Latest sightings
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21 May, 2017: immature Little Gull at Bowness on Solway
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19 May, 2017: Spotted Sandpiper still at Buttermere
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14 May, 2017: Dotterel - single bird on Furness Fells
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14 May, 2017: 2 pairs of Longtailed Duck passed Bowness on Solway . Again flock of 17 Pomarine Skuas 2 hours after high tide
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13 May, 2017: 22 Pomarine and 5 Great Skuas at Bowness on Solway also up to 20 Gannets
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13 May, 2017: Spotted Sandpiper Buttermere -still present 14/5/17
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11 May, 2017: Dotterel 4 on Rockliffe Marsh
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7 May, 2017: Dotterel 8 on western fells
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23 April, 2017: Little Egret Southwaite Mill , Cockermouth
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22 April, 2017: Passage Purple Sandpiper, Golden Plover & Dunlin on Pennines
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22 April, 2017: Common Swift Foulshaw Moss
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21 April, 2017: 55 Gannets Bowness on Solway also Little Gull & 5 Whimbrel and 1 Bonxie
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21 April, 2017: Lesser Whitethroat Beckermet
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21 April, 2017: Spotted Redshank Wedholme Flow also 15 white Wagtails
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18 April, 2017: Osprey south Solway
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18 April, 2017: 140 Whimbrel South Solway
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17 April, 2017: Whimbrel at Crosscannonby, Moricambe Bay & Boweness on Solway
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15 April, 2017: Male Cuckoo calling at Roudsea Moss, Haverthwaite
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15 April, 2017: 9 Waxwings Brook Street Penrith early morning
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12 April, 2017: Pomarine Skua north at Nethertown
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12 April, 2017: Common (2) and Green Sandpiper R Esk Longtown .
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12 April, 2017: 25 Waxwings West Walls CP Carlisle
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11 April, 2017: F Black Redstart Forest Head , Brampton
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11 April, 2017: Great Skua Bowness on Solway
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9 April, 2017: 4 Manx Shearwaters Seascale