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.
761: 11 Apr 2023 Sooty Shearwater – 1 flying out of the bay at 07.15am
Location: Walney
Name: Walney BO
764: 10 Apr 2023 Firsts
Location: Soddy gap
Name: David Bruin
Willow warbler. My first, several singing in the scrub. Swallows. A steady stream flying north.
765: 10 Apr 2023 Hooded Merganser – 1 male of unknown origin
Location: River Kent, Kendal
Name: Alan Tilmouth per Birdguides
766: 9 Apr 2023 SWALLOW
Location: Shap Wells
Name: Stephen Hill
15 flying north this afternoon about 15.00 hours. One doesn’t make a summer – but perhaps 15 might !!
768: 9 Apr 2023 Whimbrel – 1
Location: Fat Lamb, Ravenstonedale
Name: James Towill per Birding Cumbria
769: 9 Apr 2023 Green-winged Teal – 1
Location: Campfield RSPB reserve
Name: Stephen Westerberg per Birding Cumbria