Bar-tailed Godwit

Adult summer plumage Bar-tailed Godwit, Maxey Gravel Pits, 30th April 2007, © Will Bowell.

Knot

Adult summer plumage Knot, Maxey Gravel Pits, 30th April 2007, © Will Bowell.

Northern Wheatear

Female Northern Wheatear, Serpentine Brick Pits, 30th April 2007, © Will Bowell.

Lapwing

Lapwing, Maxey Gravel Pits, 28th April 2007, © Will Bowell.

Nightingale

Male Nightingale, Paxton Pits, 24th April 2007, © Garth Peacock.

Blackcap

Male Blackcap, Paxton Pits, 24th April 2007, © Garth Peacock.

Long-tailed Tits

Long-tailed Tits, Paxton Pits, 24th April 2007, © Garth Peacock.

Marsh Harriers

Female & Male Marsh Harriers, Cambs, 24th April, © Jim Lawrence.

Reed Bunting

Male Reed Bunting, Paxton Pits, 24th April 2007, © Jamie Wells.

Whinchat

Male Whinchat, Paxton Pits, 23rd April 2007, © Martin Davis. This was one of three birds present at this site during a small influx of Whinchats and a larger one of Ring Ouzels to the county. (JL).

Nightingale

Male Nightingale, Paxton Pits, 22nd April 2007, © Simon Stirrup.

Grasshopper Warbler

Male Grasshopper Warbler, Paxton Pits, 22nd April 2007. © Martin Davis. A lengthy vigil lying flat in the grass paid off for Martin when he secured these stunning images of this normally ultra-skulker. (JL).

Ring Ouzel

Male Ring Ouzel, Paxton Pits, 21st April 2007, © Jamie Wells.

Yellowhammer

Male Yellowhammer, Croydon, 20th April 2007, © Jim Lawrence.

Ring Ouzel

Male Ring Ouzel, Croydon, 20th April 2007, © Jim Lawrence.

Egyptian Goose

Adult Egyptian Goose (with Greylags), Paxton Pits, 20th April 2007, © Martin Davis. Now an increasing visitor to the county, this is one of up to four Egyptian Geese (two adults and two juveniles) that have joined the feral goose flock at Paxton this spring. (JL).

Chaffinch

Male Chaffinch, Little Gransden, 18th April 2007, © Adrian George.

Common Pheasant

Cock Pheasant, Little Gransden, 18th April 2007, © Adrian George.

Yellowhammer

Female Yellowhammer, Little Gransden, 18th April 2007, © Adrian George.

Blackcap

Male Blackcap, Little Gransden, 18th April 2007, © Adrian George.

Long-tailed Tit

Long-tailed Tit, Orton Brick Pits, 18th April 2007, © Peter Beesley.

Yellow Wagtail

Male Yellow Wagtail, Grafham Water, 14th April 2007, © Jono Leadley.

Pied Wagtail

Male Pied Wagtail, Paxton Pits, 9th April 2007, © Martin Davis.

Canada Goose

Canada Goose, Fowlmere, 2nd April 2007, © Garth Peacock.

Chiffchaff

Male Chiffchaff, Fowlmere, 2nd April 2007, © Garth Peacock.

Fieldfare

Fieldfare, Nene Washes, 31st March 2007, © Jonathan Taylor.

Goldfinches

Goldfinches, Aldreth, March 29th, © Simon Stirrup.

Reed Buntings

Male and female Reed Buntings, Paxton Pits, March 29th 2007, © Garth Peacock.

Treecreeper

Treecreeper, Paxton Pits, 29th March, © Garth Peacock.

Jay

Jay, Fen Drayton GPs, 26th March, © Garth Peacock.

Tawny Owl

Tawny Owl, Waresley, 25th March 2007, © Stuart Elsom. Tawny Owls are difficult to photograph in flight as they move between the trees in shaded woodland. This bird at Waresley was patrolling the rides late in the afternoon before vanishing into the wood prior to dusk." SME

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit, Woodwalton Fen, 16th March 2007, © Peter Beesley
One of these Marsh Tits shows what looks like pale-fringed secondaries, one of the distinguishing features of Willow Tit. (RGN)

Canada Goose

Canada Goose, Woodwalton Fen, 16th March 2007, © Peter Beesley
Not everyone's cup of tea perhaps, but they are handsome beasts (RGN)

Kestrel

Female Kestrel, Alconbury, 11th March 2007, © Stuart Elsom
This female Kestrel was perched alongside the minor road into
Alconbury earlier today. It allowed me to fire off a handful of shots
before flying off. A case of right time right place.

Sparrowhawk & Magpie

Female Eurasian Sparrowhawk with Magpie prey, Little Gransden, 10th March 2007, © Adrian George. Large female Sparrowhawks are known to regularly take sizeable prey including birds up to the size of Woodpigeons. This Magpie was clearly a big challenge and put up quite a fight, eventually giving up the struggle after some two hours. During this time the Sparrowhawk seemed oblivious to Adrian as he photographed this grisly spectacle down to ten feet! (JL).

House Sparrow

Male House Sparrow, Little Gransden, 9th March, © Adrian George.

Greenfinch

Male Greenfinch, Little Gransden, 9th March 2007, © Adrian George.

Blue Tit

Blue Tit, Little Gransden, 9th March, © Adrian George.

Stock Dove

Stock Dove, Arrington, 5th March 2007, © Jim Lawrence.