Date

Species

Notes

1 September

Common lizard and newt

3 September

2 spotted flycatchers, Marsh harrier with prey, 3 lizards – one with no tail

Boardwalk

5 September

Water vole

20+ reed and sedge warblers

Kingfisher, little grebe

Cockup Bridge

Wicken & Reach Lodes

Reach Lode

7 September

2 Marsh harriers, 7 green sandpiper, greenshank, 2 barn owl, 3 little egret

Bakers Fen

3 green sandpipers, whitethroats, reed warbler, sparrow hawk, 2 marsh harrier, longtailed tits, blue tits, great tits, gadwall, teal, mallard

Harrisons Drove Hides

Brimstone, copper, tortoiseshell butterflies

Dragonfly, blue tits, great tits

8 September

Marsh harrier, 2 kingfisher, heron, spotted flycatcher, blue tit, swallow

Goshawk

Lizard missing ˝ tail

Guinea Hall by shed

9 September

7 green sandpiper, 2 greenshank, little egret, cettis warbler, 2 swift, c.30 sandmartin

10 September

Green sandpiper, 20 long tailed tits, cormorants, heron, snipe, lizard

Muntjac, green woodpecker

Car park

11 September

Lizards, red admiral, grass snake

Boardwalk

13 September

Brown hakers, migrant hawkers, common darters, ruddy darters and 1 blue tailed damselfly.

2 green sandpiper, 2 swallows, lapwing

14 September

Honey buzzard

Moving south over Sedge Fen at 3pm

Common lizard in hide, 2 small common lizards basking in sun, 2 hobbies, 2 snipe, 3 green sandpiper

Bridge at Monks Lode

15 September

15 cormorant, 143 greylag, 174 canada, 11 widgeon, 31 teal, 120 mallard, 63 shoveler, 6 moorhen, 2 green sandpiper, 2 kingfisher, 7 cettis warbler, 1 tawny owl

Adventurers Trail

Adult fox and young adult

in front of Trevellyan hide on Adventurers Trail

Kingfisher

Westmere Hide

17 September

5 x small tortoiseshell, 1 x comma. Beetles 1 x ground, 1x rove, 1 x leaf. Hoverflies rhingia campestries, helophilus pendulus, serycomyia sicentis. Shieldbugs spiked, green shield (nymphs). Common darter dragonfly. Robber fly, capsids 3 x deraeocoris sp., caterpillars, drinker moth

Sedge Fen

18 September

Male blackcap
Chiff chaffs calling,
Teal,
Cettis Warbler
400+ lapwing
Reed warbler

Adventurers’ Fen
Many places
West Mere
East Mere
Adventurers’ Fen
Hide on Moore Drove

19 September

Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 x sparrowhawks, 2 x fieldfares

Sedge Fen

Migrant Hawker, southern hawker, brown hawker, common darter, ruddy darter

Wicken Lode, top end by bridge

100+ crows

Verralls Fen

20 September

Migrant and southern hawker, common darter, brown hawker
Green sandpiper, cetti warbler

21 September

3 x common lizard
Kingfisher & grass snake

Roger Clark Hide

24 September

Migrant and southern hawker

Lode from boat

25 September

Green finch, male and female kestrel, cock pheasant, green woodpecker, long tailed tit, Canada geese, sandpiper, grey lag geese, little grebe, shoveller, cormorants, 2 lizards

1 common lizard

Near Wind Pump on board walk

Martin, 30+ swallow, swift
Redwing x 3

Car Park
Blackberry field

26 September

2 x marsh harrier, probably passing food

Over Adventurers’ Fen

27 September

Common darters, migrant hawkers

Board walk and Wicken Lode

Green sandpiper, grey wagtail, sparrowhawk, kestrel, 2 x wigeon, greylag and Canada geese, great spotted woodpecker, Brown hawker, migrant hawkers, ruddy darter, common darter

28 September

2 whincat (Jun.)

Adventurers’ Fen

Jay, great spotted woodpecker, bullfinch, stoat