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.
802: 20 Mar 2023 Ring-necked Duck – 1 still
Location: Longtown Ponds
Name: Alan Tilmouth per Birdguides
803: 20 Mar 2023 wheatear/male
Location: sellafield
Name: shaun hodgson
single male wheatear sitting on a fence
805: 19 Mar 2023 Whooper flock
Location: Grasmere
Name: Steve Russell
From Millennium Bridge, Grasmere, 0840 hrs: Approx 35/40 Whooper Swans seen in flight crossing the face of Silver Howe, heading almost due N. Suspect they’d been resting on Grasmere (or Rydal Water) as have seen a flock of Whoopers on Grasmere in mid-March in both 2022 & 2021.
806: 19 Mar 2023 Common Crossbill – 1 singing plus yaffling Green Woodpecker
Location: Kershopefoot
Name: James Towill
807: 17 Mar 2023 Chiffchaff – 1 singing
Location: Ambleside Uni
Name: John Callion per Birding Cumbria