A new sightings thread for the winter months. Please tell us about your wildlife encounters at Fen Drayton Lakes, common or rare - not only is it nice to share, it helps fellow visitors know what to look out for and helps us keep a record of the wildlife here from month to month.
There's also now a sightings list in the car park at the information board, where you can write up what you've seen on the reserve, and remember you can also post photos on this website.
Here's what's been written up on the board over November so far:
1/11 60 goldfinches feeding on teasels by car park, 120 golden plovers SE over car park, two Cetti’s warblers singing/calling around Holywell Lake
3/11 male sparrowhawk
5/11 barn owl, starlings, buzzard
6/11 little egret, redshank
7/11 five Egyptian geese over Oxholme Lake, male sparrowhawk
8/11 50 golden plovers, 75+ pochards and a kingfisher at Ferry Lagoon, two Cetti’s warblers and a water rail heard regularly at Oxholme, 10 siskins and 30 fieldfares by bus stop, great crested grebes displaying on Ferry!
10/11 two weasels
11/11 six goldeneyes on Drayton Lagoon
13/11 grey seal in the river near bridge, long-tailed tits, kingfisher south side of Ferry Lagoon, shovelers, pochards, mice, lots of grey herons around Ferry Lagoon
14/11 kingfisher on Ferry Lagoon in willows to right of car park, grey heron, 30 little egrets, goldfinches
16/11 kingfisher in gulley by Swavesey Lake
17/11 male goldeneye on Ferry Lagoon
Alison Nimmo
RSPB Community Engagement Officer, Orkney
12/01/2014
Woodcock
Kingfisher
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Water Rail
Pintail
Cetti's Warbler
Wren
Treecreeper
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Godwit Flocks
Plover Flocks
Shag
Bullfinch
Otter - probably 2, feeding along flooded treeline at east end Ferry Lagoon at dusk
16/01/2014
Brimstone Butterfly
Little Owl
Little Grebe
Little Egret
18/01/2014
Otter, (2 sightings), (Far Fen Lake and Ferry Lagoon)
Godwit
Kestrel
19/01/2014
Ferry Lagoon.
Glaucous Gull - 2CY bird
3+ Yellow-legged Gulls
Drake Goosander
19/01-20/01/2014
Red Kite both days over Ferry Lagoon NE corner.
01/02/2014
Hen Harrier
Bullfinches - lots of these beauties
09/02/2014
Common Seal
Mink
17/02/2014
Bittern @ 11.45
Kingfisher x 2
18/02/2014
An astonishing mornings viewing in the main car park and Ferry Lagoon
Bittern x 3
Marsh Harrier - 4 Female sightings
Bearded Reedling
Drake Smew
Buzzard x 4
Cetti's Warblers, 2 fighting males, see pictures in FDL photo gallery
Green woodpecker
Fieldfare flock
Reed Buntings
Jays