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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.

  • 15 November, 2016: Waxwing 20+ by traffic lights on A66 Bassenthwaite
  • 15 November, 2016: Great Grey Shrike still present at Soddy Gap Great Broughton
  • 14 November, 2016: Waxwings 200+ in Brampton still present 17/11/16 & 18/11/16
  • 13 November, 2016: Snow Bunting 8 at Grune Point
  • 13 November, 2016: Waxwings - 8 at Stainton . Still 11 in Wetheral and c150 Currock rd Carlisle
  • 12 November, 2016: Waxwings still at Currock Road Carlisle and Wetheral also a few in Penrith .
  • 12 November, 2016: Long Tailed Duck - 4 off Grune Point
  • 11 November, 2016: 78 Waxwings ,Currock Road, Carlisle
  • 10 November, 2016: Great White Egret Campfield RSPB
  • 10 November, 2016: Waxwings 4 Wetheral and 14 West Walls Carlisle & 30 Geltsdale
  • 7 November, 2016: Waxwings - c50 on rowans by Plumb Centre, Currock Road , Carlisle still 10/11/16
  • 6 November, 2016: Great Grey Shrike at Soddy Gap, Great Broughton still present 8/11/16
  • 5 November, 2016: Several groups of Brambling around Talkin Tarn
  • 4 November, 2016: 4 Waxwings east at Dalton Crags
  • 28 October, 2016: Single Waxwing at entrance to Scout Scar
  • 28 October, 2016: Isabeline Shrike at Walney
  • 22 October, 2016: Yellow Browed Warbler on cycle track between Beckermet & Sellafield near picnic table
  • 21 October, 2016: Yellow Browed Warbler Carlisle Airport and another in Cockermouth
  • 21 October, 2016: Long Tailed Duck ( drake) Sunbiggin Tarn still present 23/10/16
  • 10 October, 2016: Jack Snipe - Eycott Hill - also 112 Common Snipe
  • 10 October, 2016: Marsh Harrier - RSPB Campfield Reserve
  • 10 October, 2016: Little Stint & Wood piper still in the flooded field at Heversham with 28 Black Tailed Godwit and 2 Ruff
  • 9 October, 2016: 20 Mediterranean Gulls at Siddick Pond
  • 7 October, 2016: Yellow Browed Warbler still in sycamores at Tarn Flat Farm St Bees Head
  • 7 October, 2016: Yellow Browed Warbler Waterside Wigton

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