Please submit Recent Sightings through Going Birding Cumbria at the link below. This website will also display a list of the birds recently recorded in Cumbria with their locations. Records submitted through the previous system are archived below.
https://www.goingbirding.co.uk/cumbria/index.asp
If you have a query about a sighting please contact us on countyrecorder@cumbriabirdclub.org.uk.
See also the Walney Bird Observatory blog, latest photos from Cumbria on BirdGuides and the Cumbria Birding Facebook group, also the BirdingCumbria – Google Groups.
131: 3 Sep 2024 GWE
Location: Near confluence of river Derwent and bass lake
Name: Paul Krivickas
Resting on marshland …… little egret feeding close by
132: 29 Aug 2024 Osprey
Location: Warwick Bridge
Name: Raymond John Clark
Osprey seen, flying up stream
133: 26 Aug 2024 Over Bank Holiday weekend
Location: Upper Kent Estuary
Name: Jonathan Lishman
Highlights over the weekend. Cattle Egret – 3 (2 still in Sum Plum) Black dyke. GWE – 1 Arnside Tower, Inc a Little Grebe diving in a small piece of flood (half the size of a tennis court) in the middle of a field. Garganey – 1 female/juv type, Heversham moss, but very elusive in the vegetation. Wood Sand – (found by another birder) still present on Heversham moss. Green Sand – 3 College Green Cettis Warbler – 1 singing intermittently College green from ditch between farm and Halforth farm. Pintail – 1 eclipse male Black T Godwit – 7 White Wag – 1 showy male in with many pieds.
134: 22 Aug 2024 Whimbrel
Location: Estuary Old Park Wood Holker
Name: Robin Eddleston
4 birds on the shore near the old park caravan site.
135: 20 Aug 2024 Migrants moving
Location: Livingstone Homestead
Name: Andy Lester
A bit of movement ahead of Storm Ernesto with at least 3 tree pipit over south Inc 1 juv. Also 3 tree sparrow, 6 greenfinch, 1 yellowhammer, 2 bullfinch, 5 siskin, 2 stonechat, 5 swallow south and 1 grey wagtail.
136: 14 Aug 2024 Hobby
Location: Allithwaite
Name: Matthew Cookson
Observed flying over field. Then perching on a fence post for 2 to 3 minutes. Possible earlier sighting of Hobby last Saturday, but not certain.
139: 11 Aug 2024 Marsh tit
Location: Whitbarrow
Name: Andrew Holliman
Single bird first noticed after typical loud piercing call heard in woods
140: 10 Aug 2024 Not Walney – Hooded Crow
Location: Port Carlisle
Name: Peter Finn
Hooded Crow on marsh close to Glendale caravan park, Port Carlisle. Also, Osprey still at Campfield RSPB