Wildife and Bird Watching in Cumbria
These maps are intended as a guideline only; you must check the exact location of the reserve yourself. Wildlife Extra assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or usefulness of the information on this website.
- Campfield Marsh RSPB
- Finglandrigg Woods National Nature Reserve
- Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve
- Haweswater RSPB
- Hodbarrow RSPB
- Lake District Ospreys, Bassenthwaite.
- Moor House-Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve
- RSPB Geltsdale Nature Reserve
- Sizergh Castle, National Trust.
- South Walney Nature Reserve
- Whinlatter Forest Park
Recent Cumbria news
- 30 more red kites arrive in Lake District
- Osprey update July 2011
- Rare dragonfly emerges in Cumbria after reintroduction
- Thousands of rare marsh fritillary caterpillars released in Lake District
- Osprey update May 2011
- Pine Marten rediscovered in Cumbria after 10 years!
- Grizedale Forest’s red kite chicks survive their first winter
- Osprey update 2011
- Army lands to be planted with thousands of trees
- First ospreys arrive back in the UK
- Rally called to save Lakeland’s forests
- Public say no to forest sell-off
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Protests over government sell-off of major UK forests - Grizedale, Whinlatter and Ennerdale
- Red kites spreading out from Cumbria
More Cumbria news
- Otter recovery has reached every UK county – Except Kent
- Over 1,000 different moth species in UK treetops
- Red squirrels surveyed in Cumbria’s Whinlatter Forest for the first time
- Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 2009
- Why racecourses are good for the Lake District’s wildlife
- White-faced darter dragonfly reintroduced into Cumbria
- Red kites settling into life in the Lake District
- Osprey update 2010 - Remarkable Loch of Lowes bird lays 58th egg!
- Pine Marten rediscovered in England!
- Ninety red kites set to soar in the Lake District
- Cumbria is home to UK’s biggest cherry tree
- Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UK
- Barn owls thriving in Grizedale
- Red squirrels given extra protection in Cumbria
- Grey squirrel control to be stepped up to boost red squirrels
Pine Marten rediscovered in Cumbria after 10 years! England's rarest mammal, the pine marten, is living in the Forestry Commission's Grizedale Forest in Cumbria. DNA tests have provided the first unequivocal evidence for 10 years that this shy and elusive animal is in the Lake District.
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First ospreys arrive back in the UKThe ospreys are back. EJ has arrived at Loch Garten, and the romantically named 03(97) is back at his nest at Rutland Water, and other ospreys have been sighted all over the UK, but as yet there is now sign of the 'Lady of the Loch', the amazing 25 year old bird from The Loch of the Lowes.
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Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 20092009 was another shocking year for the persecution of birds of prey with incidents of shooting, trapping and poisoning, according to the RSPB's 20th annual Birdcrime report.
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Pine Marten rediscovered in England! Conservationists are ecstatic at the news that England's rarest mammal, the pine marten, has been found in the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland.
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Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UKThe bird thought to be oldest breeding female of its kind ever recorded in the UK returned for the 20th consecutive year to the Loch of the Lowes wildlife reserve, astonishing wildlife experts.
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Bird crime stats jump 40%July 2008. Reported crimes against birds of prey escalated to an unwelcome record in 2007, increasing by 40 per cent on 2006.
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