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.
42: 18 Dec 2024 Cormorant
Location: Workington harbour
Name: Derek McAlone
Combination of winter high tide and rough weather always produces spectacular numbers on the jetty. Almost impossible to count accurately but surely over 1000 birds present.
43: 18 Dec 2024 Dipper
Location: Livingstone Homestead
Name: Andy Lester
Back on the Carwinley Burn Also: 10 tree sparrow 3 siskin 1 marsh tit C45 pink footed geese over east
44: 18 Dec 2024 Starling
Location: Longtown
Name: Andy Lester
Between 4500 and 5000 starling into roost this evening.
45: 17 Dec 2024 Grey plover
Location: On the coast between Bardsey and Ulverston behind priory woods
Name: Keith Barker
Two grey plovers on the High tide by priory woods
46: 15 Dec 2024 Water Rail
Location: Thacka Beck NR Penrith
Name: Robert Dawson
Feeding on edge of reedbed at south-east corner of the reserve.
47: 13 Dec 2024 Peregrine
Location: South Walney
Name: Andrea Collins
Perched on fencepost on island in main lagoon. Later seen (unsuccessfully) chasing Oystercatchers along the spit.
48: 13 Dec 2024 Goosander pair of.
Location: River Liza, upstream from Ennerdale water
Name: Raymond Clark
49: 13 Dec 2024 Duck counts
Location: Longtown GP
Name: Andy Lester
Gretna pool: 33 shelduck 3 goosander (1m) 160 wigeon 65 gadwall