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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.

  • 30 July, 2018: Little Egret 22 at Hodbarrow and 14 at Port Carlisle
  • 28 July, 2018: 34 Mediterranean Gulls in Siddick/ Workington Harbour
  • 23 July, 2018: 1 Avocet east of port Carlisle . Whimbrel also .
  • 22 July, 2018: 2 Adult Mediterranean Gulls Bowness on Solway Railings
  • 24 June, 2018: Quail Bowscale Fell Skiddaw Forest
  • 18 June, 2018: Hoopoe photographed in garden in northern fells
  • 29 May, 2018: Hobby going north along Allonby beach
  • 29 May, 2018: Black tern feeding over the pond at North walney
  • 19 May, 2018: 2 Adult Little Gull Longtown also Greenshank
  • 27 April, 2018: 130 Whimbrel Maryport to Silloth
  • 26 April, 2018: Ad. Sabines Gull west past Bowness on Solway
  • 25 April, 2018: 40 Whimbrel Bowness on Solway
  • 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

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