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300 Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) Cley Norfolk GB UK November 2020 ccp2 crs 130dpi.j

Lesser Yellowlegs (Library photograph)

Cambridgeshire bird news September 2025

Highlights at Grafham Water were a Squacco Heron 8th, Gannet 21st, Great Skua 22nd, Common Scoter 22nd, Little Stint, three Sandwich Tern and up to eleven Curlew Sandpipers.

 

A Lesser Yellowlegs was at Isleham Washes 12th, and presumably the same was at Etton-Maxey Pits 16th-29th. A Grey Phalarope dropped in at Etton-Maxey Pits briefly 17th. A Pectoral Sandpiper was at Isleham Washes 23rd and a Eurasian Dotterel flew south-west over Ouse Fen RSPB 19th.

 

Two Pied Flycatchers were at Ditton Meadows 7th and two Black Redstarts were at Eddington 18th. A Honey Buzzard flew south over Over 18th. A Manx Shearwater picked up at Haddenham 16th was successfully released at Hunstanton.

 

In common with many counties in southern England there was a influx of Glossy Ibises. Best counts were seventeen at Ouse Fen RSPB 6th, twelve flew north-east over Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB 6th, ten flew north over RSPB Fowlmere 6th and up to nineteen were at RSPB Ouse Washes for a bit from 10th.

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