February 2009

Highlights
Green-winged Teal, at Maxey pits and perhaps the same bird at Eldernell (Nene Washes)
Great White Egret, in the Kate's Bridge-Thurlby Fen-Baston Fen area throughout
Cranes, the pair moved from the Nene Washes to Woodwalton Fen
Firecrest, again at Woodwalton Fen

© Mike Weedon
Great White Egret by the River Glen, east of Kate's Bridge

Baston & Langtoft Pits
27.2.09:
Nordic Jackdaw, 3, by Cross Drain,
28.2.09:
Goosander, 2, pair,
Mealy Redpolls, 3+, in alders by Gull Pit,
Little Egret, 7,
Pink-footed Geese, 3, in fields north of Grummit's Scrape,
Ruddy Shelducks, 2, pair on New Works,
Tufted Duck x Pochard hybrid, 1, perhaps the regular hybrid at Deeping Lakes (a different hybrid was seen on 27.2.09)

Farcet Fen
On 8.2.09:
Sky Lark, 465, including flocks of 320+ and 145+on two stubble
fields,
Long-tailed Tit, 12,
Marsh Harrier, 1 imm male,
Merlin, 1, imm/imm fem,
Tree Sparrow - 45+

Ferry Meadows
Mediterranean Gull, 1, adult, 20.2.09
Mealy Redpoll, 1 with a Lesser Redpoll at Ham Bridges, 7.2.09

© Peter Beesley
Mealy Redpoll at Ham Bridge

On 8.2.09:
Goosander, 1, female over Gunwade,
Tufted Duck, 210,
Pochard , 101,
Great Crested Grebe, 25 on Gunwade,
Cormorant, 50 in the island trees, Overton Lake,
Buzzard, 10, 20.2.09,
Red-crested Pochard, 6, on Overton briefly, 22.2.09,
Little Egret, 1, off and on from 27.209

© Roy Norris
Redwing on ice at Heron Meadows


© Roy Norris
Drake Shoveler on Lynch Lake

Fletton Brick Pits
Pink-footed Goose with Greylags at Ikea compound, 1.2.09

Maxey pits
Green-winged Teal, 1, drake on 19.2.09
Ringed Plover, 2, first of year, on 15.2.09

Nene Washes

Green-winged Teal, 1, drake west of Lord's Holt, 21.2.09,
March Farmers, 1.2.09:
Crane, 2
Turnstone, 1

Black-tailed Godwit, c5,000
Golden Plover, c5,000
Shelduck, 29
Dunlin, 30

© Max Catterwell
A Black-headed Gull snatches a vole from the flood

Thurlby Fen,
Great White Egret, 1, reported occasionally throughout the month,

© Mike Weedon
Great White Egret by the River Glen, east of Kate's Bridge

Woodwalton Fen
Mealy Redpoll, 1, 2.2.09
Firecrest, 1, by bungalow, 8.2.09, 14.2.09
On 7.2.09:
Bittern, 1,
Marsh Harrier, 1, drake,
Barn Owl, 2,
Little Egret, 1 (at north end),
Mallard, 442, on Rotshchild's Mere,
Teal, 25 there.

© Mike Weedon
Long-tailed Tit on the fringe of Gordon's Mere

On 21.2.09 at north end:
1 little egret, 1,
2 Cranes, 2,
2 Marsh Harrier, 2,
Hen Harrier, 1, ring tail,
Cettis Warbler, 1,
Harris's Hawk, 1, being mobbed by crows and Marsh Harriers,
1 Red Kite, 1,
Water Rail, 1, singing plus 4, calling

© Mike Weedon
Marsh Harrier from Gordon's Mere hide