Sunday 11 January 2009

Sunday, 11 January

Paxton Pits - 3 Brent Geese,2 Red-crested Pochards, Smew, Buzzard, Peregrine, Water Rail, Dunlin, 18 Snipes, c.20 Siskins (Martin Davis, Jamie Wells)

Woodwalton Fen - c.50 Lesser Redpolls and 2 Mealy Redpolls, Bittern on the ice on Gordon's Mere, adult male Peregrine (Richard Patient); female Marsh Harrier and Merlin hunting over fields to the west (Duncan McNiven & Debbie Pain)

Grafham Water - 8 Red-crested Pochards near south end of dam, male Smew, female Scaup, 2 Siskins, 9 Yellow-legged Gulls in roost from Mander CP, 2 Goosanders in harbour (Mark Hawkes); fem Smew (Jono Leadley); adult KUMLIEN'S GULL reported off Mander CP early afternoon (per rarebirdalert.com)

Fen Drayton Lakes - 2CY Mediterranean Gull in the Ferry Lagoon gull roost (Richard Thomas); Red-breasted Merganser, brief glimpses only of Bittern (David & Jonathan Heath)

Dogsthorpe Tip - 2nd-winter GLAUCOUS GULL (Mike Weedon)

Southey Woods - 20 Crossbills (Brian Lawrence)

Fowlmere - Peregrine, Barn Owl (Toby Austin)

Wicken Fen - 3 ringtail Hen Harriers into roost (Richard Palmer)

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