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21: 28 Apr 2024 Common Redstart
Location: Woodland near Troutbeck NY 4161 0281
Name: JONATHAN ADAMS
1400, sunny. Male singing, confirmed by Merlin. Recording retained.
22: 28 Apr 2024 Common Cuckoo
Location: Kentmere Park, west side from Gartburn track
Name: JONATHAN ADAMS
Male calling, on hillside above track. Heard for about 15 minutes around 1230 but not later in afternoon.
23: 28 Apr 2024 White stork
Location: Sea Wood, Ulverston
Name: Mike Douglas
2 flew north. Good views and couldn’t see any rings or wing tags
24: 27 Apr 2024 Not quite Walney
Location: St Bees Head
Name: Peter Finn
Hooded crow near St Bees lighthouse plus single White Wagtail
25: 27 Apr 2024 Cuckoo
Location: Helsington Barrows
Name: Alan Ferguson
One bird calling just over the cliff edge towards Underbarrow at 19.30 pm. Also Green Woodpecker Yaffling from two different areas of the Barrows
26: 26 Apr 2024 (Female) Pied Flycatcher
Location: Woodland near Staveley
Name: Andrea Collins
Female Pied Flycatcher. She was busy gathering nest material though I didn’t see any males.
27: 25 Apr 2024 Common crossbill
Location: Gooseyfoot Tarn Grizedale. SD 33859708
Name: Sue Hazelwood
Female calling from top of Scots Pine. Got a clear view-mandibles obvious.
28: 25 Apr 2024 Mr
Location: Stainton Penrith
Name: Gerry Moore
White stork seen this morning about 10:35 flying with black backed gulls, at a guess double the size of the black backed gulls. At first I wondered if it was an osprey but the long trailing legs and long neck did not fit the osprey. Seen flying above alpaca farm.
29: 24 Apr 2024 Whimbrels
Location: Biggar Bank, Walney
Name: Andrea Collins
Twelve Whimbrels on the beach below the Biggar Bank carpark, Walney Island.
30: 23 Apr 2024 Swift
Location: Siddick Pond
Name: Paul Reeves
Single Swift over Siddick Pond this evening along with many Swallows and Sand Martins.