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.
891: 8 Jan 2023 Great Northern Diver
Location: Ormsgill Reservoir
Name: Phil Collier
Juvenile Great Northern Diver is still on Ormsgill Reservoir.
893: 8 Jan 2023 Female blackcap
Location: Barrow-in-Furness
Name: Colin Aldred
There were a male and female here in our front garden last year but I’ve only seen the female so far.
894: 7 Jan 2023 Greater Scaup
Location: South Walney CWT Reserve
Name: Phil Collier
Female Greater Scaup showing really well in front of Bay Hide after the high tide.
895: 7 Jan 2023 Long Tailed Duck
Location: Silecroft
Name: Jonathan Lishman
1 female type flew South. Also 21 Red Throated Divers.
897: 6 Jan 2023 Smew – 1 redhead still
Location: Siddick Ponds
Name: Chris Mason via Birding Cumbria whatsapp
899: 4 Jan 2023 Black Throated Diver
Location: Silecroft
Name: Jonathan Lishman
- 1ad on Sea, also 1f Velvet Scoter south, 1adW Little Gull north and early singles of a Fulmar north and an adult Gannet south