Cambridgeshire fenlands

12 May 2024 – 16 May 2024

Stephen Matthews

Visited Sites

• Graylag Goose Anser anser details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    8 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    50 ind.

• Canada Goose Branta canadensis details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve (Introduced)

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• Mute Swan Cygnus olor details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    3 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    4 ind.

• Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    6 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Gadwall Mareca strepera details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    6 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    10 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    16 ind.

• Common Pochard Aythya ferina details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

• Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

• Ring-necked/Green Pheasant Phasianus colchicus/versicolor details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    3 ind.

• Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

• Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    3 ind.

• Stock Dove Columba oenas details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    6 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    6 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    8 ind.

• European Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve (heard only)

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

    Heard at 0955, recorded on video

• Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

    At least two seen together. Heard and seen in flight.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

    At least two singing, one producing descending 4th

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

    At least two, one producing a minor third interval(recorded on video)

  
• Common Swift Apus apus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Moorhen Gallinula chloropus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    4 ind.

• Eurasian Coot Fulica atra details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    20 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Common Redshank Tringa totanus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    15 ind.

• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Common Tern Sterna hirundo details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    8 ind.

    Using boxes on raft

• Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    4 ind.

• Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve (heard only)

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

    Heard at 1830

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve (heard only)

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

    Heard at 0948

• Little Egret Egretta garzetta details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    15 ind.

• Gray Heron Ardea cinerea details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    10 ind.

    Heronry at West Mere

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Common Buzzard Buteo buteo details  sounds
  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Barn Owl Tyto alba details  sounds
  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Green Woodpecker Picus viridis details  sounds
  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Magpie Pica pica details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    3 ind.

• Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

• Carrion Crow Corvus corone details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    4 ind.

• Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus details  sounds
  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Great Tit Parus major details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

    Perched briefly. Song recorded on video

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    5 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    6 ind.

• Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Western/Siberian House-Martin Delichon urbicum/lagopodum details  sounds
  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

• Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    6 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    4 ind.

• Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    6 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

    Male seen, heard

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Garden Warbler Sylvia borin details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Greater Whitethroat Curruca communis details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes details  sounds
  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.

• European Starling Sturnus vulgaris details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    12 ind.

• Song Thrush Turdus philomelos details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    3 ind.

• Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• European Robin Erithacus rubecula details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    2 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    4 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    4 ind.

• Dunnock Prunella modularis details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    4 ind.

• House Sparrow Passer domesticus details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    6 ind.

• White Wagtail Motacilla alba details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

    Male perched, calling (harsh trill)

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

    Calling in flight, showing white rump

• European Greenfinch Chloris chloris details  sounds
  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    1 ind.

• European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis details  sounds
  • Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

• Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus details  sounds
  • RSPB Fowlmere

    2024-05-13

    1 ind.

  • Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Reserve

    2024-05-14

    2 ind.