Birdwatching at Keepers Cottage

Tel: +44 (0)1228 791378
email: info@keepers-cottage.co.uk

Keepers cottage near Smithfield carlisle brampton

Birdwatching
Have you seen a bird that we've missed off our list while you were at the cottage?
We only include birds seen either on Keepers Cottage land or flying directly over it.
We'd love to see your pictures too.
email pictures and sightings to: info@keepers-cottage.co.uk

Blackbird
Blackcap
Brambling
Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
Common Buzzard
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Chiff Chaff
Dunnock
Spotted Flycatcher
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
(Two years ago we had an escaped Goshawk in the area - a brief visit but very exciting!)
Grey Heron
Black Headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Jackdaw
Jay
Kestrel
Mallard
Magpie
House Martin
Nuthatch
Barn Owl
Tawny Owl
Wood Pigeon
Pheasant
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Long Tailed Tit
Willow Tit
Redwing
Robin
Rook
House sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Swallow
Swift
Teal
Treecreeper
Pied Wagtail
Garden Warbler
Willow Warbler
Wood Warbler
Woodcock (under the holly bush near the play house)
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Wren

Pictures of birds taken by our guests

GreatSpottedWoodpecker

The bird feeder is often bus, here a Young Great Spotted Woodpecker (above) finds its way up to the peanuts and two Starlings (below) look ready to come to blows over the tit bits they've found.

Please send us your shots, we'd love to see them and add them to the site.

Kestrel from the garden at keepers cottage carlisle

Young Robin at the bottom of the garden

Kestrel hunting over Hunley Moss which gave us our logo

Nuthatch

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