Sightings

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.

901: 3 Jan 2023 Great White Egret – 1

Location: River Eden near Langwathby

Name: Roy Bottomley

902: 3 Jan 2023 Great Northern Diver – 1

Location: Ormsgill Reservoir

Name: BirdGuides

903: 2 Jan 2023 Blackcap in Garden

Location: Allerby, near Aspatria

Name: Nigel Monckton

Male Blackcap visiting fatball and seed feeders in garden. Seen on consecutive days ie 1&2 January

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904: 2 Jan 2023 Smew – 1 redhead still

Location: Tindale Tarn

Name: Chris via birding cumbria whatsapp

905: 2 Jan 2023 Smew – 1 redhead still

Location: Siddick Ponds

Name: Jane per biding cumbria whatsapp

906: 2 Jan 2023 Glaucous Gull – 1 second calendar year still

Location: Sandgate Marsh, Flukeburgh

Name: Mike Robinson via birding cumbria whatsapp

907: 2 Jan 2023 Great Northern Diver – 1 still

Location: Ormsgill Reservoir

Name: Mike Robinson

908: 1 Jan 2023 Great Northern Diver

Location: Ormsgill Reservoir, Barrow-in-Furness

Name: Andrea Collins

Juvenile Great Northern Diver on Ormsgill Reservoir, Barrow-in-Furness

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909: 1 Jan 2023 Blackcap – 1 in a Cockermouth garden

Location: 35 Beech Lane, Cockermouth

Name: David Bruin

Male BLACKCAP seen on bird feeder, first in my garden for 2 years.

910: 1 Jan 2023 Glaucous Gull – 1 second calendar year

Location: Sandgate Marsh, Flookburgh

Name: Rob Pocklington per RBA