Sightings

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.

571: 11 Sep 2023 Bittern still present – dusk flight observed.

Location: Siddick Pond, Workington

Name: Paul Reeves

572: 11 Sep 2023 Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 with Curlew Sandpiper

Location: Port Carlisle

Name: Roy Bottomley

573: 10 Sep 2023 Lesser Yellowlegs

Location: Port Carlisle

Name: A. Collinge

  1. From lay-by opposite caravan park. 6.30pm, juvenile bird amongst Redshank. Thanks to other birder who helped in the find

574: 9 Sep 2023 Swift

Location: Penrith

Name: John France

Single Swift south over Penrith at 19:38 hours this evening  

575: 7 Sep 2023 131 Pink footed geese flying South over Duddon Estuary

Location: Duddon Estuary

Name: Colin Gay

576: 7 Sep 2023 Pink Footed Geese

Location: Torver

Name: Selina Tutin

30 to 40 flying south at 7.10am.

577: 7 Sep 2023 Little Gull – 1 juvenile

Location: Sandbar off Haverigg beach

Name: Marc Mcloughlin

578: 6 Sep 2023 Swallows and house martins

Location: Tutehill pica and distington

Name: Graham Burr

579: 5 Sep 2023 Swift – 2 heading south

Location: Thacka Beck

Name: Robert Dawson