• CBC Dawn chorus event

    Sighting date: 2024-05-18. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Livingstone Homestead .  Species list from dawn chorus event: Cuckoo 1 tree sparrow 5 Redpoll 1 siskin 8 redstart 3 willow Warbler 7 chiff chaff 4 dipper 1 grey Wagtail 1 also:  blue tit 8.  Great tit 5.  coal tit 3.   Goldcrest 2.  Buzzard 1. House sp 10 Swallow…

  • Great white egret

    Sighting date: 2024-05-15. Submitted by: Graham Burr. Location: Saltcoats. 

  • Migrant count

    Sighting date: 2024-05-13. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Longtown Gravel Pits.  Longtown Pits area incl Arthuret Pools.   whitethroat 8male garden warbler 7m blackcap 8m willow Warbler 12 chiff chaff 6 swift 4 sand martin 150-200 swallow 60-80 goosander 2.     1m 1f shelduck 3 yellow Wagtail. 1 wigeon 2 shoveler 4.   2m 2f gadwall 2.  1m…

  • Red Kite

    Sighting date: 2024-05-12. Submitted by: John France. Location: Penrith.  Bird flying West over Penrith town centre at 12.10pm

  • Little gull

    Sighting date: 2024-05-12. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Wedholme Flow.  Wedholme Flow this am with Connor Fraser: 1 male garganey 1 1st summer little gull 7 garden warbler 12 black tailed godwit 2 sedge Warbler 2 cuckoo (males) 18-20 willow Warbler 9m reed bunting  

  • Migrants move through

    Sighting date: 2024-05-11. Submitted by: Andy Lester. Location: Livingstone Homestead .  Weird sighting of a sedge warbler in sitka spruce for an hour before heading north. Also:  tree pipit, redstart, common whitethroat, tree sparrow

  • Pink-footed Geese 130 north

    Sighting date: 2024-05-10. Submitted by: David Shackleton. Location: Seascale. 

  • Whimbrel 10

    Sighting date: 2024-05-10. Submitted by: David Shackleton. Location: Drigg Beach to Sellafield. 

  • Snow Goose flock

    Sighting date: 2024-05-10. Submitted by: Ronnie Irving. Location: Halforth, Kent Estuary.  A flock of 24 Snow Geese, including a ‘blue’ morph, flew in calling from the south at 1140am, apparently the same flock (23 white and 1 blue) left Belvide Reservoir, Staffs. earlier today at 0810am a flight of 110 miles!

  • Cuckoos

    Sighting date: 2024-05-10. Submitted by: Andrea Collins. Location: Lowick Beacon, Ulverston.  At least six Cuckoos. Lots of interesting interactions between individual Cuckoos, and between Cuckoos and Willow Warblers / Stonechats / Meadow Pipits.