Welcome
Cumbria is an excellent county for bird watching: the Lake District, superb coasts and estuaries, woods and fast-flowing rivers, up to Pennine moors.
- Do join the club to receive regular CBC Newsletters by email.
- The Cumbria Bird Club runs events throughout the year, conducts important survey work and produces annual bird reports.
- Follow us on @cumbriabirdclub.bsky.social
Recent Sightings
We are now managing recent sightings via Going Birding Cumbria.
Please click on the link below to enter a sighting (you will have to create an account the first time you do this).
https://www.goingbirding.co.uk/cumbria/index.asp
Records submitted here will constitute formal records and won’t need to be submitted again.
Some sensitive species will not be made visible but will go into the formal CBC archive.
More…
- Here are some ideas on where to watch birds in Cumbria.
- Don’t forget to check the tide times and weather.
- Join the Birding Cumbria Google group and follow us on Twitter.
- We are working on a new county avifauna based on the BTO Bird Atlas survey.
- Please help out with any on-going surveys in the county.
Next events
- 5 February 2025. 19:15 – 21:00
'Conserving Curlews: A Tale of Dedication and Hope'. Talk by Susannah Bleakley at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle - 19 March 2025. 19:30 – 21:00
'Birding Cyprus'. Talk by Roy Atkins. Ambleside Parish Rooms,