A cool and foggy start although the sun broke through latterly which caused a few Skylarks to emerge from their slumbers, otherwise a fairly quiet morning.

A kingfisher was flushed from a ditch, a stonechat was seen and heard in the scrub near the car park while the main raptor sighting was a sparrowhawk characteristically flapping and gliding across the fields and also, presumably the same bird, seen later on perched on a post by the path leading to Railway Covert.

4     Blackbird

11   Blue tit

7     Carrion crow

4     Chaffinch

1     Dunnock

1     Fieldfare

1     Goldcrest

7     Goldfinch

1     Great spotted woodpecker

2     Great tit

1     Jay

1     Kestrel

1     Kingfisher

1     Little egret

2     Long-tailed tit

3     Magpie

3     Meadow pipit

1     Pheasant

3     Pied wagtail

1     Red Kite

4     Reed bunting

9     Robin

4     Skylark

1     Sparrowhawk

1     Stonechat

7     Woodpigeon

13   Wren

Paul Bennett (Great Fen Monitor)