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.
561: 16 Sep 2023 Wader Fest
Location: Mawbray Beach
Name: MICHAEL HOLT
400+ Oystercatchers, 160+Curlew, 4 Bar-Tailed Godwits, 2 Little Egrets, 25+Ringed Plover, 1 Wheatear.
562: 15 Sep 2023 Marsh Harrier
Location: Bassenthwaite Lake – southern end
Name: Richard Perry
Male Marsh Harrier over the Marsh at 17:00. The bird showed well as it approached the waters edge. Last seen flying low among the trees over the marsh to the south.
564: 15 Sep 2023 Waders in the rain
Location: Mawbray
Name: MICHAEL HOLT
400 + Oystecstchers spread out along beach, plus 160+ Curlew, 1 Bar Tailed Godwit, 1 Stonechat.
565: 14 Sep 2023 Stonechat
Location: Ulverston Canal
Name: Tony Smith
About 10 Stonechat along the towpath of Ulverston Canal
566: 14 Sep 2023 Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 still plus Curlew Sandpiper and Spotted Redshank
Location: Port Carlisle
Name: Nick Franklin via Birding Cumbria
567: 14 Sep 2023 Waderfest
Location: Mawbray
Name: MICHAEL HOLT
About 400 Oystercatchers this afternoon, 160+ Curlew, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Sanderling, 40 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, and flight southwards from Great White Egret. 2 Wheatear, 40+ Goldfinches, Stonechat, 10+ Linnets
568: 12 Sep 2023 White Stork?
Location: Ravenglass Estuary
Name: Christopher Formaggia
- I did not have my bins and it was quite a way off but as best I could tell a stork?
570: 11 Sep 2023 Whinchat
Location: Ulpha Meadows
Name: Matthew Cookson
Adult, in close proximity to a juvenile Stonechat.