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
22/02/2014
Male Smew - Ferry Lagoon
23/02/2014
Male Smew on Ferry Lagoon.
25/02/2014
From Coucher Hide,
Kingfisher
Water Rail
Oystercatchers x 6
Sparrowhawk
Shellduck
Egyptian Geese
Holywell/Drayton Lagoon ditch,
Buzzard
12/03/2014
Common Lizard
Chiffchaff
24/03/2014
Stoat
Buzzard x 5, Moore Lake
Oystercatcher x 4
Redshank
Snipe
Egyptian Geese x 8
Chiffchaff, a lot
Cetti's Warbler, a lot
08/04/2014
Avocets x 2
Red Kite
Buzzard - several
Sparrowhawk x 2
oystercatchers x 2
Redshanks - several