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Latest sightings

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.

  • 12 April, 2017: Common (2) and Green Sandpiper R Esk Longtown .
  • 12 April, 2017: 25 Waxwings West Walls CP Carlisle
  • 11 April, 2017: F Black Redstart Forest Head , Brampton
  • 11 April, 2017: Great Skua Bowness on Solway
  • 9 April, 2017: 4 Manx Shearwaters Seascale
  • 9 April, 2017: 2 Avocets Wedholme Flow before flying off south .
  • 7 April, 2017: Garganey reported from RSPB Campfield and Wedholme Flow in recent days
  • 6 April, 2017: 22 Waxwings in Brunswick Square Penrith still present 7/4/17
  • 5 April, 2017: Iceland Gull 2cy flew from Heysham towards Roa Island ,Cumbria
  • 4 April, 2017: Red Kite north over South Solway Mosses
  • 4 April, 2017: Osprey near M6 Carlisle
  • 31 March, 2017: Waxwings (c20) London Rd Carlisle still present on Warwick Rd 5/4/17
  • 31 March, 2017: Swallows (3) at Cockermouth and one at Bowness on Solway
  • 30 March, 2017: Ospreys back at Foulshaw CWT Reserve .
  • 28 March, 2017: Great Grey Shrike still at Soddy Gap , Great Broughton
  • 27 March, 2017: Waxwing 12 in Arnside
  • 25 March, 2017: Osprey west over Spadeadam Forest
  • 24 March, 2017: Osprey north over Carlsile
  • 24 March, 2017: Red Kite Longtown
  • 23 March, 2017: White Wagtail Binsey
  • 16 March, 2017: Wheatear Haverigg
  • 14 March, 2017: Single Sand Martins at Wetheral and Geltsdale RSPB
  • 14 March, 2017: Iceland Gull over high tide at Sellafield
  • 13 March, 2017: Red Kite off the Lakeside to Hawkshead road just south of Esthwaite Water this a.m.
  • 13 March, 2017: Great Grey Shrike present this am between 1130 and 1230 at Wharton Tarn near Hawkshead Hill opposite the FC car park at High Cross on the Coniston - Hawkshead Hill road

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