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.

Sighting date: 2024-04-11. Submitted by: Peter Ullrich. Location: Holme Wood, Loweswater .  2 male Pied Flycatcher back on territory NW end of Holme Wood, Loweswater – in song and fly catching – earliest I’ve ever seen them

Sighting date: 2024-04-01. Submitted by: Stephen Horsfield. Location: Blagill, Alston.  Red Kite with Buzzard.

Sighting date: 2024-04-10. Submitted by: Harry Coghill. Location: Borrans Park.  3 whooper swans came from the east turning north before re-orientating and heading south down Windermere. Also c175 pink footed geese NW, drake tufted duck (uncommon here), 5 house Martin, 2 swallow and 4 red breasted mergansers. My first patch morning above 50 species, full list here…