Little Stint at Prior's Fen

© Kevin Du Rose

Caspian Gull at Dogsthorpe Star Pit

© Kevin Du Rose

Starlings at Eldernell

© Katie Fuller

Dunlin at Prior's Fen

© Mike Weedon

Little Owl at Baston & Langtoft GP

© Phil Ackerman

Wheatear at Baston & Langtoft GP

© Josh Jones

Sabine's Gull at Dogsthorpe Star Pit

© Kevin Du Rose

Whinchat at Black Bush

© Mike Weedon

There was also a more striking male present. This bird is on top of the manure heap, fighting the gale...

Wheatear at Serpentine BP

© Katie Fuller

Caspian Gull at Dogsthorpe Star Pit

© Kevin Du Rose

Red-backed Shrike at Prior's Fen

© Steve Dudley

Steve says: "Phew!"

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Red-backed Shrike at Prior's Fen

© Katie Fuller




© Brian Stone


© Mike Weedon

Red-backed Shrike at Prior's Fen

© Kevin Du Rose

Kev says: "On the evening of 3 September I was making one of my regular birding visits to Prior's Fen. As I walked along the edge of the main pit, I noticed out of the corner of my eye a bird flying along the edge of the reeds. I immediately recognised it as as something unusual based on its size. It had to be a shrike, a Wryneck or a Barred Warbler.

"After a couple of minutes the bird emerged on the edge of a small sallow bush, and a quick check with the scope revealed it was a juv Red-backed Shrike. In the few days previous to this, there were been a number of Redstarts, Whinchats and Wheatears in the Peterborough area. I suppose it arrived with these... no sign of a rosefinch with the sparrows at Willow Hall though, maybe next year!"

Prior's Fen

The female or immature Garganey was with a good selection of duck including a Wigeon. Also a Golden Plover, 8 Snipe, 3 juvenile Shelduck and c.250 Lapwing.

Garganey (Anas querquedula)

Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus)
© Brian Stone
Digiscoped with the Nikon CP995, Leica APO77 and 32x eyepiece.

Whitethroat at Ferry Meadows CP

© Mike Weedon