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.
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
904: 2 Jan 2023 Smew – 1 redhead still
Location: Tindale Tarn
Name: Chris via birding cumbria whatsapp
906: 2 Jan 2023 Glaucous Gull – 1 second calendar year still
Location: Sandgate Marsh, Flukeburgh
Name: Mike Robinson via birding cumbria whatsapp
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
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