What was About May-Aug 2006

Thursday, 31 August

Over/Ouse Fen - RING-NECKED DUCK still present, 9 Little Egrets, Marsh Harrier, Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpipers (Mike Everett); 2 SPOONBILLS for several minutes until flying west at 19:00h (Richard Thomas)

Cam Washes, Upware - 2 Hobbies, 6 Greenshanks, 2+ Spotted Flycatchers (John Oates)

Fen Drayton - c.50 Golden Plovers (Mike Everett)

Paxton Pits - 2 juv Black Terns, juv Wood Sandpiper, ad fem Garganey, 15+ Greenshanks, 5+ juv Ruff, 12+ Green Sandpipers, 3 Little Egrets, increased numbers of Teal and Wigeon, Black Swan still present (Mark Ward)

Wednesday, 30 August

Must Farm Pit - juv BLACK-NECKED GREBE late evening (Steve Dudley)

Fox's Bridge Farm, Comberton - Whinchat, Hobby (Bob Scott)

Sutton North Fen - Turnstone, 2 Green Sandpipers, 22 Yellow Wagtails, Tree Sparrow (Mark Peck)

Paxton Pits - 2 Black Terns, 1+ Wood Sandpiper, Turnstone, c.10 Greenshanks, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 3 Little Ringed Plover, c.5 Green Sandpipers, Buzzard, 2 Hobbies, 2 Little Egrets, 33 Yellow Wagtails over south (Dean Harlow, Martin Shadbolt, Jamie Wells)

Tuesday, 29 August

Paxton Pits - Mediterranean Gull, 2 juv Black Terns, 2 Turnstones, 2 Wood Sandpipers, 10 Greenshanks, 5 Green Sandpipers, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 11 Ruff, 4 Little Egrets, 20 Common Terns (Mark Ward)

Must Farm Pit - Wheatear (Steve Dudley)

Farcet Fen - Whinchat (Steve Dudley)

Serpentine BP - fem Whinchat (Paul Taylor)

Cam Washes - 6 Greenshanks (John Oates)

Little Shelford - Buzzard over 06:10h (Ian Anderson)

Monday, 28 August

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe still in SW corner of Ferry Lagoon, 8 Common Terns, Green Sandpiper, at least 250 Sand Martins, 2 Little Egrets (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - Greenshank, 6 Ringed Plover, 2 juv Mediterranean Gull near the north end of the dam (Jono Leadley); fem Redstart but very elusive, Buzzard, 3 Greenshanks (Stuart Elsom & Richard Patient)

Over Fen - Common Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, 2 Hobbies, 2 Sparrowhawk, 8 Little Egrets, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3 Turtle Doves, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Wigeon and a Kingfisher (Ken and Richard Hook)

Paxton Pits - 2 juv Black Terns, 2 juv Turnstones, juv Wood Sandpiper, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Little Egrets, 11 juv Ruff, c.10 Green Sandpipers (Mark Ward)

North Fen, Haddenham - Wheatear (Jake Allsop)

Sunday, 27 August

Fen Drayton - c.6 Kittiwakes feeding over Sailing Lake (Mark Brandon); Hobby, Purple Gallinule still present along the river (Richard Allison)

Paxton Pits - 3 Wood Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 4 Green Sandpiper, juv Spotted Redshank, 9 Ruff, 4 Dunlin, 6 Greenshank, 5+ Little Egrets, 23 Ringed Plovers, 3 Shelduck, Yellow Wagtail (Julian Hughes)

Ferry Meadows - Osprey (Mike Weedon and Matt Webb)

Witcham - female-type PIED FLYCATCHER (David Hopkins)

Over Fen - 7 Little Egrets, 3 Turtle Doves (Richard Allison); Wheatear nearby (Jake Allsop)

Saturday, 26 August

Fen Drayton - Bittern, Little Egret, Pintail, 5 Wigeons, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 17 Golden Plovers (John Oates); Red-necked Grebe (Richard Patient)

Over Fen - eclipse male RING-NECKED DUCK still present, Redstart (Mark Hawkes); 2 Wood Sandpipers, Marsh Harrier, Spotted Redshank, Hobby, 25+ Golden Plovers (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water -juv Little Gull from Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Hilton - Mediterranean Gull in a ploughed field west of Hilton, TL281664 (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - juv Spotted Redshank, 3+ Wood Sandpiper, c.21 Greenshank, 9 Ruff, 31 Ringed Plover, 5+ Dunlin, several Common and Green Sandpipers, 6 Little Egret, 3 juv Shelduck, (Jamie Wells); 2 Turnstone (Dean Harlow)

Cam Washes - 120 Gadwall, 3 Greenshank, 3 Barn Owls, 11 Swifts and a total of 90 Yellow Wagtails (Peter Herkenrath); juv Spotted Redshank, Whinchat (John Oates)

Friday, 25 August

Over Fen - eclipse male RING-NECKED DUCK still present, Redstart (Richard Thomas)

Grafham Water - Corn Bunting by Model Farm, also 2 Spotted Flycatchers near Marlow CP (Jono Leadley)

Woodhurst - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker on a garden peanut feeder this morning (Duncan McNiven, Debbie Pain)

Wicken Fen - 3 Green Sandpipers, 3 Water Rails, 2 Turtle Doves (Zbig Karpowicz); 5 Green Sandpipers this afternoon (John Oates)

Thursday, 24 August

Paxton Pits - Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, 10+ Green Sandpipers, 4+ Little Egrets, 6+ Ruffs, 6 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls early morning, 5 Little Egrets roosted on Heronry South this evening (Mark Ward)

Must Farm Pit - Little Egret, 6+ Green Sandpipers, 9 Common Terns (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - juv Little Gull and ad Black Tern off Mander CP, 6 Greenshanks at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes)

Stretham - Whimbrel and Common Sandpiper over 22:00-22:30h (Ian Barton)

Cambridge, Bar Hill - Spotted Flycatcher (Ken Hook)

Wedesday, 23 August

Farcet Fen - 11 DOTTEREL this morning but skittish, last seen heading down in the Tebbitt's Bridge/Pondersbridge area but not relocated by 08:45h. Also Curlew, 2+ Hobbies, 4+ Marsh Harriers (Steve Dudley)

Grafham Water - juv Mediterranean Gull off Mander CP (Jono Leadley)

Dry Drayton - Buzzard (Ken Hook)

Tuesday, 22 August

Grafham Water - OSPREY reported to have caught a fish and flown off c.18:00h, juv Little Gull, Black Tern, Greenshank, Barnacle Goose (Colin Addington)

Longstowe - fem Whinchat along disused railway c.TL313544, also Buzzard nearby (Adrian George)

Paxton Pits - 5 Wood Sandpipers, 2 Spotted Redshanks, 12+ Green Sandpipers, 5 Little Egrets, 15 Greenshanks, 11 Ruffs, 6 Little Ringed Plovers, Garganey, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Mark Ward)

Trumpington - Hobby amongst House Martins over Shelford Road 11:20h (Mike Foley)

Toft - 3 Yellow Wagtails on the Golf Course this morning (Clive Sinclair)

Monday, 21 August

Cambridge - RING-NECKED PARAKEET over Reed Close, off Shelford Road, 17:00h (Nick Faiers)

Queen Adelaide - Wheatear briefly c.11:00h (Ben Green)

Paxton Pits - no sign of the Pied Flycatcher this morning, an OSPREY over Island Pit, 2 Spotted Redshanks, 4 Wood Sandpipers, 17 Green Sandpipers, 5 Little Egrets, m Mandarin, 4+ Spotted Flycatchers, 21 Greenshanks, 13 Ruffs, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Black Swan (Julian Hughes, Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - Sanderling at Marlow CP (Colin Adington)

Sunday, 20 August

Paxton Pits - PIED FLYCATCHER, 2 juv Spotted Redshank, 3 Wood Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret, Peregrine, Hobby, Garganey, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Martin Davis)

Waterbeach - OSPREY over high south just north-east of the town 14:15h (Carlos Davies)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egrets (Andy Massey)

Saturday, 19 August

Paxton Pits - PIED FLYCATCHER (Jim and Doreen Mackman); 2 juv Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, Garganey, Hobby, Peregrine (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Grunty Fen - 5 Turtle Doves on wires by Grunty Fen Farm

Fen Drayton - HONEY BUZZARD over 15:15h (Bruce Martin); Red-necked Grebe, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Hobbies (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water - moulting juv Mediterranean Gull in roost, 22 Yellow-legged Gulls in roost, Hobby (Mark Ward)

Friday, 18 August

Grafham Water - 2 ad Black terns, Peregrine (Jono Leadley)

Thursday, 17 August

Over Fen - eclipse male RING-NECKED DUCK present until 13:30 at least, also Garganey, 4 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, 12 Little Egrets, 3 Hobbies, Greenshank, Buzzard over, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Stuart Elsom)

Paxton Pits - juv Spotted Redshank, 11+ Greenshanks, 10+ Green Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 7+ Little Egrets, 5 Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Dunlin, ad Hobby, 5 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Ward)

Monks Wood - 3+ Crossbills, 6 Nuthatches, 2 Buzzards, Woodcock, 18 Marsh Tits (estimated population of 100 in the wood at the moment) (Rich Broughton)

Fowlmere - Goshawk 10:25h (BirdGuides)

Grafham Water - juv Redstart at north end of dam 08:45h, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper at Plummer (Jono Leadley); juv Mediterranean Gull from Marlow CP, Greenshank, but no sign of the Redstart late afternoon (Mark Hawkes); Peregrine around Lagoons this afternoon (Colin Addington)

Nene Washes, High Wash - 5 Wood Sandpipers, 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Greenshanks on flooded field opposite Roslyn farm, but close to the southern bank of the river (Charlie Kitchin)

Wicken Fen - Garganey, 2 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers on Baker's Fen this morning (John Oates)

St. Neots - 5 juv and 2 ad Spotted Flycatchers in Priory park this morning (Bob Scott)

Ouse Washes - Greenshank (Paul Harrington)

Wednesday, 16 August

Ferry Meadows - Redstart at Lynch Lake end of Coney Meadow this morning, though elusive (Matt Webb)

Over Fen - eclipse male RING-NECKED DUCK viewable from the main sandy track along the south side of the pit, also Garganey, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Turtle Dove (Jim Lawrence, Lee Evans); Wheatear, 11 Little Egrets, 2 Ruddy Ducks, 2 Hobbies, 2 Greenshanks, Common Tern, 8 Yellow Wagtails (Colin Kirtland); 4 Egyptian Geese (James Hanlon)

Grafham Water - Little Gull off Mander CP this afternoon, Sanderling at Marlow CP this morning (Colin Addington)

Nene Washes - ad m Hen Harrier at Eldernell, several Hobbies (Jonathan Taylor)

Arrington - juv Hobby, 6 Buzzards (Jim Lawrence)

Paxton Pits - 3 juv Spotted Redshanks, 16 Greenshanks, 15+ Green Sandpipers, 5 Common Sandpipers, Garganey, 8+ Little Egrets, 5 juv Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Dunlin, ad Hobby, ad m Peregrine, Buzzard, 24 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Ward, Martin Davis)

Fen Drayton - Little Egret, Greenshank, 14 Common Terns; Red-necked Grebe still present on Sunday, 13 August (Mark Eaton)

Ouse Washes - 7 Green Sandpipers, Ruff (Paul Harrington)

Tuesday, 15 August

Over Fen/Ouse Fen - eclipse male RING-NECKED DUCK this morning, c. TL376718. Follow Fen End Road until you see a lake on your left and a big pull-in with two metal gates; view from this point. The bird is associating with Pochards, a little to the right as you view the lake (Richard Thomas); still present 12:00h, also 2 Hobbies, 5 Little Egrets, 2 Greenshanks (Owen & Monica Marks, Bruce & Gwen Martin); still present 17:00h, also 2 Egyptian Geese, 10+ Little Egrets, 2 Green Sandpipers, Ruddy Duck (Mark Hawkes); still present 20:00h, also 6 Egyptian Geese and 15+ Little Egrets (David Heath)

Comberton - Quail calling just south of Foxes Bridge 10:00h (Clive Sinclair)

Grafham Water - juv Arctic Tern off Plummer, also Greenshank, Green Sandpiper this morning (Jono Leadley); Garganey in Littless Creek, 4 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpipers, 5 Little Ringed Plovers, 6 Common Sandpipers this evening (Colin Addington, Jono Leadley)

Cambridge, Trumpington - c.25 Golden Plover 08:40h (Peter Bircham)

Meldreth - 5 Whimbrel over north-west 20:00h (Ian Dodd)

Monday, 14 August

Wicken Fen - 4 Green Sandpipers, Greenshank, Ruff, c.200 Golden Plovers (Dave Palmer)

Sunday, 13 August

Grafham Water - Knot, SCAUP eclipse drake from Dudney hide, 3 Whimbrel, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 3+ Common Sandpiper, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 3 Sandwich Terns which flew off south 20:19h, juv Spotted Redshank, 5 juv Curlews, juv Wood Sandpiper, 15+ Green Sandpiper, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls, 10+ Greenshanks, 2 juv Ruff, 8+ Little Egrets (Mark Ward)

Cam Washes - 2 Greenshank with 6 Snipe flying north, 2 Marsh Harriers over fields (Peter Herkenrath)

Etton/Maxey - 6+ Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Ruff, 2 Greenshanks (Trevor Williams)

Needingworth GP - 4 Green Sandpipers, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo (Duncan McNinven)

Saturday, 12 August

Fen Drayton - Red necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon, 3 Little Egrets, 5 Green Sandpipers on Elney Lake, 4 Curlews on Oxholme Lake (Bruce Martin)

Grafham Water - 4 Garganey, 5 Sanderling, 5 Ringed Plover, 6 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, Lesser Whitethroat, c.15 Yellow-legged Gulls (Jono Leadley); also Knot, 5 Greenshanks (Mark Hawkes)

Peterborough - 5 Whimbrel west following river Nene over city centre (Steve Dudley)

Milton - 4 Whimbrel feeding in recently combine-harvested field, Butt Lane (David Heath)

Ferry Meadows - Arctic Tern on Overton lake 12:15h (Matt Webb)

Paxton Pits - Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Ward); 4 Greenshanks, 3 juv Ruff, 5 Little Egrets, Hobby (Howard Butler)

Friday, 11 August

Prior's Fen - Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, Marsh Harrier (Brian Stone)

Must Farm - 3 Green Sandpipers, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpipers, 7 Common Tern (Brian Stone)

Thursday, 10 August

Grafham Water - 3 Garganey in Dudney Creek this afternoon, 2 Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpipers, Ruddy Duck, 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes); Turnstone at Marlow mid-afternoon (Colin Addington)

Wednesday, 9 August

Grafham Water - Sanderling on dam this morning (Jono Leadley); Sanderling still present late afternoon, 8 Black-tailed Godwit flew west 16:00h, 2 Little Egrets, 8+ Yellow-legged Gulls, 2 Dunlin (Mark Hawkes); eclipse male Garganey in Dudney late afternoon (Colin Addington); f Pintail, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpipers, 6 Ruddy Ducks late afternoon (Jono Leadley)

Farcet Fen - 3 Little Egrets over north 08:15h, 2 Hobbies, 4 Marsh Harriers in the area (Steve Dudley)

Woodwalton Fen - Hobby, 2 Spotted Flycatchers, 40+ Willow Warblers (Terry Cooper)

Tuesday, 8 August

Paxton Pits - juv Ruff, 4 Greenshanks, 21 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 10 Little Egrets, 22 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Ward)

Prior's Fen - 6 Greenshanks, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Mike Weedon)

Grafham Water - 3 Greenshanks, 2 Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 12+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Jono Leadley); 2 juv Little Stints, Little Egret, Dunlin, Ringed Plover from Plummer CP this evening (Mark Hawkes); fem/juvGarganey (Colin Addington)

St. Neots - 22 Mistle Thrushes in Priory Park this morning (Bob Scott)

Must Farm Pit - 4 Common Sandpipers, 3 Green Sandpipers, Kingfisher (Brian Stone)

Beeby's BP - 4 Common Sandpipers, Green Sandpiper (Brian Stone)

Maxey GP - 16 Black-tailed Godwits, 7 Green Sandpipers, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plovers (Leon Smith)

Monday, 7 August

Grafham Water - 14 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Snipe, 4 Little Egrets from Plummer CP, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpipers off Mander CP, 5 Dunlin at Marlow 18:00-19:00h (Jono Leadley)

Marsh Lane - 3 Little Egrets (Mike Everett, Bill Simmonds)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Turtle Doves, 2 Hobbies, juv Marsh Harrier, 3 Kingfishers (Terry Cooper)

Ferry Meadows - 2 Greenshanks at Ian Presst Hide (Don Gardener)

Little Shelford - 2 Hobbies over (Peter Bircham)

Sunday, 6 August

Paxton Pits - juv Spotted Redshank (Mark Ward); Ruff, 4 Greenshanks, 5 Little Egrets, 12 Green Sandpipers, 8 Common Sandpipers, Hobby, 2 Yellow Wagtails (Martin Davis et al.); Nightingale, c.15 Yellow-legged Gulls (Jamie Wells)

Maxey Pits - juv Ruff, 5 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 3+ Little Ringed Plovers (Mike Weedon)

Burwell Lode - pair of Spotted Flycatchers (Rod Gerstad)

Worsted Lodge - Quail calling nearby 17:45h (Bruce & Gwen Martin)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, 2 Turtle Doves, 2 Little Egrets, Common Sandpiper (Andy Massey); Egyptian Goose (Mike Everett)

Over Fen - 8+ Little Egrets (Mike Everett)

Saturday, 5 August

Grafham water - Kingfisher, 2 Common Sandpipers, Little Egret (Jono Leadley); 6 Mediterranean Gulls, 10+ Yellow-legged Gulls, Green Sandpiper, Turtle Dove this evening (Stuart Elsom)

Maxey Pits - juv Curlew, pair Yellow Wagtails (Mike Weedon)

Friday, 4 August

Grafham water - Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpipers at Plummer CP this morning (Jono Leadley)

Worsted Lodge - Quail calling nearby 15:20-15:30h, c.TL524552 (Jack Harrison)

Paxton Pits - juv Spotted Redshank, 3 Little Egrets, 3 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Common Sandpipers, Hobby, 5 Yellow-legged Gulls this morning (Howard Butler, Kev Wolstoncroft, Steve Gann); 4 Green Sandpipers, 6 Little Egrets, 11 Yellow-legged Gulls (Martin Davis)

Thursday, 3 August

Grafham water - 2 Sanderling, 4 Dunlin, Snipe, 4 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshanks, 12 Common Sandpipers together in Littless Creek and 2 others present, Tawny Owl calling (Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpipers, Hobby, 5 Red-crested Pochards, 62 Common Terns on Sailing Lake (Jamie Wells)

Little Paxton - a vocal Whimbrel over 20:24h (Mark Ward)

Wednesday, 2 August

Perry - juv Black Redstart in Chichester Way this evening (Colin Addington)

Paxton Pits - ad Sanderling, juv Ruff, 2 Turnstones, 5 Greenshanks, Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpipers, 13 Dunlin, Little Egret, Hobby, 10 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Ward)

Tuesday, 1 August

Maxey GP - 4 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plovers (Brian Stone)

Paxton Pits - Wood Sandpiper, Sanderling, Ruff, 2 Turnstones, 5 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, 10+ Common Sandpipers, 21 Dunlin, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Jamie Wells)

Grafham water - 2 Sanderling, 2 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, c.15 Yellow-legged Gulls, Spotted Flycatcher this evening (Jono Leadley)

Cambourne - Little Egret (Jono Leadley)

Fowlmere - Peregrine 13:30h (BirdGuides)

Monday, 31 July

Paxton Pits - Wood Sandpiper, 2 Turnstones, Whimbrel over south 19:40h, 4 Greenshanks, 3 Little Egrets, 19 Yellow-legged Gulls, Green Sandpiper, 7 Common Sandpipers (Martin Davis)

Fen Drayton - Egyptian Goose, 3 Green Sandpipers, 19 Common Terns (Richard Allison)

Sunday, 30 July

Paxton Pits - ad Wood Sandpiper present since Thursday 27 July though often elusive, 4+ Greenshanks, 3 Little Egrets, 2 Buzzards, 21 Yellow-legged Gulls, 5 Yellow Wagtails, 6 Common Sandpipers (Martin Davis)

Orton BP - m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker this evening (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, Egyptian Goose, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 4 Green Sandpipers, Black-tailed Godwit (Richard Patient)

Grafham water - 5 Mediterranean Gulls, 40 Yellow-legged Gulls in roost (Richard Patient); Whimbrel 11:30h (Ken & Richard Hook)

Godmanchester GP - Turnstone, 4 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers (Richard Patient)

Saturday, 29 July

Grunty Fen - FRANKLIN'S GULL this evening until 19:50h when it flew north with Black-headed Gulls (Simon Stirrup)

Grafham Water - MANX SHEARWATER still present this morning, 4 Little Egrets, Common Sandpiper, 6 Yellow-legged Gulls (Jono Leadley)

Fen Drayton - 2 Whimbrel over west 18:30h (Stuart Elsom)

Cambourne - Little Egret on the hotel lake 20:00h (Ken & Richard Hook)

Friday, 28 July

Grafham Water - OSPREY for c. 5 minutes (Jono Leadley)

Eynesbury - vocal Common Sandpiper over Andrew Road 00:27h (Stuart Elsom)

Cambridge - pair of Spotted Flycatchers with 2+ fledged young at the back of the Addenbrookes site this afternoon (Sarah Howlett)

Thursday, 27 July

Cambridge - pair of Spotted Flycatchers at the back of the Addenbrookes site this lunchtime (Sarah Howlett)

Paxton Pits - 2 Turnstones, 3 Greenshanks, 2 Little Egrets, 3 Green Sandpipers, 13 Dunlin, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, 16 Yellow-legged Gulls, 4 Common Sandpipers (Mark Ward)

Wednesday, 26 July

Needingworth, Pike and Eel Lake - 6 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper (Mike Everett)

Cambridge - Common Sandpiper over city centre c.23:00h (Mark Ward)

Paxton Pits - 4+ Greenshanks, Dunlin, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Garganeys, 31 Yellow-legged Gulls, 2 Common Sandpipers (Martin Davis)

Tuesday, 25 July

Grafham Water - MANX SHEARWATER from Mander CP c.09:00h, 3 Little Egrets, Little Ringed Plover, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - female type Garganey, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Greenshanks, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpipers (Julian Hughes, Jamie Wells)

Monday, 24 July

Water Newton - HONEY BUZZARD soaring this lunchtime, also 4 Common Buzzards in the area (George Walthew)

Grafham Water - MANX SHEARWATER in gull roost from Mander CP this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 23 July

Grafham Water - 6 Little Egrets, 3 Dunlin, 4+ Yellow-legged Gulls but no sign of the Manx Shearwater 08:00-11:00h (Mark Hawkes, Ray Presley)

Wicken Fen - Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Grasshopper Warblers, Marsh Harrier, Ruddy Shelduck over (Ed Bullmore)

Cam Washes - 7 Little Egrets, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, Kingfisher (Monica & Owen Marks)

Fen Drayton - RED-NECKED GREBE still present, eclipse Garganey, 2 Hobbies, 9 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers (Richard Patient)

Saturday, 22 July

Grafham Water - MANX SHEARWATER still present early morning but mobile, also 6 Little Egrets, Dunlin, 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes, Colin Adington); MANX SHEARWATER near lagoons early afternoon (Bruce Martin); Turnstone at north end of dam 15:00h (Colin Addington); 22+ Yellow-legged Gulls by Sailing Club, MANX SHEARWATER still present 21:30h (Mark Hawkes); 2 Mediterranean Gulls early morning also (Mark Ward, Richard Patient)

Paxton Pits - ad Little Stint, Whimbrel & 6 Icelandic juv Black-tailed Godwits over east, Turnstone, 8 Greenshanks, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Green Sandpipers, 22 Dunlin, 2 Little Egrets, 4 Common Sandpipers, 60 Yellow-legged Gulls pre-roost, also 2 Mediterranean Gulls and up to 12 Little Egrets reported (Martin Davis)

Friday, 21 July

Grafham Water - MANX SHEARWATER from end of Church Lane, still present 14:30h at least, also 5 Little Egrets (Mark Hawkes); 2 Greenshank (Jono Leadley)

Grunty Fen - Quail 03:30h (BirdGuides)

Peterborough, Orton Wistow - GOSHAWK over c.17:15h (Tony Parker)

Thursday, 20 July

Grafham Water - 2 Little Egrets from Plummer, 5 Whimbrel through 20:00h (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton - Bittern on Elney lake (Claire Allen, Iain Bray)

Tuesday, 18 July

Caxton/Cambourne bypass - Corn Bunting (David Bale)

Monday, 17 July

Grafham Water - juv BLACK-NECKED GREBE off Hill Farm, Little Egret in valley Creek (Mark Hawkes)

Godmanchester GP - 2 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper, 3 Oystercatchers (Mark Hawkes)

Grunty Fen - 2 Buzzards circling near the recycling facility c.14:00h (Anna Mcoustra)

Paxton Pits - 8 Little Egrets, 11 Yellow-legged Gulls, 6+ Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper (Mark Ward)

Must Farm Pit/McCains Pit - Mediterranean Gull, Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpipers (Steve Dudley)

Sunday, 16 July

Wentworth - WHITE STORK circling low about half a mile north of the village (David Hopkins)

Paxton Pits - 4 Little Egrets (Jamie Wells); Peregrine, 22 Yellow-legged Gulls, 8 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin (Richard Pateint)

Saturday, 15 July

Paxton Pits - ad Caspian Gull this evening (Richard Pateint)

Grafham Water - 3 COMMON SCOTERS, 3+ Yellow-legged Gulls, Greenshank, Buzzard (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Nene Washes - flock of 15 Little Egrets flew north, OSPREY in the area, favouring pits south of the washes (Jonathan Taylor)

Fen Drayton - Hobby, Whimbrel, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpipers, 3 Turtle Doves (Richard Patient)

Godmanchester GP - 3+ Little Egrets, 4 Green Sandpipers, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper (Richard Patient)

Friday, 14 July

Grafham Water - 3 Mandarins, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls, 3 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin (Jono Leadley)

Anglesey Abbey - Buzzard over CP 17:00h (John Walsh)

Thursday, 13 July

Paxton Pits - 4+ Greenshanks, 2 ad Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits, 22+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Dogsthorpe, Star Pit - Little Egret (Keith Lawton)

Wednesday, 12 July

Peterborough - juv Redstart in a private Werrington garden this morning (as per Brian Stone)

Maxey Pits - 5 Green Sandpipers, 10 Little Ringed Plovers (Josh Jones)

Tuesday, 11 July

Paxton Pits - 10 Greenshanks, Green Sandpiper, 12+ Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 38 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Ward)

Woodwalton Fen - 6 Marsh Harriers, Hobby (Terry Cooper)

Grafham Water - 5 Common Sandpipers this afternoon, 8+ Yellow-legged Gulls this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 10 July

Godmanchester GPs - Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpipers this afternoon (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - m Red-crested Pochard, 150 Gadwall, Common Sandpiper from Hayden Hide (Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls, 2 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 9 July

Paxton Pits - 10 Greenshanks, 2 Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits, 9 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpipers (Julian Hughes, Neal Parkin); ad male Peregrine, 22 Yellow-legged Gulls (Richard Patient)

Stretham - pair of Spotted Flycatchers with fledged youngster in the churchyard this evening (John Thake)

Elton - 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Brian Stone)

Saturday, 8 July

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon, Hobby (Iain Thomas)

Paxton Pits - 9 Greenshanks, 7 Black-tailed Godwits, 13 Little Ringed Plovers, Hobby, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls (Martin Davis)

Elton - 6 Buzzards in the area (Malcolm Holley)

Cambridge - Red Kite over Cherry Hinton Road/Hills Road junction (Matt Best)

Friday, 7 July

Paxton Pits - 9 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, 13 Little Ringed Plovers, 9 Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 26 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Ward)

Wednesday, 5 July

Stretham - ALPINE SWIFT over south-east 17:54h (Owen Marks)

Grafham Water - fem COMMON SCOTER between Hill Farm and Savages 16:50h, also 3+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Godmanchester GPs - ad WOOD SANDPIPER, ad Green Sandpiper, ad Greenshank, juv Little Ringed Plover early afternoon (Mark Hawkes)

Prior's fen - 2 Little Egrets, Greenshank, Hobby (Steve Dudley)

Tuesday, 4 July

Grafham Water - 3 Yellow-legged Gulls off Mander this morning, possible 1st summer female Scaup between Hill Farm and Savages this evening, but a Scaup hybrid not ruled out (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - 18 Little Egrets from Trevelyan's Hide this morning (Mike Foley)

Farcet Fen - 5 Little Egrets over 18:50h (Steve Dudley)

Monday, 3 July

Wicken Fen - a county record of 35 Little Egrets today (as per Mark Hawkes)

Earith Sluice - Black Tern (Max Catterwell)

Grafham Water - 4 Black Terns, Little Gull, Common Sandpiper from Mander late afternoon (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 2 July

Peterborough - Quail calling c.02:00h in the Cathedral precinct (as per Diana Mortimer)

Fen Drayton - RED-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon, Hobby, 4 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher and Ringed Plover (Richard Patient)

Wicken Fen - a flock of 33 Little Egrets on Baker's Fen, 2 female Garganey, Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sands, Cettis Warbler, 2+ Grasshopper Warblers (John Oates)

Grafham Water - OSPREY over east 10:35h, Hobby, 2+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley); Grasshopper Warbler in lagoons this evening (Jono Leadley)

Thursday, 29 June

St. Neots, Cromwell GC - TREE PIPIT, present for at least a week, also 2 Little Owls, Grey Partridge and Turtle Dove (Frank James)

Over Fen - 8 Little Egrets, Garganey (James Hanlon)

Wicken Fen - 12 Little Egrets, Hobby, Marsh Harrier on Baker's Fen early evening (James Hanlon)

Ferry Meadows - Water Rail with 3 young from Ian Prestt Hide this morning

Eldernell - 2 Little Egrets, 3 Marsh Harriers (Peter Beesley)

Castor - Red Kite over east between mill and Alwalton lock 12:00h (Chaz Shaw)

Wednesday, 28 June

Over Fen - Red-crested Pochard, 12 Little Egrets, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Greenshank, Hobby this evening (Duncan McNiven); Barn Owl c.20:20h (Aaron Grainger)

Fowlmere - Green Sandpiper by the mere this afternoon (BirdGuides)

Ferry Meadows - Green Sandpiper from Ian Prestt Hide this morning

Maxey Pits - 8 Green Sandpipers, 6+ Little Ringed Plovers (Mike Weedon)

Tuesday, 27 June

Grafham Water - 9 COMMON SCOTERS from Mander CP or Church Hill, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Colin Addington, Mark Hawkes)

Over Fen - Red-necked Grebe, m red-crested Pochard, Garganey, 10 Little Egrets, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Hobbies 11:00-14:00h (Monica and Owen Marks)

Paxton Pits - Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egrets, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Horningsea - 3 Little Owls along west side of River Cam and Barn Owl south of Waterbeach (Saimon Clark)


Monday, 26 June

Over Fen - Red-necked Grebe, m Red-crested Pochard, 2 Garganeys, 6+ Little Egrets, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Curlew, Hobby (Richard Patient)

Wicken Fen - 20 Little Egrets and a pair of Garganey on Baker's Fen this morning (John Oates)

Grafham Water - 4 Yellow-legged Gulls in the rain (Jono Leadley)

Sunday, 25 June

Reach - m Quail in field near entrance to Swaffham Prior Fen 09:30, also Yellow Wagtail at High Fen Farm, Upware (Peter Young)

Serpentine BP - OSPREY over north 11:30h (Chris Jones)

Saturday, 24 June

Fen Drayton GP - 5 Hobbies, Common Buzzard (Richard Patient)

Godmanchester GP: 3 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper, Hobby (Richard Patient)

Over Fen - 10+ Little Egrets, 2 Garganeys, 2 Hobbies, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water - 2 BLACK TERNS off Mander car park (Colin Addington)

Friday, 23 June

Grafham Water - OSPREY 10:35h (Colin Addington)

St. Neots - Spotted Flycatcher in Priory park this morning (Bob Scott)

Cambridge - pair of Spotted Flycatchers in St. Paul's Road (Rob Scoffin)

Thursday, 22 June

Wicken Fen - SPOONBILL 07:45h (BirdGuides); no sign of Spoonbill, but a pair of Garganey, 24 Little Egrets, Hobby 14:20-15:30h (Owen Marks); also 2 Little Ringed Plovers and now 25 Little Egrets 17:15-17:45h (Paul Atkinson); Spotted Flycatcher (Peter Bircham)

Cam Washes - Little Egret c.16:00h (Owen Marks)

Dogsthorpe, Star Pit - Yellow-legged Gull, Turtle Dovef (Josh Jones)

Cam Washes, Upware - 5 Little Egrets, m Marsh Harrier this morning (Mike Foley)

Wednesday, 21 June

Hauxton - probable adult WHITE-TAILED EAGLE over 10:00h (Richard Palmer)

Grafham Water - ad GANNET near the dam c.14:00h (Colin Addington); still present but very mobile 15:45h (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - SPOONBILL, 23 Little Egrets, 2 Green Sandpipers on Baker's Fen 09:45h (Carol Senior); also a pair of Garganey this afternoon (John Oates)

Brampton Wood - Red Kite roosting 21:00h (David Woolven)

Tuesday, 20 June

Wicken Fen - 26 Little Egrets on Baker's Fen (Ralph Sargeant)

Monday, 19 June

Wicken Fen - 26 Little Egrets, juv Little Ringed Plover (John Oates)

M11 junction 12 - Hobby over 21:15h (Martin Leader)

Sunday, 18 June

Over Fen - fem Garganey, 5+ Hobbies, 7 Little Egrets, Little Ringed Plover (Andy Massey)

Cam Washes - 6 Little Egrets, all on the Upware side of the river (John Oates)

Wicken Fen - 21 Little Egrets on the southern part of Baker's Fen, 2 Garganeys, 2 Wigeon, 2 Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Marsh Harrier, Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Cetti's Warblers (John Oates); Buzzard over 11:15h (Peter Young)

Fen Drayton GP - 2 Black Terns, 3 Hobbies, Grey Wagtail (Richard Patient)

Godmanchester GP - 2 Red-crested Pochards (Richard Patient)

Saturday, 17 June

Six Mile Bottom - 3 Buzzard and a Red Kite (Dave Palmer)

Grafham Water - 25 Common Scoters off Church Hill ( Colin Addington), 2nd sum. Yellow-legged Gull (Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - RAVEN (Julian Hughes)

Wicken Fen - 15 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper (Bruce Martin); at least 2 Cetti's Warblers singing (Peter Bircham)

Sutton Gault - Red Kite (Mark Peck)

Friday, 16 June

Ferry Meadows - Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (Chris Park)

Thursday, 15 June

Abbotsley - 2 Buzzards between the village and Croxton 08:40h (Duncan McNiven)

Wednesday, 14 June

Over Fen - 9 Little Egrets, m Red-crested Pochard, m Garganey (Mike Everett)

Abbotsley - Red Kite between the village and Croxton 17:50h (Duncan McNiven)

Bottisham - Red Kite over (Iain Webb)

Tuesday, 13 June

Orton BP - Cetti's Warbler this afternoon (Paul Taylor)

Great Chishill - possible RAVEN over east (Jack Harrison)

Croxton - 7 Buzzards circling 11:00h (Dave Anderson)

Monday, 12 June

Farcet Fen - Little Egret, flew towards king's Dyke (Steve Dudley)

Cottenham - Red Kite over 12:30h (Adrian Hoyes)

Sunday, 11 June

Eynesbury - OSPREY over (Julian Hughes)

Over Fen - RED-NECKED GREBE, 5 Garganey (Gwyn & Audrey Williams)

Fen Drayton - Red Kite and 3 Hobbies (Richard Patient)

Alwalton - Possible BLACK KITE (Matt Webb)

Orton Pit - Black Tern (Richard Jones)

Cherry Hinton - Quail heard calling on Fulbourn side of village (Rod Newbery)

Stirtloe - Turtle Dove (David Bale)

Saturday, 10 June

Orton Pit - Black Tern (Richard Jones)

Fen Drayton - Common Buzzard, 3 Hobbies (Richard Patient)

Ferry Meadows - Osprey (Don Gardener)

Friday, 9 June

A428 between Caxton Gibbet roundabout and Cambourne - PRATINCOLE sp. with rufous underwings flew north over the road c.09:30h but not relocated (Jono Leadley)

Over Fen - Red-necked Grebe, Sanderling, 3 m Garganeys, 2 Little Egrets, 3 Hobbies (Mark Hawkes); Green Sandpiper (Richard Thomas)

Fen Drayton - Black Tern, 12 Common Terns, Cuckoo (Richard Allison)

Thursday, 8 June

Over Fen - Red-necked Grebe, m Garganey, 4 Little Egrets, Green Sandpiper, Turtle Dove (Mark Peck)

Stretham - Red Kite over 16:35h (Monica & Owen Marks)

Fowlmere - Red Kite over 10:15h (BirdGuides)

Wicken Fen - 2+ Hobbies, Turtle Dove and 2 at Upware, 5 Cuckoos, 5+ Woodcock roding (Bruce Martin et al.); also several Grasshopper Warblers but no Nightjars this evening (Stuart Elsom et al.)

Eldernell - 3 Marsh Harriers this evening (Max Catterwall)

Great Chishill - Cuckoo, Turtle Dove 05:30-05:45h (Jack Harrison)

From Tuseday, 6 June: Wicken Fen - 1+ NIGHTJARS over reedbed c.22:00h

Wednesday, 7 June

Crown lakes CP - WOODCHAT SHRIKE c.10:30h, but brief views and not relocated subsequently (Penny Snape, Bernard Dawes)

Ferry Meadows - LITTLE TERN on Gunwade Lake (Howard Butler); still present 18:00h (Don Gardener); also 2 Red Kites over the park (Jim Lawrence)

Ouse Washes RSPB - SPOONBILL from Stockdale Hide 13:28h (Jim Lawrence)

Barton - Spotted Flycatcher (Mike Foley)

Tuesday, 6 June

Cambridge - OSPREY low over Coldham's Common c.10:25-10:30h, then circled and gained height over east of the city (Joe Taylor)

Grafham water - 7 Black Terns off Mander late afternoon, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes); f Marsh Harrier over lagoons 10:40h (Colin Addington); 7 Black Terns still present 19:00h, also c.10 Common Terns (Jono Leadley)

Sawtry - 2 Red Kites spiralling over A1 junction 15 (Robin Jones)

St. Ives - Spotted Flycatcher in Needingworth Road (Jill Burt)

Monday, 5 June

Over Fen - s/p RED-NECKED GREBE, 5 m Garganeys, Greenshank briefly, Ruddy Duck, fem Ruddy Shelduck (Richard Thomas); also 3 Little Egrets, Dunlin, Hobby, 5 Turtle Doves, but no sign of the Ruddy Shelduck 12:30-15:00h (Jim Lawrence)

Peterborough - WHITE STORK heading roughly north-northeast over the cathedral 19:30h (Mac Bell)

Blackbush - 2nd sum Mediterranean Gull, Spotted Flycatcher, 31 Corn Buntings (Steve Dudley)

Paxton Pits - 3 Sanderlings, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes, Martin Davis)

Grafham Water - 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, Common Sandpiper, c.20 Common Terns (Jono Leadley)

Sunday 4 June

Over Fen GP's - TEMMINCK's STINTS on the last set of pools viewable from rough road between Overcote Road and Brownshill Staunch. Also, 5 Garganey and a RED-NECKED GREBE present (Richard Thomas)

Godmanchester GP - Green Sandpiper, 2 drk Red-crested Pochard (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Whittlesford village - 1+ Red-crested Pochard over (Peter Bircham)

Paxton Pits - 1st-summer Little Gull, 6 Black Tern, 3 Sanderling, Turnstone, Hobby, 3 Wigeon, 3 Black Swan (Mark Hawkes, Jamie Wells et al.)

Saturday 3 June

Paxton Pits - ROSEATE TERN in private area (no public access)

Thursday 1 June

Farcet Fen - 2nd summer Mediterranean Gull (Steve Dudley)

Sunday 28 May

Cam Washes - 3cy Yellow-legged Gull (John Oates)

Godmanchester GP - Common Buzzard, Little Egret, drake Red-crested Pochard (Richard Patient)

Saturday 27 May

Ouse Washes - 1 or 2 Spotted Crakes heard calling from 21.56 to 22.15. They were south of the trees that cross the washes which are south of Common Wash hide Welches Dam. We approached from Fortey's Hall walking north

Friday 26 May

Serpentine BP - m Marsh Harrier over pits, 2 Common Buzzards (Paul Taylor)

Willingham -3 Egyptian Geese on Greenfields Estate (BirdGuides)

Thursday 25 May

Paxton Pits - 2 Sanderlings, c.25 Dunlins, 1st-s and 2nd-s Yellow-legged Gulls, Little Egret, Turtle Dove (Martin Davis, Paul Lippet, Mark Ward, Jamie Wells)

Farcet Fen - Whimbrel, in horse paddocks at Conquest Drove (Steve Dudley)

Wicken Fen - On Baker's Fen, 1st-s Little Gull, 3 Little Egrets, 5 Hobbies (John Oates)

Serpentine BP - HONEY BUZZARD flew in from east, then soared up to a great height and was lost from view; also Common Buzzard, 2 Hobbies, 2 Kestrels, Sparrowhawk (George Walthew)

Cam Washes (Upware) - OSPREY circling over Washes, drifted to north (am); Little Egret (John Oates)

Wednesday 24 May

Ferry Meadows - Red Kite (Peter Beesley)

Wicken Fen - On Baker's Fen, 6 Little Egrets, 3 Hobbies (John Oates)

Grafham Water - sub-ad Yellow-legged Gull; a few Swifts, including one with a leucistic tail (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 2 Sanderlings (1 grey bird, 1 red individual), c.30 Dunlins, 55+ Ringed Plovers on one pit and 2 breeding pairs on another, 6 Hobbies (Mark Hawkes); 2 1st-s and one 2nd-s Yellow-legged Gulls, Little Egret, 3 birds now in the Barnacle Goose 'flock' (Mark Ward)

Beeby's BP - 5 Turnstones in flight to NW, summer-plumaged Dunlin (Brian Stone)

Tuesday 23 May

Farcet Fen - Egyptian Goose reported around Park House Farm (per Steve Dudley)

Paxton Pits - 3 Little Stints with Sanderling, 25 Dunlin, immature Peregrine over (BirdGuides)

Wicken Fen - 6 Little Egrets, 2 Hobbies at Baker's Fen (John Oates)

Monday 22 May

March Farmers (Nene Washes) - Bar-tailed Godwit (Steve Dudley)

Wicken Fen - 4 Little Egrets at Baker's Fen this morning, 4 at the Cam Washes (John Oates)

Sunday 21 May

Ferry Meadows - OSPREY still on Gunwade Lake (Ray & Will Bowell)

Wicken Fen - SPOONBILL close to hide on Harrison's Drove at 4pm, 2 Little Egrets (Alan Eungblut)

Paxton Pits - adult Kittiwake (Island Pit), 2 Garganey, 3 Little Egrets, Sanderling, 84 Dunlins, 5 Wigeon, 21 Ringed Plovers, Barnacle Goose (Julian Hughes, Paul Lippett, John Parslow)

Saturday 20 May

Wicken Fen - 3 Little Egrets, drake Garganey, 3 Water Rails, 2 Cetti's Warblers Barn Owl (Zbigniew Karpowicz)

Ferry Meadows - OSPREY still on Gunwade Lake (Don Gardener)

Paxton Pits - 5 Sanderling, 61 Dunlin, Little Gull, Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Fen Drayton - 8 Hobbies, 50 Common Terns (Richard Patient)

Cambridge - Hobby, Peregrine in vacinity of Kings Hedges Rd. (David Heath)

Friday 19 May

Over Fen - BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER early this morning (Richard Thomas) and still present at 1910 at TL370720; from High St take Overcote Road, turn right on track towards Brownshill Staunch to 1st pool on right. Park carefully and follow all on site instructions (latter details from BirdGuides)

Fen Drayton - no sign of the f RED-FOOTED FALCON from 3.15-4.50 pm; but at least 8 Hobbies and several hundered Swifts over the various pits; summer-plumaged RED-NECKED GREBE still at Northern end of Ferry Lagoons (Mark Hawkes)

Woodston (Peterborough) - 12 Crossbills (Tony Parker per Brian Stone)

Thursday 18 May

Fen Drayton GP - RED-FOOTED FALCON reported, HONEY BUZZARD over (BirdGuides)

Ferry Meadows - OSPREYat the western end of Gunwade Lake (Matt Webb)

Ramsey - Red Kite drifted southeast over Bury Road

Wednesday 17 May

HONEY BUZZARD flew past the home of Mike Everett (himself)

Farcet Fen - 2nd-summer Mediterranean Gull again between Park House Farm and Crowtree (Steve Dudley)

Tuesday 16 May

Bakers Fen & Upware - Little Egret, 2 m Garganey, Hobby harassing a male Marsh Harrier with prey, 2 Woodcocks, 5 Cuckoos, 2 Turtle Doves, 4 Grasshopper Warblers, 6-7 Cetti's Warblers (Monica and Owen Marks)

Ouse Washes (between Railway and Common Wash) - 3 Greenshanks, 4 Avocets, 60 + Black-tailed Godwits, 4 males and 2 pairs Garganeys (Ian Barton)

Farcet Fen - Egyptian Goose (Steve Dudley)

Wicken Fen - 2 Little Egrets, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 2 drk Garganeys and 5 Hobbies (John Oates)

Grafham Water - 2 Turnstones on dam (Colin Addington)

Paxton Pits - drk Garganey, Sanderling, 13 Dunlins, Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes)

Monday 15 May

Ferry Meadows - Garganey on the Wader Scrape (Chaz Shaw)

Godmanchester - Red Kite over Industrial Estate

Maxey Pits - 5 Ringed Plovers, Little Ringed Plover (Josh Jones)

Over Fen - 2 Little Egrets, drk Garganey, 10+ Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 5 Dunlin (Mike Everett)

Hemingford Grey - 2 Spotted Flycatchers (male singing-rare); at Marsh Lane, recent counts suggest at least 8 possibly 9 pairs of Nightingales, Cetti's Warbler still present. (Mike Everett)

Ely- Red Kite, one flew over the A10 mid-morning (BirdGuides)

Ferry Meadows CP - drk Garganey  from the hides (07:45, BirdGuides)

Sunday 14 May

Ferry Meadows - Garganey, Gadwall (Philip Hobson)

March Farmers - 2 Greenshanks, Ruff, Sanderling, Kingfisher, 2 Cuckoos, 8 Hobbies (MikeWeedon)

Eldernell - Little Egret on flood by Lord's Holt

Blackbush - 2 Grey Partridges, Red Kite (Mike Weedon, Ray and Will Bowell)

Fletton Brick Pit (LB1) - 2 Common Sandpipers, Redshank, 2 Teal (Mike Weedon, Ray and Will Bowell)

Maxey Pits - 5 Little-Ringed Plovers, 2 Ringed Plovers (Mike Weedon, Ray and Will Bowell)

Needingworth Quarry Lakes (formerly Barleycraft GP) - pair Garganey, m. Goldeneye, Whimbrel, Little ringed Plover, 22 Common Terns (Ian Barton)

Fen Dayton - RED-NECKED GREBE on Drayton Lagoon, Whimbrel over (Bruce Martin)
19 Tufted Duck and no other diving duck! To make up for the lack of wildfowl , Bruce  did a count of singing warblers that he heard: 21 Sedge Warblers, 66 Reed Warblers, 4 Lesser Whitethroats, 23 Common Whitethroats, 14 Garden Warblers, 12 Blackcaps, 2 Chiffchaffs, 20 Willow Warblers; also 3 Cuckoos, 2 Turtle Doves

Ferry Meadows - 3 Garganey, Water Rail (Jason Hatch)

Saturday 13 May

Over Fen - drk Garganey showing well in the first pool, 4 Dunlins, Little-Ringed Plovers and several Common Redshanks (Jim Lawrence, Duncan  Coates)

Wicken Fen -Little Egret, Garganey, 2 Turtle Doves (Zbigniew Karpowicz)

Paxton Pits - male Garganey, 2 Turnstones, 3 Black Terns, 9 Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail (Julian Hughes/Martin Davis/Mark Ward/Ade Cooper/Steve Cooper/Richard Patient)

Ouse Washes - male Garganey, 2 Greenshank, Hobby 7 Little Egret, Dunlin (Mark Hawkes, Duncan Poyser)

Honeypot Farm (S. of Chatteris) - Hen Harrier, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Partridge (Mark Hawkes, Duncan Poyser)

Over Fen GP - Wood Sandpiper, male Garganey, Little Egret, Dunlin 1 (Mark Hawkes, Duncan Poyser)

Impington - Red Kite late morning low over the woods behind the BUPA hospital (David Wedge)

Reach and Burwell Fen - Red Kite over (Kathleen Rosewarne / Ian Barton)

Ferry Meadows - 2 male, 1 fem Garganey from John Peake hide (Mike Wilson)

Friday 12 May

Queen Adelaide - Bearded Tit - five on the pool opposite The Potter Group (BirdGuides)

Farcet Fen - HONEY BUZZARD, NW over the fen 18:40h (Steve Dudley)

Cambridge - Stork reportedly circling over Cambridge, Cherry Hinton Road at 11:00h - no further details

Grafham Water - 2 Black Terns, GREAT NORTHERN DIVER still off Mander car park (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday 11 May

Paxton Pits - 2 LITTLE TERNS, Bar-tailed Godwit, 7 Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Sanderlings, 3+ Grey Plovers, 2 Greenshanks, 30+ Dunlins, 2 drk Goldeneye, Common Sandpiper, 6+ Tundra Ringed Plovers,  4 Shoveler, 2+ Wigeon (Mark Hawkes, Paul Lippet, John Parslow, Martin Davis, Mark Ward, Julian Hughes, Jamie Wells)

Godmanchester GP -2 Black Terns, Hobby, 2 Little Ringed Plovers (Mark Hawkes)

Bakers Fen / Wicken - Little Egret, 7 Hobbies, 4 Greenshanks (Monica and Owen Marks)

Ouse Washes - Sanderling, Grey Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 10 (Tundra) Ringed Plovers, 2 Dunlins, 2 Greenshanks, 3 Wood Sandpipers; all from the Rickwood Hide (Ian Barton, per Bruce Martin)

Godmanchester GP - 2 Black Terns (BirdGuides)

Fletton BP (LBI) - Egyptian Goose, feeding on a field next to the BP alongside the parkway near the Stanground junction this morning (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 1st-summer still off Mander car park, Turnstone at south end of dam, Hobby over (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Wednesday 10 May

Fen Drayton - Summer-plumaged RED-NECKED GREBE still on Ferry Lagoon (Duncan McNiven)

Cam Washes- drk Gargeney still present (John Oates)

Grafham Water - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, still off Mander CP (Mark Hawkes, Christoph Zockler)

Fen Drayton - 6 Hobbies, 15 Common Terns, Turnstone, Little Ringed Plover, pair Turtle Doves, 3 Cuckoos (Martin Adlam)

Paxton Pits - Turnstone, 3 Grey Plovers (2 eventually flew off high NE), 1-2 Greenshanks, c.20 Dunlin (Jamie Wells)

Tuesday 9 May

Grafham Water - Sanderling, Dunlin on dam (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - drk Garganey, Spotted Redshank, 4 Grey Plover, Sanderling, 20+ Dunlins, 2 Greenshanks, Hobby (Mark Hawkes, Mark Ward, Jamie Wells, Martin Davis)

Fen Drayton - RED-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon, also Whimbrel at the NW end of same (James Hanlon)

Cam Washes - drk Gargeney, Spotted Redshank (John Oates)

Wicken Fen - 3 Greenshanks (John Oates)

Cambridge - Nightingale singing at Madingley Road Park and Ride, eastern side of site (Iain Webb).

Monday 8 May

Over Fen - 2 Black Terns, drake Garganey, Green Sandpiper (Mike Everett)

Blackbush - fem. Common Redstart, in the overgrown area adjacent to the paddock area opposite Two Barns Farm bungalow (Steve Dudley)

Grafham Water - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER still off Mander CP, sub-adult Yellow-legged Gull still, 5 Common Terns (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 4 Bar-tailed Godwits, 3 Grey Plovers, Turnstone, Sanderling, Greenshank, c.50 Dunlins, 1st-summer Common Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Fletton BP - Black Tern (Brian Stone)

Fowlmere - Red Kite, low over the reserve (BirdGuides)

Sunday 7 May

Ouse Washes - 8 Whimbrels, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3-4 Grey Plovers, 6 Tundra Ringed Plovers, 7 Greenshanks, 3 Dunlins (Mark Ward, Richard Patient)

Barleycraft GP - 3 Sanderling, Bar-tailed Godwit, 17 Dunlins, Common Sandpiper, 3 Tundra Ringed Plovers (Mark Ward)

Soham Lode - 2 Turtle Doves, Hobby (Andrew Knights)

Over Fen - TEMMINCK'S STINT, 3 Turnstones, Greenshank, 2 Sandwich Tern, Little Gull, Sanderling (Chris Martin); 8 Garganey (Richard Thomas)

Grafham Water - 4 Arctic Tern, Black Tern, GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Common Sandpiper, 300+ Swift (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 17 Whimbrel, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Turnstone, 3 Grey Plover, 2 Black Tern, 54+ Dunlin, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes, Julian Hughes, Jamie Wells, Neal Parkin, Steve May, Paul Lippet, Gary Rawlings); flock of 10 Barnacle Geese flying high northeast, 26 singing Nightingales (Julian Hughes); 26Tundra Ringed Plovers (Mark Ward, Ade Cooper)

Paxton Village - 10+ Hobbies (Ian Dawson)

Fen Drayton - 4 Black Terns over ferry lagoon, RED-NECKED GREBE, Common Buzzard, 2 Hobbies, 3 Turtle Doves, Barn Owl

Saturday 6 May

Brampton & Buckden - WHITE STORK east over A1 between the 2 villlages (per RBA)

Long Drove Cottenham - 3 Barn Owls and 3 Little Owls (David & Jonathan Heath)

Paxton Pits - Male Garganey, 4 Grey Plovers, Black Tern, Lesser spotted Woodpecker (Julian Hughes/Martin Davis/Jamie Wells)

Ferry Meadows - Whimbrel (Matt Webb & Don Gardener)

Fowlmere - HONEY BUZZARD was migrating high over the reserve (Peter Herkenrath)

Fen Drayton - 4 Black Terns on Ferry Lagoon early afternoon, RED-NECKED GREBE (Owen Marks)

Over Fen -TEMMINCK'S STINT, Dunlin and 5 Ringed Plovers, 6 Garganey

Grafham Water - 1st-summer GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, still, off Mander car park, adult Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Friday 5 May

Rings End - Grey Plover, 2 Ruff, 2 Greenshanks, 3 Whimbrels, 10 Dunlins, on flooded field 1 mile east of Poplar Farm car park (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - 1st-summer GREAT NORTHERN DIVER still off Mander car park, pair of Mandarin Duck, ad. and 2nd-summer Yellow-legged Gulls (BirdGuides)

Paxton Pits - 6 Hobbies, Sanderling, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits (BirdGuides)

Farcet Fen - 2nd-summer Mediterranean Gull still with Black-headed Gulls in fields by the B1095, pair of Gadwall, fem. Wheatear (Steve Dudley)

Toft - Spotted Flycatcher in churchyard (Clive Sinclair)

Thursday 4 May

Wicken Fen - 2 Spotted Redshanks at Baker's Fen (Andrew Knights)

Fen Drayton - OSPREY over early evening (BirdGuides)

Godmanchester GP - Nightingale, 2 Dunlins (Mark Hawkes)

Blackbush / Farcet Fen - 2nd-summer Mediterranean Gull with 15 Black-headed Gulls in 'ploughed' fields on Blackbush and Farcet Fen either side of the B1095, fem. Wheatear on Blackbush, 17 Corn Buntings singing on Blackbush and 5 singing on Farcet Fen (Steve Dudley)

Paxton Pits - 16 Black Terns, 2 Grey Plovers, Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank (Mark Hawkes); probable OSPREY over Paxton Lock mid-morning (Tony Hammond)

King's Dyke NR - drk Ruddy Duck, present since Monday, Common Sandpiper, 8 ad Lapwing and 5+ young, Redshank, Turtle Dove (Phil Parker) 

Peterborough - OSPREY over Woodston mid-day (Tony Parker)

Nene Washes, Central Drove - fem. Whinchat in Field 49, Whimbrel in fields around sheds, 2 Hobbies (Jonathan Taylor)

Cambridge - Spotted Flycatcher in Sturton Street (Iain Webb)

Grafham Water - 1st-summer GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, still, off Mander car park, 3 Hobbies, 2 Common Sandpipers (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday 3 May

Milton CP - Nightingale by Dickerson's Pit, Common Sandpiper on Todd's Pit (Zbigniew and Maja Karpowicz)

Castor Hanglands - 7 singing Nightingales, 2 male and 1 female Cuckoos, c.10 Grasshopper Warblers (Richard Astle)

Fen Drayton - Common Buzzard, 10 Common Terns (Richard Allison)

Ferry Meadows CP - Wood Sandpiper, one from the hides early morning (BirdGuides)

Tuesday 2 May

Paxton Pits - OSPREY over Rudd Pit early afternoon (Martin Davis); Bar-tailed Godwit, 7 Whimbrels, 3 Common Sandpipers, 30+ Dunlins, 2 Hobbies (Mark Ward, Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - ad. ARCTIC SKUA, flew east past Marlow CP at 7.25pm (Colin Addington); male Bar-tailed Godwit by CP, Turnstone on dam, 2 Dunlins, Arctic Tern, 2 Common Sandpipers (Colin Anderson, Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Fen Drayton - fem. Marsh Harrier, fem. Wheatear (Dave Anderson)

Cambourne - Hobby at Whomping Willow Lake (Jonathan Hook)

Nene Washes - Central Drove: 2+ Wheatears, Yellow Wagtail, 11 Dunlins (Gary Heath)

Serpentine BP - male Whinchat in fields to west (Brian Stone)

Monday 1 May

Ely - 2 Arctic Terns by the river near the Fisherman's car park (Richard Briggs)

Fordham - Little Egret at small reservoir near bypass roundabout (Richard Briggs)

Wimpole - male Lesser spotted Woodpecker in "The Gloucesters", male Firecrest singing and showing well by "car parking" area between the Gloucesters and the Belts (Derek Gruar and Richard Winspear)

Godmanchester GP - 4 Bar-tailed Godwits, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, Common Sandpiper (Paul Andrew)

Ely - BITTERN seen in flight (Mark Grooms)

Fen Drayton GP - OSPREY over to west, 3 Hobbies, 15 Common Terns, 120 Swifts (Bruce & Gwen Martin); 6+ Arctic Terns, Common Buzzard, 2 Turtle Doves (David Griffiths); Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo (Richard & Jonathan Hook)

Chain Corner - 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 2 Little Egrets (Mark Peck)

Paxton Pits - Red Kite, 2+ Buzzards, Short-eared Owl, 1st summer Little Gull, c15 Arctic Terns, 30+ Common Terns, 2 Turnstones, Sanderling, 11 Bar-tailed Godwits, 2 Whimbrel, Greenshank, 51+ Dunlin, c.40 Swifts (various observers)

Ouse Washes (Welches Dam and Common Wash) - Green-winged Teal, 3 drk Garganeys, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, Tundra Ringed Plover, Hen Harrier (Ian Barton)

Cam Washes (Upware) - 24 Black-tailed Godwits (Peter Herkenrath and Peter Hall

Grafham Water - BLACK-NECKED GREBE off Dam a.m. but mobile (Colin Addington); GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, 1st-summer still from Mander CP this afternoon (Mark Hawkes and Jono Leadley); pm: Grasshopper Warbler (lagoons), 5 Dunlin (dam), Little Ringed Plover (dam), c30 Yellow Wagtail, sub-ad. Yellow-legged Gull still, c10 Common Terns (Mark Hawkes)