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.
501: 29 Oct 2023 Great White Egret
Location: Swindale Foot, Swindale
Name: Lee Schofield
Seen by several rspb staff members of the course of the last few days. Feeding in the flooded fields below Swindale Foot Farmyard.
502: 28 Oct 2023 Swift
Location: Skelton, Penrith
Name: Spike Webb
Probable Common Swift seen briefly heading over village
506: 26 Oct 2023 Treecreeper
Location: Aira Force Waterfall
Name: Sue
- Brief sighting as it was running up an oak tree!
509: 25 Oct 2023 Merlin
Location: Rattlebeck Bridge, Glenridding Beck
Name: Sue
Lovely clear view of a merlin, flying up from stone wall then into tree.
510: 25 Oct 2023 Two red kite
Location: A5091, just north of Dockray
Name: Sue
Two red kite standing and feeding on sheep corpse on field, just other side of wall from the road.