Birds and Wildlife in Cumbria 2024 is now out ! Free to CBC members and others can buy a copy from the CBC website or bookshops around the county. It's full of interesting material spanning taxa from birds to bryophytes.

There are still places available for the Dawn Chorus event next weekend - with free breakfast ! Email [email protected] to book.

Dawn Chorus Event !

During our first month using 'Going birding' as a sightings channel on the CBC website we now have 50 participants and around 250 records for the month. It's easy to use and helps you manage your records too. It works well for us recorders - give it a try !

Our 'Latest Sightings' on the website is due to be replaced by 'Going birding Cumbria?' goingbirding.co.uk/cumbria/birdnews.asp It reports direct to CBC to create official records, it has sensitivity settings and needs no moderation, it's easy to use. Try it !

Please send in your 2024 records before the end of January at the latest. Either via BirdTrack, eBird or direct to us - see our website cumbriabirdclub.org.uk

Please sign the new Gov. Petition to Ban Driven Grouse Shooting - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

We are reinforcing our links with the Cumberland Bird Observers Club, Sydney, Australia by sending them our excellent four-monthly Newsletter from now on. CBC members receive this as part of their membership.

Excellent talk by Andy Lester at our AGM on Friday evening - 'It shouldn't happen to an environmentalist'. The trials and tribulations of establishing an environmetal centre with regenerative farming in North Cumbria