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.

601: 19 Aug 2023 Black Tern – 1 south

Location: Workington pier

Name: Dinga per HBirding Cumbria

602: 19 Aug 2023 Black Tern – 1 juvenile

Location: Port Carlisle

Name: Mike Porter per Birding Cumbria

603: 19 Aug 2023 Storm Petrel

Location: Silecroft

Name: Jonathan Lishman

1 Flew south this morning, also 8 juv Black Tern, 1 Arctic Skua and 3 Swift

604: 18 Aug 2023 Wood Sandpiper – 1 juvenile

Location: College Green, Kent Estuary

Name: Ronnie Irving

605: 18 Aug 2023 Great White Egret – 2

Location: Cartmel Sands

Name: Matthew Cookson

606: 17 Aug 2023 Avocet

Location: Foulney

Name: Dave Shackleton

5 Avocets flew past Foulney Island into Morecambe Bay just before high tide

607: 14 Aug 2023 Greater Scaup – 1

Location: Walney

Name: Walney BO

608: 13 Aug 2023 Cetti’s Warbler

Location: Silecroft

Name: Jonathan Lishman

1 Cetti’s Warbler calling from scrub and Reed bed by Caravan park at 09.45. 1 Bonxie South, 5 Fulmar and 833 Manxies off shore.

609: 13 Aug 2023 Storm Petrel – 3

Location: Walney

Name: Walney Bird Observatory

610: 11 Aug 2023 Water Rail.

Location: The Wath Newbiggin on lune .

Name: M Baldwick