What was About May-Aug 2007




 Friday, 31 August

Ouse Washes, Sutton Gault - PECTORAL SANDPIPER. On the west side of the washes walk north BELOW the bank for about five minutes before CAREFULLY peering over the bank at the waders (Lee Marshall)

Eldernell - OSPREY, juv Hen Harrier, Whinchat (Charlie Kitchen)

Cambridge - Swift over Corpus Christi college 08:00h (Sarah Howlett)

Thursday, 30 August

Toft - c.20 Yellow Wagtails near the brook (Clive Sinclair)

Chain Corner - Garganey, Peregrine over (Ben Green)

Grafham Water - OSPREY over 09:00h, 6 Little Egrets in Savages Creek, Black Tern by dam (Colin Addington)

Ferry Meadows - 3 Black Terns on Gunwade (Don Gardener)

Wednesday, 29 August

Milton CP - Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Garden Warblers, c.20 Blackcaps, c.10 Chiffchaffs, Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, 3 Kingfishers, 3 Reed Warblers (Jonathan Heath)

Sutton Gault - Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 120+ Snipe, 7 Ruffs, 8 Dunlins, Greenshank, 2 Kingfishers this morning and Wood Sandpiper, 8 Dunlins, 14 Ruffs, 9 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 50+ Common Snipe, 3 Little Egrets this evening (Mark Peck); also Curlew Sandpiper (Mike Everett)

Toft - Whinchat at Miller's Road (Clive Sinclair, Vince Lee); still present 18:00h, please stay on public rights of way (Louise Bacon)

Fen Drayton - 2 Whinchats, 2 Hobbies, Common Sandpiper, Kingfisher (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Fowlmere - 2 Hobbies, 2 ad and 3 juv Marsh Harriers, 2+ Tawny Owls, Kingfisher (Lockhart Horsburgh)

Holt Fen - 4 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers, 5 Greenshanks, 5 Ruffs, 2 Snipes (Kathleen Rosewarne & Ian Barton)

Fidwell Fen - 3 Green Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 8 Greenshanks, 4 Snipe, (Kathleen Rosewarne & Ian Barton)

Tuesday, 28 August

Fen Dayton GP - 38 Snipes, Common Sandpiper, Barn Owl (Richard Palmer)

Grafham Water - 15 Little Egrets in Savages this morning (Matt Hamilton)

Monks Wood - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, several Nuthatches (Rich Broughton)

Paxton Pits - 3 Spotted Redshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 3 Greenshanks, 4 Little Egrets, 3 Dunlins, 7 Ringed Plovers (Clive Sinclair)

Holt Fen - 6 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers, 5 Greenshanks, 4 Ruffs, Snipe (Kathleen Rosewarne & Ian Barton)

Fidwell Fen - 3 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 6 Greenshanks, 6 Ruffs, 4 Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit (Kathleen Rosewarne & Ian Barton)

Wilbraham Fen - Barn Owl 20:15h (Ben Greig)

Monday, 27 August

Sutton Gault - juv Curlew Sandpiper, 9 Dunlin, Greenshank, 13 Ruff (Mark Peck)

Earith to Jolly Bankers - 42 Little Egrets, 2 Egyptian Geese, 200 Teal, Garganey, 24 Dunlins, 24 Ringed Plovers, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Turnstone, 3 Wood Sandpipers, 5 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 8 Ruffs, 5 Greenshanks, Redshank, 2 juv Little Stints, 2 Turtle Doves, Grey Wagtail (Richard Patient)

Fen Dayton GP - 23 Whimbrel flew SW, 4 Golden Plovers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 35 Snipes, Hobby, 2 Common Terns, juv Yellow-legged Gull, Little Egret, Little Owl, 2 Grey Wagtails (Ricard Patient); Garganey, 3 Red-crested Pochards and a Black Swan (David & Jonathan Heath)

Paxton Pits - Marsh Harrier, 6 Buzzards, 1+ Hobby, 8 Little Egrets, 2 juv Spotted Redshanks, 4+ Greenshanks, 4 Black-tailed Godwist, 3 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 5 Dunlins, 9 Ringed Plovers (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells); 2 Garganey (Julian Hughes)

Holt Fen - 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Greenshanks, 5 Common Sandpipers, Ruff, 2 Little Egrets (Kathleen Rosewarne, Ian Barton)

Fidwell - 2 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Ruff, Ringed Plover, 3 Black-tailed Godwits (Kathleen Rosewarne, Ian Barton)

Maxey Pits - 2 Wheatears, Buzzard, Greenshank, 3 Ruffs, Little Ringed Plover, 12 Yellow Wagtails (Chris Lines)

Grafham Water - 2 Green Sandpipers, 5 Common Sandpipers (Jono Leadley)

Aldreth - 2000+ Lapwings, c.100 Golden Plovers, 2 Buzzards, Lesser Whitethroat (Paul Mason)

Sunday, 26 August

Maxey Pits - Spotted Redshank, 2 Ruffs, 4 Yellow Wagtails, Pochard (Malcolm Holley)

Paxton Pits - 5+ Little Egrets, 2 Garganey, 2 juv Spotted Redshanks, 5+ Greenshanks, 4 Redshanks, 2 Ruffs, 5+ Green Sandpipers, 4+ Common Sandpipers, 4 Dunlins, 8+ Ringed Plovers, juv Little Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Tern, Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 4+ Common Buzzards, 2 Sparrowhawk, 4+ Kestrels (Jamie Wells); Black Tern, 10 Green Sandpipers (Audrey & Gwyn Williams)

Holt Fen - 7 Common Sandpipers, 4 Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2 Ruff (Ian Barton)

Fidwell - Greenshank, 6 Ruff, Common sand, Green Sandpiper, 4 Snipe, Dunlin, Ringed Plover (Ian Barton)

Sutton Gault - juv Little Stint, juv Curlew Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin, 5 Ruff, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 66 Common Snipe, 3 Little Egrets, Kingfisher (Mark Peck)

Wicken Fen - female Whinchat and Greenshank on Baker's Fen, Hobby and 2 Marsh Harriers (Andrew Knights)

Earith - 2 Turnstones, 2 Curlew Sandpipers, 3 Little Stints, 27 Ringed Plovers, 20 Dunlins (David Griffiths)

Saturday, 25 August

Sutton Gault -  juv Curlew Sandpiper, 7 Dunlin, 8 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 25 Common Tern (Mark Peck)

Woodwalton Fen - Redstart, Common Buzzard, Hobby, 2 Marsh Harriers (Richard Patient)

Grafham Water - 4 Tree Pipit 4 over dam  (Colin Addington)  60+ Yellow Wagtail (Mark Hawkes) Marsh Harrier (Jono Leadley)

Ouse Fen - 7  Curlew (Dave Ebbutt)

Friday, 24 August

Sutton Gault -  Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, 5 Dunlin, 3 Ruff, 20+ Common Snipe, 40+ Yellow Wagtail, 3 Turtle Dove, 3 Little Egret, 2 Shelduck,  Barn Owl, 2 Kingfisher (Mark Peck)

Grafham Water - OSPREY,  2 Common Buzzards and many Yellow Wagtail on the dam (Paul Andrew) Common Scoter (Colin Addington)

Paxton Pits - 2 Garganey, juv. Spotted Redshank, 2 Curlew, 4 Ruff, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Spotted Flycatcher (Martin Davis)

Fen Drayton - 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, c40 Snipe over, Barn Owl, 3+ Kingfisher,  Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Common Tern, Black Tern, 6+ Yellow Wagtail. Also a Hobby over Fenstanton (Mark Eaton)

Cambridge - Redstart in Rustat Road.

Holt Fen  -  2 Common Terns,  Green Sandpiper,  Common Sandpiper, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Paul Mason)

Fidwell Fen   - 11 Blacktailed Godwits,  Green Sandpiper,  2 Marsh Harriers, Willow Warbler  (Paul Mason) juv Spotted Redshank, 4 Greenshank, 10 Ruff  (Ian Barton)

Holt Fen - 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper 4, Greenshank, 38 Yellow Wagtail 38, Golden plover (Ian Barton)

Thursday, 23 August

Grafham Water - 2 GREAT SKUAS 06:00-07:30h at least, ad Sandwich Tern, 2 juv Black Terns, juv Little Gull, juv Mediterranean Gull, Little Egret, Hobby (Mark Hawkes); Skuas last seen 08:10h, ad Sandwich Tern at Mander c.17:00h (Colin Addington)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Little Stint, 10 Dunlin, 11 Ringed Plovers, Black-tailed Godwit, Wheatear, Hobby (David Griffiths); 8 Ruffs, Common Sandpiper (BirdGuides)

Maxey Pits - c.12 Green Sandpipers, Curlew, Reeve, 3, Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpipers (Ray & Will Bowell)

Holt Fen - Little Egret, Curlew, 2 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers (Bruce Martin)

Fidwell Fen - 7 Ruffs, Greenshank, 7 Common Sandpipers, 5 Black-tailed Godwits (Bruce Martin)

Fen Drayton - 3 Black Terns, 4 Common Sandpipers, 3 Hobbies, Little Egret, Barn Owl (David Heath)

Paxton Pits - Egyptian Goose, juv Spotted Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Little Egrets, 4+ Greenshanks, 6 Green Sandpipers, 5+ Common Sandpipers, 2 Ruffs, 13 Ringed Plovers, imm Garganey, 4 Common Terns, 4 Spotted Flycatchers, 2 Wheatears, 4 Yellow Wagtails (Martin Davis); Curlew (Neal Parkin, Jamie Wells)

Wednesday, 22 August

Grafham Water - 2 GREAT SKUAS from Mander CP 17:05-18:30 at least (Colin Addington); 70+ Common Terns, Black Tern (Ken Hook); male COMMON SCOTER, 2 juv Black Terns, Red Kite, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley et al.)

Maxey Pits - Grey Plover, Turnstone, 6 Whimbrels (Chris Orders); 9 Green Sandpipers (Brian Stone)

Fen Drayton - Whimbrel over east, Black Tern, Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Hobbies and lots of Swifts in the area (Andy Cotton)

Cambridge - 2 Swifts over Chesterton Road (Rich Broughton)

Paxton Pits - juv Spotted Redshank, Knot, Little Stint, juv Black-tailed Godwit, 17 Little Egrets, 6 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, 5 Common Sandpipers, Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtails (Martin Davis)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Wood Sandpiper (BirdGuides)

Tuesday, 21 August

Maxey Pits - 2 Whimbrel, 3+ Green Sandpipers (Richard Palmer); juv Spotted Redshank this evening (Will Bowell)

Fen Drayton - 7 Black Terns, juv Little Gull (Andy Cotton); 8 Black Terns 18:30h (Duncan McNiven)

Grafham Water - juv Little Gull, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 6 Knots, 8 Greenshanks, 6 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, 11 Little Egrets, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Martin Davis)

Monday, 20 August

Earith - SQUACCO HERON still present (BirdGuides)

Maxey Pits - ad Yellow-legged Gull, 11 Green Sandpipers (Brian Stone)

Sunday, 19 August

Cam Washes - Wood Sandpiper, 3 Knots, 2 Ruff, 4 Greenshanks, 5+ Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, Marsh Harrier over (Andy Massey)

Paxton Pits - 5 Little Stints, juv Garganey, juv Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit, 13 Little Egrets, 7+ Greenshanks, 9+ Green Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 7 Common Terns, Buzzard, c.10 Yellow-legged Gulls, Spotted Flycatcher (Mark Ward)

Fen Drayton - Little Egret, Little Owl, 5 Green Sandpipers, juv Black Tern (Richard Patient)

Saturday, 18 August

Cam Washes, Waterbeach - 3 Knots, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, juv Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Spotted Flycatcher, Turtle Dove, 115 Greylag Geese (Peter Herkenrath)

Wimpole Hall - 4 Spotted Flycatchers (Ken Hook)

Burghley Park - 10+ Spotted Flycatchers, 4+ Treecreepers, 2 Nuthatches, Grey Wagtail (Paul Taylor)

Friday, 17 August

Earith - SQUACCO HERON still present (Dave Anderson)

Grafham Water - Turnstone, 4 Dunlins, Ringed Plover, Peregrine with 3 Buzzards over Savages Wood mid-afternoon, juvenile Arctic and Black Terns still from Mander CP, 2 Little Egrets and the first Wigeon of the autumn (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Ouse Washes - 7 Greenshanks, Black-tailed Godwit between Mepal and Sutton Gault, 10 Ruffs, 5 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, 5 Black-tailed Godwits, 6 Little Egrets, Marsh Harrier around Jolly Bankers, 25 Little Egrets, 2 Hobbies, Green Sandpiper, 3 Black-taied Godwits, 20 Yellow Wagtails near Earith (Paul Harrington)

Fen Drayton - Black Tern (Dave Anderson)

Abbots Ripton - Buzzard, Hobby, Tawny Owl (Nigel Sprowell)

Thursday, 16 August

Nene Washes - OSPREY over over the low Wash sheds drifting toward Priors Fen (Jon Taylor)

Grafham Water - ad Wood Sandpiper, 2 juv Sandwich Terns, Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpipers, juv Arctic Tern, juv Black Tern, Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher (Jono Leadley); 3 Turnstones, Wheatear, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, 6 Common Sandpipers, 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Ouse Fen - 9 Little Egrets (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Fen Drayton - Wheatear (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Wednesday, 15 August

Earith - SQUACCO HERON flew in 08:00h, feeding on lily pads on north lake east of Meadow Drove. Also 6 Yellow Wagtails, Turtle Dove (Zbig Karpowicz)

Maxey Pits - 12 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, Yellow Wagtails (Chris Lines)

Grafham Water - PIED FLYCATCHER in scrub at north end of dam and 3 Spotted Flycatchers (David Hollin); juv Black Tern, Arctic Tern, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Grunty Fen - Marsh harrier, Turtle Dove (David & Katherine Nation) Tuesday, 14 August

Earith - SQUACCO HERON still present at second pool after Fenland Fisheries (John Dingemans)

Maxey Pits - 14 Green Sandpipers, juv Greenshank (Brian Stone)

Monday, 13 August

Earith - SQUACCO HERON still present on lily pads at pool to east of main track (Richard Thomas)

Maxey Cut - probable OSPREY over 07:20h (Ray Bowell)

Maxey Pits - 18+ Green Sandpipers, 2 Hobbies (Chris Lines)

Holt Fen - 5 Common Sandpipers, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Ruff (Paul Mason)

Fidwell Fen - 3 Green Sandpipers, 3 Greenshanks (Paul Mason)

Paxton Pits - Wheatear, Little Stint, 4 Turnstones, Little Ringed Plover, 14 Little Egrets, 4+ Greenshanks, 11 Common Sandpipers, 11+ Green Sandpipers, 6 Dunlins, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 6 Yellow Wagtails over, 1+ Hobby (Martin Davis, John Parslow, Jamie Wells)

Wicken Fen - 7 Green Sandpipers, 35 Golden Plovers, Little Egret (Dave Palmer)

Sunday, 12 August

Earith - SQUACCO HERON still present on the second fishing pit east of the track (Julian Hughes)

Fidwell Fen - 4 Green Sandpipers, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Ruff, Snipe (Owen Marks)

Grafham Water - 2 Back Terns, 2 Arctic Tern, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Fidwell Fen - 3 Greenshanks, 3 Ruff (Alan Wadsworth, Guy Manners); Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers (Bruce Martin)

Holt Fen - 3 Common Sandpipers, Common Tern (Alan Wadsworth, Guy Manners); 5 Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Greenshanks, 6 Green Sandpipers, Black Tern (Bruce Martin)

Buckden GP - Garganey, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton - 2 Black Terns, Tawny Owl (Mike Everett)

Over Fen - fem Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 3 Little Egrets, 2 Turtle Doves, Whinchat, 2 Grey Wagtails (Ken Hook)

Maxey GP - 2 Hobbies, 9 Green Sandpipers (Owen and Monica Marks)

Wicken Fen - 7 little Egrets, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Green Sandpiper. A further 3 Green Sandpipers, 3 Greenshanks, Common Sandpiper and 3 Ruff in flooded fields between Wicken and Stretham (Gavin Paterson)

Paxton Pits - 15 Little Egrets, 6 Greenshanks, 6 Common Sandpipers, 4 Green Sandpipers, 6 Dunlins, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Buzzards, imm Whinchat (Jamie Wells)

Saturday, 11 August

Earith - SQUACCO HERON on the first pit on the left after the industrial estate (Ben Lascelles)

Maxey GP - juv WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN over flood before flying west (Mark Ward, Dean Harlow); 3 Mediterranean Gulls (Josh Jones)

Paxton Pits- 6 Ruddy Shelducks this morning (Neil Parkin); 9+ Little Egrets, several Greenshansk and Green Sandpipers, juv Marsh Harrier (Mark Hawkes, Martin Davis)

Grafham Water - 3 Common Scoter (Colin Addington); 2+ Back Terns, 2 Arctic Tern, several Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Cam Washes - 3 Greenshanks, 17 Little Egret, Ruff, Yellow Wagtail, 3 Common Terns (Peter Herkenrath)

Holt Fen - 3 Greenshanks, 8 Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover (Kathleen Rosewarne, Ian Barton)

Friday, 10 August

Ouse Washes, between Earith & Jolly Bankers - 25+ Little Egrets, 12 Black-tailed Godwits, Greenshank, Ruff, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 5 Grey Wagtails, 4 Common Terns (Nigel & Muriel Sprowell)

Thursday, 9 August

Eldernell - 4 Marsh Harriers, also a ringtail Harrier sp. reported (Steve Gann)

Paxton Pits - 17 Little Egrets, 13 Greenshanks, 11 Green Sandpipers, 5 Common Sandpipers, 2 juv Little Ringed Plovers, Dunlin, 8 Ringed Plovers (Martin Davis)

Wednesday, 8 August

Ouse Washes, Earith - Little Stint, Curlew, 6 Black-tailed Godwits (David Griffiths); also 3 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers (Alex Thomas)

King's Dyke NT - 2 Green Sandpipers (Phil Parker)

Tuesday, 7 August

Eldernell - 2+ Little Owls (Max Catterwell)

Ouse Washes, Earith - Wheatear, 2 Garganey, 4 Greenshanks (David Griffiths)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 6 Green Sandpipers (David and Jonathan Heath)

Monday, 6 August

Ouse Washes, Earith - Curlew Sandpiper, 5 Little Stints, 7 Greenshanks, 5 Ruff, 6 Little Egrets (David Griffiths)

Maxey Pits - 12 Green Sandpipers, also 4 Black-tailed Godwits & 6 Greenshanks briefly (Richard Astle)

Grafham Water - 3 Little Egrets, 7+ Yellow-legged Gulls, Peregrine (Mike Everett)

Sunday, 5 August

Maxey Pits - 3 juv Turtle Doves, 10+ Green Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 3 Wood Sandpipers, Dunlin, 3 Little Ringed Plovers (Chris Lines)

Little Paxton - Sandwich Tern over village (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff, 4 Greenshanks, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Little Egrets, 5 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers, 9 Dunlins, 2 Garganey, 3 Wheatears, 7 Yellow Wagtails (Neal Parkin, Martin Davis)

Saturday, 4 August

Paxton Pits - BLACK-NECKED GREBE , Wheatear, 3 Greenshanks, adult Mediterranean Gull, 3 Black-tailed Godwits (Richard Webb); also 2 Garganey, 7 Little Egrets, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 8 Green Sandpipers, 7 Common Sandpipers, 11 Dunlins (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - Black Tern over west (Colin Addington); 2 Little Egrets, 2 Common Sandpipers, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 3 August

Swaffham Prior - 6 Buzzards circling 09:30h (Ade Long)

Paxton Pits - Curlew, Whimbrel, 5+ Little Egrets, 21 Dunlin, 4 Greenshank, 5+ Green Sandpipers, 4+ Common Sandpipers (Richard Webb)

Grafham Water - Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 12+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Thursday, 2 August

Paxton Pits - 2 sub-adult SPOONBILLS briefly before heading south at 19:20h; also juv Mediterranean Gull, 6+ Little Egrets, Turnstone, 3 Greenshanks, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, 7+ Green Sandpipers, 3+ Common Sandpipers, 11 Dunlin, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Jamie Wells, Richard Webb)

Maxey Pits - 2 Wood Sandpipers, 15+ Green Sandpipers, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, 25+ Common Terns (Brian Lawrence); Curlew, Common Sandpiper, also 2 Little Owls around Etton (Richard Astle)

Nene Washes, High Wash - 3 Green Sandpipers, 4 male Ruffs, juv Common Tern (Brian Stone)

Tuesday, 31 July

Fletton Lake - LITTLE TERN (Howard Butler)

Hardwick - Buzzard north of the village (Ken Hook)

Nene Washes, High Wash - Garganey, 4 Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit from Holly Tree (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - 2 Little Egrets, 4+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - ad sum Mediterranean Gull, KNOT, 2 Greenshanks, Common Sandpiper, 8+ Little Egrets, 9+ Green Sandpipers, Turnstone, 6 Dunlin, 2 Whimbrels over south (Richard Webb)

Holt Fen - Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpipers (Ian Barton)

Monday, 30 July

Paxton Pits - KNOT, 3 Turnstones, Sanderling, Greenshank, 2+Green Sandpipers, 5 Common Sandpipers, 14 Dunlins, Little Ringed Plover, 5 Little Egrets, 3 Hobbies, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 15 Yellow-legged Gulls (Martin Davis)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 3 Green Sandpipers, 7 Common Terns, 2 Egyptian Geese (David and Jonathan Heath)

Maxey Pits - Wood Sandpiper, 5+ Green Sandpipers (Richard Palmer)

Sunday, 29 July

Grafham Water - 3 Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Mandarin (Mark Hawkes); 3 Dunlin (Ade Cooper); 2 Sanderlings, Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpipers, Whimbrel over south (Jono Leadley)

Maxey Pits - 2 Wood Sandpipers, 8 Green Sandpipers, Hobby (Chris Lines); juv Mediterranean Gull (Mike Weedon)

Paxton Pits - KNOT, 2 Wheatears, Turnstone, 2 Greenshanks, Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpipers, 30 Dunlins, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, 8 Little Egrets (Julian Hughes, John Parslow); 10+ Little Egrets, Little Ringed Plover, 3+ Green Sandpipers, 6 Turnstones, 37 Dunlin this evening (Richard Webb)

Overcote - 3 Little Egrets (Pete Cornish)

Saturday, 28 July

Eynesbury - Hobby over Andrew Road (Stuart Elsom)

Grafham Water - 1+ Little Egret, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Maxey Pits - Sanderling, 2 Wood Sandpipers, 14 Green Sandpipers, 5 Common Sandpipers (Mike Weedon, Will Bowell)

Friday, 27 July

Paxton Pits - 2 Wheatears, Sanderling, 3 Green Sandpipers, 5 Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover, 5+ Little Egrets, ad Yellow-legged Gull (John Parslow, Jamie Wells)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 2 Egyptian Geese (David and Jonathan Heath)

Thursday, 26 July

Ouse Washes RSPB - Bittern, Green Sandpiper (Paul Harrington)

Wednesday, 25 July

Fidwell Fen - Spotted Redshank (Duncan Poyser)

Tuesday, 24 July

Grafham Water - eclispe drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 4 Sanderling, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret (Jono Leadley)

Maxey Pits - Sanderling, 3 Wood Sandpipers, 16 Green Sandpipers, 2 Turnstone, Common Sandpiper (Richard Astle)

Wicken Fen - 5 Green Sandpipers, Greenshank, Little Egret, 2 Ruffs (Gavin Paterson)

Monday, 23 July

High Wash opposite Holly Tree - 10 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Greenshanks, 4 Ruffs, juv Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2 Common Terns (Brian Stone)

Needingworth, Pike & Eel Lake - Barn Owl (Mike Everett)

Sunday, 22 July

Grafham Water - eclispe drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL on second lagoon north of the hide on the east side of the lagoons, but very elusive (Mark Hawkes); also Black Tern, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Green Sandpipers, Little Egret, Red Kite, Sanderling, 3 Dunlin, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Holt Fen - 2 Little Egrets, 3 Greenshanks, 5 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Yellow Wagtails, Whimbrel over (Kathleen Rosewarne, Ian Barton, Monica & Owen Marks)

Maxey Pits - ad Black Tern until 09:10h, 2 Wood Sandpipers, Turnstone, 11 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers (Helen Wislon, Mike Weedon, Will Bowell)

Fen Drayton - Black Tern, Green Sandpiper (Andy Massey)

Saturday, 21 July

Fowlmere - probable WILLOW TIT heard near the car park and picnic area 14:00-15:00h today, but not seen (Peter Herkenrath)

Maxey Pits - 2 Wood Sandpipers, 6 Turnstones, 7+ Green Sandpipers, 6 Dunlin, 6 Common Sandpipers, Hobby (Kev Du Rose, Mike Weedon, Will Bowell); ad Black Tern until c.18:00h this evening (Mark Ward)

Holt Fen - Turnstone, 3 Greenshanks, 3 Ruff (Bruce & Gwen Martin); 3 Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover (Mark Peck); also 2 Green Sandpipers (Kathleen Rosewarne, Ian Barton); Turtle Dove, Yellow Wagtail (David and Jonathan Heath)

Ouse Washes, Chain Corner - 4 Little Egrets, Kingfisher (Mark Peck)

Grafham Water - Knot, 2 Turnstones, Curlew over this morning (Colin Addington); 8 Black Terns off Mander CP this evening, also ad Sanderling, 3 Green Sandpipers, 9 Common Sandpipers, 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls and a Curlew over (Colin Addington, Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 20 July

Grafham Water - Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Holt Fen - ad Mediterranean Gull, Turnstone, Common Sandpiper (Duncan Poyser)

Paxton Pits - ad Mediterranean Gull, 10 juv Little Egrets, c.10 Yellow-legged Gulls, juv Little Ringed Plover, 2+ Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 6 Dunlin, juv limosa Black-tailed Godwit (Mark Ward)

Thursday, 19 July

Grafham Water - 4 Black-tailed Godwits in the lagoons this morning (Colin Addington)

Devil's Dyke - Yellow Wagtail (John Hoppett)

From Friday, 13 July: Ouse Washes, Earith - c.50 Little Egrets in the area (Laurie Morton); c.50 Little Egrets along the washes still on Saturday, 14 July (Ricahrd Patient)

Tuesday, 17 July

Grafham Water - 11 Whimbrel over south 07:30h, also Hobby (Jono Leadley)

Sutton Gault - 12 Little Egrets (Mark Peck)

Sunday, 15 July

Maxey Pits, Etton Road - 8+ Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin (Chris Lines)

Cottenham, Long Drove - male Marsh Harrier, Turtle Dove, Common Terns (Mike Foley)

Saturday, 14 July

Grafham Water - Turnstone (Colin Addington)

Ouse/Over Fen - 8 Little Egrets, Hobby (Nigel and Muriel Sprowell)

Friday, 13 July

Grafham Water - Sanderling (Colin Addington)

Thursday, 12 July

Cottenham, Long Drove - 2 ad Common Terns, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Barn Owls (David and Jonathan Heath)

Wednesday, 11 July

Grafham Water - MANX SHEARWATER c.09:30h, out in the middle being chased by gulls (Chris Orders); absent most of the day (Colin Addington); present again 18:40h, viewed from Hill Farm (Jono Leadley); subsequently viewable from Mander CP, also Little Egret, 2 Ringed Plovers, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

St. Ives - Spotted Flycatcher with dependent young (Jill Burt)

Tuesday, 10 July

Maxey Pits, Etton Road - 12+ Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper (Chris Lines)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 2 Common Terns, Green Sandpiper (David Heath)

Monday, 9 July

Grunty Fen - Buzzard, 2 Turtle Doves (David Nation)

Peterborough - adult pair and juv Peregrine along Storey's Bar Road this evening (Colin Holmes)

Sunday, 8 July

Grafham Water - Hobby, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Common Sandpiper, Common Gull, 4 Little Ringed Plover, male Rosy-billed Pochard (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden GP - Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Duck Pochard, 6 Oystercatcher, Black Swan (Mark Hawkes)

Weybridge GP - Pochard, 2 Oystercatcher (Mark Hawkes)

Peterborough Power Station - juv Peregrine

Milton CP - 3 Turtle Doves (Jonathan Heath)

Saturday, 7 July

St. Neots - Honey Buzzard over A1 (as per rarebird alert.com)

Paxton Pits - 3 Little Egrets, 2 Black-tailed Godwits briefly, Green Sandpiper, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 1+ Buzzards (Jamie Wells)

Friday, 6 July

Wicken Fen - Greenshank, Ruff, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Little Egret, Barn Owl (Gavin Paterson)

Peterborough Standground - Hobby (Cliff Carson)

Thursday, 5 July

Nene High Wash, Whittlesey - Little Gull, 7 Black-tailed Godwits, Garganey, 4 Common Tern (Brian Stone)

Swaffham Prior / Swaffham Bulbeck - WHITE-TAILED PLOVER flying across the road between the villages (Trevor Dant)

Peterborough Power Station - fem & juv Peregrine (Steve Dudley)

Somersham - fem Marsh Harrier at North Fen Farm, also Corn Bunting and Yellow Wagtail (Richard Broughton) Wednesday, 4 July

Sutton Gault - Wood Sandpiper (BirdGuides)

Tuesday, 3 July

Grafham water - Common Scoter 12:30h, Black-tailed Godwit (Colin Addington); 3 Common Sandpipers, 20+ Common Terns, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes, Earith - 34 Black-tailed Godwits (David Griffiths)

Monday, 2 July

Grunty Fen - 9 Turtle Doves (David Nation)

Sunday, 1 July

Buckden GP - Green Sandpiper, m Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Dry Drayton - Spotted Flycatcher, Buzzard (Ken Hook)

Helpston - 2 Barn Owls, 2 Little Owls (Richard Astle)

Saturday, 30 June

Over fen - 3 Little Egrets (Mike Everett)

Wicken Fen - 8 Little Egrets, Hobby, 2 Barn Owls (Gavin Paterson)

Thursday, 28 June

Stretham - Barn Owl and male Marsh Harrier nearby this morning (Ken Hook)

Nene Washes, High Wash - 2 male Ruff, Garganey, Green Sandpiper this afternoon (Helen Wilson, Will Bowell); male Goosander west of Dog-in-a-Doublet (Max Catterwell)

Ouse/Over Fen - 3 Hobbies, fem Marsh Harrier, 3 Little Egrets, 3 Black Swans (Nigel Sprowell)

Fen Drayton - 3 Hobbies, 2 Common Terns, 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Nigel Sprowell)

Wednesday, 27 June

Harston - HOOPOE this afternoon on the playing fields of Harston and Newton school, off the High Street in Harston (Claire Allin et al., as per Jono Leadley). It has been present since Saturday and favours nearby gardens also. DO NOT enter school grounds and please respect the privacy of local residents

Tuesday, 26 June

Hemingford Grey - 2 Hobbies over (Mike Everett)

Fen Drayton - 2 Little Ringed Plovers (Mike Everett)

Maxey Pits, Etton Road - 8 Black-tailed Godwits (Chris Lines, Mal Holley)

Monday, 25 June

Fen Drayton - Black Tern, Green Sandpiper, 4 Little Egrets (Dave Anderson)

Sunday, 24 June

Grafham Water - second summer LAUGHING GULL until 10:30h (Jono Leadley); Red Kite, Hobby, several Yellow Wagtails from Marlow CP (Staurt Elsom et al.); 2nd summer Yellow-legged Gull on the dam, 2 Green Sandpipers at the lagoons late afternoon (Mark Hawkes); also Little Ringed Plover, 2 Turtle Doves (Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - sum plum BLACK-NECKED GREBE, 2 Little Egrets, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden - Red Kite over (David Woolven)

Saturday, 23 June

Ouse Washes, Earith - 5 Green Sandpipers, fem Marsh Harrier over, 2 Garganey over (David Griffiths)

Friday, 22 June

Ouse Washes, Earith - Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshanks, breeding male Ruff, male Garganey briefly (David Griffiths)

Maxey Pits, Etton Road - 10+ Green Sandpipers this evening (Chris Lines)

Thursday, 21 June

Cambridge University Botanic Gardens - Reed Warbler singing in the recently created fen area (Mike Foley)

Hemingford Grey - male CROSSBILL, 2 Hobbies and a Buzzard over (Mike Everett)

Wednesday, 20 June

Ferry Meadows - Green Sandpiper (Paul Taylor)

Maxey Pits, Etton Road - 8 Green Sandpipers still this evening (Chris Lines)

Tuesday, 19 June

Maxey Pits, Etton Road - sum plum Spotted Redshank (Mike Weedon); also ad Little Gull (Mike Wilson); and 8 Green Sandpipers (Chris Lines)

Monday, 18 June

Wimpole Hall - Spotted Flycatcher, pair of Little Owls (James Hanlon)

Little Eversden - Curlew by the A603 (James Hanlon)

Sunday, 17 June

Maxey GP - Wood Sandpiper, 8 Green Sandpiper, Hobby (Mike Weeden)

Fen Drayton - 5+ Hobbies, drake Wigeon, Green Sandpiper (Richard Patient)

Ouse Fen - 5 Little Egrets, drake Goldeneye, Grasshopper Warbler (Richard Patient); Barn Owl, Marsh Harrier (Tony Mallyon)

Nene Washes - 35 Little Egrets (Steve Dudley)

Huntingdon - Red Kite just north of the town 16:25h (Paul Barham)

Saturday, 16 June

Fen Drayton - 4 Hobbies, drake Wigeon, Green Sandpiper (Richard Patient)

Friday, 15 June

Girton - Hobby and a flock of 6 Buzzards between the village and the M11 (Peter Herkenrath)

Thursday, 14 June

Eaton Socon - possible GREAT WHITE EGRET over high north-east 08:20h (Gary Rawlings)

Eye - possible GREAT WHITE EGRET over north-east 11:50h (Jim Swallwell)

Cottenham - Red Kite over 09:30h (Mike Harris)

Wednesday, 13 June

Grafham Water - Black Tern from Mander CP (Colin Addington)

Cambridge - 1+ Spotted Flycatchers behind the Addenbrookes site this afternoon (Sarah Howlett)

Paxton Pits - 2 Turtle Doves, 2+ Nightingales singing (Jamie Wells)

Cambridge - Red Kite over west of the city 17:00h (Paul Lippett)

Tuesday, 12 June

Ouse Fen - Barn Owl, Marsh Harrier, 2 Avocets, Little Egret (Nigel Sprowell)

Fen Drayton - 2 Common Terns, Black Swan (Nigel Sprowell)

Serpentine BP - 2 Hobbies (Paul Taylor)

Grafham Water - Pink-footed Goose, Barnacle Goose and Bar-headed Goose with the Greylags and Canadas at Marlow CP, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls (Jono Leadley)

Hemingford Grey - Red Kite over (Mike Everett)

Maxey Pits - 2 Green Sandpipers, 4 Yellow Wagtails (Chris Lines)

Monday, 11 June

Grafham Water - 2 Black Terns, Pink-footed Goose at Marlow CP (Colin Addington); Spotted Flycatcher at Littless Wood (Jono Leadley)

Maxey Pits - 2 Sanderlings (Mike Weedon)

Girton - Hobby past the college 13:35h (Peter Herkenrath)

Ouse Washes - a presumed 1st summer Arctic Tern at Pymoor (Duncan Poyser)

March - Barn Owl near Goosetree Farm 09:00h (Ken Hook)

Mepal - Barn Owl nearby 09:45h (Ken Hook)

Sunday, 10 June

Ouse Fen - 2 Avocet (Tony Mallyon)

Saturday, 9 June

Nene Washes - COMMON CRANE (Max Catterwell, Charlie Kitchen)

Cambridge - Red Kite over (David & Jonathan Heath)

Fletton Lake - Black Tern (Brian Stone)

Wilbraham Fen - 3 Hobbies, 2 Cuckoos (Ben Craig)

Friday, 8 June

Hinchingbrooke - pair of Spotted Flycatchers at Police HQ grounds (Dean Harlow)

Thursday, 7 June

Dog-in-a-Doublet - Barn Owl nearby (Max Catterwell)

Fletton Lake - Black Tern this evening (Brian Stone)

Wednesday, 6 June

Grafham Water - GREATER SCAUP, presumed Greater Scaup x Tufted Duck, singing Nightingale and 2 Turtle Doves (Dean Harlow)

Dry Drayton - Buzzard (Ken Hook)

Fowlmere - pair of Marsh Harriers (Nigel Sprowell)

Tuesday, 5 June

Holme Fen NR - 2 Buzzards, 3 Hobbies (Nigel Sprowell)

Monday, 4 June

Grafham Water - GREATER SCAUP, presumed Greater Scaup x Tufted Duck (Colin Addington); both still present this evening (Mark Hawkes)

Elton - Spotted Flycatcher (Brian Stone)

Wicken - GOLDEN ORIOLE in flight near church 20:11h (as per rarebirdalert)

Sunday, 3 June

Paxton Pits - 2 Avocet, 8 Little Egrets, Grasshopper Warbler (Julian Hughes)

Over Fen - 3 Garganey, Barn Owl (Mike Everett); 4 Little Egret (Tony Mallyon)

Grafham Water - GREATER SCAUP, probable Greater Scaup x Tufted Duck (Mark Hawkes)

Wilbraham Fen - 2 Turtle Doves (Zbigniew Karpowicz)

Saturday, 2 June

Paxton Pits - immature SPOONBILL flew off north 08:45h, also 1st sum Mediterranean Gull (Richard Patient); 2 Little Egrets, ad Mediterranean Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 5 Barn Owls, Little Owl (David and Jonathan Heath)

St. Ives - pair of Spotted Flycacthers (Jill Burt)

Friday, 1 June

A1, Water Newton - Red Kite (Paul Rule)

Earith - OSPREY over heading West (Mike Harris)

Dry Drayton - Spotted Flycatcher (Ken Hook)

Witcham - 3 Spotted Flycatchers (David Hopkins)

Thursday, 31 May

Maxey Pits - 2 Sanderling, 2 Black Terns which departed 09:15h (as per Mike Weedon)

Over Fen - fem Wheatear, 2 Hobbies (Mike Everett)

Paxton Pits - 2 Sanderlings, Turnstone, ad and 1st sum Mediterranean Gulls, Little Egret, 12 Dunlins, 5 Yellow-legged Gulls, 3 Little Ringed Plovers (Martin Davis)

Wednesday, 30 May

Paxton Pits - 1+ Turnstones, 2nd sum Little Gull, Little Egret, 6+ Dunlin (Mark Hawkes); 3 Turnstones, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, Grey Wagtail (Martin Davis)

Cambridge - Turtle Dove at Bramblefields LNR (Ellis Selway)

Fowlmere - fem Wheatear this afternoon (Doug Radford)

Needingworth - Avocet over this afternoon (Mike Everett)

Stilton Fen - fem Wheatear (Richard Jones)

Maxey Pits - Sanderling, 2 Dunlin (Ray and Will Bowell)

Ouse Fen - male Red-crested Pochard (David Hopkins)

Tuesday, 29 May

High Wash - 4 Little Egrets, Turnstone, Greenshank (Bob Davis)

Grafham Water - 1+ Arctic Terns this morning (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 1st sum Mediterranean Gull briefly, 5+ Turnstones, 2 Sanderlings, 2nd sum Little Gull, Little Egret (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - male Garganey, 3 Little Egrets (Gavin Paterson)

Farcet Fen - Quail calling, male Whinchat, male Mandarin (Steve & Liz Dudley)

Cambourne - Common Tern at Redgrave Lake (Ellis Selway)

Over Fen - Avocet (Mike Everett)

Wednesday, 23 May

Fen Drayton - Short-eared Owl headed north this morning (Mike Everett)

Swaffham Bulbeck - Red Kite this morning (Dave Palmer)

Tuesday, 22 May

Maxey Pits - Sanderling, 11+ Ringed Plover (Mike Weedon)

Long Drove, Cottenham - 3 Little Owls, 2 Barn Owls (David and Jonathan Heath)

Paxton Pits - 2 Curlew Sandpipers, Sanderling, 2 Curlew briefly, Little Gull, 3 Little Egrets, Turtle Dove, 8+ Yellow-legged Gulls, c.10 Dunlin, 39 Ringed Plovers, Grasshopper Warbler (Mark Ward et al.)

Monday, 21 May

Late news from Friday, 11 May: Elsworth - ringtail MONTAGU"S HARRIER at Pitt Dene farm (Audrey and Gwyn Williams)

Paxton Pits - 2nd sum Little Gull, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Sanderling, 8 Dunlin, 24 Ringed Plover, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Little Egret, Buzzard (Martin Davis, Mark Ward)

Grafham Water - Black Tern, 2nd sum Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes); Nightingale singing (George Lendrum)

Buckden GP - 3+ 1st sum Yellow-legged Gulls, 2 Egyptian Geese (Mark Hawkes)

Cottenham, Long Drove - Little Owl, Barn Owl (David Heath)

Sunday, 20 May

Over Fen - CURLEW SANDPIPER (Richard Thomas); Wheatear, Turtle Dove (James Hanlon); Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, and a Bittern dropped into reeds at eastern end of the site c.19:00h (Audrey and Gwyn Williams)

Buckden GP - Little Gull, 2 Egyptian Geese (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 5 Sanderling, 23 Dunlin, Wood Sandpiper, Grey plover, 15 Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Little Egret, Hobby, 4 Buzzard (Martin Davis); 16+ Yellow-legged Gulls, c.35 Ringed Plovers, Little Gull, 3 Little Egrets, Marsh Harrier over this evening (Mark Ward et al.)

Wicken Fen - 3 singing Grasshopper Warblers, pair of Marsh Harriers, 6 Little Egrets, 2 male Garganey, 9 Hobbies, 3 Cetti's Warblers, 2 male Cuckoos (Andy Massey)

Gamlingay Wood - Buzzard (Audrey and Gwyn Williams)

Saturday, 19 May

Over Fen - SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER TL370720 From High Street in Over take Overcote Road then turn right onto track towards Brownshill Staunch (Ian Ellis, Richard Thomas and Richard Patient); 4 Wheatears (Monica and Owen Marks)

Between Meldreth / Kneesworth - Red Kite (Gareth Rees)

Wicken Fen - RUDDY SHELDUCK, 5 Little Egrets, male Garganey (Christoph Zockler)

Maxey Pits - CURLEW SANDPIPER, fem Wheatear, 6 Yellow Wagtails (Chris Lines)

Gault Hole - male Garganey (Will Burdett)

Friday, 18 May

Wicken Fen - 8 Little Egrets, male Garganey, Hobby, 2 Whimbrel, 4 singing Cetti's Warblers (Christoph Zockler); 10 Little Egrets, 2 male Garganey this evening (Dave Palmer)

Foxton - male Wheatear just east of the village along the Fowlmere Road this morning (Guy Manners)

Over Fen - Red-crested Pochard (Ken Hook)

Thursday, 17 May

Wicen Fen - RUDDY SHELDUCK this morning, 8 Little Egrets, 2 male Garganey, 3 Hobbies, 3 Woodcock, Barn Owl, Yellow Wagtail (Gavin Paterson)

Fen Drayton - 14 Hobbies, 3 Yellow Wagtails (Dave Anderson)

Paxton Pits - 8 Whimbrel over west 17:50h, Greenshank, 4+ Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Egrets, 2 Turnstones, 8 Dunlin, 2nd sum Yellow-legged Gull, Buzzard, 3 Hobbies, 4 Cuckoos, Yellow Wagtail (Martin Davis)

Buckden GP - 2nd summer Little Gull, 2 Greenshanks (Mark Hawkes)

Cambridge, Jesus Green - Spotted Flycatcher (Christoph Zockler)

Wednesday, 16 May

Ouse Washes - SPOTTED CRAKE calling recently, audible from the bank by the visitor centre just after dark (Alex Thomas)

Girton - flock of 6 Buzzards over M11 west of the village 11:15h (Peter Herkenrath)

Nene Washes, High Wash - 1st summer Little Gull, 8 Little Egrets, 3 male Garganey (Steve Dudley)

Tuesday, 15 May

Paxton Pits - 3 LITTLE TERNS which departed 06:50h, 2nd summer Little Gull, Little Egret, Turnstone, c.12 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpipers, ad Yellow-legged Gull, Grasshopper Warbler, Turtle Dove (Julian Hughes, Jamie Wells)

Etton Road, Maxey Pits - Sanderling, Common Sandpiper, 4 Yellow Wagtails, 14 Dunlin (Chris Lines)

Wicken Fen - 7 Little Egrets, drake Garganey, Little Ringed Plover, Barn Owl, 2 Woodcock, Yellow Wagtail (Gavin paterson)

Monday, 14 May

Paxton Pits - 3 Sanderling, 24 Turnstones, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, 3 Little Egrets, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, 38 Dunlin (Martin Davis); 2nd summer Little Gull, likely a fourth Little Egret (Mark Hawkes, Mard Ward)

Nene Washes - 4 Little Egrets on High Wash this morning, Greenshank (Brian Stone); 10 Little Egrets this evening (Steve Dudley, Kevin Du Rose)

Maxey Pits - 3 Sanderlings, Turnstone, 35 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper (Kevin Du Rose); 2 Wheatears (Mike Weedon)

Flag Fen - male and 2 female Wheatears (Brian Stone)

Fen Drayton - male Garganey, Turnstone, Black-tailed Godwit on Moore Lake (Bruce Martin)

Buckden GP - 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Greenshanks, Dunlin (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - 9 Little Egrets, 3 drake Garganey, Greenshank, 2 Dunlin (Andrew Knights, Dave Fricker)

Sunday, 13 May

Paxton Pits - SPOONBILL. From Stirtloe, park by metal gate which is SE of village, and walk south then east along road to view pumphouse pit (which is on the right after c.1 mile). DO NOT walk around working areas, and stick to public footpaths; also 1st-summer Caspian Gull (Martin Davis); 3 Turnstones (Julian Hughes, Neal Parkin); Water Pipit briefly, 2 Grey Plovers, Greenshank, 2nd summer Yellow-legged Gull, Spotted Flycatcher (Mark Ward)

Wardy Hill - HONEY BUZZARD over towards the Ouse Washes c.15:30h (David Hopkins)

Pendragon Woods, Papworth Everard - Wood Warbler 10:00h (per rarebirdalert.com)

Wicken Fen - 4 Little Egrets, drake Garganey, 2 Hobbies (Robin Henderson); also 3 Little Ringed Plovers, Grey Plover, Greenshank, Hobby, Buzzard (Andrew Knights); 10 Black-tailed Godwit (Christoph Zockler)

Maxey Pits - 2 Wheatears, Common Sandpiper, 8 Ringed Plover (Will Bowell)

Nene Washes - 2 Ruff, 3 Little Egrets, 2 male Garganey on High Wash (Will Bowell)

Cambridge, Trumpington - 5 Whimbrel over south near junction 11 of the M11 at 16:45h (Marcus Kohler)

Dry Drayton - Turtle Dove (Ken Hook)

Saturday, 12 May

Nene Washes - COMMON CRANE east over Lord's Holt nr Eldernell at 04.05h (per RBA); a mile east of Eldernell at March Farmers this afternoon (Charlie Kitchin); Hobby, drake Garganey, Barn Owl several Marsh Harriers (Jim Lawrence); 3 Little Egrets, male Mandarin (Mark Ward)

Shropshires Reservoir - male COMMON SCOTER still (Mark Ward)

Holme Fen - OSPREY over (Mark Ward)

Woodwalton Fen - 6 Grasshopper Warblers, 4 Woodcocks (Jame Hanlon)

Wicken Fen - 8 Little Egrets, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Greenshanks (Gavin Paterson); also 2 Cuckoos, Hobby, 3 Cetti's Warblers, Kingfisher, 6 Dunlin (Jonathan and David Heath)

Paxton Pits - Turnstone, c.30 Dunlin, c.15 Ringed Plovers, 2 Wheatears, male Garganey, Greenshank, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Hobbies (Mark Ward)

Maxey GP - Golden Plover (Mark Ward)

Friday, 11 May

Wilburton - BLACK KITE seen flying low west over road, 1/4mile south of the village (Kath Nation).

Paxton Pits - SPOONBILL 17:40h (Richard Patient); also Sanderling, Turnstone, c.200 Dunlin, c.20 Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Egrets, male Garganey, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Ward, Richard Patient)

Nene Washes - WILSON'S PHALAROPE on High Wash opposite Holly Tree Farm to 11:00h at least (Max Catterwell); still present 15:40h, also Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, 4 male Garganey, 11 Yellow Wagtails, Greenshank, 19 Dunlin (Steve Dudley)

Paxton Pits - Little Gull, 181+ Dunlin, Turnstone, Greenshank, 3 Common Sandpipers, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, Caspian Gull, Hobby (Jamie Wells) SPOONBILL over the north end of Paxton Pits (Richard Patient)

Shropshires Reservoir - male COMMON SCOTER 13:00h, present for second day, view from east bank of Old West River (Owen Marks)

Maxey Pits - 3 Turnstones, 3 Wheatears, 10+ Little Ringed Plovers, Red-crested Pochard, 10+ Common Terns, 14 Dunlin (Chris Lines); 3 Common Sandpipers, 17 Ringed Plover (Mike Weedon, Kevin Du Rose)

Wicken Fen - 7 Little Egrets, 9 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plovers (Dave Palmer)

Grafham Water - 26 Dunlin on the dam, 3 Common Sandpipers (Jono Leadley)

Thursday, 10 May

Nene Washes - WILSON'S PHALAROPE on High Wash opposite Holly Tree Farm (Jonathan Taylor); still present 16:20h (Brian Stone); also 4 male Garganey, Turnstone (Martin Coates); and 14 Dunlin (Will Bowell)

Maxey Pits - Sanderling early morning only, also Turnstone, Greenshank, 14 Dunlin, 10+ Ringed Plovers (Helen Wilson, Will Bowell)

Wednesday, 9 May

Grafham Water - WILSON'S PHALAROPE still present in lagoons, Arctic Tern off Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, male Garganey on high wash 14:00h (Paul Taylor)

Buckden - 4 Black-tailed Godwits about half a mile north of the marina (David Bale, Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - Little Gull, Avocet, 4 Bar-tailed Godwits, 9+ Arctic Terns, Caspian Gull, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, c.20 Dunlins (Jamie Wells)

Tuesday, 8 May

Grafham Water - WILSON'S PHALAROPE still present (BirdGuides); Sanderling at north end of dam (Colin Addington)

Nene Washes - Wood Sandpiper, male Garganey, pair Little Ringed Plovers on high wash 14:00h (Bob Davis)

Heydon - 70+ Corn Bunting, Short-eared Owl, Nightingale, pair of Turtle Doves, pair of Wheatears in the area (James Hanlon)

March - Turtle Dove at the cricket club (Andy Bayes)

Monday, 7 May

Grafham Water - WILSON'S PHALAROPE still present, LITTLE TERN, 5 Arctic Tern, Hobby (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - OSPREY over north 16:30h, pair of Turtle Doves, 5+ Hobbies, 5 Nightingales (James Hanlon); fem RING OUZEL, 2 Arctic Terns briefly, 2 Little Egrets, fem Wheatear, 2+ Hobbies, Yellow Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Wicken Fen - Water Pipit, 2 Little Egrets, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Cetti's Warblers, Whimbrel, Greenshank (Andy Massey); 11 Little Egrets, 2 Greenshanks at 10:00h (Paul Mason)

Over Fen - 4 Turnstones, pair Little Ringed Plovers, pair Rud