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.
735: 19 Apr 2023 Pomarine Skua – 1 east
Location: Bowness-on-Solway
Name: Bob Jones per Birding Cumbria
736: 18 Apr 2023 Egyptian Goose
Location: Siddick Ponds
Name: Keith McVeigh
Egyptian Goose on small pond at Siddick
737: 18 Apr 2023 Wheatear x2
Location: Port Carlisle
Name: A. Collinge
Male & female sat on rocks at high tide.
740: 18 Apr 2023 Black-winged Stilt
Location: Winder Gate, Frizington – garden flyover
Name: Julian Smith
I was in my garden at c7.30am. enjoying the beautiful April sunshine, killing time before the daily the school run, when I heard a familiar but out-of-context call, repeated several times. When I looked up I couldn’t believe my eyes as a Black-winged Stilt winged its way purposefully NW. Excellent, albeit rather brief view, in gorgeous early morning sunshine, with the following characteristics noted:
- distinctive call
- unmistakeable proportions with long red legs (!) extending well beyond tail, and neck extended
- white underparts
- dark underwings
- pointed wings with rather fast wingbeats
- rather long, fine, dark bill