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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.

  • 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
  • 10 June, 2017: Report of Firecrest Jenkin Crag
  • 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

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