The Birds and Wildlife of Paxton Pits 2007 is produced by The Friends and contains details of all the wildlife seen here from September 2006
to December 2007, including the first ever American golden plover and great white egret, and an account of the first breeding otters. Paxton's first breeding Mediterranean gulls nested, and we hosted the first breeding attempts involving yellow-legged gull in Cambridgeshire.
Ruddy shelduck, five spoonbills, tree pipit and three arctic skuas are among the other scarce birds featured, while shelduck, dunlin and
black-tailed godwit all hit new record counts.

But it’s not just about the rarities: it also contains counts of wintering
waterbirds, the status of breeding birds, first and last summer migrant
dates at Paxton, a report on a successful year's bird ringing and sections
on mammals, dragonflies and butterflies.

Priced at just £3, copies will be available from the Visitors’ Centre or by post
from Trevor Gunton (telephone 01480 473562). The 2008 report will be
available in January 2009.

Past copies of the Reports since 1998 can be downloaded from the archive.

Make sure your sightings make it into this year’s report by e-mailing them to