What was about Sept - Dec 2006


Sunday, 31 December

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe,  drk Goosander, male Stonechat,  4 Ruff and 7 Dunlin (Mike Everett)

Maxey  - 2 European White-fronted Geese in a flock of around 30 Greylags in a field to west of Maxey village at TF123080

Paxton Pits - 4 Grey Partridges in grass field on opposite side of the river to Washout Pit  (Jamie Wells)

Saturday, 30 December

St. Neots - c.50 Barnacle Geese flew south over High Street (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe,  3 drake Smew on Trout Pit, 2 Little Egrets and 19 Ruddy Duck on Moore Lake (Richard Allison)

Friday, 29 December

Grafham Water - 3 male, 1 fem Goosander (Jono Leadley)

Thursday, 28 December

Barleycraft - 51 Barnacle Geese, 2+ Smew, AMERICAN WIGEON, 2 Egyptian Geese (Steve Cooper) possible GREAT WHITE EGRET (Harry Holbrook)

Grafham Water - 2 Goosander, 2 Pintail, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes)

Orton Brick pit - Red-crested Pochard (Dave Bradley)

Wednesday, 27 December

Landbeach Science Park - 1st winter Mediterranean Gull, 2 Common Buzzard (Dick Newell)

Orton Brick pit - Red-crested Pochard (Mike Weedon, Ray and Will Bowell)

Eldernell - 3 Knot, 5+ Ruff, Water Pipit, Marsh Harrier (Mike Weedon, Ray and Will Bowell)

Milton Country Park - Common Buzzard (David Heath)

Tuesday, 26 December

Farcet Fen - 48 Grey Partridge including a single covey of 32 (Steve Dudley)

Orton Brick pit - 2 Brent Geese (Dave Bradley)

Paxton Pits - Little Egret, 3500+ Golden Plover, 6+ Dunlin (Jamie Wells)

Wicken Fen - Barn Owl, female Marsh Harrier (Ken Hook)

Grafham Water - 2 Pink-footed Geese  flew over north (Colin Addington)

Monday, 25 December

Nene Washes, Central Drove - 5 Knot, Bar-tailed Godwit, Turnstone, Water Pipit, Little Egret and a Red-crested Pochard (Kev Du Rose)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe,  2 redhead + 2 drake Smew (Roger Tozer)

Sunday, 24 December

Ouse Washes, Pymoor - Brent Goose (Duncan Poyser)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe,  redhead Smew (Mark Eaton)

Saturday, 23 December

Ferry Meadows -  4+ Knot, drake COMMON SCOTER, 20+ Siskin (Matt Webb)

Maxey pits - 26 Knot, 2 Grey Plover, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew (Brian Stone)

Fen Drayton - 2 adult Mediterranean Gull, Red-necked Grebe (Mike Everett)

Long Drove, Cottenham - 5 Caspian Gulls (Dick Newell)

B1040 between Tadlow and Croydon Farm - male Stonechat (Katie Fuller)

Paxton Pits - 7 Shelduck, redhead Smew, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit (Martin Davis)

March Farmers - 2 Short-eared Owl (Brian Lawrence)

Friday, 22 December

Woodwalton Fen NNR -  Bittern flew west from Gordon's Mere, Barn Owl (Mike Weedon)

Wednesday, 20 December

Ouse Washes, Earith - 63 Black-tailed Godwits, c.30 Ruff, c.40 Dunlin, 2 Egyptian Geese this morning (David Griffiths)

March Farmers - 5+ Short-eared Owls, Barn Owl, 3 Stonechats, 50 Whooper Swans (Peter Beesley et al.)

Woodwalton Fen - Bittern from Gordon's Hide late morning (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Marsh Lane GP - Green Sandpiper (Mike Everett)

Tuesday, 19 December

Ferry Meadows - m Goosander on Gunwade Lake (Paul Taylor)

Monday, 18 December

Nene Washes - 900 Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Short-eared Owls at March Farmers, 27 Stonechats, Merlin, m Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzards (Jonothan Taylor)

Ouse Washes - Brent Goose near Chain Corner this morning (Bruce Martin); 7 White-fronted Geese between Churchman and Stevens hides (Niki Williamson)

Prior's Fen - 14 Bewick's Swans (Brian Stone)

Blackcaps reported in South Bretton, Peterborough and Manhatten Drive, Cambridge today

Sunday, 17 December

Barlecraft GP, Needingworth - m AMERICAN WIGEON present today (Fred Heath)

Fen Drayton - 2 Smew, Red-necked Grebe (Mark Hawkes)

Marsh Lane GP - 2 Smew (Mike Everett)

Milton CP - 3 Goosanders on Dickerson's Pit (Stuart Jack)

Over Fen - pair Stonechat, Barn Owl, Merlin, Ruddy Duck, 15+ Dunlin, c.2500 Golden Plover (Mark Eaton)

Saturday, 16 December

Fen Drayton - 2 drake and one redhead Smew on the trout lake, Brent Goose on Swavesey Pit, c.100 Pintails, Red-necked Grebe (Robin Cox); 2nd winter Yellow -legged Gull (Louise Bacon)

Milton Tip - adult Yellow-legged Gull, Chiffchaff (Peter Harkenrath)

Maxey Pits - 4 Goosanders (Richard Astle)

Friday, 15 December

Cambridge, Addenbrookes - 2 very confiding Bramblings in Rowan opposite the Blood Transfusion Centre again until 09:40h (Joe Taylor)

Borough Fen - 4 Little Egrets just south of Welland Wash south bank (Charlie Kitchin)

Fen Drayton - 2 drake Smew on the trout lake, Red-necked Grebe, c.3000 Golden Plovers, 18 Ruddy Ducks, pair Stonechats at Swavesey entrance (Dave Anderson)

Woodwalton Fen - m Goosander from Rothschild Hide late afternoon (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Thursday, 14 December

Cambridge, Addenbrookes - 2 very confiding Bramblings on the berry-laden Rowan opposite the Blood Transfusion Centre 12:15h (Steve Bell); no sign at 13:00h, but present on and off since Tuesday, 12 December at least (Pete Holt, Tony Mills)

Wednesday, 13 December

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, juv m Peregrine (Mike Everett)

king's Dyke NR - 3 Jack Snipe, Woodcock, Kingfisher (Phil Parker)

Tuesday, 12 December

Grafham Water - 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls in roost off Mander CP (Mark Hawkes)

March Farmers - ad m Hen Harrier c.10:00h (Peter Hadrill)

Sunday, 10 December

Fen Drayton - 22 Black-tailed Godwits , 11 Ruddy Duck, 81 Pintail, drake Smew on Far Fen Lake (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - 6 Yellow-legged Gulls, adult Mediterranean Gull (Jono Leadley)

Marsh Lane - Ruddy Duck, redhead Smew (Mike Everett)

March Farmers - ad m Hen Harrier, 5 Ruff, 2 Bewick's Swans over south, Peregrine over A605 nearby (Mike Weedon)

Ring's End - c. 600 swans, mainly Bewick's with some Whoopers, in fields to the south (Steve & Liz Dudley)

Saturday, 9 December

Grafham Water - Egyptian Goose at Plummer (Colin Addington); Little Egret, Goosander (Jono Leadley); 2 adult Caspian Gulls, 9 Yellow-legged Gulls, adult Mediterranean Gull off Lagoons (Richard Patient)

Wicken Fen - Barn Owl, male Hen Harrier (Jonathan Stacey)

Ouse Meadows, Eaton Ford - male Goosander (Richard Bashford)

Ouse Washes - probable LAPLAND BUNTING flew west over Ouse Washes, at Pymoor railway bridge (Duncan Poyser)

Paxton Pits - redhead Smew, drk. Goosander, 2 Marsh Tit, Barnacle Goose, Little Egret, Common Buzzard, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Woodcock, 2 Stonechat, 2 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Martin Davis)

Friday, 8 December

Grafham Water - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Colin Addington, Duncan Ritchie); 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Mediterranean Gull (Mark Hawkes); 9 Little Gull (Duncan Ritchie)

Nene Washes - 400 Bewick's Swans and 187 Whooper Swans, 13 Short-eared Owls, 6 Barn owls (Jonathan Taylor)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe (Peter Beesley)

Ouse Washes - ad Little Gull opposite Stevens hide, f Marsh Harrier (Monica and Owen Marks)

Thursday, 7 December

Grafham Water - 3 LEACH'S PETREL (1 each from Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes and Colin Addington, Monica and Owen Marks)

Priory Park, St. Neots - Hobby (Bob Scott)

Nene Washes - Knot, Marsh Harrier,  Peregrine, 780 Black-tailed Godwits (Jonathan Taylor)

Cambs border, on the gallops on the east side of Newmarket - GLAUCOUS GULL  (Charles Anderson)

Wednesday, 6 December

Milton Tip - 4 Caspian Gull, 8+ Yellow-legged Gull  (Mark Hawkes)

Buckden: - Barn Owl, (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water -   Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 5 December

Grafham Water -   3+ Mediterranean Gull, melanistic Black-headed Gull, 7+ Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes, Duncan Ritchie)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 10 Pintail (Richard Allison)

Monday, 4 December

Ouse Washes - GREY PHALAROPE from Common Wash hide, it is on the far side of the washes aprox 30 meters from the cradge bank, between a stack of bales and Ely cathedral (Owen Marks)

 Grafham Water -   Mediterranean Gull, melanistic Black-headed Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 3 December

Ouse Washes - 2 Egyptian Geese at welches dam,  female merlin (Tracy Farrer and Paul Lockwwod)

Buckden GP - juv Peregrine, 18 Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water -  2 Caspian Gull, , 9+ Yellow-legged Gull, 3-4 Mediterranean Gull, Kitiwake (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley, Richard Patient, Duncan Ritchies)

Paxton Pits - Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, drk Smew, Red-crested Pochard, drk Goosander, Egyptian goose, probable Red Kite (Martin Davis)

Saturday, 2 December

Grafham Water - 2 ARCTIC SKUA, Common Sandpiper, possible MEW GULL (Mark Hawkes) 2 Caspian Gulls,  adult Mediterranean Gull, 2 melanistic Black-headed Gulls, 5 Yellow-legged Gulls (Colin Addington, Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley, Duncan Ritchies)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 10 Pintail (Steve Adams)

Friday, 1 December

 Grafham Water -  adult Mediterranean Gull, Common Sandpiper, melanistic Black-headed Gul (Colin Addington)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe,  Red-crested Pochard, 6 Pintail (Mike Everett)

Wednesday, 29 November

Paxton Pits - 11 Lesser Redpoll feeding in silver birch trees at Sailing Lake (Jamie Wells)

Grafham Water - 2nd-winter Caspian Gull, 3+ Yellow-legged Gull, 2  melanistic Black-headed Gull, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Grunty Fen - Merlin (David Nation)

Tuesday, 28 November

Ely - OSPREY over POW hospital (Mark Hawkes)

Grafham Water - 2 Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, melanistic Black-headed Gull, Common Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington, Duncan Ritchies)

Monday, 27 November

 Needingworth - AMERICAN WIGEON (Ian Dillon)

Beechwoods NR - 50+ Brambling (Paul Rule)

Arrington - Brambling (Jim Lawrence)

Grafham Water -   adult Mediterranean Gull (Colin Addington, Duncan Ritchies)

Sunday, 26 November

Milton Tip - adult  Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Beechwoods NR - 10+ Brambling, Marsh Tit (David Heath)

Grafham Water -  drk. Red-crested Pochard,  Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes, Duncan Ritchie)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - SHAG still present (Brian Stone)

Saturday, 25 November

Grafham Water -  drk. Red-crested Pochard (Mark Hawkes) adult Mediterranean Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes, Duncan Ritchie)

Friday, 24 November

Grafham Water -  Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull 2 adult Mediterranean Gull, leucistic Black-headed Gull, drk. Red-crested Pochard (Mark Hawkes et al) Common Sandpiper (Colin Addington)

Milton Tip - Nordic Jackdaw (Dick Newell)

Fendrayton - c4000 Golden Plover (Steve Adams)

Thursday, 23 November

Grafham Water -  Goosander (Jono Leadley) adult Mediterranean Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Wednesday, 22 November

Grafham Water -  adult Mediterranean Gull (Mark Hawkes)

Tuesday, 21 November

Dogsthorpe Star Pit - Jack Snipe (Brian Stone)

Cambridge - c3000 Golden plover in wheat field near Addenbrookes hospital (Mike Foley)

Beechwoods NR - 20+ Brambling (Paul Rule)

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 2 adult Mediterranean Gull, 1st winter Yellow-legged Gull (Mark Hawkes, Richard Allison, Colin Addington)

Monday, 20 November

Pymore - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER still present together with a DOTTEREL (Colin Kirkland)

Ouse Washes - Scaup, Goosander (Alex Thomas)

Sunday, 19 November

Grafham Water - adult winter LAUGHING GULL  off the harbour near Mander CP, Caspian Gull  (Jono Leadley)

Pymore - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER still present  (Peter Herkenrath)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe (Stephen Adams)

Saturday, 18 November

Boxworth - possible NUTCRACKER in private garden (Rod Deavall)

Pymore - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER on the east side of the Ouse Washes (Duncan Poyser)

Cottenham, Long Drove - adult and 2nd-winter Caspian Gull, 5 Yellow-legged Gulls  (Dick Newell)

Thursday, 16 November

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, Goosander (Mike Everett)

Wednesday, 15 November

 Dog-in-a-Doublet - SHAG still present (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Cambridge, Trumpington Road - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Peter Bircham)

Tuesday, 14 November

Dog-in-a-Doublet - SHAG still present (Max Catterwell)

Monday, 13 November

Cambridge - 1000+ Golden Plovers swirling over fields just south of the M11/A10 junction this morning (Peter Bircham)

Ferry Meadows - fem Goosander on Gunwade Lake (Paul Taylor)

Blackbush Drove - 2 WHITE WAGTAILS this morning (Max Catterwell)

Over Fen - 2 Stonechats, 2 Water Rails (Mike Everett)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, Red-crested Pochard (Mike Everett)

Brownshill Staunch - c.5000 Golden Plovers nearby this afternoon (Mike Everett)

Sunday, 12 November

Grafham Water - Kittiwake, Curlew (Mark Piercey and Nigel Butler)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon, redhead Smew, Pochard x Tufted Duck, Barn Owl, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, Green Sandpiper, 2 Water Rails (Richard Patient)

March - DOTTEREL still present TF390016 (as per rarebirdalert.com); no sign of any plovers 15:00-16:00h, but juv Peregrine in the area (Lee Evans)

Paxton Pits - 2 Whooper Swans, 8 Tree Sparrows reported

Cambridge - c.2000 Golden Plovers in field south west of Addenbrookes hospital (Howard Slatter)

Saturday, 11 November

March - DOTTEREL still present TF390016, c.800 Golden Plovers, Curlew (Mark Hawkes, Duncan Poyser)

Chatteris - Mediterranean Gull over the rugby posts at Cromwell College

Long Drove, Cottenham - 1st CY Caspian Gull (Simon Stirrup)

Friday, 10 November

March - DOTTEREL 3 miles NW of March, c.400yards west of A141 in ploughed field north of A605 early afternoon, with Golden Plovers TF390016 (Dan Brown)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe on Ferry Lagoon (Dave Anderson)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - SHAG still present (Mike Weedon)

Wednesday, 8 November

Wimpole Hall - m Stonechat, 3 Buzzards (Jim Lawrence)

Dog-in-a-Doublet - SHAG still present (Brian Stone, Keith Stapleford)

Tuesday, 7 November

Dog-in-a-Doublet - SHAG still present 09:00h (Jon Taylor)

Needingworth - AMERICAN WIGEON (BirdGuides)

Monday, 6 November

Dog-in-a-Doublet - SHAG this morning (Jon Taylor); still present 12:00h (Max Catterwell); still present, on rocks by sluice 14:30h (Mark Hawkes); this juvenile bird was given its ring, G8975, as a chick in a brood of one on the Isle of may, Firth of Forth on 11 July 2006 (Dick Newell et al)

Grafham Water - ad Mediterranean Gull at Plummer CP from 15:50h, adult Yellow-legged Gull off Mander CP, Brambling in trees at south end of dam (Mark Hawkes)

Ouse Washes - 7 European race White-fronted Geese last seen just north of the railway, Brambling by RSPB visitor centre (Alex Thomas)

Late news from Friday, 3 November - WAXWING feeding on Rowan berries mid-afternoon in a private garden in Milton but not seen since (Alan Skull)

Sunday, 5 November

Guyhirn - juv SHAG on the River Nene before flying off along the river at 08:25h (Mike Weedon and Will Bowell)

Grafham Water - 4 Yellow-legged Gulls in roost, 25 Snipe in lagoons, 5 Redshanks, c.10 Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

River Ouse between Brownshill Staunch and Pike and Eel - long-staying escaped Purple Gallinule still present today (Mark Galloway)

Cambridge - pair of Wood Duck with intact wings on the Cam at Midsummer Common, also 2 Grey Wagtails and a Brambling (Rich broughton)

Saturday, 4 November

A1M between Sawtry & Yaxley - Red Kite (James Hanlon)

Paxton Pits - 2 fem Ruddy Duck, Water Rail, Green Sandpiper, Marsh Tit, Heronry South (Jamie Wells)

Beechwoods NR - 8+ Bramblings 07:15h (Aaron Grainger)

Thursday, 2 November

Peterborough - Peregrine soaring over the city centre (Brian Stone)

Swaffham Prior Fen - fem/imm Merlin and a pair of Stonechats (John Oates)

Grafham Water - 2nd winter Mediterranean Gull, adult Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Redshank, 3 drk Goldeneye (Mark Hawkes)

Haddenham Fen - Merlin (Paul Mason)

Cottenham Long Drove - adult Caspian Gull (Dick Newell)

Wednesday, 1 November

Maxey/Glinton - this morning, no sign of the American Golden Plover in Golden Plover flock along the Lincoln Road between Glinton and Northborough, and no Golden Plovers at the GPs (Brian Stone); no sign of the American Golden Plover at Nine Bridges, although Golden Plover arriving all the time (Will Bowell)

Needingworth - AMERICAN WIGEON (BirdGuides)

Movements of Fieldfares reported from many sites across the county

Tuesday, 31 October

Paxton Pits - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER on Pumphouse Pit (John Parslow)

Maxey GPs - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER viewable from Etton Road at 14:00h (Nigel Perry)

Needingworth - AMERICAN WIGEON 11:55h (BirdGuides)

Milton Park, Peterborough - Firecrest with a tit flock along the bridle-way north of the golf course club house (Bill Williamson)

Ferry Meadows - fem Goldeneye on Overton Lake (Chaz Shaw)

River Nene - 12 Goosander in flying west along tidal section of the river east of Peterborough (Charlie Kitchin)

Monday, 30 October

Paxton Pits - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERshowing well 08:00h on the northern most island in Pumphouse Pit before moving to a further island (Jono Leadley); still present 14:20h (BirdGuides); Also m Stonechat, 2 Green Sandpipers (Jono Leadley); 3 Tree Sparrows, Brambling over west (Jamie Wells)

Maxey GPs - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER briefly from Etton Road this afternoon (Chris Orders)

Needingworth - AMERICAN WIGEON 14:30h (BirdGuides)

Farcet Fen - ad Mediterranean Gull following plough late afternoon (Steve Dudley)

Wittering - Red Kite seen from the A1 nearby 08:00h (Mark Hawkes)

Sunday, 29 October

Grafham Water - 2nd winter Mediterranean Gull off the dam, imm drake Red-crested Pochard, 2 fem Goldeneye, Yellow Wagtail sp., 12 Ruddy Duck (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Beechwoods NR - 2+ Brambling (Paul Rule)

Wicken Fen - 5 Tree Sparrows (Peter Bircham); male Stonechat, Short-eared Owl, 47 Fieldfare, 26 Redwing, 9 Ruff (Stuart & Jill Elsom)

Barleycraft - AMERICAN WIGEON (Jem Holding & Simon Henderson)

Paxton Pits - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER still present, Mediterranean Gull, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Stonechat, 1-2 Redpoll (Mark Hawkes, Bruce and Gwen Martin); LITTLE STINT, RAVEN, Swallow (Paul Lippett); Peregrine, Brambling, Stonechat (Julian Hughes and Neal Parkin); juv Hobby (Chas Voss)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Common Buzzards, Marsh Harrier, Short-eared Owl, Kingfisher, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Tit, Treecreeper, 3 Redpolls (Peter Herkenrath)

Farcet Fen - Whooper Swan, fem Merlin, 11 Grey Partridge, 20+ Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail (Steve Dudley)

Saturday, 28 October

Paxton Pits - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER still present until midday at least, viewed from the road along the north shore of Pumphouse Pit (Julian Hughes); 30+ Stock Dove, 30+ Redwing, 1+ Redpoll, 1+ Stonechat (Paul Atkinson); LITTLE STINT, 2+ Little Egret, Grey Plover, 1500 Golden Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper (Martin Davis); 2 Rock Pipit (Mark Ward)

Bainton Pits - OSPREY over 12:25h (Richard Astle)

Grafham Water - 1st winter m SCAUP, Yellow / possible Blue-headed Wagtail still on dam (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Farcet Fen - ad Mediterranean Gull (Steve Dudley)

Toft - male Stonechat (Clive Sinclair)

Fowlmere - Red Kite, Merlin, 6 Grey Partridge (Roger Tozer)

Wicken Fen - 35+ Fieldfares, 3 Stonechats and 7 Ruffs all on Baker's Fen (John Oates)

Friday, 27 October

Wicken Fen - 3 Short-eared Owls (Ralph Sargeant)

Castor Mill - 3 Stonechats, Merlin, 17 Golden Plover over (Matt Webb)

Paxton Pits - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER with Golden Plover at Pumphouse Pit(Jamie Wells); The bird still present 15:15h. For those wishing to visit, please follow these directions: From A1 roundabout, turn into Buckden, then take first righ turn, follow to end of road, and at T-junction, turn left and follow to sharp left hand turn (by sewage works). Park carfully by the gate (TL201.669) and then follow tarmac road south and around to the east for around 1 mile until reaching Anglian Water buildings. Follow grass track down the left hand (east) side of pumphouse pit to view from old pumping building. The AGP was mixing with 1500+ Golden Plovers. DO NOT access through Diddington village, or through the new working area. Also Little Stint, 2 Little Egrets, ad Yellow-legged Gull, Green Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes); 4 Lesser Redpoll (Jamies)

Wicken Fen - 8 Ruff on Baker's Fen this morning, 800+ Golden Plover in fields towards Burwell (John Oates)

Ferry Meadows - 20+ Fieldfares in with the Redwings today, Kingfisher, Redpoll over (Chris Park)

Farcet Fen - ad win Mediterranean Gull, m Merlin, 38 Fieldfares, 15 Long-tailed Tits (Steve Dudley)

Thursday, 26 October

Swaffham Prior Fen - 8 Ruff this afternoon (John Oates)

Woodwalton Fen - juv Peregrine, several Tawny Owls calling (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Stretham - Brambling (Ian Barton)

Movements of Redwings reported from many sites across the county

Wednesday, 25 October

Grafham Water - Yellow Wagtail, 1st winter m Red-crested Pochard, 3 Ruddy Ducks (Mark Hawkes)

Hemingford grey - 5 Fieldfares this morning (Mike Everett)

Tuesday, 24 October

St. Neots - 2 SANDWICH TERNS south over Priory park 09:20h (Bob Scott)

Wicken Fen - m Stonechat and 8 Ruff on Baker's Fen this morning (John Oates)
Girton - Buzzard over recreation ground 15:15h (Ken Sheard)

Grafham Water - 1st winter m SCAUP and m Red-crested Pochard at Plummer CP, also Yellow Wagtail, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Bramblings, 3 Fieldfares (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Wimpole - Buzzard over 15:00h (Chris Akhurst)

Monks Wood - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker flew towards the wood this evening (Rich Broughton)

Monday, 23 October

Grafham Water - 1st winter m SCAUP at Plummer CP, 4 Lesser Redpoll at Plummer CP, Yellow Wagtail on dam, ad win Little Gull and ad win Mediterranean Gull in roost, pair Mandarin in Dudney Creek, 1st winter Caspian Gull off Mander CP 16:15-17:00h at least (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Wicken Fen - 2 juv Marsh Harriers, Short-eared Owl, 8 Ruff on Baker's Fen (Owen Marks)

Sunday, 22 October

Grafham Water - 1st winter m SCAUP at Plummer CP, 1st winter Yellow-legged Gull at Marlow (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - Merlin, Little Egret and singing Cetti's Warbler from the Tower hide. (Andrew Knights); m Stonechat (John Oates)

Swaffham Prior Fen - f/imm Merlin (John Oates)

Saturday, 21 October

Paxton Pits - 1st winter/fem Stonechat , Little Egret, Common Buzzard (Martin Davis); Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail (Jamie Wells)

Maxey Pits - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER still present (Mike Weedon)

Woodwalton Fen - Bittern, Red Kite, juv Peregrine, m Marsh Harrier, 6+ Buzzards, 2 Water Rails, Lesser Redpoll, 8 Siskins (Richard Patient)

Friday, 20 October

Fen Drayton - no sign of yesterday's Yellow-browed Warbler 10:30-12:30h (Mark Hawkes, Dave Anderson)

Girton - Buzzard over this lunchtime (Peter Herkenrath)

Buckden - imm Peregrine over 12:05h (Martin Davis)

Grafham Water - Yellow Wagtail on dam, imm Peregrine over 14:15h (Mark Hawkes)

Swaffham Prior Fen - Wheatear (John Oates)

Thursday, 19 October

Fen Drayton - YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER 16:50h along concrete road between the pits and St. Ives (Andrew Seth); not relocated in c.30 min before dusk (Mark Eaton)

Paxton Pits - Little Egret, Jack Snipe, Buzzard, 3 Swallows (Martin Davis)

Wednesday, 18 October

Farcet Fen - TWITE over 16:55h (Steve Dudley)

Serpentine BP - Green Sandpiper, Stonechat, 2 Blackcaps (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - Turtle Dove at lagoons this afternoon (Jono Leadley)

Tuesday, 17 October

Woodwalton Fen - Cetti's Warbler singing and Bearded tit calling on Gordon's Mere this morning (Mike Weedon)

Wicken Fen - 2 singing Cetti's Warblers, m Stonechat, juv Marsh Harrier, Barnacle Goose (John Oates)

Tanholt GP - Brambling, Swallow, Mandarin (Steve Dudley)

Farcet Fen - ad win Mediterranean Gull (Steve Dudley)

Cambridge, Beechwoods - a Brambling amongst the Chaffinches (Mike Foley)

Nene Washes - 12+ Stonechats, Merlin, 2 Marsh Harriers, Egyptian Goose at Eldernell briefly (Jonathan Taylor)

Monday, 16 October

March - AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER briefly just north-east of the town with Golden Plover this morning before heading east (Dan Brown)

Serpentine BP - Jack Snipe this morning (Brian Stone)

Alconbury Airfield - Short-eared Owl (Paul Taylor)

Sunday, 15 October

Shepreth L-moor - 1st winter RING OUZEL with Redwings briefly (Toby Austin)

Paxton Pits - f Peregrine, 4 Jack Snipe, 2 Little Stints, 3 Green Sandpipers (Martin Davis)

Grafham Water - imm m SCAUP at Plummer CP, 1st winter, 2nd winter and adult Yellow-legged Gulls in Dudney creek (Mark Hawkes)

Needingworth - Green Sandpiper, Pintail, 13 Redwing this morning (Mark Eaton); m AMERICAN WIGEON this afternoon (Richard Thomas)

Over Fen - Pair Stonechats (Nigel Sprowell)

king's Dyke NR - 3 Jack Snipe (George Walthew)

Saturday, 14 October

Grafham Water - Rock Pipit at north end of dam, imm m SCAUP at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton - Bittern from SE corner hide on Elney Lake (Nigel Sprowell); Bittern on Windsurfing Lake late afternoon (Robin Jones)

Wicken Fen - Buzzard over north-east, Stonechat (Zbig Karpowicz)

Prior's Fen - 6 Whooper Swans, 2 ad Bewick's Swans, Buzzard, 2 Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit (Mike Weedon)

Friday, 13 October

Serpentine BP - Stonechat and Whinchat this lunchtime (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - imm m SCAUP at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes)

Melbourn - 2 Buzzards over 15:00h (Mike Ratcliff)

Thursday, 12 October

Ouse Washes - SPOONBILL in northern section early this morning, then in flight towards Welches Dam 08:50h (Alex Thomas)

Nene Washes, Low Wash - 2 pairs Stonechat, m Peregrine, a few Redwings (Jonathan Taylor)

Grafham Water - imm m SCAUP at Plummer CP, 3+ Goldeneyes (Colin Addington)

Monks Wood - c.12 Redwings with more flying over, also 3 Siskins (Rich Broughton)

Toft - 4 Buzzards soaring mid-day (Clive Sinclair)

Melbourn - 3 Buzzards over north 13:30h (Alan Wadsworth)

Cambridge - 2 Redwings over just west of the city this morning (Louise Bacon)

Earith - SANDWICH TERN over, 4 Redwings (David Griffiths)

Grunty Fen - Turtle Dove briefly 07:45h, c.1000 Golden Plovers (David Nation)

Fen Drayton - c.500 Golden Plovers, 7 Redwings over (Mark Eaton)

Wednesday, 11 October

Eldernell - m Stonechat, Marsh Harrier, 2 Barn Owls late afternoon (Garry Heath, Alison Frogley)

Grafham Water - 1st winter m SCAUP and 1st winter m Red-crested Pochard at Plummer CP this afternoon (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - 13 Whooper Swans over towards Ouse Washes 14:00h (Jonathan Taylor)

Fen Drayton - no sign of the juv American Golden Plover by 09:00h, but very few Golden Plover settled as yet (Mark Eaton)

Stilton - Red Kite over the GC 07:45h (Janet Drake)

Serpentine BP - 5 Redwings over this morning (Brian Stone)

Abbotsley - 7 Corn Buntings c.1 km to the south this morning (Mark Eaton)

Cambridge - Sandwich Tern heard over Castle Street c.11:30h (Richard Jones)

Swavesey - Barn Owl between River Drove and Navigation Drain c.19:00h (Sue Rogers)

Tuesday, 10 October

Fen Drayton - no sign of the juv American Golden Plover by 09:00h, but the weather murky and the c.700+ Golden Plovers distant, although more arriving (Mark Eaton); no sign amongst 1000+ Golden Plover by 18:15h in awkward viewing conditions (Mark Hawkes)

Monday, 9 October

Fen Drayton - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER among 1000+ Golden Plovers on arable fields to the south of the reserve (Richard Thomas); present 13:50h (Andy Clements)

Ouse Washes RSPB - 3 Marsh Harriers, Short-eared Owl, Wheatear, 75 Fieldfares (Alex Thomas)

Sunday, 8 October

Grafham Water - pair Red-crested Pochard, juv male Scaup still by Marlow CP (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington, David Hollin); 4th c.y. Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Paxton Pits - 2 Garganey, LITTLE STINT (Martin Davis); Merlin (John Parslow); 1st c.y. Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Little Egrets, Ringed Plover, Siskin over (Jamie Wells)

Woodwalton Fen - 2 Water Rail, 25+ Corn Bunting (Steve Dudley)

Maxey Pits - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER still present (Trevor Williams)

Over - 20 Fieldfares between Over Fen and the sewage plant (Jeff & Helen Brett)

Saturday, 7 October

Paxton Pits - Wood Sandpiper, Hobby, Little Egret, 3 Ringed Plovers, Dunlin (Jamie Wells)

Tetworth - RAVEN was seen just south of New Farm 15:55h, c.TL 215545; also 4+ Buzzards in the area (Richard Allison)

Grafham Water - juv male Scaup, pair Red-crested Pochard, 4th cy Caspian Gull, 6 Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 6 October

Maxey Pits - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER still present, 2 Green Sandpipers (Ray & Will Bowell)

Farcet Fen - no sign this morning of last night's juv American Golden Plover, but Hobby, Merlin, Peregrine, Marsh Harrier, 3 Yellow Wagtails in the area. This site has limited public access, very restricted parking and soft road verges. Viewing possible only from the metalled roads of Straight Drove from Farcet village to Tebbitt's Bridge; Conquest Drove from Farcet Village to Froghall Bridge, including the non-metalled section from Bedford's Barn Farm to the bridge, which is the only non-metalled road on the fen with public access; Milk and Water Drove from Stanground to Pondersbridge and the three cross droves of Kings Delph Drove, Wright's Drove and Gosling Drove which all run between Milk and Water Drove and Straight Drove. All other droves/tracks are private and must not be entered either by vehicle or on foot (Steve Dudley)

Thursday, 5 October

Farcet Fen - juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER last thing (Steve Dudley)

Grafham Water - m Red-crested Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit at Gaynes this afternoon (Mark Hawkes)

Swaffham Prior Fen - Turtle Dove (John Oates)

Wednesday, 4 October

Beechwood NR - 8 BRAMBLINGS this morning (Catherine Andrews)

Ouse Washes RSPB - 15 WHOOPER SWANS from Cottier Hide this morning (Alex Thomas)

Maxey Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER still present 08:30h, c.180 Golden Plovers (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - imm male SCAUP at Marlow, m Red-crested Pochard, 2 Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Dunlins at Gaynes, Turnstone on dam, Stonechat nearby, Hobby over (Jono Leadley)

Haddenham Fen - 2 Stonechats, 3 Green Sandpipers, 60+ Grey Partridges in 5+ coveys (Paul Mason)

Swaffham Prior Fen - ad Yellow-legged Gull (John Oates)

Wicken - 150 Golden Plover at Priory Farm (John Oates)

Girton - 2 Buzzards over fields to the south this morning (Peter Herkenrath)

Tuesday, 3 October

Maxey Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER showing well 11:00h (Peter Herkenrath)

Farcet Fen - juv Hobby, 4+ Yellow Wagtails, 2 Marsh Harriers (Steve Dudley)

Fen Drayton - Garganey, 2 Green Sandpipers, 9 Swallows (Mark Eaton)

Grafham Water - juv male SCAUP, Wheatear, Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Ruff (Colin Addington); possible Slavonian Grebe briefly but distant (Colin Addington) and not seen again by dusk (Mark Hawkes)

Nene Washes - Red Kite, ad male Peregrine, Hobby, m Stonechat, Wheatear (Jonathan Taylor)

Monks Wood - Marsh Harrier, 3 Buzzards (Rich Broughton)

Wicken Fen - Hobby over east and Marsh Harrier over south at Baker's Fen (John Oates)

Monday, 2 October

Maxey Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, Green Sandpiper, 230 Golden Plover (Brian Stone)

Grafham Water - juv male SCAUP, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, Curlew Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff (Mark Hawkes); Red-crested Pochard (as per rarebirdalert.com)

Cow Lane/Godmanchester GPs - 3 juv Green Sandpipers, 1+ Common Sandpipers (Jim Lawrence)

Sunday, 1 October

Maxey Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 2 Spotted Redshank (Trevor Williams, Josh Jones et al.)

Grafham Water - Caspian Gull, 4+ Yellow-legged Gull, juv male SCAUP, juv Curlew Sandpiper (Mark Hawkes, Mark Piercey, Nigel Butler); Sandwich Tern, 6+ Common Terns, probable Slavonian Grebe but distant (Jono Leadley)

Barleycraft - m AMERICAN WIGEON (Mark Eaton)

Over Fen - 2 Hobby, Little Egret, LITTLE STINT, Green Sandpiper, 13 Snipe, 2 Dunlin, 21 Redshank (Mark Eaton)

Paxton Pits - Wood Sandpiper, 7 LITTLE STINT, 2 Garganey, Ruff, 4 Little Egrets, 17 Dunlin, 5 Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Pintail, Hobby, 25 Swallows, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Grey Wagtail (Martin Davis, Julian Hughes)

Fen Drayton - FIRECREST north end Moore Lake, 2 Pintail, Little Egret, Hobby, 3 Green Sandpipers, 600 Golden Plovers, Siskin (Richard Patient)

Cambridge - 5 Little Egrets in flight, heading west, near Newmarket Road/Airport Way roundabaout c.TL496593 (Pete Holt)

Whittlesford - 2 Buzzards over c.14:00h (Nigel Denham)

Swaffham Bulbeck - c.20 Swallows over field near Downing Farm (Giles Merritt)

Serpentine BP - Wheatear, 12 Swallows (Brian Stone)

Saturday, 30 September

Elton - OSPREY drifted north along Nene 10:30h (Brian Stone)

Woodwalton Fen - WRYNECK, Tree Pipit, 9+ Common Buzzards, juv Marsh Harrier, Hobby, juv female Peregrine (Richard Patient)

Maxey Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 2 Spotted Redshank (Trevor Williams, Mike Weedon, Bob & Sue Titman et al.)

Grafham Water - juv HONEY BUZZARD, Caspian Gull, juv male SCAUP, 4+ Yellow-legged Gull, juv Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff, 13+ Buzzard, juv Black Tern, Peregrine (Mark Hawkes, Ray Presley)

Huntingdon - HONEY BUZZARD over just after noon (Mike Everett)

Queen Adelaide - 400+ Golden Plovers, Hobby (Ben Green)

Friday, 29 September

Maxey Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER 12:55h, best viewed from the Etton Road (Mike Weedon, Brian Stone); still present 16:00h at least (Will Bowell et al); also 2 Spotted Redshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers (Max Catterwall)

Grafham Water - SCAUP, Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit (Jono Leadley)

Girton - Hobby past BirdLife office (David Wege)

Thursday, 28 September

Maxey Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER best viewed from the Etton Road; 2 Spotted Redshanks still present, single Ruff and Golden Plover over (Brian Stone); PECTORAL SANDPIPER seen briefly at 17:45h but not since (Mike Weedon)

Grafham Water - TREE PIPIT at Plummer CP c.08:30h, also Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 5 Dunlin and a Black-tailed Godwit; 1st win Caspian Gull briefly late afternoon (Jono Leadley); juv Stonechat and juv male SCAUP at Marlow CP late afternoon (Colin Addington)

Hilton - Hobby over fields west of the village this morning (Mark Eaton)

Wednesday, 27 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern this morning, male SCAUP at Marlow CP this evening until 18:00h at least, also 1st win Mediterranean Gull, juv Curlew Sandpiper, 2 juv Ruff and juv Black-tailed Godwit from Plummer CP, male Ruddy Duck, Yellow-legged Gulland Buzzard from Dudney Hide (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington, James Hanlon); 1st win Caspian Gull briefly at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes)

Serpentine BP - Wheatear, 12 Swallows south (Brian Stone)

Tuesday, 26 September

Abbotsley - RAVEN 08:40h briefly, before flying west (Duncan McNiven, Debbie Pain)

Tetworth - RAVEN circling over the ridge to the north of the village for 2-3 minutes at 16:20h, before dropping out of sight into Bedfordshire (Mark Hawkes)

Wicken Fen - Garganey, Cetti's warbler, Grasshopper Warbler (John Oates)

Fen Drayton - Green Sandpiper, Buzzard, 2 Yellow Wagtails (Mark Eaton)

Monks Wood - 3 Siskin, 2 Buzzards, 2 Nuthatch, Lesser Whitethroat (Rich Broughton)

Grafham Water - Little Gull at west end this evening (Jono leadley); juv Curlew Sandpiper, juv Ruff, juv Black-tailed Godwit from Plummer CP this afternoon (Colin Addington)

Paxton Pits - 7 juv Little Stints, 12 Green Sandpipers, 17 Dunlin, 3 juv Garganey, 3 Little Egrets, juv Ruff, c.8 Snipe (Mark Ward)

Maxey Pits - 2 Spotted Redshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers (Brian Stone)

Monday, 25 September

Grafham Water - 2 juv Black Terns from Plummer late afternoon, plus juv Curlew Sandpiper, juv Ruff, juv islandica Black-tailed Godwit, also m Mandarin from valley Creek Hide, 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes); 3 juv Little Stints at Marlow (Colin Addington)

Monks Wood - Redwing, probable male GOSHAWK (Rich Broughton)

Paxton Pits - PECTORAL SANDPIPER this afternoon although often elusive, last seen flying north at 17:25h with Snipe. Also 7 Little Stints, 1+ Green Sandpiper, 17 Dunlin, 2 Garganey, 7 Little Egrets, Hobby, 8 Snipe (Jamie Wells)

Over/Ouse Fen - - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER first seen in flight at 18:00h, then in the close company of Snipe, also juv Little Stint (Richard Thomas)

Ely BF - Bittern, 5+ Bearded Tits, also 2 Egyptian Geese at Block Fen (Duncan Poyser)

Sunday, 24 September

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, Hobby, 12+ Yellow Wagtail, Little Owl calling to the north of the Ouse, Purple Gallinule, on the north side of the river opposite Ferry Mere (Mark Eaton); HONEY BUZZARD 14:30h, also 2 Ruff, 5 Green Sandpipers, Garganey and 2 Hobbies (Dave Anderson)

Nene Washes - 5 Whinchats on Eldernell Wash, 2 Wheatears, Peregrine, Hobby (Jonathan Taylor)

Tetworth - 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Hobby, Tawny Owl calling (Richard Patient); 7+ Buzzards (Monica and Owen marks)

Needingworth Quarry Lakes - drk AMERICAN WIGEON 14:30h (Alan bull)

Ely BF - 16+ Bearded Tits, 2 Marsh Harriers and a Common Buzzard (Duncan Poyser)

Paxton Pits - Little Egret, Green Sandpiper (Ian Anderson)

Maxey Pits - 2 Spotted Redshanks, 2 Wood Sandpipers 09:30h (Malcolm Holley)

Wicken Fen - Whinchat, Marsh Harrier, 2 Hobbies, 2 Kingfishers (Andrew Knights)

Grafham Water - 3 juv Curlew Sandpipers, 4 juv Little Stints, 10 Dunlin, m Mandarin (Jono Leadley)

Saturday, 23 September

Grafham Water - 4 juv LITTLE STINT, 5 Dunlin, 2 Blackcap all near Marlow, Merlin over perry at dusk (Jono Leadley); Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plovers and a Barnacle Goose at Plummer CP (Mark Hawkes)

Glatton / Great Gidding - Whinchat, 7 Common Buzzard (Richard Jones)

Tetworth - RAVEN over the wood (Richard Patient); HONEY BUZZARD, male Marsh Harrier, 10 Common Buzzard (Stuart Elsom)

Lode - 2 Common Buzzard (John Oates)

Wicken Fen - adult Peregrine Falcon, male Marsh Harrier, 2-3 Green Sandpiper, Water Rail calling, 2 Cettis Warblers singing briefly (C. Zockler); Hen Harrier (David Norman)

Babraham - 4 Buzzards over 11:20h (Dave Palmer)

Friday, 22 September

Wicken Fen - HONEY BUZZARD in a tree at St. Edmund's Fen 15:35h, before dropping out of sight, also Cetti's Warbler, Hobby, Marsh Harrier this morning (John Oates)

Thursday, 21 September

Ferry Meadows - Little Stint, 1st winter Mediterranean Gull, Black Tern & Arctic Tern still present this afternoon (Kevan Wolstencroft)

Maxey GPs - 2 Green Sandpipers, Dunlin, 2 Snipe (Brian Stone)

Toft - Hobby just west of village (Clive Sinclair)

Haddenham Fen - 2 Wheatears, Green Sandpiper (Paul Mason)

Cottenham, Long Drove - 4 Buzzards (Robin Bailey)

Wednesday, 20 September

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER and 2 juv Curlew Sandpipers west of Mander CP from Valley Creek Hide this morning, 4 juv Little Stints and Black-tailed Godwit by lagoons shoreline this afternoon (Colin Addington); 4 Little Stints, Curlew Sandpiper at Marlow (David Bale)

Over/Ouse Fen - juv Marsh Harrier, 3 Green Sandpipers, Ruff, juv Hobby, 2 juv Turtle Doves (Jim Lawrence)

Comberton GC - Little Egret (Russell Watkins)

Tuesday, 19 September

Earith - OSPREY late afternoon, last seen heading east 17:45h (David Griffiths)

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER still present, 2 juv Curlew Sandpipers, 2 juv Little Stints (Mark Hawkes); also Sanderling, Ruff (Colin Addington)

Swaffham Prior Fen - Peregrine (John Oates)

Farcet Fen - male Merlin (Steve Dudley)

Lode - Hobby (John Oates)

Barton - Hobby nearby 17:55h (Zbig Karpowicz et al.)

Ferry Meadows - LITTLE STINT on Lynch Lake, juv winter Mediterranean Gull, juv Black Tern & juv Arctic Tern on Gunwade Lake this afternoon (Chris Park)

Toft - Wheatear (Clive Sinclair)

Monday, 18 September

Soham Mere - WHITE PELICAN circling c.12:30h (Tony Wilson); then circling between Wicken and Burwell c.12:45-12:49h (John Oates)

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER showing well in Valley Creek with 2 Curlew Sandpipers this morning, 4 LITTLE STINTS at Marlow and a juv Black Tern present (Jono Leadley)

Ferry Meadows - LITTLE STINT on Lynch Lake, juv/first winter Mediterranean Gull, juv Black Tern & juv Arctic Tern on Gunwade Lake this morning (Don Gardener, Chaz Shaw, Brian Stone); second winter Mediterranean Gull (Mike Weedon); also juv Wheatear this afternoon (Paul Taylor)

Fen Drayton - RED-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon, 2 ad Hobbies (Jim Lawrence)

Sunday, 17 September

Ferry Meadows - LITTLE STINT (Don Gardener); drake COMMON SCOTER on Overton Lake, Mediterranean Gull, Black Tern & 2 Arctic Terns on Gunwade Lake (Matt Webb)

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER just west of Mander CP from Valley Creek, 2 Black Terns, 12 Ringed Plover, 4 Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley, Colin Addington, David Hollin); adult BLACK-NECKED GREBE at Dudney (Jono Leadley)

Paxton Pits - Wood sandpiper, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 4 Little Egrets, 5 Pintails and 3 Garganeys (Julian Hughes, Martin Davis, Jamie Wells, Neal Parkin)

Fowlmere - 2 Whinchats, Hobby, 5 Water Rails heard (Peter Herkenrath)

Farcet Fen - 2 Common Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, 3+ Hobby, Ring-necked Parakeet (Steve Dudley)

Wicken Fen - Cetti's Warbler (Ken Hook)

Dry Drayton - Hobby (Ken Hook)

Saturday, 16 September

Over/Ouse Fen - OSPREY over south c.11:25h (Richard Thomas)

Paxton Pits - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, juv LITTLE STINT, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 18+ Dunlin, 2 Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 4 Little Egrets, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Pintail, 3 Garganey, 9 Shelduck, Grey Wagtail, 5 Yellow Wagtail (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Ferry Meadows - LITTLE STINT (Matt Webb)

Glassmoor Bank - 6+ Tree Sparrows (Terry Cooper)

Fen Drayton - female/immature COMMON SCOTER, Little Egret on Ferry Mere, RED-NECKED GREBE on Ferry Lagoon (Bruce Martin)

Grafham Water - OSPREY (Colin Addington); Little Ringed Plover (Mark Hawkes)

Friday, 15 September

Eldernell Pits - OSPREY, Wheatear, 3 Whinchats (Steve Dudley)

Over/Ouse Fen - Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, c.50 Golden Plovers (Nigel Sprowell)

Fen Drayton - 3 Hobbies (Nigel Sprowell)

Paxton Pits - HONEY BUZZARD over this morning, 3 Garganey, 3 Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpipers (John Parslow)

Wicken Fen - 30 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Green Sandpipers (Monica & Owen Marks)

Maxey GP - 2 juv Spotted Redshanks (Mike Weedon)

Thursday, 14 September

Grafham Water - Black Tern off Mander, 5 Buzzards, Greenshank, Marsh Harrier (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Ferry Meadows - Arctic Tern over Gunwade Lake and Hobby this morning (Brian Stone); ad Arctic Tern also this evening (Don Gardener)

Maxey GP - 2 juv Spotted Redshanks, ad Hobby, 2 Green Sandpipers, Dunlin (Will Bowell)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe (Mike Everett)

Escapees: Huntingdon - pair of Yellow-fronted Canaries (a.k.a Yellow-eyed Canary, Green Singing Finch, Mozambique Serin and others) on a garden feeder recently (Alan Stribling)

Wednesday, 13 September

Farcet Fen - Cuckoo, Turtle Dove, 2 Swifts (Steve Dudley)

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER, OSPREY, 3 Black Terns (Colin Addington)

Maxey GP - 2 juv Spotted Redshanks, ad Hobby, Dunlin (Brian Stone)

Great Shelford - Buzzard over (James Hanlon)

Croxton - Hobby (Ken Hook)

Fowlmere - 2 Hobbies, Water Rail, Kingfisher (Mike Ratcliff)

Tuesday, 12 September

Fowlmere - 2 Water Rails showing well from from Tower Hide, Lesser Whitethroat amongst a fall of Blackcaps, Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs this morning (Marcus Kohler)

Maxey GPs - 3 Green Sandpipers, Golden Plover, Yellow Wagtail (Brian Stone)

Farcet Fen - 5 juv Turtle Doves, Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Golden Plovers (Steve Dudley)

Grafham Water - 23 Black Terns and an Arctic Tern off Mander CP, 5 Common Terns (Mark Hawkes, Colin Addington)

Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge - 2 Buzzards over high and heading east this afternoon (Sarah Howlett)

Cambridge, Coleridge Road - Oystercatcher over nearby 16:30h (Joe Taylor)

Prior's Fen - Little Egret, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Wheatears, Turtle Dove, 3 juv Hobbies, Marsh Harrier (Steve Dudley)

Monday, 11 September

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER showing well on west shore near Valley Creek Hide, also ad Black Tern, juv Mediterranean Gull, 2 Hobbies, several Buzzards, 6+ Yellow-legged Gulls (Mark Hawkes, Jono Leadley)

Nene Washes - 2 Little Egrets in flight 19:15h (Steve Dudley)

Over/Ouse Fen - Whinchat, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Little Egrets, Barn Owl (Mike Everett); Hobby, 2 Yellow Wagtails (Bruce Martin)

Cam Washes - Jack Snipe, 2 Turtle Doves from the Waterbeach side (Andy Massey)

Sunday, 10 September

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER still around Dudney Creek, Osprey, juv Mediterranean Gull, Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 2 Buzzard (Mark Hawkes, Mark Piercey, Jono Leadley + various other observers)

Farcet Fen - 3 Common Buzzard (Steve Dudley)

Fen Drayton - Marsh Harrier, Black Tern and Hobby (Dermot Cooper)

Maxey GP - 2 Ringed Plovers, 2 Spotted Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, LITTLE STINT (Ray & Will Bowell)

Woodwalton Fen - 8 Marsh Harrier, 4+ Hobby, Barn Owl (Steve Dudley)

Grunty Fen - 3 Hobbies over (David Nation)

Saturday, 9 September

Eynesbury, St. Neots - Stone Curlew heard over (Mark Hawkes)

Woodwalton Fen - 5 Marsh Harrier, 7 Hobby, Tawny Owl, Woodcock, 2 Water Rail (Steve Dudley)

Grafham Water - juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 2 Sandwich Terns, juv Black Tern and juv Arctic Tern, several Dunlin, Greenshank, OSPREY (Jono Leadley, Mark Hawkes)

Maxey GP - Knot, 2 Spotted Redshank, 6 Green Sandpipers, LITTLE STINT (Ray & Will Bowell, Mike Weedon)

Fen Drayton - Red-necked Grebe, 3+ Common Buzzards, 2+ Hobbies, 30 Golden Plovers, 2 Common Terns, ad Cuckoo, 50 Wigeons, 10 Pintails, 30 Chiffchaffs (Richard Patient)

Earith - Peregrine from B1381 about 2 miles northeast of Earith (Brian Groombridge)

Friday, 8 September

Etton Road Pits, Maxey - 2 juv LITTLE STINTS which departed north-east 07:30h, 5 Green Sandpipers, Hobby, 6+ Yellow Wagtails (Brian Stone)

St. Ives - 2 Buzzards over Ramsey Road (Martin and Wendy Phillips)

Thursday, 7 September

Cambridge - OSPREY circling over Shire Hall c.15:35h before drifting off south-east (Stuart Elsom)

Grafham Water - OSPREY at east end of reservoir 17:00h, 2 Curlews at Plummer briefly (Colin Addington)

Wicken Fen - 3 Garganey, 2 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers, Kingfisher, Hobby this afternoon (John Oates)

Farcet Fen - 2 Mediterranean Gulls, Wheatear, 13+ Yellow Wagtails, 4 Buzzards, 4 Hobbies, 3 Marsh Harriers (Steve Dudley)

Over/Ouse Fen - Wood Sandpiper, 10+ Green Sandpipers, Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 8 Little Egrets, 3 Garganey, Hobby, Turtle Dove (Jim Lawrence, Dave Deboo, James Hanlon)

Wednesday, 6 September

Over/Ouse Fen - RING-NECKED DUCK still present, Whinchat, 2 Little Egrets, 3 Yellow Wagtails (anon)

Grafham Water - 2 BLACK-NECKED GREBES from Mander CP 12:30h but distant (Colin Addington); OSPREY, Mediterranean Gull, 4+ Yellow-legged Gulls, Common Tern (Mark Ward)

Hardwick Wood - Grasshopper Warbler (Vince Lea)

Ferry Meadows - Turtle Dove, Tree Sparrow, 2 Common Terns, Kingfisher (Brian Stone)

Malton GC - 2 juv Hobbies, 2 Kingfishers (Jim Lawrence)

Lode Mill - Grey Wagtail (Giles Merritt)

Tuesday, 5 September

Cambridge, Chesterton - Hobby over 09:30h (Garry Heath)

Grafham Water - OSPREY over Marlow, 2 Black Terns from Plummer CP, Greenshank on dam (Jono Leadley); OSPREY with fish over Marlow 14:25h before flying north, 3 Black Terns from Mander CP, Hobby, Greenshank at Hill Farm CP (Mark Hawkes); OSPREY over the dam until 17:00h at least, 3 Greenshanks from Hill Farm (Jim Lawrence)

Paxton Pits - OSPREY, 2 juv Black Terns, 2 Garganey this morning (John Parslow)

Wicken Fen - Garganey from Trevelyan's Hide late morning (John Oates)

Serpentine BP - Wheatear this afternoon (Paul Taylor)

Cow Lane/Godmanchester GPs - Garganey, 4 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper (John Parslow, Jim Lawrence)

Monday, 4 September

Grafham Water - juv KITTIWAKE off Mander CP 07:30h, also Peregrine, Mediterranean Gull off Plummer CP (Jono Leadley); OSPREY 17:30h (Colin Addington)

Sunday, 3 September

Over/Ouse Fen - RING-NECKED DUCK still present, 2 Little Egrets, Marsh Harrier, Greenshank, Whinchat, 4 Turtle Doves, 13 Yellow Wagtails (Andy Massey)

Grafham Water - Sanderling, 4 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpipers, Greenshank (Jono Leadley)

Fowlmere - 2 Spotted Flycatchers in the car park and 2 Water Rails this evening (Marcus Kohler)

Paxton Pits - 2 juv Black Tern, juv Garganey, juv Wood Sandpiper, Turnstone, 15 Dunlin, 7 juv Ruff, 12 Ringed Plover, c.10 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpiper, 6+ Greenshank, 4 Common Terns, Hobby (Mark Ward)

Wimblington - Buzzard (Anna McOustra)

Saturday, 2 September

Paxton Pits - fem/juv Garganey, fem Mandarin, 2 Ruddy Duck, 5 Little Egret, 2 Wood Sandpiper, Turnstone, 24 Dunlin, 3+ Ruff, 18+ Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 8 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 6 Greenshank, 2 juv Black Tern, Wheatear, 13 Yellow Wagtails, 4 Turtle Doves, Barnacle Goose, Black Swan (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Wicken Fen - 2 Greenshanks & a Green Sandpiper on Baker's Fen (John Oates)

Cam Washes, Upware - 4 Greenshank (John Oates)

Croxton - Hobby (Ken Hook)

Grafham Water - 2 Arctic Terns off Mander 16:30h (Jono Leadley)

Friday, 1 September

Grafham Water - Sanderling, 6 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpipers, Greenshank (Jono Leadley); Wheatear, 11 Yellow Wagtails (Jim Lawrence)

Grunty Fen - 3 Turtle Doves, fem Marsh Harrier 10:00h (David Nation)

Coton Farm Reserve - Spotted Flycatcher with warblers and House martins feeding on flying ant swarm (Vince Lea)

Paxton Pits - 2 juv Black Terns, 2 Little Egret, juv Wood Sandpiper, juv Turnstone, 11 Dunlin, juv Ruff, 8 Ringed Plover, 3 juv Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpipers, 6+ Greenshanks (Jim Lawrence)