Friday 19 April 2024

Friday, 19 April

Balsham - male RING OUZEL between Worsted Lodge & Gunners Hill (Stu Elsom)

Grunty Fen - male Hen Harrier over north (David Nation)

Ouse Washes -  Spotted Redhsank, 2 Greenshank at Earith (Jonathan Taylor)

March - RING OUZEL in Silt Road paddock still (Dick Burnham)

Upware - Whinchat, 3 Wheatear (Becky Webb)

Etton pits - 2 Curlew (Hugh Wright)

Nene Washes - pair of Garganey, c.3,000 Black-tailed Godwit (Paul Bolton)

Thursday 18 April 2024

Thursday, 18 April

Nene Washes - RING OUZEL around the March Farmers car park, Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo west of Lord's Holt (Paul Bolton)

Cambridge - Ring-necked Parakeet at the Madingley Road Park & Ride (Paul Derry)

Six Mile Bottom/Balsham - RING OUZEL, Short-eared Owl, 5 Wheatear between the villages (Stu Elsom)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Sandwich Tern from Ferry Lagoon viewpoint (Dean Harlow)

Swaddywell - Redstart, although elusive (Paul Bolton)

Impington - 4 Little Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail (Nigel Butler)

Wednesday 17 April 2024

Wednesday, 17 April

March - RING OUZEL in paddock at north end of Silt Road (Derek Benton)

Fowlmere/Thriplow - RING OUZEL on farmland between this villages briefly this morning (Doug Radford)

March Farmers - RING OUZEL reported east of car park 12:30h

Southey Woods - Redstart, heard only (Steve Zealand)

Ouse Washes - Spotted Redshank (Mark Hawkes)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Sandwich Tern through (Terry Brown)

Stapleford - Whinchat, pair of Mandarin nearby (Chris Ruis)

Upware - next to the Cam Washes Whinchat, 7 Wheatear (Jon Heath)

Tuesday 16 April 2024

Tuesday, 16 April

Etton pits - Knot (Jonathan Taylor)

Harrison's Drove - 5 Wheatear, Whinchat (Rachel Lennard)

March - RING OUZEL at Fourwinds campsite (Andy Swainston)

Monday 15 April 2024

Monday, 15 April

Etton pits - Little Tern briefly, departed 06:45h (Hugh Wright)

Hobson's Park - Wheatear, 4 Sand Martin, Swallow, House Martin (Joe Parham)

Ouse Washes - Osprey, 3 Arctic Tern (Jonathan Taylor)

Sunday 14 April 2024

Sunday, 14 April

March - male RING OUZEL in horse paddock at north end of Silt Lane (Paul Harrington)

Wicken area - Spoonbill & Great Egret over south (David Wege)

Grantchester Meadows - BLUETHROAT very briefly 12:00h and no sign since (Arjun Dutta, Joe Parham)

Castor Hanglands - 5 Nightingale, Garden Warbler reported

Hobson's Park - Wheatear, Common Tern reported

Saturday 13 April 2024

Saturday, 13 April

Stretham - BLACK KITE over east (Owen Marks, Ian Barton)

Fen Drayton Lakes - Whinchat (Jeremy Lindsell); Cattle Egret, 5 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Garden Warbler, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Lesset Whitethroat, 23 Willow Warbler, 22 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Raven (Joe Parham)

Longstanton - Wheatear (Rachel Lennard)

Northstowe - Yellow Wagtail (Rachel Lennard)

Etton Pits - 2 Greenshank (Hugh Wright); Corn Bunting (Chris Lines)

Wicken area - Bar-tailed Godwit, pair of Garganey, Cuckoo at Burwell Fen, Green Sandpiper flushed from Soham Lode pumping station (Carlos Davies)