Caspian Gull	13/08/10
Great White Egret	08/08/10
Caspian Gull	04/08/10
Caspian Gull	27/07/10
Honey Buzzard	21/05/10
Red-rumped Swallow	01/05/10
Red-footed Falcon	30/04/10
Blue-headed Wagtail	27/04/10
Blue-headed Wagtail	10/04/10
Alpine Swift	01/04/10

Our premium bird information service, Bird News Extra, has full details of all these birds (including exact locations, directions and additional detail) in Cambridgeshire, and also covers the rest of the British Isles. A free national service is also available. Click here to take a free tour of Bird News Extra, or here for more information.

Sparrowhawk Balsham 19/08/10	Sparrowhawk Balsham 19/08/10	House Martin Balsham 19/08/10	House Martin Balsham 19/08/10	Linnet Fen Drayton Lakes 16/08/10	Common Kingfisher undisc. site 15/08/10	Common Kingfisher undisc. site 15/08/10
Cattle Egret Needingworth GPs 09/08/10	Yellow-legged Gull Dogsthorpe Tip 22/07/10	Caspian Gull Dogsthorpe Tip 21/07/10	Yellow-legged Gull Dogsthorpe Tip 21/07/10	Yellow-legged Gull Tanholt GPs 19/07/10	Yellow-legged Gull Tanholt GPs 19/07/10	Common Kestrel Balsham 19/07/10

 View all pictures from Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire Bird Club
 http://www.cambridgebirdclub.org.uk

Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust
 http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/

County Recorder (Cambridgeshire)
 Mark Hawkes, 7 Cook Drive, Eynesbury, St. Neots, Cambs. PE19 2JT
 01480 215305/07810 622756
 

County Recorder (Huntingdonshire & Peterborough)
 John Clark, 7 Westbrook, Hilton, Huntingdon, Cambs PE18 9NW
 01480 830472

Peterborough Bird Club
 http://www.peterboroughbirdclub.org.uk/

The following species have occurred in Cambridgeshire and are listed in the Online Guide to Rarer British Birds. Bird News Extra subscribers can click on each species for details of past Cambridgeshire records.

Cambridgeshire includes sites that are among the best in the country for the following species:

Red-necked Grebe
Bewick's Swan
Garganey
Smew
Hen Harrier
Hobby
Spotted Crake
Dotterel

Bird News Extra subscribers can log in to see a list of sites where these species may be found, with comments on their likelihood and the best areas to look.

	Wilson's Wonderland	Wednesday 9th May 2007
	The Grafham Wilson's Phalarope has proved a popular attraction. Find out the story behind the 'find' from local birder Jono Leadley.   read on
	Purple Patching	Monday 14th November 2005
	Patchwatching can be hard work: plenty of days with long hours in the field for scant reward. For the ardent patchwatcher though, the rewards are memorable, and Grafham regular Jono Leadley takes us through the past few weeks during which his Cambridgeshire reservoir has had quite a 'purple patch'.   read on
	Conservationists bring back the Corncrake to England	Friday 29th August 2003
	Ornithological history will be made today (Friday 29 August) as a partnership of conservation organisations complete an attempt to reintroduce one of Europe's most threatened birds to England after an absence of many years.   read on

 BirdGuides webzine

Click on a site name for more details of the site (Bird News Extra subscribers only), on a Grid reference for a map, on the picture thumbnail for images of the site (or on upload to share your own images), on "link" for a listing from BTO BirdTrack, and on Add/Update to submit your own site details.

Grid references are generic references for the named sites and indicate the general area, not the exact location of any particular bird. No right of access should be inferred from the inclusion of these grid references.

Site	GR	Pictures	BirdTrack	Add/update details
Abbots Ripton ·	TL2377	upload	link	add
Abbotsley ·	TL2256	upload	link	add
Abington Pigotts ·	TL3045	upload	link	add
Alconbury ·	TL1875	upload	link	add
Alconbury Weston ·	TL1776	upload	link	add
Aldreth ·	TL4473	upload	link	add
Arrington ·	TL3250	upload	link	add
Ashley ·	TL6961	upload	link	add
Aversley Wood ·	TL1681	upload	link	add
Babraham ·	TL5150	upload	link	add
Bainton GPs ·	TF1006	upload	link	add
Balsham ·	TL5850	upload	link	add
Bar Hill ·	TL3863	upload	link	add
Barley ·	TL405412	upload	link	add
Barnack ·	TF0704	upload	link	add
Barrington ·	TL3949	upload	link	add
Barton ·	TL4055	upload	link	add
Bedford Purlieus ··	TL0499		link	update
Beechwoods NR ·	TL4854	upload	link	add
Benwick ·	TL3490	upload	link	add
Berry Fen ·	TL373739	upload	link	add
Bevill's Wood ·	TL2079	upload	link	add
Black Bush ·	TL2593	upload	link	add
Black Horse Drove ·	TL5991	upload	link	add
Block Fen GPs ··	TL4384	upload	link	update
Bluntisham ·	TL3674	upload	link	add
Bottisham ·	TL5460	upload	link	add
Boxworth ·	TL3464	upload	link	add
Brampton ·	TL2071	upload	link	add
Brampton Wood ··	TL1870	upload	link	update
Bretton ··	TF1600	upload	link	update
Brinkley Stud Reservoir ·	TL6356	upload	link	add
Buckden ·	TL1967	upload	link	add
Buckden GPs ·	TL2167	upload	link	add
Burghley Park ·	TF0406	upload	link	add
Burrough Green ·	TL6355	upload	link	add
Burwell ·	TL5866	upload	link	add
Burwell Lode ·	TL5668	upload	link	add
Bythorn ·	TL0575	upload	link	add
Caldecote ·	TL1488	upload	link	add
Cam Washes ··	TL5371	upload	link	update
Cambourne ··	TL3259	upload	link	update
Cambridge ·	TL4558	upload	link	add
Cantelupe Farm Reservoirs ·	TL418540	upload	link	add
Castor Hanglands ··	TF1201		link	update
Castor Meadows ·	TL1297	upload	link	add
Caxton Gibbet ·	TL2960	upload	link	add
CEGB Reservoir ·	TL1895	upload	link	add
Chain Corner ·	TL4178	upload	link	add
Chatteris ·	TL3986	upload	link	add
Cherry Hinton ·	TL4856	upload	link	add
Chesterton, Cambridge ·	TL4660	upload	link	add
Chesterton, Peterborough ·	TL1295	upload	link	add
Chippenham ·	TL6669	upload	link	add
Chippenham Fen ··	TL6469	upload	link	update
Chittering ·	TL4970	upload	link	add
Chrishall Grange ·	TL4442	upload	link	add
Coldham's Common ·	TL4758	upload	link	add
Colne ·	TL3775	upload	link	add
Conington Fen ·	TL2085	upload	link	add
Conington, Cambridge ·	TL3266	upload	link	add
Conington, Peterborough ·	TL1785	upload	link	add
Coppingford Wood ·	TL1780	upload	link	add
Coton ·	TL4058	upload	link	add
Cottenham ··	TL4567	upload	link	update
Coveney ·	TL4882	upload	link	add
Covington ·	TL0672	upload	link	add
Crown Lakes CP ·	TL1994	upload	link	add
Croydon ··	TL3149		link	update
Diddington ·	TL1965	upload	link	add
Ditton Park Wood ·	TL6656	upload	link	add
Dog-in-a-Doublet ·	TL2799	upload	link	add
Dogsthorpe ·	TF2001	upload	link	add
Dogsthorpe Tip ·	TF213022	upload	link	add
Dry Drayton ·	TL3862	upload	link	add
Dullingham ·	TL6258	upload	link	add
Duxford ·	TL4845	upload	link	add
Earith ·	TL3875	upload	link	add
Earith GPs ·	TL3876	upload	link	add
Easton ·	TL1372	upload	link	add
Eaton Ford ·	TL1760	upload	link	add
Eaton Socon ·	TL1659	upload	link	add
Eau Fen ··	TL5477	upload	link	update
Eldernell ·	TL3198		link	add
Elm ·	TF4606	upload	link	add
Elsworth ·	TL3163	upload	link	add
Eltisley ·	TL2759	upload	link	add
Elton ·	TL0893	upload	link	add
Ely ·	TL5380	upload	link	add
Etton GP ·	TF1406	upload	link	add
Eye Green NR ·	TF2303	upload	link	add
Eye landfill site ·	TF2302	upload	link	add
Eynesbury ·	TL1859	upload	link	add
Farcet ·	TL2094	upload	link	add
Farcet Fen ·	TL2392	upload	link	add
Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB ···	TL3469		link	update
Fenstanton ·	TL3268	upload	link	add
Ferry Meadows CP ··	TL1497		link	update
Fidwell Fen ·	TL5272	upload	link	add
Flag Fen ·	TL2794	upload	link	add
Fleam Dyke ·	TL5454	upload	link	add
Fletton Brick Pit ··	TL1996	upload	link	update
Flint Cross ·	TL4042	upload	link	add
Fodder Fen ·	TL5980	upload	link	add
Folksworth ·	TL1490	upload	link	add
Fordham ·	TL6370	upload	link	add
Fortrey's Hall ·	TL4482	upload	link	add
Foul Anchor ·	TF4617	upload	link	add
Fowlmere RSPB ··	TL4045	(2 pictures)	link	update
Fowlmere village ·	TL4245	upload	link	add
Foxton ·	TL4148	upload	link	add
Fulbourn ·	TL5256	upload	link	add
Fulbourn Fen ··	TL5158	upload	link	update
Gamlingay ··	TL2553	upload	link	update
Gault Wood ·	TL4094	upload	link	add
Girton ·	TL4262	upload	link	add
Glatton ·	TL1586	upload	link	add
Glinton ·	TF1505	upload	link	add
Godmanchester ·	TL2470	upload	link	add
Godmanchester GPs ·	TL2571	upload	link	add
Grafham Water ···	TL1468	(2 pictures)	link	update
Granta Park ·	TL5248	upload	link	add
Grantchester ·	TL4355	upload	link	add
Graveley ·	TL2464	upload	link	add
Great Abington ·	TL5348	upload	link	add
Great Chishill ·	TL4238	upload	link	add
Great Fen ·	TL6078	upload	link	add
Great Gidding ·	TL1283	upload	link	add
Great Paxton ·	TL2163	upload	link	add
Great Raveley ·	TL2581	upload	link	add
Great Shelford ·	TL4652	upload	link	add
Grunty Fen ·	TL4876	upload	link	add
Gunthorpe ·	TF1802	upload	link	add
Guyhirn ·	TF4003	upload	link	add
Haddenham ·	TL4675	upload	link	add
Hail Weston ·	TL1662	upload	link	add
Hamerton ·	TL1379	upload	link	add
Hampton Lakes ··	TL1794	upload	link	update
Hardwick nr Cambridge ·	TL3759	upload	link	add
Harston ·	TL4250	upload	link	add
Hartford ·	TL2573	upload	link	add
Hatley St. George ·	TL2751	upload	link	add
Hauxton ·	TL4352	upload	link	add
Helpston ·	TF1205	upload	link	add
Hemingford Grey ·	TL2970	upload	link	add
Heydon ·	TL4340	upload	link	add
Highfields ·	TL3558	upload	link	add
Hilton ·	TL2966	upload	link	add
Hinchingbrooke CP ··	TL2171	upload	link	update
Hinxton ·	TL4945	upload	link	add
Histon ·	TL4463	upload	link	add
Holme ·	TL2087	upload	link	add
Holme Fen NNR, Holme ·	TL2288	upload	link	add
Holme Fen, Aldreth ·	TL4572	upload	link	add
Holt Fen ·	TL5373	upload	link	add
Horningsea ·	TL4962	upload	link	add
Houghton ·	TL2872	upload	link	add
Huntingdon ·	TL2472	upload	link	add
Ickleton ·	TL4943	upload	link	add
Impington ·	TL4563	upload	link	add
Isleham ·	TL6474	upload	link	add
Kennett ·	TL6968	upload	link	add
Kimbolton ·	TL100677	upload	link	add
Kingfishers Bridge NR ·	TL5473	upload	link	add
King's Dyke ·	TL2497	upload	link	add
Kneesworth ·	TL3444	upload	link	add
Landbeach ·	TL4764	upload	link	add
Linton ·	TL5646	upload	link	add
Litlington ·	TL3142	upload	link	add
Little Abington ·	TL5349	upload	link	add
Little Gransden ·	TL2755	upload	link	add
Little Paxton ·	TL1862	upload	link	add
Little Raveley ·	TL2579	upload	link	add
Little Shelford ·	TL4551	upload	link	add
Little Thetford ·	TL535765	upload	link	add
Little Wilbraham ·	TL5359	upload	link	add
Littleport ·	TL5585	upload	link	add
Lode ··	TL5362		link	update
Long Drove, Cottenham ··	TL4768		link	update
Long Stanton ·	TL4067	upload	link	add
Longstanton ·	TL4066	upload	link	add
Longstowe ·	TL3055	upload	link	add
Longthorpe ·	TL1698	upload	link	add
Madingley ·	TL395605	upload	link	add
Manea ·	TL4789	upload	link	add
March ·	TL4196	upload	link	add
March Farmers ··	TF3400		link	update
Mare Fen ·	TL5588	upload	link	add
Maxey GPs ··	TF1307		link	update
Melbourn ·	TL3844	upload	link	add
Meldreth ·	TL3746	upload	link	add
Mepal ·	TL4480	upload	link	add
Mepal GPs ··	TL4283	upload	link	update
Milton CP ··	TL4762	upload	link	update
Milton Tip ·	TL4663	upload	link	add
Molesworth ·	TL0775	upload	link	add
Monk's Wood ··	TL2080	upload	link	update
Morborne Hill ·	TL1291	upload	link	add
Needingworth ·	TL3472	upload	link	add
Needingworth Quarry Lakes ··	TL3672	upload	link	update
Nene Washes ··	TL2899	upload	link	update
Newborough ·	TF2005	upload	link	add
Northey ·	TL2399	upload	link	add
Northey Fen GPs ·	TL2399	upload	link	add
Oakington ·	TL4164	upload	link	add
Offord Cluny ·	TL2267	upload	link	add
Old Weston ·	TL0977	upload	link	add
Orton Brick Pits ··	TL1793		link	update
Orton Brimbles ·	TL1596	upload	link	add
Orton Longueville ·	TL1696	upload	link	add
Orton Water ·	TL1696	upload	link	add
Orwell ·	TL3650	upload	link	add
Ouse Fen RSPB ··	TL3772		link	update
Ouse Washes ··	TL4685	upload	link	update
Oxlode ·	TL4886	upload	link	add
Papworth Everard ·	TL2862	upload	link	add
Papworth St. Agnes ·	TL2664	upload	link	add
Paxton Pits NR ··	TL1963		link	update
Peakirk ·	TF1606	upload	link	add
Perry ·	TL1466	upload	link	add
Peterborough ·	TL1999	upload	link	add
Prickwillow ·	TL596828	upload	link	add
Prior's Fen, Whittlesey ··	TF2600		link	update
Pymoor ·	TL4986	upload	link	add
Queen Adelaide ·	TL5681	upload	link	add
Quy Fen ·	TL5261	upload	link	add
RAF Wyton ··	TL2874	upload	link	update
Rampton ·	TL4268	upload	link	add
Ramsey ·	TL2884	upload	link	add
Ramsey Mereside ·	TL2889	upload	link	add
Ravensthorpe ·	TF1600	upload	link	add
Reach ·	TL5666	upload	link	add
Roswell Pits CWT ··	TL5580	upload	link	update
Sacrewell Farm Centre ·	TF0800	upload	link	add
Sawston ·	TL4849	upload	link	add
Sawtry ·	TL1683	upload	link	add
Sedge Fen ·	TL5674	upload	link	add
Serpentine Brick Pits ··	TL1694		link	update
Shepreth ·	TL3947	upload	link	add
Shippea Hill Station ·	TL6484	upload	link	add
Shropshire's Reservoir ··	TL528741	upload	link	update
Six Mile Bottom ·	TL5757	upload	link	add
Smithey Fen ·	TL4570	upload	link	add
Soham ·	TL5973	upload	link	add
Somersham GP ·	TL3678	upload	link	add
Southey Wood ·	TF1002	upload	link	add
Southoe ·	TL1864	upload	link	add
Southorpe Paddock NR ··	TF0802	upload	link	update
St. Ives ·	TL3171	upload	link	add
St. Ives GPs ·	TL3271	upload	link	add
St. Neots ·	TL1860	upload	link	add
Stanground Wash ·	TL220979	upload	link	add
Stapleford ·	TL4751	upload	link	add
Star Pit, Dogsthorpe ··	TF214026		link	update
Staughton Moor ·	TL1361	upload	link	add
Stetchworth Ley ·	TL6457	upload	link	add
Stibbington ·	TL0898	upload	link	add
Stilton ·	TL1689	upload	link	add
Stock Hill Wood ·	TL0992	upload	link	add
Stow Longa ·	TL1171	upload	link	add
Stretham ·	TL5174	upload	link	add
Stuntney ·	TL5578	upload	link	add
Sutton ·	TL4279	upload	link	add
Sutton Gault ··	TL4279		link	update
Sutton North Fen ·	TL4377	upload	link	add
Swaddywell Pit NR ·	TF1103	upload	link	add
Swaffham Bulbeck ·	TL5562	upload	link	add
Swaffham Prior Fen ··	TL5367	upload	link	update
Swavesey ·	TL3668	upload	link	add
Tadlow ·	TL2847	upload	link	add
Tanholt GPs ··	TF2301		link	update
Tetworth ·	TL2153	upload	link	add
Teversham Fen ··	TL5159	upload	link	update
The Mordens ·	TL2843	upload	link	add
Thorney ·	TF2804	upload	link	add
Thorpe Park ·	TL1798	upload	link	add
Thriplow ·	TL4346	upload	link	add
Toft, Cambridge ··	TL3656		link	update
Trumpington ·	TL4454	upload	link	add
Ufford ·	TF0904	upload	link	add
undisclosed site		upload		add
Upton ·	TF1000	upload	link	add
Upware ·	TL5370	upload	link	add
Upwell Fen ·	TL4895	upload	link	add
Upwood ··	TL2682	upload	link	update
Wansford ·	TL0799	upload	link	add
Warboys High Fen ·	TL3583	upload	link	add
Wardy Hill ·	TL4782	upload	link	add
Waresley Wood ·	TL2654	upload	link	add
Warren Hill, Newmarket ··	TL6563	upload	link	update
Waterbeach ·	TL4965	upload	link	add
Wennington Wood ·	TL2579	upload	link	add
Werrington ·	TF1603	upload	link	add
West Fen ·	TL5182	upload	link	add
West Perry ·	TL1466	upload	link	add
West Wratting ·	TL6052	upload	link	add
Westlands ·	TL5388	upload	link	add
Westley Waterless ·	TL6156	upload	link	add
Weston Colville ·	TL6153	upload	link	add
Weybridge GPs ·	TL1872	upload	link	add
Whaddon ·	TL3446	upload	link	add
White Fen ·	TL3492	upload	link	add
White Moor ·	TL3898	upload	link	add
Whittlesey ·	TL2797	upload	link	add
Whittlesford ··	TL5050	upload	link	update
Wicken ·	TL5670	upload	link	add
Wicken Fen NT ··	TL5570	(3 pictures)	link	update
Wilburton ·	TL4874	upload	link	add
Willingham ·	TL4070	upload	link	add
Wimblington Fen ·	TL4489	upload	link	add
Wimpole Hall Park ·	TL3350	upload	link	add
Winwick ·	TL1080	upload	link	add
Wisbech ·	TF4609	upload	link	add
Witcham ··	TL4679	upload	link	update
Wittering ·	TF0502	upload	link	add
Woodhurst ·	TL3176	upload	link	add
Woodwalton Fen NNR ··	TL2384		link	update
Woolley ·	TL1574	upload	link	add
Worsted Lodge ·	TL5251	upload	link	add
Yaxley ·	TL1892	upload	link	add