Jon Heath

Oh no! Possibly a migrant starting to make its way back to its breeding grounds. Do you know if it was left there?

Thanks Rudy, yes the biggest 'songbird' in the world! Need to get a comparison photo of one next to a Crow

Lots of raptors soaring in the spring sunshine at Tev Fen earlier on. This Raven circling with Buzzards gave a nice size comparison @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

After going missing for a week I thought the long-staying drake Scaup had finally moved on from Milton CP. However today it was back with the remaining handful of Tufted Ducks. I wonder where it had gone in between? @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Yes that's right! No records in Cambs for the last 4 winters, when previously there were 1 or 2 each year. Now sadly a very rare bird in the county. Will we get our first Lesser Grey before the next Great Grey...

The BEST most hopeful news to wake to this morning! Bravo Hannah Spencer MP, bravo @westberksgreens.bsky.social who went up to support & are building members here. Thank you Gorton & Denton, @zackpolanski.bsky.social Hope over hate, community over protecting power & wealth, politics is changing!

Only a handful of reports in the last few years, they may be just about hanging on

Records of Rough-legged Buzzard in Cambs stopped abruptly in 2019; before then it was pretty much annual in winter. Is the county's first Black-winged Kite now the more likely of the two raptors to occur...

No UK eBird records of Rough-legged Buzzard from 2026 yet (below); this species will likely be rarer nationally than Black-winged Kite in future. Both very visible signs of climate (and land-use) driven range shifts #UKBirding #Ornithology

A low carbon lifer! Excellent work 😄

Nice one John 😄

Great to see RBBP data being used in work led by @btobirds.bsky.social that improves our knowledge on the status of Little Egrets in the UK… there are more than we thought!

Hi Joe, the problem with Ferruginous Ducks is there have been several roaming escaped birds from wildfowl collections. So it is now very difficult to know if a bird is genuinely wild or not. Either way it's still a nice bird to have on patch 😄

Nice! Started well, it will be interesting to see how many you can get

Thanks Rudy, I've been enjoying all your recent colourful bird photos!

Glad you saw it Noah. Are you doing a local year list for Cambridge?

Drake Ferruginous Duck at Milton CP

Drake Scaup at Milton CP

Female Goosander, a patch tick at Cambridge Research Park

White-fronted Geese at Cambridge Research Park

A drake Ferruginous Duck at Milton CP today was a real surprise, whatever its origin, and topped off an excellent few days of local birding @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #ukbirding

A drake Scaup asleep

Drake Ferruginous Duck

A four Aythya lunchbreak - as well as Tufted Duck and Pochard, drake Scaup and Ferruginous Duck at Milton Country Park. Top find by @jonheath.bsky.social #UKBirding

Great find! Sounds like pretty good birding

An excellent #patch tick with 2 Greater White-fronted Geese showing well at the Cambridge Research Park this morning. Many thanks to @jonheath.bsky.social for finding. An adult female Goosander also present #birds #PWC2026 #photography @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Cheers Matt 😊

drake Scaup

small ice-free area on Todd's Lake

A drake Scaup late this afternoon on a small ice free area of Todd's Lake at Milton CP. After being well out of finding form recently it was nice to get something good on patch for a change @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #ukbirding

Great photo, really nice light 👌

Indeed it must be the same across the country. Some of the scarce winter visitors and passage migrants are now less than annual. At least we are having the best Goose winter for a long time!

I think anything above 190/200 and you've done very well. Getting near the 210/220 mark is more difficult than it was 10 or so years ago

Happy New Year! Some of the best birds seen and favourite pics from locally around Cambs this year. One of my highlights was recording over 100 species in April at my Tev Fen patch, though the habitat there and then interesting birds soon dried up @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Makes a bit of change from local birding!

Black-winged Kite in flight

Black-winged Kite eating vole

Eastern Black Redstart

Some cold birders optimistically seawatching at Sheringham

Great day out in Norfolk yesterday. After a bit of a wait the Black-winged Kite started hunting at Ludham Bridge and quickly caught a vole. Later on the Eastern Black Redstart showed brilliantly in the winter sunshine at Sheringham @mrm27.bsky.social #ukbirding

Good visit to Norfolk today, 30/12/25, for the Black-winged Kite with @jonheath.bsky.social and a nameless friend, good views, then a bit of a seawatch at Sheringham with the E Black Redstart as an incentive, finishing with some nice wild swans. #birds 🪶🐦

Hopefully it will follow the Swans deeper into the Fens into Cambs 😅