Wednesday, 31 August
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET 09:00h (BirdGuides)
Grafham Water - c.15 Black Terns, 24 Curlew, Whimbrel, 7 Little Egrets, juv Little Gull, 2 Ruff, Greenshank, Ruddy Duck (Mark Hawkes); also 3 Greenshanks, Dunlin (Jono Leadley)
Prior's Fen - 5 Little Egrets, 2 Greenshanks, Ruff, Marsh Harrier (Brian Stone)
Nene Washes RSPB - 2 Whinchat (Brian Stone)
Ferry Meadows - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Don Gardener)
Tuesday, 30 August
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET still (BirdGuides)
Grafham Water - 14 Curlew over east, Black Tern, 2 Little Egret, 3 Greenshanks (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)
Farcet Fen - Whinchat, Wheatear, 7 Marsh Harriers, 5 Hobbies, 6 Curlews over east this evening (Steve Dudley)
Wolley, nr Ellington - m HEN HARRIER perched in dead tree TL167745 c.09:30h (Mark HIll)Paxton Pits - 3 Little Egrets, 6 Ruff, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Green Sandpipers (Martin Davis)
Monday, 29 August
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET still by A14, juntion 22, at the back of Hinchingbrooke Country Park (per RBA)
Eau Fen - Red Kite briefly mid-afternoon (Ian Anderson)
Grafham Water - juv. Med Gull off Mander, Greenshank, 4 Ringed Plover (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes), 3 Black Tern (James Hanlon), 2 Hobbys, 3 Buzzard, 2 Greenshanks and at least 3 Little Egrets (Jono Leadley)
Eau Fen - 7 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpipers, 15 Ruff, 2 Dunlin, 2 ad. 3 juv. Ringed Plovers, 10 Snipe, 2 Hobby (Monica & Owen Marks, Rob Palmer)
Nene Washes Central Drove - Stonechat, Winchat (Jim Lawrence)
Sunday, 28 August
March Farmers - 8+ Marsh Harriers heading to the roost from the March Farmers end, Hobby, Little Owl, c.30 Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone)
Grafham Water - 3 Black Tern, 3 Little Egret, 2+ Greenshank, 3 Dunlin, 4 Ringed Plover, 20+ Common Tern, 20+ Yellow Wagtails (Mark Hawkes, Mark Piercey); Osprey (Jono Ledley)
Woodwalton Fen - Osprey & 5 Buzzards over west, Hobby, m Marsh Harrier (Duncan McNiven)
Fen Drayton - 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpipier, 3 Water Rails, Hobby, Cetti's Warbler, BLACK-NECKED GREBE (Richard Patient); Ruddy Shelduck with the Greylags (David Wright)
Paxton Pits - 3 Little Egrets, 3 Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Buzzard, Wheatear, Ruddy Duck, 5 Snipe, 3 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 25 Little Grebes (Julian Hughes, Martin Davis, Gary Rawlings)
Haddenham - male Whinchat, Common Buzzard (Paul Mason)
Shropshires Reservoir - 290 Canada Geese, c.145 Greylag geese, 1 immaculate free flying SNOW GOOSE, 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull (Monica and Owen Marks)
Swaffham Prior Fen - on turned Stubble field 172 Stock Dove, 25 Turtle Dove, 1 ad Common Partridge + 5 large young, 230 Lapwing (Monica and Owen Marks)
Wimpole Park - Hobby over lake (Z. Karpowicz)
Saturday, 27 August
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET again, on south side of Thrapston Road between Brampton and the turning to Hinchingbrooke Hospital (per RBA)
Paxton Pits - Little Egret, Buzzard, 2 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpipers, 3+ Yellow Wagtails (Jamie Wells)
Grafham Water - 3 Black Tern, Green Sandpiper, 10 Dunlin, 9 Ringed Plover, adult & 1st summer Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Little Egret, 4 Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit (Jono Leadley); 3 BLACK-NECKED GREBE off the lagoons (Colin Addington); 19 Yellow Wagtails and 50+ Pied along the Dam, 10 Greenshanks on the lagoon shoreline, Little Egret, juv Black Tern off Hill Farm (Jim Lawrence)
Fen Drayton GP - drake FERRUGINOUS DUCK and juv BLACK-NECKED GREBE both on Ferry Mere, 2 Black Terns, Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, 13 Golden Plovers, 3 Water Rails, 7 Common Terns, Grey Wagtail (Richard Patient); Cetti's Warbler singing on south side of Holywell Lake (Stuart & Jill Elsom)
Godmanchester GP - Garganey, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers (Richard Patient)
Nene Washes central drove - 4+ Whinchat, 3 Little Egret 3 over (Mike Weedon)
Eau Fen - c.4 Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, c.12 Ruff, juv Little Stint, 2 ad & 2 juv Ringed Plover, 16 Snipe, 1 juv Shelduck, 8 Turtle Dove (Monica and Owen Marks)
Friday, 26 August
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET again, on south side of Thrapston Road between Brampton and the turning to Hinchingbrooke Hospital until 15:40 at least (Mark Hawkes)
Eau Fen - juv Little Stint, 8 Greenshanks, 4 Green Sandpipers, Redshank, 15 Ruff, juv Little Ringed Plover, 4 Ringed Plovers, 4 Snipe, juv Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Common Tern, Kingfisher, 7+ Yellow Wagtails (Owen Marks, John Oates)
Grafham Water - Purple Sandpiper at Marlow CP, Turnstone at south end of the dam (Colin Addington)
Thursday, 25 August
Abbotsley - SPOTTED CRAKE in Abbotsley Brook ditch by B1046 bridge, c. 200 yards west of junction with B1040 19:15h (as per RBA)
Paxton Pits - Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 6 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes, Martin Davis)
Eau Fen - juv Curlew Sandpiper, Hobby, 8 Greenshanks, 20+ Ruff, 4 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 7+ Snipe, 3+ Yellow Wagtails (James Hanlon)
Prior's Fen - 5 Little Egrets, 3 Greenshanks, 2 Hobbies (David Manton, Tony Moorcroft)
Fen Drayton - 2 Black Terns, 3 Common Terns, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin this morning (Richard Allison); Black-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon (BirdGuides)
Wednesday, 24 August
Prior's Fen - 6 Little Egrets, 3 juv Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzards, ad Yellow-legged Gull this evening (Kevin Durose, Mike Weedon)
Grafham Water - juv Turnstone, 5 Yellow Wagtails, Greenshank, 7 Little Egrets, 5 juv Black Terns, 1st win Yellow-legged Gull through this afternoon (Jim Lawrence, Colin Addington); 8+ Black Terns, 10 Greenshanks, 2 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plovers, 2+ Little Egret this evening (Jono Leadley)
Nene Washes RSPB - ad m MONTAGU'S HARRIER this lunchtime (Charlie Kitchen)
Barton - Buzzard over the rifle range this morning (Vince Lea)
Tuesday, 23 August
Paxton Pits - Turnstone, Garganey, 2 Little Egrets, 3 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin, 12 Yellow Wagtails, juv Marsh Harrier (Martin Davis, John Parslow)
Ferry Meadows - Green Sandpiper, Water Rail (Don Gardener); 3 Spotted Flycatchers, 6 Common Tern (Matt Webb)
Grafham Water - juv PURPLE SANDPIPER between Marlow CP and the dam, 2 Black Terns, 8 Little Egrets, Black-tailed Godwit (John Parslow, Colin Addington); 5 Greenshanks, 2 Black-tailed Godwits at Plummer, 4 Black Terns off Mander CP this evening (Jono Leadley)
Prior's Fen - 3 Marsh Harriers, 5 Little Egrets, 2 Greenshanks (Peter Beesley)
Fen Drayton - Black-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon, 2 Black Tern, Common Tern, Dunlin and Common Sandpiper on Moore lake this morning (Richard Allison); also 4 Green Sandpipers on Elney lake, juv Marsh Harrier, Golden Plover (Bruce Martin)
Monday, 22 August
Paxton Pits - Short-eared Owl hunting over fields just north of A1 North Pit 19:30h (Martin Davis)
Grafham Water - no sign of the Sabine's Gull by 08:05h, but 4 Black Terns, 4 Greenshanks, 2 Little Egrets, 3 Dunlin, 8 Ringed Plover present (Jono Leadley); Purple Sandpiper (BirdGuides); Wood Sandpiper (as per RBA); this evening, Sandwich Tern, 3+ mobile Black Terns, 2 Ruff, 2 Greenshank, 2 Little Egrets, Common Sandpiper, but no sign of either Purple or Wood sandpipers (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington, Jono Leadley)
Fen Drayton - Bittern flying around Oxholme Pit, Black-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon, Pintail on Elney Pit (Dave Buckingham)
Late news from Monks Wood: on 16 August, m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Buzzards, Spotted Flycatcher; on 17 August, Redstart (Rich Broughton)
Sunday, 21 August
Grafham Water - ad sum SABINE'S GULL viewable from Mander CP (John Parslow, David Deboo); viewable from Marlow CP area until 18:50h at least, also 2 ad & a juv Mediterranean Gull (Richard Patient et al.); a further juv Mediterranean Gull, 5 Black Terns, 2 Greenshank from the sailing Club 19:00-19:40h, but no sign of the sabine's Gull from this location (Stuart Elsom et al.); PURPLE SANDPIPER present on shoreline between north end of dam and stone jetty opposite Marlow CP, 3 juv Black Tern, 4 Hobbies, 40 Yellow Wagtail, 40+ Common Tern (Mark Piercey); 4 Little Egret (Mark Hawkes, Jim Lawrence)
Fen Drayton - BLACK-NECKED GREBE, Black Tern, Greenshank, 6 Green Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin (David Wright); 4 Pintail, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher (Barry Squires)
Eau Fen - 2 Little Egret, 3 juv Shelduck, 5 Greenshank, 2 Redshank, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 15 Ruff, 2 juv Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Dunlin, 2 ad Ringed Plover, juv Little Ringed Plover, 24 Snipe, c.150 Lapwing, ad winter Black Tern, ad Hobby, 5 Turtle Dove, ad Yellow Legged Gull (Monica Owen Bruce and Gwen)
Prior's Fen - juv SPOTTED REDSHANK, 6 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Ruff, 2 Hooby, juv Marsh Harrier, 19+ Yellow Wagtails (Steve Dudley)
Dog-in-a-Doublet sluice - Whooper Swan (Steve Dudley)
Paxton Pits - OSPREY south over north end of Paxton Pits, Whinchat, 4 Buzzard, 2-3 Hobby, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper,14 Yellow Wag (Martin Davis & Jamie Wells); 2 Red-crested Pochards (Barry Squires)
Saturday, 20 August
Grafham Water - PURPLE SANDPIPER on shoreline between north end of dam and stone jetty opposite Marlow CP, 5 Black Tern off Mander CP, Green Sandpiper (Colin Addington); Sandwich Tern in Marlow area (David Hopkins)
Eau Fen - 6 Greenshank, 3 Redshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 11 Ruff, ad & juv Ringed Plover, 2 juv Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 6 Snipe, 2 juv Shelduck, Wheatear, 80 Goldfinch (Monica and Owen Marks); ad & juv Black Terns, ad & juv Curlew Sandpipers (John Oates)
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET Still present this evening in a field between Hinchingbrooke CP Lake and Brampton (per RBA)
Sutton North Fen - 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, juv Curlew Sandpiper, SPOTTED REDSHANK, Yellow-legged Gull, Herring Gull, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Mark Peck)
Prior's Fen - 5 Little Egret, Wood Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Hobby (Bill Meek)
Friday, 19 August
Prior's Fen - 5 Little Egret, Whimbrel, juv SPOTTED REDSHANK, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Golden Plover, Hobby, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone
Lode - 7 Yellow Wagtails on playing field (John Oates)
Thursday, 18 August
Barway - PIED FLYCATCHER and a Spotted Flycatcher in private garden (Sir John Baird)
Eau Fen - juv SPOTTED REDSHANK, 6 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Ringed Plovers, 2 Dunlins, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, c.6 Common Sandpipers, 15 Ruff, Wheatear, 10+ Yellow Wagtails (John Oates)
Grafham Water - 7 Little Egret (new site record - 5 at Mander, 2 at Plummer), 5 Greenshank, Ruff (Mark Hawkes); Knot (Colin Addington)
Toft - juv Wheatear on the trackway NW of village (Vince Lea)
Wednesday, 17 August
Fen Drayton - BLACK-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon, Hobby, Green Sandpiper, Turtle Dove (Dave Griffiths)
Little Paxton - 2 Marsh Harriers heading south (Jamie Wells)
Grafham Water - 2 Little Egret, 4 Greenshank at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes); 5 Greenshank, 3 Ruff and 6 Little Egrets all in the Dudney/Littless area of Grafham Water at c.20:00h (Jono Leadley)
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET Still present this evening in a field between Hinchingbrooke CP Lake and Brampton (Mark Ward)
Tuesday, 16 August
Grafham Water - juv Curlew Sandpiper at Marlow car park, for it's 2nd day (Colin Addington)
Eau Fen - Little Grebe, 3 Greenshank, Redshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 10 Ruff, Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 9 Snipe, juv Shelduck, juv Common Tern, 11 Turtle Doves, 6 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Kingfishers
Prior's Fen GP - 3 Little Egret, Wood Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Dunlin, Golden Plover, Turtle Dove, Marsh Harrier, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone)
Monday, 15 August
Needingworth GP - Little Egret, 3 Barnacle Geese (Martin Phillips)
Fen Drayton - BLACK-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon 07;30h (Richard Allison)
Over Fen - little Egret, Turtle Dove (James Hanlon)
Sunday, 14 August
Paxton Pits - Little Egret, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Greenshank, Redshank, 4 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 4 Snipe, 3 Yellow Wagtail, (Jamie Wells)
Fen Drayton - BLACK-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon, also Turtle Dove and 2 Green Sandpiper over (Peter Herkenrath); drk FERRUGINOUS DUCK on Ferry Lagon (BirdCall)
Ferry Meadows - 2 Hobbies, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail (Don Gardener & Matt Webb)
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET Early morning it was in the usual field by the A14, next to Hinchingbrooke Country Park lake, but it was later reported along the road to Brampton Mill (as per RBA)
Monks Hardwick - pair of Hobbies with recently fledged young (Bob Scott)
Eau Fen - 5 Turtle Dove, 3+ Yellow Wagtail, Ringed Plover, 10+ Ruff, 3 Greenshank, Redshank, 4+ Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, juv Common Tern, Common Gull (Paul Atkinson)
Saturday, 13 August
Grafham Water - Little Egret opposite Dudney hide (Mark Hill); Sanderling, Ruff, Turnstone, 20 Dunlin, Knot on mud just west of Marlow CP (Colin Addington)
Sutton North Fen - 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 1 Dunlin, 30+ Yellow Wagtail (Mark Peck)
Priors Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Curlew, 3 Greenshank, 2 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Marsh Harrier (Katie Fuller)
Friday, 12 August
Grafham Water - Turnstone, 3+ Dunlin(Mike Foley)
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET 07:40h (Jamie Wells); still present 10:50h (BirdGuides)
Prior's Fen - 2 Little Egrets, 2 Wood Sandpipers, 5 Green Sandpipers, 2 Greenshanks, 2 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpipers, juv Little Ringed Plover, 10 Yellow Wagtails, Yurtle Dove (Brian Stone)
Thursday, 11 August
Brampton - CATTLE EGRET back in the same field, opposite Huntingdon racecourse, just south of the A14 this morning (Nigel Blake)
Fen Drayton - FERRUGINOUS DUCK still at the north end of Ferry Lagoon, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher (James Hanlon)
Paxton Pits - Short-eared Owl, Little Egret, 2 Curlew over, 3 Greenshank, 7 Common Sandpipers, Green Sandpiper (Jamie Wells)
Eau Fen - 5 Green Sandpipers, 2 Greenshank, 12 Ruff, 5 Snipe, 4 Turtle Doves (Owen Marks)
Prior's Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 5 Greenshanks, 4 Green Sandpipers, 2 Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin (Brian Stone)
Grafham Water - Turnstone, 2 Ruff (Colin Addington)
Trumpington - Hobby this evening (James Hanlon)
Wednesday, 10 August
St. Neots, Priory Park - 42 Mistle Thrushes, Hobby this morning (Bob Scott)
Grafham Water - Common Scoter 09:45h (Colin Addington); still present 10:45h, also Little Egret and Greenshank at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes); 4 ad Arctic Terns off Mander CP, Mandarin, Turnstone on dam, 6 Little Egrets, 6 Yellow-legged Gulls (Jono Leadley)
Fowlmere RSPB - juv Marsh Harrier, Hobby this morning (David Griffiths, Cambridge)
Late news from Monday, 8 August: Cambourne - White Stork over 12:45h (Julie Kitson)
Tuesday, 9 August
Prior's Fen - Wood Sandpiper, Whimbrel through, 4 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin, 8 Snipe, juv Marsh Harrier (Brian Stone)
Grafham Water - juv BLACK-NECKED GREBE, 6 Little Egrets, Greenshank, Peregrine, Little Stint, 2 Ruff (Colin Addington, Jono Leadley, David Hollins)
Sutton North Fen - 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 30+ Yellow Wagtails (Mark Peck)
Haddenham - Buzzard over c.16:00h (Paul mason)
Wicken Fen - 6 Green Sandpipers, Greenshank (David Griffiths, Cambridge)
Monday, 8 August
Eau Fen - Hobby over, 12 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 2 Kingfishers, ad Yellow-legged Gull 19:30-20:15h (Monica & Owen Marks)
Maxey GP - 13 Green Sandpipers, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpipers, 12+ Yellow Wagtails; also Kingfisher and Little Egret along the cut (Brian Stone, Mike Weedon)
Paxton Pits - ad Yellow-legged Gull over c.14:00h (Mike Hannah); 2 Little Egrets, Greenshank, Goldeneye, Green sandpiper, 3 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpipers, 5 Common Terns (Julian Hughes)
Godmanchester GPs - Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 4 Common Terns this afternoon (Mike Foley)
Sunday, 7 August
Eynesbury, Barford Road Pocket Park - SPOTTED CRAKE showing well, looking north-east into the base of the reed bed from the brick bridge, 04:50-07:30h. Also Kingfisher, Water Rail, Yellow Wagtail over (Stuart Elsom); SPOTTED CRAKE showed briefly 17:10h (James Hanlon)
Prior's Fen - Jack Snipe, ad Spotted Redshank, 4 Green Sandpipers, 2 Greenshanks, 2 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin, Redshank (Steve Dudley)
Maxey Cut - Little Egret just east of Etton Pits this afternoon, viewable from the A15 bridge (Will Bowell)
Grafham Water - juv Marsh Harrier near Plummer CP 07:30h (Mark Hawkes)
St. Neots - Merlin over the A428 just east of the town (James Hanlon)
Fen Drayton - FERRUGINOUS DUCK still present on Ferry Lagoon (Peter Stockwell); also 7 Green Sandpipers and 4 Common Sandpipers (Richard Patient)
Saturday, 6 August
Eynesbury, Barford Road Pocket Park - SPOTTED CRAKE showed 11:00h (John Spaull)
Grafham Water - 3 Little Egrets (Mark Hawkes)
Eaton Ford - Crossbill over Brook Road this morning (Richard Bashford)
Needingworth GP - 2 Greenshanks, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpipers, 3 Turtle Doves, 10 Common Terns, 2 Yellow Wagtails 11:00-14:00h (Monica & Owen Marks)
Friday, 5 August
Grafham Water - Mediterranean Gull east past Hill Farm CP c.13:00h (Colin Addington)
Paxton Pits - 2 Green Sandpipers, Greenshank, 2 Dunlin, Snipe, Common Sandpiper (Julian Hughes); also f Crossbill reported from a garden in Little Paxton July 30-31 (as per Jim Stevenson)
Thursday, 4 August
Ickelton - Little Egret 18:00h (BirdGuides)
Eau Fen - Ruff, Common Sandpiper 15;00-16:30 (Monica & Owen Marks)
Ely - 7 Turtle Doves on wires to south-west of the railway station (Paul Atkinson)
Grafham Water - 5+ Little Egrets, 2 Mandarins, 12+ Common Sandpipers, juv Little Ringed Plover, several Yellow-legged Gulls, also 313+ Common Terns this evening (Mark Hawkes)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK north end of Ferry Lagoon 15:00h (Dan Morton)
Maxey Cut - Little Egret just east of Etton Pits this morning, viewable from the A15 bridge (Marlene Jones)
Wednesday, 3 August
Eau Fen - 12 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Paul Atkinson)
Grafham Water - juv Mediterranean Gull, Greenshank, 5 Little Egrets (Jono Leadley); 2 Whimbrel over west , 10+ Yellow-legged Gulls, 2 Greenshanks, 2 Common Sandpipers, 200+ Common Terns 17:50-20:00h (Mark Hawkes); possibly 30+ Yellow-legged Gulls by late evening (Jono Leadley)
Paxton Pits - ad sum Mediterranean Gull, 4+ Yellow-legged Gulls, Ruff, Greenshank, 9+ Common Sandpipers, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, juv Little Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher (Jamie Wells)
Tuesday, 2 August
Castor Hanglands - HONEY BUZZARD circling initially then headed south-west, also 2 Buzzards 12:45-13:30h (Mike Weedon, Brian Stone)
Grafham Water - 2 Little Stints at Marlow CP early morning only (Colin Addington); Black Tern 15:00h, Greenshank, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)
Ely - Green Sandpiper, Hobby, 2 Sparrowhawks from Roswell Sailing Club (Owen Marks et al.);
Wicken Fen - white phase Snow Goose with feral geese on The Mere this morning (John Oates); also seen over the visitor centre yesterday afternoon (Ralph Sargeant)
Maxey Cut - Little Egret by the A15 again 15:50h (Garry Heath)
Eau Fen - 5 Ruff (Bruce Martin)
Monday, 1 August
Ely - BEE-EATER with House Martins over Sycamore Lane 20:36h, drifted north-east and out of view. Not relocated subsequently (Paul Atkinson)
Brampton/Hinchingbrooke CP - unringed, summer plumage CATTLE EGRET present 05:50h (BirdGuides); no sign 12:45 (BirdGuides)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK on Ferry Lagoon 10:30h, Turtle Dove (Jamie Wells)
Maxey Cut - Little Egret by the A15 again this evening (Kevin Durose)
Grafham Water - 3 Little Egrets, 2 Common Sandpipers, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, 5 Ruddy Ducks, Hobby, Turtle Dove this morning (Jamie Wells); Mediterranean Gull, Whimbrel over, Greenshank, 11+ Yellow-legged Gulls, 3 Little Egrets this evening (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley); 6 Little Egrets at dusk (Colin Addington)
Paxton Pits - Arctic Tern briefly, Little Egret, 11 Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpipers, Green Sandpiper, 2 juv Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Snipe (Jamie Wells)
Woodwalton Fen - Quail 13:30h (BirdGuides)
Sunday, 31 July
Woodwalton Fen - Quail calling west of the fen, Green Sandpiper over (Duncan McNiven)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK on Ferry Lagoon, Curlew over 16:05h (Jim Lawrence)
Grafham Water - 2 Greenshanks, 3 Little Egrets, 6+ Common Sandpipers, 2+ Yellow-legged Gulls, 150+ Common Terns, Hobby, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit this evening (Jono Leadley); gull roost contained at least 3 juv Mediterranean Gulls & 34 Yellow-legged Gulls (Steve Cooper, Richard Patient)
Paxton Pits - Little Stinit, 12 Dunlins, 6 Common Sandpipers, 4 Green Sandpipers (Julian Hughes, Neal Parkin)
Maxey Pits - Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Turtle Doves (Josh Jones); Little Egret at Maxey Cut this afternoon (Ray Bowell)
Meldreth - Common Tern over north 11:0h (Ian Dodd)
Saturday, 30 July
Brampton/Hinchingbrooke CP - unringed, summer plumage CATTLE EGRET in the same field between the CP and the A14 again this morning (as per RBA)
Woodwalton Fen - 3 Quail calling in a private area early afternoon, Grasshopper Warbler (Mark Hawkes)
Grafham Water - Black Tern, 4+ Little Egrets, 150+ Common Terns, 4+ Common Sandpipers, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes et al.)
Eau Fen - 5 Ruff, 4 Common Sandpipers, Redshank, 8 Snipe, 8 Common Terns (Monica & Owen Marks)
Werrington - 4 Little Owls along Meadow Road (Colin Holmes)
Maxey Pits - Curlew over this morning (Gareth Jones)
Dogsthorpe, Star Pit - 4 Turtle Doves (Josh Jones)
Meldreth - 3 Common Terns over north 19:20h (Ian Dodd)
Friday, 29 July
Brampton/Hinchingbrooke CP - unringed, summer plumage CATTLE EGRET in the same field between the CP and the A14 again this morning (John Lindsell); flew to another field c.10:55h, possibly viewable from the A14 (Mark Hawkes); still present 12:34h (Jamie Wells); flew back towards the allotments 13:55h (BirdGuides). Pensthorpe escapees are all ringed.
Grafham Water - 4 Little Stints (David Hollins)
Thursday, 28 July
Hinchingbrooke CP - unringed, summer plumage CATTLE EGRET between the CP and the A14. Leave the A14 at the Brampton turn, park by the mini roundabout and walk back to view cattle field (John Lindsell, Simon Henderson); present until c.18:55h (John Oates)
Fulbourn - c.20 mobile and vocal Crossbills 10:15h (Colin Kirtland)
Prior's Fen - 2 Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Turtle Dove (Mike Weedon)
Eau Fen - 21 Ruff, 3 Common Sandpipers, Redshank, Snipe, Yellow-legged Gull, 8 Common Terns (Monica & Owen Marks)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK on the small mere at north end of Ferry Lagoon 18:45h (Iain Thomas)
Wednesday, 27 July
Grafham Water - 7 Common Scoter off Church lane 12:30h, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)
Tuesday, 26 July
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK on Ferry Lagoon 19:10h (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)
Eynesbury - Hobby over Andrew Road c.18:00h (Stuart & Jill Elsom)
Grafham Water - 2 Little Egret, Greenshank, Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Barnacle Goose (Mark Hawkes)
Edith Cavell Hospital, Peterborough - Hawfinch over (Tony Parker)
Eau Fen - Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Redshank, 7 Snipe, 5 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, c.30 Lapwing, 4 ad + 1 juv Common Tern, Yellow Legged Gull, juv Common Gull, m Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrels, m Sparrowhawk, 3 Turtle Dove, Kingfisher, Yellow Wagtail (Monica and Owen Marks)
Paxton Pits - 4 Common Sandpipers, 1-2 Green Sandpipers, 1-3 Dunlin, Snipe, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Jamie Wells)
Sunday, 24 July
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK at north end of Ferry Lagoon (anon)
Grafham Water - juv Marsh Harrier, Garganey from Dudney hide, Turnstone, 3 Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 12 Yellow Legged Gull, Little Egret, 10 Common Sandpiper, Manadarin, Greenshank (Mark Piercey)
Saturday, 23 July
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK at north end of Ferry Lagoon (John Oates); 2 Little Egrets, Spotted Redshank flew over calling, heading towards Barleycraft (Stuart Elsom)
Grafham Water - juv Mediterrean Gull, 11 Yellow-legged Gulls, Turnstone, Dunlin, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Richard Patient)
Nene Washes - Wimbrel over the central drove (Mike Weedon)
Friday, 22 July
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK at north end of Ferry Lagoon (c/o Focalpoint)
Monks Wood - Crossbill (Rich Broughton)
Thursday, 21 July
Godmanchester Pits - Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)
Grafham Water - Sanderling (BirdGuides)
Wednesday, 20 July
Grafham Water - Sanderling in flight with 2 Dunlin off Plummer CP mid-afternoon (Mark Hawkes); also Ruff, Redshank, 130+ Common Terns by c. 20:00h (Jono Leadley)
Tuesday, 19 July
Grafham Water - 4 Whimbrel, 2 Ruff, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, Curlew, Redshank, Little Egret from Plummer CP mid-morning (Colin Addington, Mark Hawkes); Sanderling just west of Marlow 19:40h (Colin Addington); 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, 6+ juv Yellow Wagtails, c. 100 Common Terns, 2 Ruff this evening (Mark Hawkes)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK at north end of Ferry Lagoon 09:30h (John Hopett); still showing well to 20:00h at least (Steve Bell, Phil & Cynthia Jones)
Cambourne - 15 Crossbills over west 09:40h (Andy Plumb)
Monday, 18 July
Grafham Water - 4 Little Egrets, m Red-crested Pochard (Colin Addington)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK on Ferry Lagoon 12:45h (as per RBA); still showing well 19:30h at least, also Little Egret & Grey Wagtail (Richard Allison, Steve Cooper)
Eynesbury - Hobby along Potton Road 18:35h (Stuart & Jill Elsom)
Sunday, 17 July
Grafham Water - Little Egret, Hobby, 4 Common Sandpipers, 2 Dunlin, juv Wheatear on dam (Jono Leadley)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK at north end of Ferry Lagoon (Mark Hawkes)
Burwell - Curlew flying over (Neil Larner)
Cow Lane, Godmanchester - Marsh Harrier; 2 Green Sandpiper; 4 Black-tailed Godwits (Ted Stephens)
Saturday, 16 July
Wicken Fen - 2 Grasshopper Warb;ers, 5 Green Sandpipers, Water Rail, Barn Owl, 3 juv Marsh harriers, 2 juv Cetti's Warblers, 2 Little Egrets (Zbigniew Karpowicz)
Fen Drayton - male FERRUGINOUS DUCK at north end of Ferry Lagoon at (Richard Patient)
Farcet Fen - 23 Crossbills over (Steve Dudley)
Waterbeach - Hobby hunting House Martins around Glebe Road this morning (Andy Massey)
Friday, 15 July
Great Gidding - Peregrine (Richard Jones)
Cam Washes - Marsh Harrier, Greenshank over, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper (Monica & Owen Marks)
Grafham Water - 3 Little Egrets around Savage's Creek, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Barnacle Goose this morning (Colin Addington)
Thursday, 14 July
Peterborough, Longthorpe - Quail calling (Mac Bell)
Grafham Water - Little Egret off mander CP late afternoon (Mark Hawkes)
St. Ives - 8 Little Egrets on Tricor Lakes this evening (Daniel Morton)
Wednesday, 13 July
Grafham Water - 4 Little Egrets, 5 Ringed Plovers, Yellow-legged Gull this morning (Mark Hawkes); 12 Black-tailed Godwits briefly, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin, Mandarin this evening (Colin Addington, Mark Hawkes, Jono leadley)
Tuesday, 12 July
Fowlmere - ALPINE SWIFT over the reserve at 13:30h for about a minute, before heading north/north-east (Peter Herkenrath)
Grafham Water - Whimbrel over east 16:45h (Mark Hawkes); ad sum CURLEW SANDPIPER west of Marlow until flying off west at 20:30h, 4 Little Egrets, 2 Dunlin, 5 Ringed Plovers, Little Ringed Plover, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington, Jono Leadley)
Farcet Fen - Ring-necked Parakeet (Steve Dudley)
Paxton Pits - 2 Dunlin, juv Little Ringed Plover (Jamie Wells)
Croxton - 3 Buzzards circling near the A428 at 10:45h (Dave Anderson)
Monday, 11 July
Grafham Water - 2 Little Egrets on north shore between Savage's Creek and Hill Farm CP, Red-crested Pochard in Savage's Creek this afternoon (Colin Addington); Yellow-legged Gull 09:30h (BirdGuides); 2 Crossbills over Savage's Creek towards Littless Wood 15:10h and relocated near the cross roads at 16:00h, at least one Little Egret still this afternoon (Jono Leadley); 3 Little Egrets together 20:30h (Colin Addington)
Sunday, 10 july
Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper on High Wash this evening (Bill Meek)
Saturday, 9 July
Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, Ruff, Dunlin on High Wash this morning (Mike Weedon)
Eaton Ford - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in private garden (Richard Bashford)
Paxton Pits - Little Egret, 1-2 Dunlin, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Little Ringed Plover, drk Ruddy Duck, 2nd sum Yellow-legged Gull, 7 ad Common Gull (Julian Hughes, Neal Parkin, Jamie Wells)
Cam Washes, Upware - Crossbill flying south (John Oates)
Grafham Water - Little Egret in Littless Creek, 1 fem plus 2 large young Mandarin, Little Ringed Plover (Jono Leadley)
Friday, 8 July
Grafham Water - Little Egret off Mander CP, adult and 2nd summer Yellow- legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)
Thursday, 7 July
Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, 3 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Dunlin on High Wash this evening (Mike Weedon)
Wednesday, 6 July
Grafham Water - 3+ Spotted Flycatchers, Barn Owl in the village (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes)
Tuesday, 5 July
Nene Washes - 3 Greenshanks, 4+ Redshanks, 3 Black-tailed Godwits & 2 Garganey on High Wash opposite Roslyn Farm this lunchtime (Brian Stone)
Melbourn - Black-tailed Godwit on 6th fairway of Kingsway GC 09:20h (Jim Lawrence)
Elton Churchyard - 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Brian Stone)
Grafham Water - Greenshank 07:30h (BirdGuides)
From Sunday, 3 July: Little Owl by A10 in Milton, Barn Owl by Cottenham Road in Landbeach, 3 Barn Owls at Long Drove, Cottenham (David Heath)
Monday, 4 July
Fen Drayton/Fenstanton - 2 Hobbies this evening (Dan Morton)
Ickleton Grange - Hobby nearby 08:00h (Peter Bircham)
Grafham Water - 5 Little Ringed Plovers, c.20 Common Terns (Jono Leadley)
Sunday, 3 July
Bedford Purlieus - Quail, 2 Red kites (Mike Weedon)
Cambridge - 6 Crossbills over hills Road this afternoon (Michael Holdsworth)
Wicken Fen - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Harrison's Drove (David Griffiths, Cambridge)
Tick Fen - 3 Curlews over south (Duncan McNiven)
Fen Drayton - 4 Crossbills over, Little Egret (Richard Patient)
Grafham Water - 2 Ringed Plovers, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Common Sandpipers, c.15 Common Terns, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)
Paxton Pits - Grasshopper Warbler, Green Sandpiper, 5 Oystercatcher (Jamie Wells); 2 Dunlin, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)
Saturday, 2 July
Paxton Pits - 2nd summer Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Ringed Plovers (Jamie Wells)
Trumpingdon - Hobby over Bishop's Rd (James Hanlon)
Waresley Wood - Quail calling from conservation area south of main car park, Tawny Owl with 3 well grown young, Barn Owl (Stuart & Jill Elsom)
Friday, 1 July
Paxton Pits - 3 Greenshank, Little Egret, f Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper, Hobby (Mark Hawkes, John Parslow)
Grafham Water - Red-crested Pochard, 2 Common Sandpipers, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)
Nene Washes - 2 WOOD SANDPIPERS, 11 Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Redshank, 85 Lapwing opposite Roslyn Farm (Brian Stone); also 3 Green shank, 2 Ruff (Mike Weedon)
Chatteris - ad f Marsh Harrier over farmland 1/2 mile north of Chatteris 11:15h (Christian Boness)
Wicken Fen - ad sum Golden Plover on Baker's Fen this morning (John Oates)
Thursday, 30 June
Ferry Meadows - Greenshank, Grasshopper Warbler this evening (Howard Butler)
Wednesday, 29 June
Haddenham - Quail calling in Hillrow Fen (Paul Mason)
Tuesday, 28 June
Maxey/Etton - 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 5 Green Sandpipers, Ringed Plover, 25+ Common Terns (Mike Weedon)
Dogsthorpe Tip - 1st sum Caspian Gull, 2+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Kevin Du Rose)
Paxton Pits - 1st sum Little Gull (Mark Hawkes)
Grafham Water - Greenshank, Common Sandpiper from Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes); Black-tailed Godwit (ColinAddington)
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL - a male bird reported by two lucky observers from a private garden in the Cambridge area on Sunday, 26 June has not been reported since (as per John Oates)
Monday, 27 June
St. Ives - 2 Little Egrets on Tricor Lake this evening (Daniel Morton)
Castor hanglands - 5 vocal Grasshopper Warblers 20:00-22:00h (Richard Astle)
Woodwalton Fen - juv Crossbill (Raymond & David Roche)
Paxton Pits - Little Gull, 3 Pochard (Mark Hawkes)
Gog Magog Downs - Hobby over the Stapleford Road towards Wilbraham (David Heath)
Sunday, 26 June
Dogsthorpe Tip - 4 Yellow-legged Gulls, 1st sum Caspian Gull (Kevin Du Rose)
Paxton Pits - 2 Black Tern, Ruff, Little Egret, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Tern (Martin Davies, Mark Hawkes)
Ferry Meadows - Siskin flew over reserve, Green Sandpiper (Matt Webb)
Saturday, 25 June
Alconbury - Red Kite by the A1 c.1.5 miles north of Alconbury turn-off (Nikki Dibb)
St. Neots - Osprey flew over A428 (Mark Hawkes)
Stretham - Peregrine over the A10 towards Wicken (David Heath)
Wednesday, 22 June
Nene Washes - Hobby, Barn Owl this evening (Brian Stone)
Elton GC - Buzzard and Red Kite over (Peter Beesley)
Paxton Pits - Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpipers this morning (Martin Davis); Greenshank, Yellow-legged Gull, Wigeon, f Goldeneye this evening (Mark Hawkes)
Grafham Water - Greenshank in lagoons 08:45h (Colin Addington)
Orton Malborne - 2 Red Kites over 12:45h (Kevin Wicks)
Tuesday, 21 June
St. Neots - OSPREY over the A428 this evening (Julin Hughes)
Paxton Pits - 2 Little Terns, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 2 Green Sandpipers, Dunlin, Common Tern early afternoon (Martin Davies, Mark Hawkes)
Grafham Water - Yellow-legged Gull, Common Tern this evening (Mark Hawkes)
Monday, 20 June
Holme fen - Red Kite this morning (Janet Darke)
Brampton Wood - HONEY BUZZARD over early afternoon (Will Brame)
Sunday, 19 June
Paxton Pits - Spotted Redshank briefly, Cuckoo, Nuthatch, 2 Marsh Tits (Julian Hughes)
Eynesbury - Buzzard over 09:00h (Stuart & Jill Elsom, Richard Patient)
Saturday, 18 June
Paxton Pits - 2 Little Egrets (Julin Hughes)
Cambridge - Buzzard west over Elfleda Road 13:00h (Christian Boness)
Friday, 17 June
Woodwalton Fen - Little Egret, Quail singing from fields west of reserve (Duncan McNiven)
Landbeach Tip - 2 ad KITTIWAKES (Dick Newell)
Peterborough - calling Quail at Upper Lodge Farm 14:00h, TL152937 (as per RBA)
Wednesday, 15 June
Dogsthorpe, Star Pit - 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Kevin Du Rose)
Peterborough - calling Quail at Upper Lodge Farm 14:00h, TL152937 (BirdGuides)
Cambridge - Common Tern over Jesus Lock 18:00h (Iain Thomas)
Tuesday, 14 June
Bainton Pits - 3 singing Grasshopper Warblers, 3+ singing Nightingales, 5 Common Terns, Hobby over (Richard Astle)
Grafham Water - 3 Yellow-legged Gulls on dam (Mark Hawkes); Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Ruddy Duck, Hobby over, Barn Owl (Jono Leadley)
Monday, 13 June
Cambridge - pair Spotted Flycatchers in York Street recreation area (Christian Boness)
Dogsthorpe tip - 1st sum Caspian Gull, 2nd sum Yellow-legged Gull (Kevin Du Rose)
Ely - Red Kite over c.14:30h (David Hopkins)
Sunday, 12 June
St. Ives GP - 2 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper, Turtle Dove (Robin Jones)
Paxton Pits - Nuthatch on Haul Road, Cetti's Warbler at A1 North, Grasshopper Warbler (Alison Pearson, Julian Hughes, Neal Parkin, David Milne, Steve May, Paul Lippett)
Saturday, 11 June
Grafham Water - 4 Black Tern off Mander early afternoon, Nightingale, 2 Spotted Flycatcher around Marlow/dam (Mark Hawkes)
Paxton Pits - Little Stint, Little Egret, at least two Spotted Flycatchers in different areas of Little Paxton village, and one reported at a third site (Alison Pearson, Julian Hughes, Neal Parkin, David Milne, Steve May, Paul Lippett)
Friday, 10 June
Sawtry - Red Kite c.2 miles north of the village 17:00h (Mark Eaton)
Hilton - Red Kite 11:00h (BirdGuides)
Thursday, 9 June
Cottenham, Long Drove - Barn Owl, possible NIGHTJAR churring c.22:00h (David & Jonathan Heath)
Milton - Little Owl near the landfill site (David & Jonathan Heath)
Wednesday, 8 June
Castor Hanglands - 10+ Grasshopper Warblers singing, 2 Cuckoos calling, 10+ Willow Warblers singing (Richard Astle)
Histon - Tawny Owl in the back garden of the Red Lion (David Heath)
Impington - Spotted Flycatcher (Jonathan Heath)
Cambridge - Buzzard over Lammas Land c.14:20h (Jim Guthrie)
Woodston Ponds - Cuckoo, Nightingale, Garden Warbler this lunchtime (Brian Stone)
Tuesday, 7 June
Bainton GP - 2 Nightingales singing, Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat (Will Bowell)
Monday, 6 June
Woodwalton Fen - m Marsh Harrier, 4 singing Garden Warblers (David Withrington)
Earith - Whooper Swan (David Griffiths)
Cottenham, Long Drove - Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls (Dick Newell)
Sunday, 5 June
Wicken Fen - Cetti's Warbler this evening on Harrison's Drove (George Lendrum)
Cottenham, Long Drove - 7 Yellow-legged Gulls (Dick Newell)
Godmanchester - Red Kite over 14:10h (Peter Herkenrath, Judy & Peter Hall)
Grafham Water - 2 Little Ringed Plovers on dam, Spotted Flycatcher in Littless Wood (Jono Leadley)
Paxton Pits - 5 Dunlin, 2 Hobbies (Jono Leadley); 1st sum Little Gull, 2nd sum Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)
Priory Park - 2 adult & recently fledged Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in the trees by the Huntingdon Road car park (Bob Scott)
Saturday, 4 June
Fen Drayton - 7+ Hobbies, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 3cy Yellow-legged Gull, Common Sandpiper (Richard Patient)
Friday, 3 June
Cambridge - Red Kite over Grantchester Meadows c.11:25h (Stuart Lingard)
Wednesday, 1 June
Glinton - Hobby (BirdGuides)
Tuesday, 31 May
Grafham Water - Sanderling, 2 Little Ringed Plovers (Jono Leadley)
Hauxton GP - Little Egret flew north this morning (Peter Bircham)
Swaffham Prior Fen - Quail singing c.3/4 mile west of Reach (John Oates)
Monday, 30 May
Fletton BP - 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 7 Common Terns (Mike Weedon)
Paxton Pits - 2 Turnstones, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Black Terns, 2 Dunlins, male Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, first-summer Little Gull (Julian Hughes)
Grafham Water - 5+ male Mandarin in Dudney Creek, 3 Common Terns (Jono Leadley)
Sunday, 29 May
Wicken Fen - 2 Avocets, Little Egret, m Stonechat (Z. Karprowicz)
Paxton Pits - 5 Kites, views not good enough to confirm species (Jamie Wells); 2 summer-plumage male Ruff, Buzzard, Grey Partridge, male Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, first-summer Little Gull (Julian Hughes)
Littleport - Probable Black Kite reported on RBA
South Farm Private NR at Shingay - 5 Turtle Doves (Jim Lawrence)
Saturday, 28 May
Wicken Fen - COLLARED PRATINCOLE on Bakers Fen (John Oates); last seen flying off east at 09:24h (Stuart Elsom)
Wimpole Estate - Hobby, Common Buzzard, Tawny Owl, Little Owls, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Jim Lawrence)
Paxton Pits - Little Egret, male Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, first-summer Little Gull (Julian Hughes)
Nene Park area - Grasshopper Warbler, Hobby and Turtle Dove all along the western edge of Gunwade Lake at Ferry Meadows, also Hobby at Milton Ferry Birdge and Little Owl at Castor Mill (Don Gardener)
Friday, 27 May
Ouse Washes, Chain Corner - a group of 5 Turtle Doves flying north together (Monica and Owen Marks)
Foxton - Hen Harrier on Barrington side of the level crossing at 11:15h (RBA)
Cottenham Long Drove - 3 Little Owls and 2 Oystercatchers with 3 chicks (Jonathan & David Heath)
Paxton Pits - RAVEN, Little Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, male Ruddy Duck, 3 tundra-race Ringed Plovers, Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Dunlin, 2 Grey Partridges, brood of 4 Shovelers, male Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, first-summer Little Gull (Julian Hughes)
Wednesday, 25 May
Witcham Toll - 2 Red Kites over 13:15h (Mark Peck)
Cottenham, Long Drove - Grasshopper Warbler, Little Owl, Barn Owl this evening (David Heath)
Tuesday, 24 May
Grafham Water - 2 Sanderling on the dam, m Garganey in lagoons (Colin Addington)
Maxey Pits - 3 Turtle Doves, c.50 Sand Martins this morning (Richard Astle)
Monday, 23 May
Grafham Water - Sanderling 08:30h (BirdGuides)
Fowlmere - no sign this morning of the Golden Oriole reported to the warden yesterday (Jim Lawrence)
Sunday, 22 May
Fenstanton - Spotted Flycatcher (Richard Allison)
Fulbourne - 2 Spotted Flycatchers at Valley Farm (Richard Wombwell)
Grafham Water - Drake Garganey in lagoons at 9.15am (Mark Piercey)
Long Drove Cottenham - Grasshopper Warbler, Barn Owl, Little Owl (David Heath)
Sawston / Whittlesford station area - Common Buzzard (Nigel Denham)
Saturday, 21 May
Cottenham - Spotted Flycatcher in private garden (Vicki Harley)
Long Drove Cottenham - Grasshopper Warbler, Little Owl, Barn Owl (David Heath)
St Neots - Spotted Flycatcher in private garden (Chris Harbard)
Thursday, 19 May
Farcet Fen - Quail calling, and another seen briefly on Whittlesey Mere (Steve Dudley)
Wednesday, 18 May
Ouse Washes - Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 2 Turtle Doves, 8 Black-tailed Godwits, Tawny Owl (Nikki Dibb, Will Burdett)
Wicken Fen - Little Egret on Baker's Fen (John Oates)
Hemmingford Grey - Nightingale singing near A1096 layby, TL303694 (Vince Lea)
Roswell Pits - OSPREY (David Hopkins)
Grafham Water - 2 Turnstones on dam, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Yellow-legged Gull this morning (Jono Leadley)
Late news from Sunday, 15 May: Paxton Pits - 2 Black-necked Grebes, CETTI'S WARBLER, RAVEN over south-east, 16 Hobbies (as per Julian Hughes)
Tuesday, 17 May
Ouse Washes - Greenshank, 2+ Hobbies, Little Ringed Plover, m Ruff (In Barton)
Paxton Pits - 3 Greenland Wheatears, Little Egret, Buzzard, Goldeneye, m Red-crested Pochard (as per Julian Hughes); 2 TEMMINCK'S STINTS, CETTI'S WARBLER, 14 Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover, 8 Ringed Plovers, Common Sandpiper (Lee Evans)
Diddington Pit - Red-crested Pochard this evening (Mark Hawkes)
Grafham Water - 4 Sanderling on dam 08:45h (Colin Addington); Grey Plover, 2 Sanderling, Yellow-legged Gull, 7 Yellow Wagtails (Colin Addington, Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes)
Monday, 16 May
Paxton Pits - TEMMINCK'S STINT in a private area, 2 Sanderlings, 2 Black Terns (as per Julian Hughes)
St. Ives - Nightingale singing by the shallow lagoon off Meadow Lane (Daniel Morton)
Ferry Meadows - Hobby (VS)
Fletton BP - Turnstone (Steve Dudley); Wheatear (Will Bowell)
Grafham Water - 4 Sanderling on dam this morning (Colin Addington)
Werrington - Nightingale (Chris Monk)
Whittlesey - Quail (BirdGuides)
Great Raveley - Red Kite nearby this morning (Henry Arnold); Marsh Harrier 10:40h (BirdGuides)
Sunday, 15 May
Wicken Fen - Whimbrel (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley, John Oates, Duncan Poyser)
Blackbush Drove - Whinchat (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley, John Oates, Duncan Poyser); 2 Wheatears (Steve Dudley)
Godmanchester GP - Wood Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley, John Oates, Duncan Poyser)
Eldernell - Quail (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley, John Oates, Duncan Poyser)
Bury - Turtle Dove (Henry Arnold)
Dry Drayton - Spotted Flycatcher in private garden (Ken Hook)
Fletton - Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper & Little Ringed Plover on the Ikea floods; Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover & Spotted Flycatcher at Fletton BP (Steve Dudley)
Farcet Fen - Spotted Flycatcher along Conquest Drove, 2 Wheatears at Bedfords Barn Farm, 4 Hobbies, Quail calling in Whittlesey Mere (Steve Dudley)
Fen Drayton - At least 8 Hobbies, 2 Black Terns (Dave Griffiths); 10 Hobbies, 2 Turtle Doves (Will Burdett, Nikki Dibb))
Milton CP - 5 Garden Warblers, 3 Lesser Whitethroats, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, Nightingale, 2 Kingfishers, 3 Turtle Doves, 3 Bullfinches and 6 Reed Warblers (David & Jonathan Heath)
Impington Lake - 2 Common Sandpipers (David Chandler)
Grantchester Meadows - Wood Duck (Robin Bailey)
Saturday, 14 May
8 Common Sandpipers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Ringed Plover (Paul Andrew)
Fen Drayton - 9 Hobbies (Richard Patient)
Grafham Water - Osprey, 3+ Common Sandpiper, drk Red-crested Pochard (Colin Addington, Mark Hawkes, Duncan Poyser)
Jesus Ditch, Cambridge - Wood Duck (John Walsh)
Milton CP - Lesser Whitethroat, Turtle Dove, Hobby (David Chandler)
Friday, 13 May
Fen Drayton - 2 Black Terns (Paul Andrew); Grey Plover, CETTI'S WARBLER and Common Sandpiper (Richard Patient)
Grafham Water - OSPREY over c.12:00h, m Red-crested Pochard by the fishing lodge (Colin Addington)
Woodston Ponds - singing Nightingale, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler (Brian Stone)
Maxey GP - 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 9 Common Terns (Brian Stone)
RAF Wyton - f Black Redstart, 2 Hobbies, no public access (as per BirdGuides)
Fen Drayton - 10+ Hobbies this lunchtime (James Hanlon)
Thursday, 12 May
Willingham - Little Owl between the village and Over, 2 Little Owls between the village and Rampton this evening, all on telegraph posts or wires (David Heath)
Orton Brimbles - probable Crossbill over (Matt Webb)
Paxton Pits - 2 Black Terns, 2+ Arctic Terns, Sanderling, 5+ Dunlin this evening (Mark Hawkes); also Wheatear, Whimbrel (Jon Leadley); 14+ Dunlin, Yellow-legged Gull, f Goldeneye, Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells) 4 Little Terns north at 15:00h, 10 Hobbies (Darren Oakley-Martin)
St. Neots - possible RAVEN over 13:00h (Gary Rawlings)
Cambridge - Marsh Harrier 06:40h (BirdGuides)
Fen Drayton - Hobby, Marsh Harrier, CETTI'S WARBLER west of the windsurfing pit, 8 Common Terns 09:30-11:30h (Richard Allison)
Peterborough - Hobby with prey over Park Road this morning (Brian Stone)
Elton - 2 Common Terns flying up the Nene this morning (Brian Stone)
Wednesday, 11 May
Paxton Pits - Black Tern (Jono Leadley)
Bar Hill - Grasshopper Warbler singing 21:00h on the east side of the Nature Reserve TL378628 (Ken Hook)
St. Ives - a presumed escapee m Lady Amhurst's Pheasant in the beer garden of the Floods Tavern this evening (Duncan McNiven et al.)
Tadlow - fleeting views of a male Harrier over the B1042 just inside Cambs, either Hen or Montagu's (Ben Stafford)
Queen Adelaide - pair of mating Cukoos, also a pair of Turtle Doves near Roswell Pits (Ben Green)
Ouse Washes - Greenshank, 2 Ruff, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper (Ian Barton)
Haddenham - 2 f Greenland Wheatears along Black Drove (Paul Mason)
Wicken Fen - 5+ Hobbies from Tower Hide, CETTI'S WARBLER singing, 5 Greenshanks on Bakers Fen, 300+ Swifts (Paul Atkinson)
Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK still on the lagoons, 3rd c.y. Yellow-legged Gull, 2+ Turtle Doves, Common Tern 08:30h (Jono Leadley)
Cambridge - m Wood Duck on Jesus Ditch this lunchtime (Renate Barker)
Late news for Wednesday, 4 May: Sugely Wood, Gamlingay - f Whinchat (Jono Leadley)
Tuesday, 10 May
Cambridge - Hobby over Lovell Road this morning (David Heath); Hobby over Chesterton Road 19:00h (Rich Broughton); probable WHITE STORK circling high over the city centre before drifting east c.17:00h (Sarah Howlett); seen at c.17:20 also (Richard Jones)
Ouse Washes - 8 Arctic Terns over, 38 Dunlin, Turnstone, 14 Black-tailed Godwits & a fem Goldeneye between Stephens Hide & the viaduct (Ian Barton)
Swaffham Bulbeck - Turtle Dove calling on Quarry Road c.15:30h (Giles Meritt)
Paxton Pits - Black Tern, c.37 Dunlin, Red-crested Pochard, 2+ Little Ringed Plovers (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes); CETTI'S WARBLER singing occasionally in the north-west corner of A1 North Pit & c.50 Swallows over the pit (Jamie Wells)
Wicken Fen - probable f MONTAGU'S HARRIER over Baker's Fen before disappearing in the direction of the visitor's centre c.14:30h (Mark Pettit); a probable c.14:30 over Adventurer's Fen on Sunday, 1 May also (David Griffiths)
Farcet Fen - 4 Turtle Doves this morning (Steve Dudley)
Monday, 9 May
Paxton Pits - 4 Black-tailed Godwit over, 50+ Dunlin, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail (Julian Hughes, Jamie Wells)
Grafham Water - 1st sum Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Dunlin, 7+ Yellow Wagtails (Mark Hawkes)
Cambourne - m Wheatear, Little Ringed Plover this lunchtime (Jono Leadley)
Haddenham - m Greenland Wheatear at Galls Drove (Paul Mason)
Sunday, 8 May
Paxton Pits - CETTI'S WARBLER singing in the NW corner of A1 North (Neal Parkin and David Milne); Little Egret, Turnstone, 5 Dunlins, 20-21 singing male Nightingales (Julian Hughes); 2-3 Arctic Tern, drk Red-crested Pochard, m Pochard, Pink-footed Goose, 20+ Dunlin (Mark Hawkes, Martin Davis, Julian Hughes); Sanderling on Diddington Pit, Wheatear, 1st summer Yellow-legged Gull (Jono Leadley)
Nene Washes - Avocet (David Manton and Tony Moorcroft)
Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK at the lagoons, 2 Dunlin and 2 Common Sandpiper on the dam (Jono Leadley)
Glinton - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker a mile south of the Glinton/Werrington Parkway roundabout, also a Marsh Harrier alongside the Glinton by-pass (Martin Coates)
Milton Country Park - Nightingale (Peter Herkenrath)
Saturday, 7 May
Fen Drayton - 6 Hobbies (Ken Hook); CETTI'S WARBLER (Mike Foley)
Wicken Fen - 2 Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Greenshank, Hobby & Little Egret (John Oates)
Flag Fen - ICELAND GULL (Kevin Du Rose )
Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK at the lagoons, 2 Arctic Tern from Mander CP (Jono Leadley)
Friday, 6 May
Cottenham Long Drove - 2 Little Owls calling (David Heath)
Flag Fen - ICELAND GULL 09:45h (Jonathan Taylor)
Thursday, 5 May
Sutton North Fen - Blue-headed Wagtail, White Wagtail, 13 Yellow Wagtails, Whinchat, Little Ringed Plover (Mark Peck)
Southey Woods - 2 Nightingales and a Grasshopper Warbler singing this evening (Richard Astle)
Landbeach - Hobby (Dick Newell)
Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK at the lagoons 16:30h (Martin Smith)
Alconbury - MONTAGU'S HARRIER 14:45h (John Thatcher, as per Mark Hawkes)
King's Dyke NR - MONTAGU'S HARRIER briefly this morning (George Walthew)
Great Chishill - Turtle Dove (Jack Harrison)
Swaffham Prior Fen - Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtails this morning (John Oates); 2 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Wheatears, Little Owl, Barn Owl this afternoon (Mark Pettit)
Wicken Fen - Wood Sandpiper this morning (John Oates); 3 Hobbies, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Grasshopper Warblers this afternoon (Mark Pettit)
Coton Farm - Turtle Dove, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Grey Partridges, c.18 Swallows through (Vince Lea)
Steeping Wood, Marholm - Hobby, 3 Whitethroat, Garden Warbler (Richard Astle)
Wednesday, 4 May
Orton BP - 2 Cuckoos, Turtle Dove, c.5 Whitethroats, 3+ Lesser Whitethroats, several Sedge Warblers, c.100 Swifts (Mike Weedon)
Wicken Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Greenshank (Mark Pettit)
Woodwalton Fen - Red Kite, m + f Marsh Harriers, 3 singing Grasshopper Warblers, 5 roding Woodcock this evening (Dan Morton)
Paxton Pits - 100+ Arctic Terns through in c. 2 hours this evening, also 2+ Little Gulls, 2 Dunlin, Grasshopper Warbler, Little Egret, Merlin (Neal Parkin, Jamie Wells)
Ferry Meadows - Arctic Tern over Gunwade Lake (Brian Stone)
Milton CP - 40+ Commic Terns over, Turtle Dove, Nightingale, 3 Whitethroats, 2+ Sedge Warblers, 40+ Swifts, 70+ Swallows, 20+ House Martins this evening, also Buzzard over A428 between Hardwick and the A14 (David Heath)
Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK on second lagoon, 71+ Arctic Terns through, 2+ Common Terns, Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull, Turtle Dove this evening (Mark Hawkes)
Block Fen Quarry - 5 Greenland Wheatears this evening (Mark Ward)
Ely, Roswell Pits - 10+ Arctic Terns, 6+ Common Terns, Black Swan 17:15h (Paul Atkinson)
Tuesday, 3 May
Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK on lagoons (per RBA), 3 Common Terns, Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, notable increase in Swifts and House Martins (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)
Whittlesford GP - 20+ Swifts late afternoon (Peter Bircham)
Ely Beet Factory - 2 Hobbies, m Marsh Harrier (Jake Allsop)
Conington Airfield - 2 Red Kites, 2 Buzzards in the area, also 3 Nightingales at Holme Wood (Chris Garvey)
Monks Wood - Cuckoo, Peacock (Rich Broughton)
Farcet Fen - 800+ Swifts (Steve Dudley)
Cambridge - Hobby over Chesterton 11:20h (BirdGuides); Hobby over Lovell Road c.17:00h (David Heath)
Monday, 2 May
Fen Drayton - dark phase HONEY BUZZARD over 10:50h, 2+ Hobbies, 5 Common Terns, Cuckoo (Richard Patient)
Elton - possible HONEY BUZZARD, distant, headed north-west this afternoon (Brian Stone)
Paxton Pits - 2 Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 4 Swifts, 4 Redshanks (Nigel Willits)
Bainton GPs - 12 singing Nightingales, 2 Grasshopper Warblers (Richard Astle)
Eldernell - 5 Marsh Harriers, 3 Hobbies, 2 Cuckoo, Turtle dove (David Manton & Tony Moorcroft)
Trumpington - Hobby low along Shelford Road (Mike Foley)
Over Fen - Wood Sandpiper, Little Stint & Garganey (Chris & Gwen Martin, Richard Thomas)
Gog Magog golf course - HOOPOE (Ann Asher)
Farcet Fen - 3 Turtle Dove, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Steve Dudley)
Blackbush - 7 Wheatear inc 2 Greenlands all on north end of the fen, Blue-headed Wagtail in little paddock just before the pig farm, 24+ Yellow Wagtail, fem Whinchat (Steve Dudley)
Orton Brick Pit - OSPREY, 2 Nightingale, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Garden Warbler, Turtle Dove (Steve Dudley)
Fen Drayton - 2 Hobby, Cetti's Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler (Ian Anderson/Dave Whitley)
Sunday, 1 May
Cambridge - Hobby over Birdwood Road early afternoon (Pete Holt)
Farcet Fen - Short-eared Owl, Grey Partridge (Steve Dudley)
Woodwalton Fen - 6+ Garden Warbler, 3+ Nightingale, 4 Grasshopper Warbler (Steve Dudley)
Holme Fen - 2 Garden Warbler, 2 Nightingale, 2 Grey Partridge (Steve Dudley)
Over Fen - Wood Sandpiper, male RING OUZEL (Richard Thomas)
Fen Drayton - 2 Hobbys northeast of Fen Drayton GPs at the River Great Ouse, also 1 Grasshopper Warbler and 1 Lesser Whitethroat (Peter Herkenrath)
Witcham - Laughing Kookaburra spotted and photographed (Allistair Berry)
Fen Drayton - 2 Little Terns, 15 Common Terns, 6 Hobbies and Cetti's Warbler (Richard Patient)
Milton CP - Nightingale, Garden Warbler (David Heath)
Grafham Water - RING-NECKED DUCK on second lagoon, 6 Common Scoter (Mark Hawkes)
East Fen, Isleham - 4 Greenland Wheatear (Bob Scott)
Ferry Meadows - 6 Wheatear (Steve Dudley)
Fowlmere - 3 Wheatear (Alan Wadsworth)
Milton CP - Nightingale, 3 Common Terns, Turtle Dove, and a Whimbrel over (David Heath)
Chatteris - 6 DOTTEREL at Honeypot Farm in field by counter drain (Richard Allison)
Paxton Pits - Little Tern, Black Tern, BLACK-NECKED GREBE, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Whinchats, 2 Grasshopper Warblers, Yellow wagtail, 5 Dunlins, Common sandpiper, male Red-crested Pochard, 4 Cuckoos (Julian Hughes/Mark Hawkes/Paul Lippett/Gary Rawlings/Steve May)
Ferry Meadows - RING OUZEL close to the Western side of Ferry Meadows where it borders the Farmland, 4 Wheatear and 3 Common Sandpipers about 30 yards into the unplanted field on the left near the start of Landy Way (Matt Webb)
Eldernell - Barn Owl, Short Eared Owl, 3 Marsh Harriers
Leading Drove, Yaxley - 7 Wheatears, 2 Grey Partridge, 3 Yellow Wagtail
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