Lendrum)

Shepreth L-moor - male Redstart (Toby Austin)

Eldernell - 3 male Redstart, male Wheatear, 8 Yellow Wagtail (Rod Wilson)

Friday, 18 April

Folksworth - 2 male RING OUZEL along the Morborne Road this morning (Brian Stone, Josh Jones)

Dullingham - RING OUZEL this morning (Mr. Cope)

Ely, Roswell Pits - RING OUZEL still (Ben Green)

Kings Dyke NR - RING OUZEL reported (as per Phil Parker)

Ferry Meadows - male Redstart still present (Mike Weedon, Don Gardener)

Nene Washes - 8 Avocet, 4 Ruff, 3 Little Egret (Brian Stone)

Maxey Pit - Whimbrel briefly this morning (John Saunders)

Earith - Greenshank, 2 Avocet, Green Sandpiper, Grey Plover (David Griffiths)

Witcham - male RING OUZEL, male Redstart (David Hopkins)

Bainton Pits - Grasshopper Warbler & Nightingale singing (Richard Astle)

Monks Wood - Cuckoo (Rich broughton, Ken Hook)

Thursday, 17 April

Bainton Pits - WOOD WARBLER (Mike Weedon); still present 08:45h at TF106070 (John Saunders); also Nightingale, Yellow Wagtail, Buzzard (Brian Stone)

Ouse Washes - male RING OUZEL by visitor centre, last seen flying into trees behind the pumping station (Alex Thomas); 2 Little Egrets, 6 Little Ringed Plover (Paul Harrington); pair of Garganey, 3 Common Tern, Grey Plover (David Griffiths)

Folksworth - male RING OUZEL along the Morborne Road this morning TL142908 (Brian Stone); still present 19:00h (Will Bowell)

Ely, roswell Pits - male RING OUZEL (Duncan Poyser)

Grafham Water - Whimbrel over Plummer CP 05:55h, Lesser Redpoll over, Common Tern off Mander CP (Mark Hawkes); 2 RING OUZELS north over lagoons towards Marlow CP 10:50h but not seen since, Sanderling on the dam this afternoon (Colin Addington); 1st win/sum Little Gull and Black-tailed Godwit in lagoons, a wagtail showing characters of Blue-headed Wagtail with c.20 Yellow Wagtails near Marlow CP (Jono Leadley)

Waterbeach - ad Little Gull east over the A10 at 08:20h (Craig Samuels)

Eldernell - male Wheatear (Max Catterwell)

Ferry Meadows - male Redstart still just west of the bridge over the Nene until 11:45h at least (Peter Beesley); present at 17:30h (John Saunders)

Paxton Pits - Redstart, 2 Nightingales, Red Kite over (Tony Lowe); 4 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Ruff (Bob Scott)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe still present (Birdguides.com)

Fen Drayton - Sanderling, Little Ringed Plover, Cettis' Warbler, 2 Common Terns (Dave Anderson); Little Stint (Robin Cox)

Cambridge - Chiffchaff with unusual song by Cherry Hinton Pits along Burnside (Nigel Lister)

Long Drove, Cottenham - White Wagtail, Barn Owl, Little Owl (David & Jonathan Heath)

Maxey Pits - 3 Whimbrel (Mike Foley)

Westwick - possible WOODCHAT SHRIKE reported bewteen the village and Cottenham

Wednesday, 16 April

Ferry Meadows - male Redstart just west of the bridge over the Nene TL136973 (Don Gardener, Brian Stone); still present 17:20h (Will Bowell); still present c.100 metres past the bridge 19:00h (Kevan Wolstencroft); 7 Common Terns, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Josh Jones)

Nene Washes, Central Drove - Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, 19 Golden Plover, Yellow Wagtail (Max Catterwell)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 3 Common Terns, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler (Andy Cotton)

Grafham Water - Grey Plover over, White Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Povers, Common Tern (Jono Leadley)

Cambridge, Addenbrookes - Yellow Wagtail on fields behind the hospital this evening (Tom Smith)

Tuesday, 15 April

Folksworth - male RING OUZEL along the Morborne Road this morning TL142908 (Brian Stone); still present 09:40h (John Saunders)

Nene Washes - CRANE seen briefly this morning but flushed by a dog walker (John Saunders); Spotted Redshank on High Wash this lunchtime, Cuckoo opposite Holly Tree this morning (Brian Stone)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe still present, also 6 Little Egrets, Common Tern, Sedge Warbler (Bob Scott)

Waterbeach Fen / Cam washes, Upware - 13 Avocets, Merlin, 13 Black-tailed Godwits (Bob Jarman)

Sutton Gault - 6 Little Egrets (Mark Peck)

Madingley - 5 Buzzards circling between the village and Dry Drayton 10:30h (Mike Clydesdale)

Woodwalton Fen - Peregrine (Keith Tinworth)

Great Gransden - Lesser Whitethroat (Graham Askew)

Grantchester Meadows - 2 Sedge Warblers, 2 Whitethroats (Richard Hall)

Monday, 14 April

Nene Washes - CRANE about 1 km east of Eldernell car park, walk below the bank on the south side to avoid disturbing the bird. Also male Garganey, 4 Avocet, c.1000 Black-tailed Godwits on the Low Wash viewable from the south bank west of Lord's Holt (Brian Stone); ad Mediterranean Gull on High Wash oposite Holly Tree 11:30h (Will Bowell)

Paxton Pits - Nightingale 10:40h (Rod Bee)

Haddenham, Long Drove - 15 Yellow Wagtails (Paul mason)

Toft - Yellow Wagtail on golf course (Clive Sinclair)

Marsh Lane GP - 2 Nightingale (Mike Everett)

Sunday, 13 March

River Ouse, behind Brampton tip - Grasshopper Warbler singing from a bramble bush just in front of a small reedbed next to sewage works (John Lindsell)

Earith Pits - Red-breasted Goose in the middle of the Black-headed Gull colony on the northernmost pit, 2 Egyptian Geese in fields nearby (David Griffiths)

Bar Hill - Redstart (Peter Herkenrath)

Fen Drayton - 2 Yellow Wagtails, 10+ Sedge Warblers, Cetti's Warbler (Sarah Howlett)

Marriotts Drove, Whittlesey - 40 Corn Buntings (Nigel Sprowell)

Maxey Pits - 2 Ruff, male Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtails (Chris Lines); male White Wagtail (Josh Jones)

Woodwalton Fen - Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Sedge warbler (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Haddenham Fen - male Yellow Wagtail (Jake Allsop)

Kings Dyke area - male Redstart (Phil Parker); Honey Buzzard (George Walthew)

Grunty Fen - Whitethroat (David Nation)

Ferry Meadows - 5 Common Tern, Sedge Warbler, Grey Wagtail (Don Gardener)

Farcet Fen - 2 White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail (Steve Dudley)

Nene Washes - 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 9 Avocet, 3 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, Yellow Wagtail (Mike Weedon)

Saturday, 12 April

Sutton Gault - 16 Little Egret, 2 pr Little-ringed Plover, Marsh Harrier, Willow Warbler (Mark Peck)

Grafham Water - 2 Siskin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2+ Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still on usual pit, 2 Little Egret, 2 Sedge Warbler (Mark Hawkes)

Decoy Lakes, Bassenhally - OSPREY caught a fish before heading over to the washes(Kevin Eldred)

Nene Washes - 14 Avocets, 2 Little Egrets, Marsh harrier, Wheatear (Paul Taylor)

Friday, 11 April

Nene Washes - 10 Avocet, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Egret, Water Pipit this morning (Brian Stone); 1st summer ICELAND GULL over east, Garganey (Josh Jones); SPOONBILL at Eldernell 13:55h, CRANE over March Farmers 15:30h (Rob Palmer); CRANE dropped towards arable area north of the River Nene (per Brian Stone)

Maxey GP - Greenshank briefly 06:40h (Josh Jones); 2 Red Kites, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Green Sandpipers (Chris Lines)

Grafham Water - ad Kittiwake near the dam 13:20h, White Wagtail & 6 Yellow Wagtails on the dam (Jono Leadley) 3rd-winter ICELAND GULL in roost, 1st-winter Little Gull (Mark Ward)

Ouse Washes, Earith - 12 Avocet, Red Kite (David Griffiths)

Sutton Gault - 5 Little Egret, pair of Garganey, 2 Green Sandpipers, 5 Ruff, Water Pipit (Mark Peck)

Thursday, 10 April

Grafham Water - 2 Avocet still 6:30h, male Marsh Harrier over 8:05h, Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, Redpoll (Mark Hawkes); Whimbrel briefly 08:15h (Colin Addington); 2 White Wagtails and 6 Yellow Wagtails on the dam by mid-afternoon (Jono Leadley); 3rd-winter ICELAND GULL in roost, Whimbrel, 2 House Martins (Mark Hawkes)

Fowlmere RSPB - female Redstart (Doug Radford)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Reed Warbler singing this morning (Ian Robinson); Cetti's warbler, 3 Sedge warblers (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Nene Washes - 12 Avocets, male Hen Harrier (Max Catterwell); 16 Avocets (Steve Gann, Kevan Wolstencroft)

Ouse Fen - fem RUDDY SHELDUCK 14:20h, 4 Pink-footed Geese (Bruce Martin)

Cambridge - 2 Siskins on a garden feeder in Lovell Road this afternoon (Jonathan Heath)

King's Dyke NR - Reed Warbler singing (Phil Parker)

Willingham - 30+ Corn Buntings at Meadow Road (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Wicken Fen - Peregrine, 2 Buzzard, 9 Cetti's warblers, Sedge Warbler (Owen & Monica Marks)

Chain Corner - male SCAUP (Owen & Monica Marks)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Red Kites, 2 Buzzards (Keith Tinworth)

Wednesday, 9 April

Grafham Water - GLAUCOUS GULL 2cy at 07:15h, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, 5 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Jono Leadley); 2 Avocets in lagoons late afternoon (Ray Presley); also 20 Shelduck, 2 Little Ringed Plover (David Bale)

Nene Washes - COMMON CRANE at March Farmers, soaring and drifting towards Rings End 10:25h (Mark Missin)

Cambourne - male Stonechat (Jono Leadley)

Ouse Washes, Earith - 3 male and a fem Garganey, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Avocet, 13 Little Egret, 18 Ruff (David Griffiths). Drake Scaup at Chain Corner and now 5 Garganey (Duncan Poyser)

Nene Washes - 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew over, 10 Avocet, 5 Little Egret, pair of Garganey, 5+ Marsh Harriers, Barn Owl (Mike Weedon, Will Bowell)

Paxton Pits - 2 Avocet briefly, Grey Plover, White-fronted Goose, Barn Owl, Sedge Warbler, 4+ Yellow-legged Gull (Martin Davis, Mark Ward, Jamie Wells)

Alconbury Airfield - Short-eared Owl this evening; present since Friday, 4 April (Paul Taylor)

Tuesday, 8 April

Grafham Water - Wheatear on dam this morning (Jono Leadley); KUMLIEN'S GULL adult 19:15-19:20h, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 1 White Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Eynesbury - pair of Siskin in Andrew Road briefly (Stuart & Jill Elsom)

Wilburton - 1+ possible Dotterel along Twenty Pence Road this morning (Allistair Berry)

Monks Wood - drumming Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, pair of Red Kite, Buzzard (Rich Broughton)

Upton Wood pair of HAWFINCH, 2 Buzzard (Rich Broughton)

Nene Washes - Spotted Redshank, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 2 Grey Plover, 6 Avocet, 2 Ruff (Brian Stone)

Ouse Washes - 2 male Garganey, 18 Ruff, 18 Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 22 Avocet (Alex Thomas)

Earith - OSPREY over at 14:00h (per rarebirdalert.com); 2 Avocet, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 8 Little Egret (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Haddenham - GOSHAWK, 5 Siskin, 2 Bramblings (Barbara York)

Maxey GP - 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Green Sandpiper (Chris Lines)

Warboys - 2 Wheatears on the airfield (Andy Harrold)

Toft - Barn Owl nearby (Kevin Harris)

Sutton Gault - 12 Water Pipits, fem Merlin, 2 Little Egret, 37 Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Peck)

Monday, 7 April

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit still (Garth Peacock)

Maxey GPs - winter plumage Knot still, male Wheatear (Brian Stone); White Wagtail (Mike Weedon)

Thorpe Hall - Whitethroat singing (Peter Beesley)

Monks Wood - pair of Red Kite, 2 Woodcock, 4 Buzzard, 37 Marsh Tit, 7 Nuthatch (Rich Broughton)

Sunday, 6 April

Grafham Water - RED-BREASTED MERGANSER drake, Rock Pipit, Wheatear, Green Sandpiper, male Merlin (Mark Hawkes et al).

Paxton Pits - White-fronted Goose 2cy, Smew, Grey Plover, Green Sandpiper, Wheatear (Mark Hawkes, Neil Parkin)

Maxey Pits - Knot, female Wheatear, 3 Green Sandpipers (Chris Lines)

Buckden GP - Yelllow Wagtail, c400 Sand Martin, RED-NECKED GREBE, 5 Little Egret, 3 Willow warbler (Mark Brandon)

Eldenell - ringtail Hen Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 2-3000 Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits, to the east of Eldenell in first freshly tilled field to south of Mortons Leam 3m Yellow Wagtail, 1m Blue-headed Wagtail, 2 White Wagtail, 14 Pied Wagtail (Monica and Owen, Bruce and Gwen, Steve Gann)

Between Coveney and Witchford - female-type RING OUZEL, with at least 1 other probably present,Woodcock, female Hen Harrier (David Hopkins)

Cambridge, Chesterton - male Merlin with fresh kill in Anglers Way c.19:00h (Dave Wattam)

Sutton Gault - 3 Water Pipit, Cetti's Warbler, Barn Owl, 130 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Little Egret (Mark Peck)

Grunty Fen - Little Egret & Grey Wagtail over, Buzzard, Barn Owl, Tree Sparrow (David Nation)

Milton CP - 10+ Swallows (Sarah Howlett)

Saturday, 5 April

Long Drove, Cottenham - KUMLIEN'S GULL immature (Peter Herkenrath); ICELAND GULL (David and Jonathan Heath)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE in usual area this afternoon, 5 Little Egrets, 250+ Sand Martins (Mark Hawkes)

Farcet Fen - GREAT GREY SHRIKE near Crowtree Farm, Osprey over (Steve Dudley)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 COMMON CRANES early morning only (Jono Leadley, Brian Stone, Mike Weedon)

Paxton Pits/Grafham Water - 2 COMMON CRANES heading southwest towards Great Staughton, from Paxton Pits at 9:30h (Jamie Wells, Martin Davis); and from Grafham Water at 9:54h (Jono Leadley)

Cambridge - Buzzard over Arbury (Sean Rouse)

Maxey GP - male Wheatear, 7 Green Sandpiper, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Grey Wagtail, Rock Pipit, Water Pipit (John Saunders)

Reach - 80+ Corn Buntings nearby (Stuart Sharp)

Croydon - Short-eared owl near Clopton ancient village (Mark Thomas)

Friday, 4 April

Buckden GPs - RED-NECKED GREBE, Sedge warbler, Reed Warbler (Bob Scott)

Ferry Meadows - 2 Common Tern this morning (Don Gardener)

Grafham Water - Kittiwake 2cy (Mark Hawkes) GLAUCOUS GULL 2cy, Green Sandpiper, Redpoll, Ruddy Duck this morning (Jono Leadley)

Fen Drayton - Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Sedge Warblers, Little Egret (Andy Cotton)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 COMMON CRANES on Darlows farm (Luise Addison)

Reach - Short-eared Owl nearby (Stuart Sharp)

Cambourne - fem Black Redstart in the Wildlife Trust Office garden brifly 15:30h (per Jono Leadley); male Black Redstart at Broad Street this evening (Rosemary Dillon)

Thursday, 3 April

Grafham Water - Curlew over, Sedge Warbler in lagoons, Rock Pipit on dam, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, Ruddy Duck (Jono Leadley)

Nene Washes - Knot, 4 Avocet, male Garganey, 3+ Water Pipit (Brian Stone)

Chain Corner - male SCAUP, 2 Little Egrets this morning (Mark Peck)

Sutton Gault - 8 Water Pipit, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Little Egret, Water Rail, 485 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Swallow this evening (Mark Peck)

Upton Wood - Brambling, 4 Buzzard (Rich Broughton)

Maxey GPs - 9 Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Little Egret (Brian Stone)

Girton - 3 House Martins over (Ken Sheard)

Swaffham Bulbeck - 2 Swallows at Downing Farm today (Giles Merritt)

Abbots Ripton - Hobby (Robin Cox)

Granta Science Park, Great Abington - male Yellow Wagtail on the cricket pitch (Gareth Rees)

Paxton Pits - Grey Plover, Green Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, fem Smew, 56 Goldeneye, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Jamie Wells)

Wednesdy, 2 April

Monk's Wood - fem GOSHAWK this morning, also 3 Buzzards (Rich Broughton)

Grafham Water - male and female Brambling in the lagoons this morning (Jono Leadley); Wheatear at south end of the dam this afternoon (Colin Addington)

Nene Washes - Curlew over, 2 Avocet, 30 Dunlin, 3 Ruff, 1+ Water Pipit, 2-3000 Black-tailed Godwits, Wheatear, White Wagtail (Brian Stone); Knot (Peter Beesley)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 4 Little Egret, singing Sedge Warbler, Little Owl (Andy Cotton)

Girton - Swallow over the rec 17:10h (Ken Sheard)

Whittlesey - male Wheatear still (Max Catterwell)

Sutton Gault - male SCAUP, 8 Water Pipit, White Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret (Mark Peck)

Paxton Pits - redhead Smew, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Tuesday, 1 April

Nr Sawston - CATTLE EGRET c.1 mile north of Jct.10/M11 in field on east side (Martin Blow)

Grafham Water - 2 Willow Warblers, 3 Little Ringed Plovers in the lagoons (Jono Leadley); ROCK PIPIT on the dam 19:00h (Mark Hawkes)

Maxey GPs - 9 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Green Sandpiper (Mike Weedon)

Sutton Gault - 2 Avocet over, 7 Little Egret (Mark Peck)

Whittlesey - Swallow and male Wheatear in the area (Max Catterwell)

Fulbourn - Swallow at Lodge Farm, also c.600 Golden Plover in the area (John Dawson)

Fen Drayton - 2 Barn Owls along the entrance road 19:10h (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Monday, 31 March

Clopton - CATTLE EGRET still north of B662 near Grange Farm (per rarebirdalert.com)

Grafham Water - ROCK PIPIT on dam in evening (Colin Addington)

Sawston - House Martin near the Spicer's factory along the bypass (Anne Howard)

Paxton Pits - Avocet early evening (Martin Davis)

Little Paxton - 6 House Martins by the mill (Bob Scott)

Bevill's Wood - c.50 Siskin, 3 Redpoll (Rich Broughton)

Sutton Gault - 5 Water Pipits, 5 Little Egrets, 9 Black-tailed Godwits (Mark Peck)

Over - 3 calling Tawny Owls (Andy Cotton)

Cambridge - Little Egret at A14 bridge over the railway (Will Burdett)

Mare Fen - Little Egret, 50+ Ruff (Andy Cotton)

Sunday, 30 March

Clopton - CATTLE EGRET still north of B662 near Grange Farm, also 3 Common Buzzards and 150 Common Gulls (Peter Herkenwrath); 3 Swallows (Kathleen Rosewarne and Ian Barton)

Swaddywell - RING OUZEL, Peregrine (Mick Beeson)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Woodwalton - 3 Red Kites, 2 Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, Grey Partridge (Duncan & Debbie McNiven); male Hen Harrier, Barn Owl(Luise Addison)

Grafham Water - Ring-necked Parakeet in a tree by the entrance to Mander Car Park (Jono Leadley); 1+ singing Willow Warblers along the north shore (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - possible Great White Egret over West Mere hide (John Thake); GREAT GREY SHRIKE, Short-eared Owl, 7 Little Egret (Carlos Davies)

Bury Fen, Earith - 610 Black-tailed Godwit, Knot, 41 Dunlin (Kathleen Rosewarne and Ian Barton)

Nene Washes - 2 Grey Plovers, 3 Water Pipits, Ruff, Little Egret, Buzzard, Merlin, 1000+ islandica Black-tailed Godwits (Mike Weedon)

Maxey Pits - 4 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpipers, 6 Black-tailed Godwit (Richard Astle)

Cotteham, Long Drove - 3 Barn Owls, Little Owl (David & Jonathan Heath)

Waterbeach - 1+ Little Owl, Barn Owl, Brambling, 20 Corn Bunting (Gavin Paterson)

Cambridge - small flock of Brambling near Addenbrooke's Hospital (Mike Foley)

Saturday, 29 March

Fowlmere - FIRECREST (Rob Jones per Doug Radford)

Woodwalton Fen - Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 14 Redwing (Gavin Paterson)

Clopton - CATTLE EGRET still north of B662 near Grange Farm, also 3 Wheatear, Red Kite(Peter Beesley)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still present, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - Grey Plover, White-fronted Goose, Wheatear, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Smew, 2 Little Egret, 3 Dunlin, 6+ Ringed Plover, Yellow-legged Gull, 8 Sand Martin, Green Sandpiper (Jamie Wells)

Ouse Washes - Red Kite, c.190 Fieldfares, Water Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 7 Sand Martins (Monica and Owen Marks)

Maxey GP - Kittiwake, 7 Green Sandpipers, 6 Little Ringed Plovers, c.1000 Golden Plovers, 6 Black-tailed Godwits (Mike Weedon)

Milton CP - Redpoll, 2 Siskin, 2 Blackcaps singing (Jonathan Heath)

Friday, 28 March

Clopton - CATTLE EGRET still north of B662 near Grange Farm (per rarebirdalert.com)

Fen Drayton - Goosander (Mike Everett)

Thursday, 27 March

Clopton - CATTLE EGRET in the area by Grange Farm, north of the B662 (per rarebirdalert.com) . Still present 18:10h (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - 8 COMMON SCOTER (5 drks) from Marlow car park, Sanderling on dam, 2 male Wheatears, Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley); another COMMON SCOTER in Littless Creek, 2nd win GLAUCOUS GULL from Mander CP 15:45h (Colin Addington). ICELAND GULL adult & possible Kumlien's Gull in roost (Jono Leadley et al.).

Fen Drayton GPs - male RED-BREASTED MERGANSER at east end of Ferry Lagoon 15:55h, drk Garganey, Little Egret, 500 Black-tailed Godwits (Richard Allison)

Paxton Pits - GLAUCOUS GULL 2cy until 18:25h then flew west (Martin Davis); Barn Owl (Tina Parkin)

Milton CP - FIRECREST between the pontoon and Hall's Pool, fem Brambling, a male and possibly a female Garganey on Dickerson's Pit (Jonathan & David Heath)

Ferry Meadows - ROCK PIPIT on north shore of Gunwade Lake (Matt Webb); male & fem Goosander on Overton Lake (Mike Weedon)

Maxey GPs - 4 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Green Sandpipers, 9 Dunlin (Mike Weedon)

Sutton Gault - Little Ringed Plover east of 100 foot drain (Owen Marks)

St. Neots GC - Woodcock over the first fairway 08:35h (Rod Bee)

Thriplow - GOSHAWK reported north-east over at 12:40h (rarebirdalert.com)

Whittlesford - RING-NECKED PARAKEET over Ley Grove Cottages, between the village and Little Shelford (Guy Belcher)

Ouse Washes - 2 adult Kittiwakes through Pymoor in evening (Duncan Poyser, Ben Green)

Mepal - male Hen Harrier south of the A142 (Jake Allsop)

Cambridge, Peterhouse College - Tawny Owl (Richard Hall)

Heydon - 7 Buzzards, Barn Owl (John Miller)

Buckden - RED-NECKED GREBE still present (Monica & Owen Marks)

Cambridge - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at King's College School (per rarebirdalert.com)

Wednesday, 26 March

Clopton - CATTLE EGRET just to the east of the village at South Farm, viewable from Cockbrook Lane, south off the B662 (Eleanor McMahon). Still present this evening (per rarebirdalert.com)

Grafham Water - 2 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER from dam in afternoon, 4 COMMON SCOTER from Mander CP, Sanderling on the dam (Colin Addington); 2cy GLAUCOUS GULL in roost, 2 Swallows, 3 Goosanders (Mark Hawkes); also 3 Wheatears on the dam wall (David & Jonathan Heath)

Ferry Meadows - 3 male and a female COMMON SCOTER on Overton Lake Mike Weedon); also 2 male and a female Goosander (Terry Daunt); Rock Pipit at 16:00h (Matt Webb).

Needingworth GP - 3 BRENT GEESE (dark-bellied) from Overcote Lane (Philip Bubb)

Mepal - male RING OUZEL 16:00h (Duncan Poyser).

Thorney - OSPREY over at 17:15pm (Josh Jones)

Maxey Pits - Grey Plover circled before heading north, male Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Dunlin, also c.750 Golden Plover nearby (Mike Weedon); 2 Wheatear this evening (John Saunders)

Nene Wases - 2 Kittiwakes briefly, Wheatear, Little Ringed Plover, Merlin (Jonathan Taylor)

Girton Wood - Barn Owl 14:10h(Ken Sheard)

Haddenham Long Drove - Wheatear & White Wagtail (Ian Dickerson, Paul Mason)

Monks Wood - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Woodcock, White Wagtail (Richard Broughton)

Tuesday, 25 March

Grunty Fen - c.12 Tree Sparrows this morning (David Nation)

Ferry Meadows - pair of Goosander (Matt Webb)

Castor Mill - Red Kite and 2 Buzzards over, Grey Wagtail (Matt Webb)

Grafham Water - 5 Buzzards, Grey Wagtail over this morning (Stuart Elsom); 4 Wheatears at Marlow CP this afternoon (Colin Addington)

Fen Drayton - male White Wagtail, c.135 Golden Plover, c.40 Black-tailed Godwit, c.90 Sand Martins, 3 Swallows (Mike Everett)

High Cross - Peregrine over west 15:30h(Andrew Clarke)

Monday, 24 March

Grafham Water - 3 male Wheatears still, 2 Stonechats (Mark Hawkes); 6 Kittiwakes (per rarebirdalert)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still, 2 Swallow, 60+ Sand Martin, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Little Egrets, male White Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Burwell Lode - 3 Little Egrets (Dave Palmer)

Paxton Pits - Curlew, 5 Wheatear, White-fronted Goose, Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Smew, 5+ Buzzard, 4 Sand Martin (Martin Davis, Gary Rawlings, Neal Parkin, Jamie Wells)

Haddenham Fen - male Wheatear (Jake Allsop)

Fen Drayon GPs - Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 50 Sand Martins, fem Goosander, 5 Black-tailed Godwits, 6 Pintails (Richard Patient)

Sunday, 23 March

Grafham Water - 3 Dunlin, 4 Goosander, first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL (Jono Leadley); 3 Wheatear, Ringed Plover, 2 Sand Martins (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still this afternoon, plus 2 female Smew (Mark Hawkes)

Sutton Gault - Peregrine, 2 Water Rail, 2 Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Tree Sparrow (Mark Peck)

Dry Drayton - 4 Common Buzzards over fields south of village (Richard Hook)

Grunty Fen - ring-tail Hen Harrier flew east towards Grunty Fen Farm, 2 Bramblings present in private garden(David Nation)

Cambourne - male Wheatear, Common Buzzard , c.250 Golden Plover, 3+ Jack Snipe, 10+ Common Snipe (Jonathan Hook)

Saturday, 22 March

Orton Longueville - 17+ Siskin, fem Blackcap in private garden (Peter and Jan Farbridge)

Paxton Pits - Swallow, Little Ringed Plover, 6 Pintail, Smew, 2 Little Egret (Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - adult Kittiwake, female Stonechat (Jono Leadley) Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Stuart Elsom & Richard Patient)

Long Drove, Cottenham - adult Kittiwake and 4 Yellow-legged Gulls (Peter Herkenrath)

Maxey Pits - 2 Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Dunlin (Mike Weeden)

Swaffham Prior Fen - flock of 20 Lesser Redpoll on Split Drove (Ian Barton & Kathleen Rosewarne)

Tetworth 5+ Common Buzzards, 30+ Fieldfare (Stuart Elsom & Richard Patient)

Friday, 21 March

Earith - Egyptian Goose, 2 Barnacle Geese and a Red-breasted Goose with the Greylag Geese at the far southern end of the floods on the washes (David Griffiths)

Sutton Gault - Drake Garganey (Mark Peck)

Mare Fen - dark-bellied BRENT GOOSE close to the pumping station (Richard Thomas)

Ouse Fen - 4 Pinkfeet still on Phase 1 (Richard Thomas)

Paxton Pits - Curlew, Grey Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 13 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 4 Green Sandpiper, 3 Oystercatcher, 3 Pintail, Swallow, 11 Sand Martin, 2+ Chiffchaff, 1-2 Little Egret, White-fronted Goose, Bar-headed Goose, pair Grey Partridges (Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - Swallow, Kittiwake, Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 74 Goldeneye 4 Goosanders, Stonechat (Jono Leadley)

Fowlmere NR - drk. Goosander (Mick Amos)

Thursday, 20 March

Maxey GPs - 2 Little Ringed Plover, 8 Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 6 Dunlin (Mike Weedon)

Milton CP - 5 singing Chiffchaffs this morning (David Heath)

Wednesday, 19 March

Ouse Fen - dark-bellied BRENT GOOSE this morning, also 4 Pink-footed Geese still present, male Brambling and male Marsh Harrier. There will be a work party at the Fen today, so there will be a lot of disturbance (Richard Thomas)

Earith - 2 Egyptian Geese, 5 Barnacle Geese and a Red-breasted Goose with the Greylag Geese this morning (David Griffiths)

Grafham Water - Stonechat on fence below dam still (Colin Addington)

Monks Wood - c.50 singing Redwings, singing Chiffchaff (Rich Broughton)

St. Ives - 3 singing Chiffchaffs near The Meadow Business Park o8:00h (Stuart Elsom)

Fen Drayton - 2 Little Egrets, c.100 FieldFares, 3 Redwings, probable Red-tailed Hawk. Both car parks remain closed and most footpaths and bridleways are impassable (Andy Cotton)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 3 Barn Owls, Green Sandpiper, Buzzard (David & Jonathan Heath)

Reach - 85 Corn Buntings just along the road to Upware, also Barn Owl (Stuart Sharp)

Maxey - 3 Swallows over the village (John Saunders)

Ferry Meadows - fem Brambling (Don Gardener); Curlew over (Mike Weedon)

Swaddywell - Wheatear (Richard Astle)

Tuesday, 18 March

Ferry Meadows - male Stonechat, fem Brambling, 1st win Yellow-legged Gull (Mike Weedon)

Fen Drayton - Holywell Ferry Road and the Disabled Car Parks are closed due to flooding and most of the footpaths and bridleways are under water (Andy Cotton)

Grunty Fen - male Stonechat, Brambling (David Nation)

Monks Wood - Brambling, c.20 Siskin, 3 Buzzards, 6 Nuthatch, 2 Woodcock, c.20 Fieldfare (Rich Broughton)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 4 Barn Owls, 2 Green Sandpipers (David Heath)

Great Abington, Granta Science Park - White Wagtail in pre-roost flock of 130+ Pied Wagtails (Gareth Rees)

Monday, 17 March

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET still viewable from B1411 just south of railway. Drake Garganey near Mepal from A142 layby (per rarebirdalert.com); counts from Earith to Welney Road included also 1053 Whooper Swans, Scaup, 11 Goldeneyes, 170 Golden Plovers, 3 Ruff, 8 Little Egrets, Curlew, 2 Marsh Harriers, Water Pipit (Alex Thomas)

Nene Washes - 4 Avocets, 2500 islandica Black-tailed Godwits (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - fem Stonechat on fence below dam this morning (Jono leadley)

Maxey GPs - Green Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin, 2 Oystercatcher, 5 Ringed Plover, c.20 Golden Plovers (Brian Stone)

Peterborough, Thorpe Meadows - Swallow and 12 Sand Martins over the rowing lake this lunchtime (Brian Stone)

Holme Fen NNR - 4 Buzzards this morning (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Foxton - Tree Sparrow and fem Siskin with Reed Buntings and Yellowhammers feeding on Canary seed in a private garden this morning (Marcus Kohler)

Landbeach Tip - 2 Red Kites, 2 Buzzards (James Hanlon)

Cottenham, Long Drove - ad Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Green Sandpipers (James Hanlon)

Upware - 3 Marsh Harriers nearby (James Hanlon)

Haddenham - up to 2000 Fieldfares (Paul Mason); Brambling with Chaffinches (Jake Allsop)

Fen Drayton - ad male White Wagtail with Pied Wagtails on flooded grass by Far Fen Lake this lunchtime. NB. Holywell Ferry Road car park is closed due to flooding, the footpath on the eastern side of Drayton Lagoon and the bridleway between Oxholme and Elney Lakes are under water also (Andy Cotton)

Sunday, 16 March

Dry Drayton - Red Kite flying west

Grafham Water - Green Sandpiper and the resident adult Yellow-legged Gull in lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Maxey GPs - Little Ringed Plover, 4 Ringed Plover this morning; male Wheatear, 2 Oystercatchers this afternoon (Mike Weedon)

Fowlmere - 400+ Fieldfares late afternoon (Peter Bircham)

Cambridge - 2 Bramblings with Chaffinches in a Cavendish Avenue garden (Michael Holdsworth)

Foxton - 4 Tree Sparrows, Brambling, 7 Reed Buntings and 25 Yellowhammers in a private garden this weekend (Marcus Kohler)

Trumpington - male Merlin near old railway cutting along Shelford Road briefly (James Hanlon)

Saturday, 15 March

Cherry Hinton Pits - Peregrine over (Richard Broughton)

Needingworth – 4 Avocets, 2 Shelduck (Ted Harvey)

Ely BF - 2 Sand Martin, 3 Marsh Harriers (Mark Hawkes, Ben Green, Duncan Poyser)

Buckden – RED-NECKED GREBE on 1st pit north of road (Kathleen Rosewarne & Ian Barton); c.400 Black-tailed Godwits over, 2 Oystercatchers (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Paxton pits – 2 Smew (Kathleen Rosewarne & Ian Barton); White-fronted Goose, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, probable 3rd c.y. Caspian Gull, 5 Smew, Little Egret, 6 singing Chiffchaffs, c.40 Golden Plovers, 15 Ringed Plovers, 2 Snipe, 5 Dunlin, 5 Oystercatchers (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

King Fishers Bridge – 7 Sand Martins (Kathleen Rosewarne & Ian Barton)

Crown Lakes - 2 Brambling (Kevin Eldred)

Maxey GP - Rock Pipit, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Green Sandpipers (Mike Weedon)

Friday, 14 March

Grafham Water - ICELAND GULL adult in roost at 6pm, adult Mediterranean Gull, 3+ Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Goosander (Mark Hawkes)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Red Kites, Buzzard, also 7 Treecreepers in a single tree (Peter Beesley) Barn Owl, 20 Siskin 50-60 Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat (Dale Bateman)

Monks Wood - male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling, 2 Woodcock, 2 Buzzard, 4 Nuthatch, 38 Marsh Tits (Rich Broughton)

Fen Drayton - Cetti's Warbler singing, 4 Buzzards, 2 Oystercatchers (Andy Cotton) pair Red-crested Pochard (Neil Renwick)

Wicken Fen - pair Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 50+ Reed Bunting, c 150 Linnet, c 100 Corn Bunting,Merlin (Dave Palmer)

Thursday, 13 March

Grafham Water - 2 KITTIWAKES (adults) off dam early morning, Red Kite, 3 Sand Martins, 2 Goosander (Mark Hawkes)

Maxey GPs - 4 Green Sandpipers, c.200 Golden Plovers, 2 Dunlin (Brian Stone)

Mepal - BRENT GOOSE flew over towards Sutton Gault (Duncan Poyser)

Wednesday, 12 March

Grafham Water - 2 KITTIWAKES over west 15:40h but may still be in the vicinity (Colin Addington); GLAUCOUS GULL juv and ICELAND GULL juv in roost, 3 Sand Martins (Jono Leadley)

Ferry Meadows - Sand Martin at Overton Lake (Paul Taylor)

Maxey GPs - 4 Green Sandpipers, 7 Dunlin, 4 Ringed Plovers (John Saunders); 464 Golden Plovers (Brian Stone)

Tuesday, 11 March

Cambourne - 2 Jack Snipe, 8 Snipe this lunchtime (Jono Leadley)

Grafham Water - Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtails (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still (per rarebirdalert)

Paxton Pits - Red-crested Pochard 5 (3 drakes) (per rarebirdalert)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET still at Pymoor at 9.30am, viewed from bank just south of railway bridge (per rarebirdalert)

Fowlmere RSPB - 121 Bramblings reported coming to roost near the Watercress Hut (Doug Radford)

Monday, 10 March

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still (per rarebirdalert)

Grafham Water - Mediterranean Gull in roost (Jono Leadley)

Sunday, 9 March

Grafham Water - FIRECREST again in SW corner of lagoons, 3+ Sand Martin, 3+ Goosander, Pintail, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Stirtloe - female Brambling, 20+ Corn Buntings (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still there on first pit, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - Red Kite, 7+ Buzzard, Little Egret, 6+ Sand Martin, White-fronted Goose, 7 Red-crested Pochard, 5 Smew, Goosander, 8 Shelduck, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 189 Common Gull, c.300 Golden Plover, 6+ Redshank, 3+ Oystercatcher, 3 Ringed Plover, 4 Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2 Stonechat, Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail (Martin Davis, Steve May, Neal Parkin, Jamie Wells et al.)

Abbots Ripton – 2 Red Kite (Duncan Ritchie)

Maxey GP - 4 Ringed Plover, 4 Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, also 3 Ruddy Shelducks at 10:00h (Richard Astle, Brian Stone)

Woodwalton Fen - ringtail Hen Harrier, Bearded Tit(s) calling, Bittern, female Marsh Harrier, male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 40 Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Brambling, 2 Barn Owls, Long-eared Owl, Tawny Owl, 2 Water Rail, 3 Common Buzzards, 2 Red Kites, 50 Redwings and 500 Fieldfares (Richard Patient)

Orton BP - Black-necked Grebe still present, 9 Goldeneyes, 50 Redwings (Don Gardener)

Ely Beet Pits - Bittern, Marsh Harrier (Michael Price)

Roswell Pits - Barn Owl (Michael Price)

Saturday, 8 March

Willow Hall Lane - COMMON CRANE (John Saunders)

Eldernell - Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier (John Saunders)

Maxey Gravel Pits - Jack Snipe, 7 Green Sandpiper, juv Peregrine (John Saunders)

Ouse Fen - apparent hybrid American x Eurasian Wigeon (Richard Thomas)

Friday, 7 March

Farcet - COMMON CRANE over the B1095 near the Plough Inn 10:30h (rarebirdalert)

Maxey GPs - 3+ Green Sandpipers, 5 Golden Plovers, Dunlin (Brian Stone)

Thursday, 6 March

Maxey GPs - 3 Green Sandpipers 07:30h (John Saunders); 7 Green Sandpipers, 35 Golden Plovers at lunchtime (Brian Stone)

Fen Drayton - 6 Stonechats along the access road this afternoon (Mike Everett)

Witcham Gravel - 4 Stonechats (David Hopkins)

Wednesday, 5 March

Woodwalton Fen - Red Kite, Water Rail, 2 Barn Owls, Brambling, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat (Gavin Paterson)

Maxey GPs - Curlew, Green Sandpiper (John Saunders)

Cottenham, Long Drove - Brambling, Buzzard (David Heath); 3 Barn Owls c.17:20h (Allistair Berry)

Tuesday, 4 March

Stirtloe - fem LAPLAND BUNTING 09:30h (Bob Scott)

Paxton Pits - 9 Buzzards in the air together (Bob Scott)

Woodwalton Fen - Bittern, Mealy Redpoll, 10+ Siskin, Water Rail, Barn Owl, 3 Treecreepers singing (Brian Stone)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET seen from train near Pymoor 08:00h (Jez Bird)

Monks Wood - HAWFINCH briefly, possibly several, disappearing through the canopy, also Buzzard, drumming Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 7 Bullfinch (Rich Broughton)

Newborough - Little Egret by the Thorney Road just west of the village 13:15h (Brian Stone)

Ouse Washes - Peregrine, fem Marsh Harrier, c.450 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Ruff, 2 Little Egrets, Kingfisher (Gavin Paterson)

Wicken Fen - fem Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Water Rail, Kingfisher (Gavin Paterson)

Monday, 3 March

Cottenham Long Drove - 2 Bramblings in a small flock of Chaffinches and Yellowhammers, 1 2CY ICELAND GULL, 1 3CY Yellow-legged Gull and 1 3CY CASPIAN GULL (Dick Newell)

Sunday, 2 March

Paxton Pits - FIRECREST at the south end of the moorings early am (Gary Rawlings); Marsh Tit, Water Rail, 3 Red-crested Pochard, Goosander, 2 Oystercatcher (Gary Rawlings, Mark Ward, Jamie Wells); Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Smew, c.1500 Golden Plover (Martin Davis)

Stirtloe - LAPLAND BUNTING female still 12.15-12.45pm (Mark Hawkes et al.)

Cam Washes, Upware - Avocet, 2 Little Egrets, also fem Gosander and 2 Egyptian Geese nearby (Tom Smith)

Godmanchester GP - Yellow-legged Gull, 12+ Goldeneye, 4 Oystercatcher (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - GLAUCOUS GULL 1st-winter at 17:13h, 3 KNOT, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, drk Goosander, leucistic Black-headed Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - GREAT GREY SHRIKE, 2 Hen Harriers, 5 Marsh Harriers (per rarebirdalert)

Barleycraft GP - KNOT (Richard Patient)

Buckden Marina - Short-eared Owl, 2 Barn Owls (Martin Davis)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe still present (Jonathan & David Heath)

Maxey Pits - Curlew (Chris Lines); 6 Dunlin, 5 pairs of Shelduck (Mike Weedon)

Five Arches Pit - Water Rail, 2 Red Kites, c.8 Buzzards (Duncan McNiven)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 3 Buzzards, 4+ Bramblings, Barn Owl, 2 Shelduck (Jonathan & David Heath)

Saturday, 1 March

Stirtloe - Red Kite over mid-morning 3 Brambling, 20+Corn Bunting (Mark Hawkes); 1+ LAPLAND BUNTING this morning (John Raven); 2 still late afternoon, plus female Merlin (Mark Ward et al.)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe still on first pit this afternoon, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - redhead Smew on Pumphouse pit (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - Peregrine flew west, drk Goosander (Mark Hawkes)

Wimpole Hall -Peregrine flew north towards folly at 11:00h (Jim Lawrence)

Friday, 29 February

Stirtloe - female LAPLAND BUNTING this morning in stubble field west of track, 20m south of sewage works TL200668 (Richard Bashford)

Sutton Gault - Sand Martin flew south in morning (per rarebirdalert.com)

GREAT WHITE EGRET still at Pymoor (per rarebirdalert.com)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Goosander (Andy Cotton)

Ouse Fen - 2 Pink-footed Geese, 3 Dunlin (Andy Cotton)

Thursday, 28 February

Orton BP - Black-necked Grebe, 11 Goldeneyes (Paul Taylor)

Hermitage/Hill Woods - 6 Buzzards, pair of Marsh Tits and a fem Merlin nearby (Rich Broughton)

Hemingford Grey - Water Rail at the river this morning (Mike Everett)

Paxton Pits - Cetti's Warbler, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, 2 redhead Smew, 3 Green Sandpipers, c.3000 Golden Plovers, Grey Wagtail (Martin Davis)

Fen Drayton Lakes - singing Cetti's Warblers on Holywell and Elney Lakes (Andy Cotton)

From Monday, 25 February: Ouse Washes RSPB (Earith to Welmore) - 3960 Whooper Swans, 767 Bewick's Swans, 111 Shelduck, 8568 Wigeon, 1774 Teal, 538 Gadwall, 1064 Shoveler, 1713 Pintail, 1861 Mallard, 2709 Tufted Duck, 1876 Pochard, 2731 Coot, 25 Goldeneye, 29 Little Egret, 4189 Lapwing, 100 Dunlin, 49 Ruff, 341 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Marsh Harrier, Water Pipit (Niki Williamson)

Wednesday, 27 February

Buckden GPs - ICELAND GULL, which flew south towards Paxton (John Parslow)

Stirtloe - male and female LAPLAND BUNTING showing well 07:15-08:15h, also 5 Bramblings, 40+ Corn Buntings (Mark Hawkes)

Holme Fen NNR - ad male Goosander on the north-western mere this morning (Brian Stone)

Monks Wood - pair of Buzzards, 16 singing Marsh Tits, 5+ pairs of Nuthatches, Siskin, Woodcock (Rich Broughton)

Maxey GPs - 2 Green Sandpipers this morning, Little Egret this afternoon (John Saunders)

Paxton Pits - White-fronted Goose, 4 Barnacle Geese, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 9 Smew, Goosander, Little Egret, Water Rail, 33 Siskin, c.3200 Golden Plover (Martin Davis)

Castor Mill - 2 Buzzards, Little Owl, 3 Stonechats (Paul Taylor)

Tuesday, 26 February

Diddington village - White-fronted Goose (1st-winter) with Greylags & 3 Barnacle Geese (Mark Hawkes)

Stirtloe - at least one male and one female LAPLAND BUNTING showing well this morning (Jono Leadley)

Maxey GP - 2 Jack Snipe (Will Bowell); 2 Green Sandpipers (Brian Stone); Merlin (John Saunders)

Dogsthorpe Tip - 1st win Caspian Gull, 3+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Will Bowell)

Grafham Water - GLAUCOUS GULL 2CY, Caspian Gull 2CY, Yellow-legged Gull 3CY, 3 Goosander (Jono Leadley, Philip Precey)

Cottenham, Long Drove - ICELAND GULL 2CY, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Dick Newell)

Cottenham, Long Drove - ploughed strip of land near north end: 15 Yellowhammers, 1 Corn Bunting, 15 Chaffinches, 5 Bramblings and 1 Brown Rat (Dick Newell).

Monday, 25 February

Stirtloe - 2+ LAPLAND BUNTING still 08.15h with 2 Bramblings & c.50 Corn Buntings ½ m SSE of Buckden and just east of Stirtloe in stubble field west of track, 20 yds south of sewage works (Mark Hawkes); male LAPLAND BUNTING still present with Skylarks 15:45h (Jamie Wells)

Buckden - Red-necked Grebe still present (Lee Evans)

Pymoor - GREAT WHITE EGRET still viewable from Railway Bridge (TL494883) (per rarebirdalert.com)

Paxton Pits - Cetti's Warbler, 21 Siskin, 3 Smew, 3 Red-crested Pochard this morning, 1st win White-fronted Goose, Little Egret, 2 Stonechats, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2000+ Golden Plovers this afternoon (Jamie Wells)

Ferry Meadows - male Red-crested Pochard, Red Kite, 6 Siskins (Paul Taylor)

Sunday, 24 February

Stirtloe - 3 LAPLAND BUNTING with an impressive number of Corn Buntings (c.40), Yellowhammers (50+), Reed Buntings, Sylarks (100+) Chaffinches and at least 5 Brambling ½ m SSE of Buckden and just east of Stirtloe in stubble field west of track, 20 yds south of sewage works (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe still on first pit on left this afternoon (Mark Hawkes)

Ely - BLACK REDSTART just north of Roswell Pits, Ely at 10am (Leo Young)

Ouse Fen - Red Kite over, 3 Corn Buntings 4 Pink Footed Geese and Barnacle Goose (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Pymoor - GREAT WHITE EGRET still in drain east of Dunkirk (per rarebirdalert.com)

Haddenham - male Hen Harrier over North Fen (Jake Alsop)

Woodwalton Bank - 60 Redwing 200 Fieldfare, Short-eared Owl, 2 Barn Owl, 3 pairs of Stonechat, Buzzard (Dale Bateman)

Saturday, 23 February

Elton - CATTLE EGRET over, later relocated out of county near Fotheringhay (Brian Stone)

Ouse Fen - 4 Pink-footed geese still present with Canada Goose and Barnacle goose at Cell 1, Corn Bunting, female Stonechat at Far Fen track (Andy Cotton)

Grafham Water - FIRECREST again in overgrown area between Lagoons and Plummer car park, favouring brambles near stream, Red Kite around the west end this morning (Mark Hawkes) 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL in the roost off Mander CP, Brambling, 5 Goosander, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Jono Leadley)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe still present, Little Egret, 4+ Corn Bunting, 150+ Fieldfare (Mark Hawkes)

Pymoor - GREAT WHITE EGRET still present (per rarebirdalert.com)

Woodwalton Fen - Buzzard, 20 Siskin, 2 Redpoll, 140 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing, Marsh Tit (Gavin Paterson)

Paxton Pits - 5 / 6 Smew, Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Ringed Plover, Buzzard, 3 Barnacle Goose, Bar-headed Goose (Jamie Wells)

Eldernell - GLAUCOUS GULL, Hen Harrier (Charlie Kitchin)

Friday, 22 February

Ouse Fen - 4 Pink-footed Geese close to Fen End Road this morning (Richard Thomas)

Paxton Pits - Little Egret, c.1500 Golden Plovers, c. 2000 Lapwings, 4 Goosanders, c. 20 Corn buntings over, Siskin over (Jamie Wells)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET still in favoured drain east of Dunkirk (per rarebirdalert.com)

Thursday, 21 February

Buckden GPs - RED-NECKED GREBE still present mid-afternoon (Jamie Wells)

Woodwalton Fen - ringtail Hen Harrier, Barn Owl, 3 Water Rails, 60 Siskins this morning (Brian Stone)

Ouse Fen - 4 Pink-footed Geese arrived 08:10h this morning (Richard Thomas)

Wednesday, 20 February

Ouse Fen - 4 Pink-footed Geese with Wigeon flock this morning (Richard Thomas)

Fen Drayton - redhead Goosander, Little Egret, redhead Smew, male Stonechat (Andy Cotton)

Ferry Meadows - fem Goosander, 5 Bullfinches, 8 Siskins (Paul Taylor)

Wicken Fen - GREAT GREY SHRIKE, fem Marsh Harrier (Dave Palmer)

Monday, 18 February

Buckden GPs - RED-NECKED GREBE still present 13:00h, TL208676 (BirdGuides)

Paxton Pits - Smew (BirdGuides)

Fen Drayton - Bittern showed very well at Holywell Lake this evening

Ouse Washes - Black-necked Grebe, Water Pipit, Peregrine (as per rarebirdalert)

Sunday, 17 February

Woodwalton Fen - 2 fem Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 3 Stonechat, Little Owl, c.50 Siskin (Chris Gerrard and Jono Leadley); Bittern in reeds in NW corner & Cetti's Warbler from Gordon's Mere Hide, 2 Marsh Harrier, Barn Owl & Bearded Tits heard twice from North Hide (Duncan McNiven & Debbie Pain); Peregrine, Woodcock, 2 Lesser Redpoll (Stuart & Jill Elsom)

Buckden GP - RED-NECKED GREBE still on first pit early morning (Mark Hawkes)

Fordham Wood - Willow Tit, Nuthatch, 5 Marsh Tits (Andrew Knights)

Coveney/Little Downham - Water Pipit, 4 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper in the area (David Hopkins)

Grafham Water - 4 Goosander, 3 Barnacle Geese, Pink-footed Goose (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 3 Barnacle Geese (Mark Hawkes); White-fronted Goose, Little Egret, 3 redhead Smew, 2 Buzzard, Green Sandpiper (Jamie Wells, Martin Davis); also 13 Snipe 2 Egyptian Geese, 3 Jack Snipe, 2 Green Sandpipers (Mark Ward)

Averseley Wood - HAWFINCH over, 5 pairs of Nuthatch, 7 pairs of Marsh Tit (Rich Broughton)

Needingworth GPs - male and 5 redhead Smew in NW lagoon (Duncan McNiven & Debbie Pain)

Wicken Fen - Little Egret, 6 Redpoll, GREAT GREY SHRIKE, 6+ Marsh Harrier, Woodcock, 2+ Cetti's Warbler, 2 Water Rail, 20 Corn Bunting (David & Jonathan Heath); 3 Hen Harriers (Andy Cotton)

Maxey GP - Turnstone, 2 Ringed Plover, Snipe (John Saunders)

Upware - 2 Short-eared Owls (Toby Austin)

Saturday, 16 February

Grunty Fen - 2 Bramblings feeding with c.30 Chaffinches (David Nation)

Cottenham Long Drove - 1st winter ICELAND GULL Kathleen Rosewarne and Ian Barton); 4+ Brambling with 40+ Yellowhammers and 100+ Chaffinches (Andy Massey)

Woodwalton Fen - Bittern flew into Gordon's Mere 10:00h (M. Harris); ringtail Hen Harrier, 10 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Barn Owls (Stefan Tinworth)

Paxton Pits - 2 Little Egret, 4 readhead Smew, 8 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 3 Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Oystercatcher, 2+ Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Buzzard, 7 Siskin over(Jamie Wells)

Wicken Fen - GREAT GREY SHRIKE, Hen Harrier, 10+ Marsh Harriers, 2 Barn Owls (David Heath)

Friday, 15 February

Peterborough - up to 15 Siskins regularly at feeders in a private Orton longueville garden (Peter & Jan Farbridge)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 12 Corn Buntings (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Thursday, 14 February

Cambourne - 2 Goosander east over council offices 07:50h (Russell Watkins)

Cottenham, Long Drove - juv ICELAND GULL 11:30 (rarebirdalert.com)

Cambridge, Windsor Road - male Siskin on niger seed in a private garden this morning (Chris Akehurst)

Tuesday, 12 February

Nene Washes - 1746 Black-tailed Godwit, 148 Redshank, 33 Ruff, 10575 Lapwing, 3750 Golden Plover, 2080 Teal, 10487 Wigeon, 1267 Pintail, 1145 Mallard, 384 Shoveler, 642 Bewick's Swans, 291 Whooper Swans (Jonathan Taylor)

Orton BP - Black-necked Grebe, 19 Goldeneye (Brian Stone)

Fowlmere - 4 Water Rail, Snipe, 2 Treecreeper (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Wicken Fen - male Marsh Harrier, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 25+ Yellowhammers and 25+ Reed Buntings on spilled grain at Priory Farm (Dave Palmer)

Maxey GP - 4 Green Sandpipers, 2 Ringed Plovers, 300 Golden Plovers, 2 Snipe (Leon Smith)

Kings Dyke NR - Jack Snipe (Phil Parker)

Ferry Meadows - Oystercatcher (Terry Daunt)

Monday, 11 February

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET near Pymoor, viewed from TL510883 at 11:09h (Richard Allison); 7 White-fronted Geese (Bruce Martin); WILLOW TIT, Grey Plover, 16 Ruff, Water Pipit, 2 Marsh Harriers (rarebirdalert.com); 17378 Wigeon, 1233 Teal, 970 Gadwall, 242 Shoveler, 1068 Pintail, 1342 Mallard, 3328 Tufted Duck, 2987 Pochard, 15 Goldeneye, 3 Little Egret, 1187 Lapwing, 195 Dunlin, 245 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Marsh Harriers, 4 Water Pipits, 17 Stonechat, Chiffchaff (Alex Thomas)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe (Mark Hawkes)

Earith - feeding flock of 196 Mute Swans (Jake Allsop, David Hopkins)

Dogsthorpe Tip - juv GLAUCOUS GULL (Josh Jones)

Woodwalton Fen - Barn Owl, Cetti's Warbler, Buzzard (Brian Stone); 2 male BEARDED TITS from North Hide this afternoon, 2 fem Marsh Harriers (Garth Peacock)

Sunday, 10 February

Grafham Water - Red-crested Pochard in Gaynes Creek, male Scaup in Dudney Creek, Pink-footed Goose, 6 Goosander (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington, David Hollin)

Buckden GP - Red-necked Grebe, 37 Goldeneye, Water Rail (Mark Hawkes)

Orton BP - Black-necked Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Red-crested Pochard, Ruddy Duck (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Cambridge, Milton Science Park - ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD over 14:00-14:10h (Zbig Karpowicz)

Dogsthorpe Tip - juv GLAUCOUS GULL, 1st win Caspian Gull (Josh Jones)

Fen Drayton - 2 Little Egrets, pair of Stonechat, fem Marsh Harrier over (Sarah Howlett); male Scaup on Ferry Mere, 76 Goldeneye, 2 Water Rail, 60 Ruff, 31 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 more Little Egrets (Andy Cotton)

Marsh Lane GP - pair of Smew (Mike Everett)

Woodwalton Fen - pair Stonechat, Marsh Harrier, Barn Owl, Kingfisher (Gavin Paterson)

Paxton Pits - 2 male and a redhead Smew, Kingfisher (Gavin Paterson); another 6 redhead Smew, 5 Goosander, 25 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 4+ Buzzard, 5 Siskin (Martin Davis, Steve May, Jamie Wells); a third male Smew, 5 red-crested Pochard (Mark Ward)

Ferry Meadows - ad Mediterranean Gull, 9 Woodcock, Brambling (Matt Webb)

Wicken Fen - GREAT GREY SHRIKE, 2 Stonechat, 3 Short-eared Owl, fem Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 2 ringtail Hen Harriers (Andrew Knights)

Cottenham - male Blackcap (Nigel Butcher)

Saturday, 9 February

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET in the usual drain near Dunkirk (Andy Bayes)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 3 Common Buzzards and Barn Owl (Chris Akhurst)

Whittlesford - 3 Buzzards over station area (Nigel Denham)

Grafham Water - drk Red-crested Pochard still in Gaynes Creek, plus 2 drk Pintail there, drk Scaup from Mander CP, plus Pink-footed Goose still, fem Brambling female at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes)

Dogsthorpe Tip - juv GLAUCOUS GULL, juv ICELAND GULL, 2 Caspian Gulls, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Brian Stone et al.)

Friday, 8 February

Angelsey Abbey - 7+ Siskins in trees near entrance (Chris Akhurst)

Fen Drayton - 4 Common Buzzard flying high over Ferry Lagoon, Godwit flock still present in good numbers (Andy Cotton)

Grafham Water - drk Red-crested Pochard from Plummer CP this afternoon (Colin Addington)

Thursday, 7 February

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET in the usual drain near Dunkirk 09:30h (Mike Everett); and at Pymoor 11:10h (BirdGuides)

Wednesday, 6 February

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET at Pymoor 10:20h (BirdGuides)

Fen Drayton - 3 Little Egrets, Black-tailed Godwit flock still around Ferry Lagoon (Andy Cotton)

Landbeach - Merlin and Buzzard north of the Landbeach-Cottenham Road this afternoon (John Miller)

Peterborough - 12+ Siskins regularly at feeders in a private Orton longueville garden (Peter & Jan Farbridge)

Dogsthorpe Tip - GLAUCOUS GULL, 3+ 'Nordic' Jackdaws (Will Bowell)

Tuesday, 5 February

Thriplow - WHITE WAGTAIL with Pied Wagtails on roof of the school this morning (Doug Radford)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET on Main Drain east of Dunkirk again 10:30h (Fred Heath)

Dogsthorpe Tip - juv ICELAND GULL, juv GLAUCOUS GULL, 3+ 'Nordic' Jackdaws this lunchtime (Will Bowell)

Fen Drayton - 5000 Black-tailed Godwits, 2000 Golden Plovers, 1000 Lapwings (Mike Everett)

Woodwalton Fen - Cetti's Warbler (Will Bowell)

Monday, 4 February

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET at Pymoor 13:15h today (BirdGuides.com)

Histon - 10+ Siskins in alders at stables nearby 10:30h (Ken Sheard)

Paxton Pits - pair of Smew, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 2 fem Goosander (Paul Rule)

Sunday, 3 February

Dogsthorpe Tip - juv GLAUCOUS GULL (Raymond Bowell)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET still around Pymoor/Dunkirk today (per rarebirdalert.com)

Grafham Water - FIRECREST again in SE corner of lagoons, adult Mediterranean Gull, 3 adult Yellow-legged Gull, Pink-footed Goose again at west end, fem Goosander off lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Sutton Gault/Chain Corner - 3 Scaup, 2 Water Pipits, 2 Stonechats, 43 Corn Buntings (Mark Peck)

Orton BP - pair Red-crested Pochards, Black-necked grebe (Dave Bradley)

Fen Drayton - male Smew, 2 Little Egrets (Dennis Hall)

Saturday, 2 February

Wicken Fen - 2 female Hen Harrier, 2 Short-eared Owl (Saimon Clarke)

Dogsthorpe Tip - Yellow-legged Gull (Peter Beesley); 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL (Mike Weedon)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL, 8+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Dick Newell et al.)

Tanholt - ad & juv GLAUCOUS GULL this morning (Josh Jones)

Grafham Water - drk Scaup was still in Littless Creek, with 5+ Goosander and a single Pink-footed Goose (Mark Hawkes)

Earith - Turnstone, Grey Plover, Green Sandpiper, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Ruff (David Griffiths)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET still around Pymoor/Dunkirk today (per rarebirdalert.com)

Peterborough, CEGB pit - 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULLS, Yellow-legged Gull

Ferry Meadows - adult Mediterranean Gull, 50+ Common Gulls (Matt Webb)

Fen Drayton - 2000 Black-tailed Godwits at Ferry Lagoon (Ian Dillon)

Friday, 1 February

Dogsthorpe Tip - 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - ad ICELAND GULL in roost near Savages Creek 16:18h (Colin Addington)

Cottenham Long Drove - ad ICELAND GULL this morning (Simon Stirrup)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2 redhead Smew on Moore Lake, 2 Little Egrets, Barn Owl (Andy Cotton); c.5000 Black-tailed Godwits (John Le Gassick)

Paxton Pits - male and redhead Smew, male Goosander (John Hoppett)

Monks Wood - male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Nuthatch, 7 Marsh Tit, 3 Woodcock in north-east block (Rich Broughton)

Orton BP - pair of Red-crested Pochard (Dave Bradley); Black-necked Grebe (Chaz Shaw)

Elton Furze Golf Club - 300 Fieldfares on practice range (Peter Beesley)

Eldernell - Bittern, 7 Tree Sparrows (Charlie Kitchin)

Thursday, 31 January

Magog Down - Red Kite over north-west 14:50h (Mike Foley)

Paxton Pits - drake and 2 redhead Smew, 2 Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, c.300 Golden Plovers (Martin Davis)

Wednesday, 30 January

Thriplow - probable SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF nearby at small fishing pit, c.TL453465. Elusive and calling infrequently, seen briefly but reasonably well and appears to give classic tristis call (James Hanlon)

Dogsthorpe Tip - 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL this lunchtime (Brian Stone)

Stetchworth - 9 Buzzards circling nearby TL645605 (Dave Palmer)

Tuesday, 29 January

Cambridge - probable Siberian Chiffchaff between Birdwood Road and Ancaster Way c. TL476570 08:15-08:20h, seen briefly but reasonably well although not heard to call (Pete Holt)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET in flight towards Pymoor 08:20h (Peter Stockwell); in ditch east of Pymoor at TL519860 again 16:15-16:22h (Richard Palmer)

Peterborough - a 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL, possibly two, and ad Yellow-legged Gull in roost at CEGB pit (Brian Stone); Black-necked Grebe at Orton BP still (Dave Bradley)

Ouse Washes, Earith to Welmore - 21 Goldeneye, 3 Little Egret, Curlew, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 6 Water Pipit, 5 Stonechat (Alex Thomas)

Fen Drayton - most paths are now accessible but wellingtons still recommended; 500+ Black-tailed Godwits, 40 Ruff, 4 Stonechats (Andy Cotton)

Fowlmere - Peregrine 12:30h (BirdGuides)

Graveley - 8 Grey Partridges this morning (Jono Leadley)

Papworth - 2 Buzzards over A1189 nearby (Philip Hobson)

Monday, 28 January

Orton BP - Black-necked Grebe still present 10:45h (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Wicken Fen - GREAT GREY SHRIKE, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, Water Rail, Barn Owl, Little Owl (Dave Plamer)

Paxton Pits - a male and 3 female Smew 12:00h (Mark Hill)

Sunday, 27 January

Dogsthorpe Tip - juv GLAUCOUS GULL and Juv ICELAND GULL viewable very occasionally from the back of Somerfield Garage/KFC car park off the roundabout where Paston Parkway meets Frank Perkins Parkway (Kev Du Rose, Helen Wilson, Ray and Will Bowelll)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET in drains south of Pymoor 15:30h (Peter Beesley); COMMON CRANE flew south at 08:00h (per rarebirdalert.com); 5 Little Egrets (John Pearman)

Grafham Water - FIRECREST again 13:45h, showing well, favouring overgrown copse between Plummer CP and the path on south side of lagoons, redhead Smew and drk Scaup in Littless Creek, 7 Goosander, c.10 Siskin, c.8 Buzzard around reservoir (Mark Hawkes); adult ICELAND GULL in roost from Mander CP this evening, 3+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - fem Hen Harrier, c.40 Black-tailed Godwits, c.10 Tree Sparrows, c.100 Bewick's Swans, c.300 Whooper Swans, 12 Stonechat (Mark Ward, Dean Harlow)

Woodwalton Fen - Red Kite, ad male Peregrine, Lesser Redpoll, 10 Siskin, Cetti's Warbler (Mark Ward, Dean Harlow)

Tanholt GP - ad Caspian Gull, 1+ 1st winter Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Peterborough, CEGB pit - 2 juv GLAUCOUS GULLS on Teardrop Lake (Mark Ward, Dean Harlow, Josh Jones); 1st winter Caspian Gull, 1st winter Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones)

Orton BP - Black-necked Grebe, fem Merlin (Mark Ward, Dean Harlow)

Paxton Pits - pair Red-crested Pochard, pair Smew (Mark Ward, Dean Harlow)

A14 west of Old Weston - Red Kite (Kathleen Rosewarne and Ian Barton)

Earith Bridge - Red Kite (Kathleen Rosewarne and Ian Barton)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 3 Buzzards (David & Jonathan Heath)

Impington - Brambling in private garden (Nigel Butcher)

Cambridge - Tree Sparrow at garden feeders in Windsor Road (Chris Akehurst)

Saturday, 26 January

Dogsthorpe Tip - 1st winter ICELAND GULL & 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL 11:40h (Kevin Du Rose)

Cambridge - Red Kite drifting north over Fanshawe Road (Richard Patient)

Paxton Pits - 5 Smew, Goosander, 15 Pintail, Egyptian Goose, Pink-footed Goose, 3 Barnacle Goose, 4 Ruff, 24 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Woodcock, Little Egret, Peregrine, 4 Buzzard, Tawny Owl, Stonechat, Bar-headed Goose, 2nd cal yr Yellow-legged Gull, also 3 male Red-crested Pochards reported (Martin Davis/Jamie Wells)

Peterborough, CEGB pit - 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL on Teardrop Lake (Paul Taylor)

Grafham Water - Smew in Gaynes Creek this morning, Peregrine over west, 4+ Goosander, Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 25 January

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET again east of Pymoor, just east of Dunkirk in main drain again (rarebirdalert.com)

Grafham Water - adult and 2 1st-winter ICELAND GULLS in roost by 16:15h, 2 f Goosanders, 2m 1f Mandarins (Owen Marks); 2 Smew in Gaynes Creek (Ray Presley); Scaup at Savages Creek (Colin Addington)

Fen Drayton - BLACK-NECKED GREBE on SW corner of Elney pit (Dave Anderson)

Thursday, 24 January

Dogsthorpe Tip - 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL (Will Bowell & Helen Wilson)

Ely BF - Cetti's Warbler and Common Sandpiper heard this afternoon (Ben Green)

Grunty Fen - Brambling in private garden (David Nation)

Wednesday, 23 January

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET again east of Pymoor, just east of Dunkirk in main drain again (Paul Mason)

Grafham Water - redhead Smew in Gaynes Creek 09:00h, 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL in roost off Mander CP late afternoon (Colin Addington)

Buckden - possible RAVEN headed north over the marina 13:15h (Philip Precey)

Fen Drayton GP - due to flooding access is still very limited, but 2 male and a redhead Smew on Far Fen Lake, Water Rail, c.1500 Golden Plovers, 2 Dunlin, 15 Ruff (Andy Cotton)

Cottenham, Long Drove - Caspian Gull (BirdGuides)

Tuesday, 22 January

Fen Drayton GP - Bittern showed well this morning (Sue Rogers)

Orton BP - BLACK-NECKED GREBE still present (Brian Stone)

Wicken Fen - fem Hen Harrier, Merlin, Marsh Harrier, Short-eared Owl (Aaron Grainger)

Paxton Pits - 2 male Smew, 2 male Red-crested Pochard, Water Rail, 43 Goldeneye, Buzzard over (Chris Boness)

Stretham - male Blackcap (John Thake)

Monday, 21 January

Shropshire's Reservoir - ad win Little Gull in roost this evening (Ian Barton)

Fen Drayton GP - due to flooding access is very limited, but 2 male and a redhead Smew on far Fen Lake, 850 Golden Plovers, 25+ Dunlin, c.20 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Stonechats (Mike Everett)

Sunday, 20 January

Grafham Water - juv. ICELAND GULL & juv. GLAUCOUS GULL in roost from Mander CP, drk. Scaup in Savages Creek, c.33 Pintail over, Green Sandpiper, 6+ Goosander, 16 Redhank, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Barnacle Geese (Mark Hawkes); pair of Mandarin in Dudney (Jono Leadley)

Woodwalton Fen NNR - Mealy Redpoll, 25+ Lesser Redpoll, 70+ Siskin, Cetti's Warbler, Bittern, Water Rail, Peregrine (Raymond Bowell); ringtail Hen Harrier, probable second Bittern (Duncan McNiven, Debbie Pain)

Paxton Pits - adult Mediterranean Gull, Peregrine, 2 drk. and 4 redhead Smew, 2 Shelduck, Ringed Plover, 8 Redshank, Woodcock, Green Sandpiper (Jamie Wells); flock of 150+ Black-tailed Godwits over (Martin Davis / Jamie Wells)

Orton BP - BLACK-NECKED GREBE still present, Jack Snipe (Helen Wilson & Will Bowell)

Ouse washes - 13 Egyptians on the Hunts section of the washes this morning, leucistic bird still amongst them (David Griffiths)

Fowlmere - Merlin, Peregrine, Barn Owl (Toby Austin)

Saturday, 19 January

Grafham Water - pair of Mandarin in Dudney Creek, 2 Goosander (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton GP - drk. Smew and Bittern in flight over Oxholme Lake (Neil Renwick)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET again east of Pymoor, just east of Dunkirk in main drain again (Owen Marks); 8 Egyptian Geese including one leucistic bird Hunts section of the washes (David Griffiths)

Landbeach Tip: 2 Caspian Gulls and 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Richard Patient)

Friday, 18 January

Peterborough, CEGB pit - juv GLAUCOUS GULL in roost at 15:50h (Josh Jones)

Grafham Water - redhead Smew in Gaynes Creek 12:45h (Colin Addington)

Paxton Pits - Smew (BirdGuides)

Grunty fen - Brambling (BirdGuides)

Thursday, 17 January

Fen Drayton - 2 male and a redhead Smew on Far Fen lake, Black-necked Grebe on Drayton Lagoon. Flood levels continue to rise (Andy Cotton)

Ouse Fen - fem Merlin, 2 Little Egret (Andy Cotton)

Needingworth Quarry Lakes - Little Egret, 50+ Dunlin (Andy Cotton)

Wednesday, 16 January

Wicken Fen - GOSHAWK reported from Baker's Fen this afternoon (Chris Boness); Peregrine over, Barn Owl, 2 Cetti's Warblers singing briefly at Swaffham Prior Fen (Carl Howard)

Woodwalton Fen - GREEN-WINGED TEAL on Gordons Mere (Peter Beesley)

Ouse Washes - Black-necked Grebe, 10 Little Egrets from Pymoor (Duncan Poyser); GREAT WHITE EGRET at usual roost site by 16:18h, also 3 Little Egrets (Duncan Ritchie)

Fen Drayton - 2 male and a redhead Smew on Far Fen lake, Black-necked Grebe on Drayton Lagoon. Flood levels continue to rise and have now cut off large sections of the footpath on the southern side of Elney Lake. The Disabled car park is currently flooded; the main car park on Holywell Ferry Road is closed; the path along the Oxholme Drain, on the eastern side of Drayton Lagoon, is impassable; the path along the Moore Brook, between Elney Lake and Moore Lake, is impassable. The bridleways bewteen Elney lake and Oxholme Lake and along the western side of Drayton Lagoon are flooded. Please take great care if visiting the reserve and be aware that the current flood watch status could be upgraded (Andy Cotton)

Tuesday, 15 January

Nene Washes - 391 Bewick's Swans, 202 Whooper Swans, 14 White-fronted Geese, 2 Marsh Harriers, Hen Harrier, 3 Buzzards, 2 Merlin, 3+ Peregrine, 2500 Golden Plover, 730 Black-tailed Godwit (Jonathan Taylor)

Monday, 14 January

Woodwalton Fen - GREEN-WINGED TEAL with c.185 Teal on Rothschilds Mere (Steve Gann)

Ouse Washes, Earith to Welmore - 12 Goldeneyes, 2000 Golden Plovers, 4 Ruff, 73 Black-tailed Godwits, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, Marsh Harrier this morning (Alex Thomas)

Sunday, 13 January

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET at usual roost site by 16:05h (per rarebirdalert.com)

Wicken Fen - GREAT GREY SHRIKE, 2+ Short-eared owls, Peregrine, 3 ringtail and 1+ male Hen Harriers (David, Saffron Walden); fem/imm Merlin, a fourth ringtail Hen Harrier and second male Hen harrier (Andrew Knights)

Grafham Water - Common Scoter still off dam, 3 redhead Smew in Gaynes Creek and ad Yellow-legged Gull in lagoons this morning, 8 Yellow-legged Gulls in the roost from Fishing Lodge this evening (Mark Hawkes); 12 Goosander at western end this morning (Jono Leadley, Colin Addington); flock of c.12 Siskin at the lagoons (Ken & Maggie Hook)

Paxton Pits - 2 redhead Smew, 1+ Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, c.200 Golden Plover, Grey Wagtail, c.25 Siskin, Shelduck (Julian Hughes, Neal Parkin, Jamie Wells)

Wood Ditton / Stetchworth - ringtail Hen Harrier between the villages (Peter Stronach)

Sutton Gault - 34 Bewick's Swans, 20 Whooper Swans, male Merlin, 180+ Corn Buntings (Mark Peck)

Fen Drayton GP - GREAT WHITE EGRET over just before 08:00h, BLACK-NECKED GREBE, 2 male Smew, Red-crested Pochard, Little Egret, also 65 Dunlin, 5 Ruff and a Black-tailed Godwit over in a Lapwing flock (Andy Cotton)

Saturday, 12 January

Grafham Water - 2 1st winter Caspian Gull, Common Scoter, 7 Goosander, 2+ Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Barnacle Goose, 4+ Bramblings (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Trumpington - 8+ Brambling in the finch flock, Addenbrookes-side of Foster Road, in the area of the OSR stubble field and nearby bushes (Mike Foley)

Fen Drayton GP - Bittern (Tony Lowe and Dave Griffiths); BLACK-NECKED GREBE and 2 Goosanders on Drayton Lagoon, Bittern, 4 Stonechats, 2 Pintails, Siskin (Richard Patient)

Buckden GP - 29 Goldeneye (Richard Bashford); Barn Owl, female Stonechat (Mark Hawkes)

Swaffham Prior Fen - 15 Redpoll, 2 Short-eared Owls, ringtail Hen Harrier, fem Marsh Harrier, 2 Barn Owls in the area (Andy Massey)

Friday, 11 January

Ferry Meadows - 2 Jack Snipe, 34 Snipe, 20 Siskin, Kingfisher (Brian Stone)

Thursday, 10 January

Ferry Meadows - Peregrine (Don Gardener)

Wednesday, 9 January

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET nearby in Main Drain, a counter drain east of Pymore, TL518860. Viewed from the bridge where Pymore Lane/O'Furlong Drove, off the B1411 at Pymore, crosses the counter drain (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes); at roost at usual site by 15:15h, also 3 Little Egrets (David Nation)

Grafham Water - 1st-winter Caspian Gull, ad Mediterranean Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls, 3 Barnacle Geese (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Tuesday, 8 January

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET into roost at usual site 15:52h, also 5 Little Egrets (Richard Allison); Grey Plover, 50+ Ruff, c.250 Black-tailed Godwits at Earith (David Griffiths)

Milton - 3 Caspian Gulls, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls (Dick Newell)

Cottenham, Long-Drove - 8 Yellow-legged Gulls (Dick Newell)

Monks Wood - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in the north-east block, 1000 Wood Pigeons in to roost (Rich Broughton)

Fen Drayton GP - Black-necked Grebe on Drayton Lagoon 15:30h although it can be elusive, male Smew on Far Fen Lake briefly, Treecreeper (Andy Cotton)

Heydon - Tree Sparrow in a private garden, Barn Owl along Fowlmere Road (John Miller)

Monday, 7 January

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET into roost at usual site 15:55h, also 3 Little Egrets, 3 Goldeneye (Paul Harrington)

Grafham Water - 1st-winter GLAUCOUS GULL left roost 07:50h, 1st-winter male Scaup in Valley Creek (Jono Leadley)

Monks Wood - 1+ Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 3+ Nuthatches, 4+ Marsh Tits in the north-east block (Rich Broughton)

Cambridge - 40+ finch flock including 2 Siskin and a Brambling between main hospital and S-block on the Addenbrooke's site briefly this afternoon (Iain Thomas)

Fen Drayton - male Smew, Little Egret (Ken and Jonathan Hook)

Sunday, 6 January

Tanholt - juvenile GLAUCOUS GULL (Will Bowell)

Grafham Water - 1st-winter GLAUCOUS GULL in roost from lagoons (Simon Davies); and present until dusk from Mander CP, FIRECREST again along path near lagoons, 1st-winter male Scaup in Valley Creek this afternoon, 3 Barnacle Goose, 4+ Goosander, 2+ Siskin, 5+ Yellow-legged Gull, drk. Pintail (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET again into roost viewed from Pymoor this evening, 3+ Little Egret, 2nd winter Caspian Gull, 8+ Yellow-legged Gull (Duncan Poyser)

Fen Drayton GP - BLACK NECKED GREBE on Drayton Lagoon, 2 Smew (Neil Renwick)

Eldernell - 14 White-fronted Geese from CP at 14:00h briefly, ringtail Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, 2 Short-eared Owls (Paul Taylor)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, Caspian Gull (Andy Cotton)

Madingley, Cambridge - Stonechat near the American Cemetery (Sean Rouse)

Wicken Fen - 3 Short-eared Owls (Andy Massey)

Swaffham Prior Fen - ringtail Hen Harrier, 4 Buzzards, 2 pairs of Stonechat, 50+ Corn Buntings (Andy Massey)

Paxton Pits - redhead Smew (Iain Thomas)

Saturday, 5 January

Paxton Pits - Little Egret, Water Rail, Barn Owl, male Peregrine, fem. Stonechat, Siskin, 3 Smew (Martin Davis)

Milton CP - 35 Siskin feeding in Alders between the visitor centre and the play ground (Jonathan Heath)

Cottenham Long Drove - 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL (Dick Newell)

Dogsthorpe Tip - 1st winter ICELAND GULL (Kevin Du Rose)

Wicken Fen - Two Marsh Harriers, male Hen Harrier and a ringtail Hen Harrier (Dave Griffiths & Tony Lowe)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET Seen again in ditch from Pymoor (per rarebirdalert.com)

Joist Fen - fem Peregrine, Green Sandpiper, pair of Stonechat (Andy Massey)

Friday, 4 January

Ouse Washes - dawn counts of 3937 Whooper Swans, 3128 Bewick's Swans and a further 1000 swans not separable in poor light (Alex Thomas); GREAT WHITE EGRET in from north to roost 15:50h, viewed from Pymoor by railway line (Owen Marks)

Fen Drayton - Bittern sitting up in the reeds at Holywell Lake, Little Egret, adult Yellow-legged Gull (Mike Everett)

Thursday, 3 January

Grafham Water - FIRECREST in hedge on south side of lagoons early afternoon (Simon Davies); also ad Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Siskins over (Martin Davies)

Ouse Washes - GREAT WHITE EGRET to roost in trees by Stevens Hide 16:10h, also Little Egret and Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Duncan Poyser)

Ouse Washes - 10 Little Egrets, 425 Golden Plovers, 390 Black-tailed Godwits, 106 Dunlin, Brent Goose, 2 Water Pipits, 6 Siskins (Alex Thomas)

Fen Drayton - 2 male Smew, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Dave Griffiths, Cambridge & Tony Lowe); Bittern briefly at Holywell Pit 15:20h (Dave Anderson)

Castor Mill - Red Kite over, 2 Stonechats, Little Owl (Paul Taylor)

Wednesday, 2 January

Peterborough - 2 HAWFINCHES in tops of trees behind Flettton Towers in Woodston c.15:40h. These trees can be viewed from the rec off Oundle Road between the railway bridge and Grove Street, directly opposite the new Oundle Road flats. Walk across to the Queen's Walk end of the rec to view the tall trees at the back of Fletton Towers (Steve Dudley)

Paxton Pits - Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 2 Woodcock, ad Yellow-legged Gull (Martin Davis)

Fen Drayton - BLACK NECKED GREBE still, male Smew, Bittern, Goosander, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 9 Siskin, 2 Stonechat, Treecreeper (Andy Cotton)

Grafham Water - FIRECREST with tit flock in hedge on south side of lagoons TL157668 (Ray Presley)

King's Dyke NR - 2 Jack Snipe, Woodcock, Buzzard (Phil Parker)

Nene Washes - ringtail Hen Harrier, 2 Marsh Harriers, 2 Buzzards, fem Merlin, fem Peregrine, 450+ Whooper Swans (Gary Heath)

Nene Park - 2 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Goldeneye, 4 Woodcock, Jack Snipe (Don Gardener)

Wicken Fen - Marsh Harrier, 2 Hen Harriers, 4 Black-tailed Godwits (Robin Cox)

Tuesday, 1 January

Fen Drayton - BLACK NECKED GREBE still, 3 Smew, Little Egret (Duncan Ritchie)

Grafham Water - Dark-bellied Brent Goose again at Marlow CP (Ray Presley); 3-4 Yellow-legged Gull, Scaup still in Dudney Creek this afternoon, plus 2 Goosander around (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Ferry Meadows - Jack Snipe with 11 Common Snipe, c160 Common Gulls on Overton (Matt Webb); c.15 Lesser Redpoll (Ramond Bowell)

Paxton Pits - 3 redhead Smew, Green Sandpiper, c.300 Golden Plovers, 2+ Jack Snipe, 5 Woodcock, pair Stonechta, Buzzard, ad win Mediterranean Gull, 2 ad Yellow-legged Gulls, Goosander, 2 Water Rails heard, Siskin over (Martin Davis)

Ouse Washes - Dark-bellied Brent Goose, GREAT WHITE EGRET (per rarebirdalert.com)

Sutton Gault - c 200 Bewick's Swan, Merlin, Peregrine, 3+ Water Rail, Barn Owl, Little Owl, Tawny Owl, 3 Stonechat, 6 Tree Sparrow, 70 Corn Bunting (Mark Peck)

Burwell Fen -ringtail Hen Harrier, 2 Barn owl, 3 Grey Partridge (Kathleen Rosewarne and Ian Barton)

Eldernell - Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, 2 Barn Owl, Little Owl, Water Pipit, c500 Black-tailed Godwit, Brambling (Ramond Bowell); Short-eared Owl (Duncan Ritchie)

Maxey GP - Jack Snipe (Ramond Bowell)

Blackbush Drove - 2 Short-eared Owls (Duncan Ritchie)