• Blackcap – 1st singing bird of year

    Sighting date: 2023-03-31. Submitted by: Dave Blackledge via Birding Cumbria. Location: Campfield RSPB reserve. 

  • Long-tailed Duck – 1 still

    Sighting date: 2023-03-30. Submitted by: Marc McLoughlin. Location: Hodbarrow. 

  • Slavonian Grebe – 1

    Sighting date: 2023-03-29. Submitted by: Stewart Roberts. Location: Hammonds Pond, Carlisle. 

  • Arctic Skua – 2

    Sighting date: 2023-03-27. Submitted by: Walney Bird Observatory. Location: Walney. 

  • Black Redstart – 1 still

    Sighting date: 2023-03-29. Submitted by: Roy Bottomley. Location: Clifton. 

  • Swallow – 2

    Sighting date: 2023-03-28. Submitted by: J Lishman. Location: Sandy Bottoms, Kendal. 

  • Garganey – 1 drake

    Sighting date: 2023-03-29. Submitted by: Ronnie Irving. Location: Marsh Lane, Heversham. 

  • Water Pipit

    Sighting date: 2023-03-25. Submitted by: Phil Collier. Location: Biggar Village, Walney Island.  7 Water Pipits feeding in the flooded fields behind Biggar Farm at 10.30am today – 3 hours before high tide.  Take the England Coastal Path just south of the village and, after the second gate, turn left and skirt the fence.  The birds were in…

  • Hooded Crow

    Sighting date: 2023-03-25. Submitted by: Phil Collier. Location: Walney Island.  On roadside fence posts and in fields on Mawflat Lane half a mile south of Biggar Village.

  • Water Pipit – 14

    Sighting date: 2023-03-24. Submitted by: Walney BO. Location: Flooded fields behind Biggar Farm.