Willow Warbler at Ferry Meadows

©Peter Beesley

Common Whitethroat at Ferry Meadows

©Peter Beesley

Garden Warbler at Ferry Meadows

Garden Warbler Sylvia borin

Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Kingfisher at Ferry Meadows

©Mac Bell

Green Woodpecker at Crown Lakes

©Mac Bell

Black-winged Stilt at Maxey Pits

© Will Bowell


© Bob Titman
Brilliant find by Chris Lines on 25.4.09; the first stilt in the area since 1983 when a pair unsuccessfully bred on the Nene Washes. The bird was reported later as being present at Deeping Lakes LWT at 11am the same day. It wasn't present the next day unfortunately.

Ring Ouzel, Caldecote

A great find by Mike this morning after the one at King's Dyke failed to show yesterday.

Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus

© Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Wheatear at Maxey Pits

©Peter Beesley

Chiffchaff at Orton Pits

©Peter Beesley

Blackcap ♂ - Ferry Meadows

© Roy Norris
Note the Pollen encrustration on beak.
See. Portland Bird Observatory website (entry 11th April)

Goldeneye - Ferry Meadows

© Roy Norris
Observed in the river East of Ham Bridge.

Red-legged Partridge

©Peter Beesley

At Blackbush Fen

Waxwing at British Sugar, Woodston

© Mike WeedonOne of two birds found by Kevin Du Rose, 28.3.09

Tawny Owl young

Left a nest box on Eastfield Road in Peterborough on 25th March.

Tawny Owl Strix aluco


©Mr Bradley

Female Black Redstart near Swaddywell Pit NR

©Peter Beesley


©Peter Beesley

Bullfinch (Pair) - Ferry Meadows

Male


Female


© Roy Norris
Observed at Ferry Meadows today - SW edge of Gunwade Lake

Black-necked Grebe on Nene Washes

© Mike WeedonThis breeding-plumaged bird was enjoying the flooding near the central drove, 14.3.09.

Little Egret, Ferry Meadows

Roosting on the island on Overton Lake near the Cormorant colony.

Little Egret Egretta garzetta

© Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Nuthatch, Bedford Purlieus

Nuthatch

© Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Nene Washes

A cold morning on the heavily flooded Low Wash at the Nene Washes.

Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus



Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa icelandica


Bewick's Swans Cygnus columbianus


© Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Little Egret

© Roy Norris
Pair of Little Egrets observed in dike up Drain Road today.

Kestrel

©Peter Beesley

Kestrel at Welland High Bank

Redwings on Ice

© Roy Norris
Observed in Heron Meadow, Ferry Meadows today.

Mallards

©Peter Beesley

Male & Female Mallard on the ice at Ferry Meadows

Grey Heron

©Peter Beesley
Grey Heron at Ferry Meadows

Cormorant

©Peter Beesley
Cormorant Roost at Ferry Meadows

Barnacle Goose

©Peter Beesley

Barnacle Goose , Ferry Meadows

Carrion Crow

©Peter Beesley
Carrion Crow at Ferry Meadows

Snipe - Ferry Meadows

© Roy Norris
Single Snipe in Heron Meadow FM.

Shoveler

© Roy Norris
On Lynch Lake Ferry Meadows today.

Robin

©Peter Beesley
Robin in a Peterborough Garden

Long-tailed Tits

©Peter Beesley

A knot of Long-tailed Tits in a Peterborough Garden