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.
622: 28 Jul 2023 Common Scoter
Location: Sunbiggen tarn
Name: Jonathan Lishman
2 imm Common Scoter, single Greenshank and imm Whinchat
625: 27 Jul 2023 46 Swifts over Keswick
Location: Keswick
Name: Jonathan Nicholl
Largest group of Swifts I have seen(all summer) low over town roofs, late afternoon, c.1700, noisy. at least 46 seen together, possibly more.
626: 26 Jul 2023 Curlew Sandpiper – 1 adult in fading summer plumage
Location: Port Carlisle
Name: Chris per Birding Cumbria
628: 25 Jul 2023 Barn owl
Location: Tutehill pica
Name: Graham Burr
Barn owl hunting and catching prey and then carrying it off
629: 25 Jul 2023 Cattle Egret
Location: Esk estuary – Newbiggin viaduct
Name: Julian Smith
Just upstream of the viaduct – north bank. Disappeared from view for a prolonged period in the salt-marsh channel nearest the viaduct.