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.

671: 6 Jun 2023 Garganey – pair

Location: Siddick Pond

Name: Dinga per Birding Cumbria

672: 2 Jun 2023 Common Rosefinch – 1 still

Location: Plumgarths, Kendal

Name: Alan Tilmouth per Birdguides

673: 2 Jun 2023 Turtle Dove

Location: Ings, Nr Staveley

Name: Jonathan Lishman

1 perched in a dead tree along Moorhowe Road (between Kosy logs and Broadgate hall) briefly before flying down towards the Static Caravans at Ings Mill Park. 17.40

674: 1 Jun 2023 Spoonbill – 1

Location: Skimburness

Name: Alan Tilmouth per Birdguides

675: 1 Jun 2023 Garganey – 1

Location: Park End Moss

Name: Alan Tilmouth per Birdguides

676: 1 Jun 2023 Black Tern – 1

Location: Lake Windermere

Name: D Ogilvie via Birding Cumbria

677: 30 May 2023 Wood Sandpiper & Ruff

Location: Wedholme flow

Name: A. Collinge

No sign of Temminck’s Stint or Pectoral Sandpiper this morning! Cuckoo showing well and Marsh Harrier.

678: 29 May 2023 Common Rosefinch

Location: Plumgarths

Name: Phil Collier

Still showing at 7.30pm

679: 29 May 2023 Curlew Sandpiper – 1

Location: United Kingdom

Name: Walney BO

680: 28 May 2023 Wood Sandpiper, Temmicks Stint and Pectoral Sandpiper

Location: Wedholme Flow

Name: P Finn

Late afternoon