Where to watch birds now you are here

Cumbria is a big county, and the range of habitats it offers is similarly large - from estuaries to sea cliffs, and reed beds to mountain tops. The sites here have been chosen to show off that variety - but they can only scratch the surface. For more sites try Where to watch birds in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire, by J Guest and M Hutcheson.

Key to map:
1.  Bowness on Solway
2.  Bassenthwaite Lake
3.  St Bees Head
4.  Haweswater and Riggindale
5.  Kent Valley
6.  Walney Island