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.
552: 23 Sep 2023 Barnacle Goose – 2 with Pinkfeet, first arrival of autumn
Location: Port Carlisle
Name: Bob Jones per Birding Cumbria
553: 23 Sep 2023 Whooper Swan
Location: Talkin Tarn
Name: David Dixon
Single Whooper Swan with Mute Swans at west end of Talkin Tarn at 10 a.m. at least.
556: 20 Sep 2023 Great Northern Diver
Location: Silecroft
Name: Jonathan Lishman
Silecroft: 1 ad Summer Plumage Great Northern Diver flew South.
Also 1 Juv Black Tern South.559: 17 Sep 2023 Red Throated Divers / Gannets
Location: Workington pier / slag bank
Name: Paul Reeves
Resultant of one and a half hours sea watching from Workington pier and slag bank, several Red Throated Divers and Gannets were observed Sunday afternoon. Gannets have been observed on a regular basis but this is my first sighting of the former this Autumn period. Probable Common Scoter also, though these were at viewing limit. Rock Pipits on pier and single Wheatear on shore. More Swallows and Martins observed locally today than recent days.
560: 16 Sep 2023 Curlew Sandpiper
Location: Esk estuary – Newbiggin viaduct
Name: Julian Smith
1 (juv) with two Dunlin downstream of the viaduct, late morning. Flew off towards Ravenglass and didn’t return