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.
11: 6 Jan 2025 Ring-necked Duck & Mandarin
Location: Longtown Pools
Name: Nev Wright
Returning female Ring-necked Duck and male Mandarin seen this morning from auction mart car park, not Gretna Road.
12: 6 Jan 2025 Finches
Location: My garden
Name: Graham Burr
22 chaffinch 15 greenfinch and 20 goldfinch at and around the feeders in my garden in salterbeck workington
13: 5 Jan 2025 Sawbills
Location: Longtown GP
Name: Andy Lester
9 goldeneye inc 1m and 1m goosander. Oakbank Lakes. Private site view only from road.
14: 5 Jan 2025 7 wandering 14 bar tail Godwit 8 golden plover 2 ringed plover 1 curlew large flock of knot and hundreds of oystercatcher at high tide
Location: Mawbray
Name: Graham Burr
15: 5 Jan 2025 5 turnstone and 1 purple sandpiper
Location: Maryport sea front near pier
Name: Graham Burr
16: 4 Jan 2025 Ring necked duck
Location: Longtown GP
Name: Andy Lester
Female showing well but distant to the rear of the Gretna Road pit. Also: 120 gadwall 85 wigeon 25 coot 1f goosander 3 goldeneye. 2m 1f 35 tufted duck 1f aythia type hybrid. Scaup x tufted 1 kingfisher 3 little grebe 45 shelduck 10 shoveler
17: 3 Jan 2025 Common Sandpiper
Location: River Esk, Muncaster
Name: Colin Raven
At least one Common Sandpiper on River Esk at Muncaster.
19: 2 Jan 2025 Range of species
Location: Longtown GP
Name: Andy Lester
Arthuret Pools:1m goosander 1 dipper 17 common snipe 160 wigeon 425 grey lag geese 9 whooper swan inc 3 juv 1 grey wagtail 2 kingfisher Gretna Pool: 79 shelduck 1f goosander 1f goldeneye 150 wigeon 2 shoveler
20: 2 Jan 2025 Marsh Harrier
Location: Winster Valley
Name: Colin Raven
Female type Marsh Harrier hunting over flood in Winster Valley, also 4 Marsh Tit