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.
742: 17 Apr 2023 Pied Flycatcher
Location: Gelt Woods
Name: Nev Wright
Two Pied flycatchers singing and sighted.
743: 17 Apr 2023 Hooded Merganser – 1 male
Location: Whinfell Tarn
Name: Jonathan Lishman per Birdguides
744: 16 Apr 2023 Firecrest
Location: Park Head
Name: Nick & Jill Tardivel
Bird seen within 4 m, in small tree in garden by 2 observers (GMT (bird ringer) and Simon Tardivel). It was present for about 30 seconds. It was not with any obvious flock. Both observers have ringed Firecrest in Kent.
745: 16 Apr 2023 Goshawk – 1 eating Red-legged Partridge close to garden
Location: Edge of Northern Fells
Name: David Oatway
747: 15 Apr 2023 Long tailed duck
Location: Hodbarrow
Name: Steve Kruger
Female long tailed duck still at Hodbarrow 7pm today
748: 15 Apr 2023 Red-throated diver
Location: Hodbarrow
Name: Steve Kruger
Red-throated diver in channel off Hodbarrow
750: 14 Apr 2023 Spoonbill
Location: Foxfield
Name: David Satterthwaite
Juv Spoonbill seen from Angerton marsh , bird on the sands 09.00
