• willow warbler

    Sighting date: 2024-04-08. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Livingstone Homestead .  First singing birds for year today.  Also 1 male blackcap, 5 tree sparrow, 6 siskin, 1 Redwing, 1 Marsh tit, 3 chiff chaff

  • First house house martins of the year

    Sighting date: 2024-04-08. Submitted by: Harry Coghill. Location: University of Cumbria Ambleside campus .  Two house martins over UoC Ambleside in the drizzle at 1151

  • Common scoter

    Sighting date: 2024-04-07. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Livingstone Homestead .  Calling flock high over NE late eve

  • Fieldfare

    Sighting date: 2024-04-07. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Livingstone Homestead .  148 over north early morning, also 6 tree sparrow, 1 swallow and 2 dipper

  • Merlin

    Sighting date: 2024-04-07. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: North Penines.  Female at close range being mobbed by common buzzard

  • steady movement despite winds

    Sighting date: 2024-04-06. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Longtown Gravel Pits.  20 sand martin N 1 Swallow N 3 willow Warbler 2chiff chaff    

  • Guillemot

    Sighting date: 2024-04-06. Submitted by: Andrea Collins. Location: Duddon Estuary, Hodbarrow.  Guillemot diving frequently just by the lighthouse at Hodbarrow. Common enough at St Bees of course but always interesting to see them elsewhere on the Cumbrian coast.

  • Mediterranean Gulls

    Sighting date: 2024-04-06. Submitted by: Andrea Collins. Location: Hodbarrow.  Two adults with the Black-headed Gulls on the main island.

  • Swallows

    Sighting date: 2024-04-06. Submitted by: Lee Devereaux. Location: Greenodd .  Two swallows heading west over Greenodd

  • Sightings

    Sighting date: 2024-04-04. Submitted by: Jon Mills. Location: Bassenthwaite Lake viewing point .  1 Osprey 4 Goosander (2f, 2m) 5 Sand Martin