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.
793: 25 Mar 2023 Water Pipit
Location: Biggar Village, Walney Island
Name: Phil Collier
7 Water Pipits feeding in the flooded fields behind Biggar Farm at 10.30am today – 3 hours before high tide. Take the England Coastal Path just south of the village and, after the second gate, turn left and skirt the fence. The birds were in the second filed directly behind the farm feeding on the grassy strips showing above the flood water. Wellies essential!!
794: 25 Mar 2023 Hooded Crow
Location: Walney Island
Name: Phil Collier
On roadside fence posts and in fields on Mawflat Lane half a mile south of Biggar Village.