Sighting date: 2024-04-14. Submitted by: Mike Douglas. Location: Brick Works Lane.  Singing from blackthorn hedge

Sighting date: 2024-04-13. Submitted by: Mike Douglas. Location: Sea Wood, Ulverston.  Singing from coastal reedbed

Sighting date: 2024-04-13. Submitted by: Paul Reeves. Location: Workington Pier.  Six Purple Sandpipers on rock armour close to the watch tower, late Saturday afternoon.

Sighting date: 2024-04-13. Submitted by: Robert Dawson. Location: Close to Thacka Beck.  Pair on small piece of waste ground between 2 large industrial units. Exactly same spot as seen last year.

Sighting date: 2024-04-12. Submitted by: Alistair Warwick. Location: Great Salkeld .  A European crane initially flew low at the north end of Great Salkeld tree top hight ft cruised around the north end gradually gaining height eventually heading south along the Eden valley. This was at 12.30

Sighting date: 2024-04-13. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Campfield Marshes. RSPB Reserve .  260 barnacle geese 300 pink footed geese 1 ruff 7 Swallow 2 house martin 20 sand martin 3 willow Warbler 3 blackcap 5 chiff chaff 4 tree sparrow

Sighting date: 2024-04-13. Submitted by: Eleanor Mawer. Location: Kirkby Thore.  Solitary white stork in small tarn to north of Kirkby Thore.

Sighting date: 2024-04-12. Submitted by: Harry Coghill. Location: University of Cumbria Ambleside campus .  3 flocks of common scoter N/NE over UoC campus Ambleside, 16 redwing N and also a huge flock of redshank which latest 1.5 minutes of constant calls.

Sighting date: 2024-04-11. Submitted by: Ronnie Irving. Location: Whinfell Tarn.  A single bird for most of the morning hawking in front of the Reed bed. Found by Liz Robinson.

Sighting date: 2024-04-11. Submitted by: Matthew Cookson. Location: Foulshaw Moss.  Heard singing intermittently all morning.