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See also the Walney Bird Observatory blog, latest photos from Cumbria on BirdGuides and the Cumbria Birding Facebook group.

The sightings below may not be verified. To report a latest sighting, please contact us selecting category latest sighting. This won't be an official record, so please note it in BirdTrack or report to us. Please let us know if you have photos and if it is OK to put them on this website.

  • 22 April, 2018: 21 Whimbrel Bowness on Solway and 6 Glasson Point
  • 19 April, 2018: Male Pied Flycatcher Powter Howe woods.
  • 18 April, 2018: First Sedge Warbler of Spring at Meathop Moss also 19/4/18
  • 17 April, 2018: 8 Great , 3 Arctic and 1 Pomarine Skua past Bowness
  • 16 April, 2018: Cuckoo heard calling from the car park at Sandscale Haws
  • 16 April, 2018: Minimum of 400 Common Scoter on Solway at Bowness on Solway. Also a single Arctic Skua and a Red Kite
  • 11 April, 2018: 2 Whitewagtails- Milnethorpe/Ulpha meadows
  • 9 April, 2018: Common Sandpiper R Bela Milnethorpe and R Esk at Longtown
  • 7 April, 2018: Swallows at Bullgill Maryport and Longtown
  • 5 April, 2018: Iceland Gull still at Bowness on Windermere
  • 5 April, 2018: 2 Wheatears at RSPB Campfield
  • 5 April, 2018: A good number of Sand Martins at Talkiin Tarn and Longtown
  • 5 April, 2018: Great Grey Shrike between Bowness on Solway & Whitrigg
  • 26 March, 2018: 3 Long-tailed Ducks on Lake Windermere off Low Millerground.
  • 23 March, 2018: 9 Scaup ( 6 males) at Longtown Ponds also 2 Sand Martins
  • 16 March, 2018: Iceland gull , probably 2nd winter, flew north up Walney channel Barrow in Furness
  • 15 March, 2018: Black Brant with at least 80 Pale Bellied Brents and a single Dark Bellied Brent in Walney Channel just south of Jubilee bridge
  • 15 March, 2018: Male Northern Wheatear Sandscale Haws
  • 12 March, 2018: c3000 Pinkfeet next to A689 near Carlisle Airport
  • 12 March, 2018: Chiffchaff singing Harrington Nature Reserve
  • 11 March, 2018: 2 ruff, 3 green sandpiper and f Scaup on floodwater, River Eden Scotby
  • 7 March, 2018: 2 Waxwings still in Wetheriggs Country Park near N Lakes Hotel
  • 5 March, 2018: 2 Waxwings Penrith
  • 25 February, 2018: Iceland Gull still at Bowness on Windermere
  • 25 February, 2018: Two Snow Buntings still at Wolsty

All records are as yet unvalidated by the Cumbria Bird Club records panel.