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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.

  • 26 August, 2017: f Marsh Harrier flew south east Thacka Beck NR , Penrith early a.m.
  • 24 August, 2017: Curlew Sand Piper and Little Stint Bowness on Solway
  • 13 August, 2017: Curlew Sandpiper Bowness Railings
  • 13 August, 2017: 26 little Egrets Port Carlisle / Campfield
  • 12 August, 2017: c1200 Sandwich Terns between Hodbarrow & Wolsty between 12th & 15th August
  • 12 August, 2017: 57 Mediterranean Gulls between Workington & Flimby 12th/15 August
  • 10 August, 2017: Green Sandpiper R Bela Milnethorpe
  • 8 August, 2017: White Wagtail - mouth of R Bela, Milnethorpe
  • 5 August, 2017: 3 Osprey & 5 Arctic Skuas Duddon Estuary
  • 30 July, 2017: Marsh Harrier Sunbigin Tarn
  • 25 July, 2017: Green Sandpiper Melkinthorpe Woods
  • 25 July, 2017: Male Marsh Harrier - mouth of R Bela Milnethorpe also 3 Common Sandpiper there also 27/7/17
  • 23 July, 2017: 9 Mediterranean Gulls at Workington and 18 on shore at Siddick on 24th July
  • 23 July, 2017: 1800 Sandwich terns at RSPB Hodbarrow plus total of 700 at sites up coast to Siddick
  • 18 July, 2017: Mediterranean Gull - 8 at Workington
  • 17 July, 2017: Juv Black Guillemot at Workington
  • 17 July, 2017: 26 Common Sandpipers at Port Carlisle but just 12 by 23rd
  • 9 July, 2017: Green Sandpiper R Eden Wetheral
  • 8 July, 2017: 13 Common Sandpiper at Port Carlisle and 10 at Sandsfield
  • 8 July, 2017: Marsh Harrier flew east at Carlisle Airport
  • 1 July, 2017: Wood Sandpiper at Wedholme Flow
  • 21 June, 2017: c 350 Shelduck between Port Carlisle & Glasson point
  • 20 June, 2017: Roseate Tern at RSPB Hodbarrow
  • 20 June, 2017: Spotted Sandpiper still at Buttermere
  • 15 June, 2017: Blyth's Reed Warbler Siddick Pond

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