CAMBRIDGESHIRE NATURE NOTEBOOK

Welcome to Cambridgeshire Nature Notebook, part of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Biological Records Centre.

We hope you enjoy using this website to learn about and tell us about the wildlife that you encounter in your daily lives in and around Cambridgeshire.

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Record one of our most commonly recorded species

We want to know where your pond is!

This year we are coordinating a pond survey and want to know where all of the ponds in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are- including garden ponds!

If you have a pond in your garden or know where one, is let us know by clicking on the record button below.

After that why not sign up to be a full recorder and let us know what is in your pond, as well being able to keep your own online record of species you are spotting!

Pond

To complete the online pond survey form, please click here

Species of the month

Each month we will be highlighting a specific species which is particularly good to record during the month. This month we have chosen Starlings for you to look out for and record. This extremely sociable and noisy bird is a familiar sight in gardens all over the UK. But their numbers have been dwindling in recent years making the sight of Starling clouds swirling through the autumn sky quite rare in most parts of the UK.

These cheeky garden visitors look similar to blackbirds, but their plumage is always speckled although in summer the markings on the breast are replaced by iridescent tones of blue and green. As resident birds they can be seen throughout the year, but in autumn their numbers increase dramatically when birds from Eastern and Northern Europe join the resident birds. To find out more about these gregarious birds, and to make a record of where you have seen them, please click on Starling.