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.
Latest sightings
- 28 Oct 2024: Moorclose Rd salterbeck on rezzer
Water rail - 28 Oct 2024: Longtown GP
Scaup - 27 Oct 2024: Livingstone Homestead
Build up of winter finches - 26 Oct 2024: Duddon Estuary, Hodbarrow
Guillemot - 25 Oct 2024: Livingstone Homestead
Finches
More…
- Here are some ideas on where to watch birds in Cumbria.
- Don’t forget to check the tide times and weather.
- Please report any sightings and send us photos
- 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
- 3 November 2024. 00:00
Outdoor meet: South Walney. Leader: Mike Douglas - 8 November 2024. 19:30 – 21:00
Cumbria Bird Club AGM - 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,