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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.

  • 31 May, 2017: Report of Black-eared Wheatear just below the summit of Black Combe
  • 29 May, 2017: Spotted Sandpiper still present at Buttermere
  • 28 May, 2017: Red Kite at Eycott near Berrier - and one at Brampton on 27/5
  • 28 May, 2017: Rockcliffe: Great white egret upstream from the village
  • 25 May, 2017: Spotted Sandpiper still present at Buttermere
  • 21 May, 2017: immature Little Gull at Bowness on Solway
  • 19 May, 2017: Spotted Sandpiper still at Buttermere
  • 14 May, 2017: Dotterel - single bird on Furness Fells
  • 14 May, 2017: 2 pairs of Longtailed Duck passed Bowness on Solway . Again flock of 17 Pomarine Skuas 2 hours after high tide
  • 13 May, 2017: 22 Pomarine and 5 Great Skuas at Bowness on Solway also up to 20 Gannets
  • 13 May, 2017: Spotted Sandpiper Buttermere -still present 14/5/17
  • 11 May, 2017: Dotterel 4 on Rockliffe Marsh
  • 7 May, 2017: Dotterel 8 on western fells
  • 23 April, 2017: Little Egret Southwaite Mill , Cockermouth
  • 22 April, 2017: Passage Purple Sandpiper, Golden Plover & Dunlin on Pennines
  • 22 April, 2017: Common Swift Foulshaw Moss
  • 21 April, 2017: 55 Gannets Bowness on Solway also Little Gull & 5 Whimbrel and 1 Bonxie
  • 21 April, 2017: Lesser Whitethroat Beckermet
  • 21 April, 2017: Spotted Redshank Wedholme Flow also 15 white Wagtails
  • 18 April, 2017: Osprey south Solway
  • 18 April, 2017: 140 Whimbrel South Solway
  • 17 April, 2017: Whimbrel at Crosscannonby, Moricambe Bay & Boweness on Solway
  • 15 April, 2017: Male Cuckoo calling at Roudsea Moss, Haverthwaite
  • 15 April, 2017: 9 Waxwings Brook Street Penrith early morning
  • 12 April, 2017: Pomarine Skua north at Nethertown

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