• Curlew Sandpiper – 1 summer plumage bird over high tide period

    Sighting date: 2023-05-03. Submitted by: Nick Franklin via Birding Cumbria. Location: Bowness Railings. 

  • Hooded Merganser still at the tarn

    Sighting date: 2023-05-01. Submitted by: David Nattrass. Location: Whinfell Tarn.  The Hooded Merganser was chased about by the Mute Swan

  • Velvet Scoter – 5 north

    Sighting date: 2023-05-01. Submitted by: Michael Mills per Birding Cumbria. Location: St Bees Head. 

  • Wood Sandpiper

    Sighting date: 2023-04-30. Submitted by: Walney B O. Location: Walney. 

  • goosander chicks

    Sighting date: 2023-04-28. Submitted by: Dee Gaffney. Location: On River Eden, East of Carlisle, about 500 metres before the river goes under the M6. NY 429568.  I saw an odd thing yesterday, 6 small goosanders  – about half the size of an adult – swimming together along the River Eden, upstream from Carlisle.   I was  exploring the…

  • Garganey – pair

    Sighting date: 2023-04-28. Submitted by: Ashley Cooper per Birding Cumbria. Location: Park End Moss. 

  • Red-rumped Swallow -1

    Sighting date: 2023-04-28. Submitted by: Ashley Cooper per Birding Cumbria. Location: Head of Lake Windermere. 

  • White-tailed Eagle – adult flew east low over field by railway line just east of M6

    Sighting date: 2023-04-27. Submitted by: BirdGuides. Location: Mossband. 

  • Cuckoo

    Sighting date: 2023-04-25. Submitted by: Mal Dixon. Location: Wythop valley nr Burthwaite farm. 

  • Hooded Merganser – 1 still

    Sighting date: 2023-04-25. Submitted by: Alistair Warwick. Location: Whinfell Tarn.