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 busy 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

Keepers Cottage details
The Keepers Cottage land
Hunley Moss
Pat and Richard Armstrong
Tariffs
2011 at 2010 prices
Contact
Map - where we are

This is a new site, we're adding items all the time so some links work while others are still to be built. Please make any suggestions you like - we'd be really grateful to know what interests youthe most. info@keepers-cottage.co.uk

Places to see:
Talkin Tarn
Teesdale
Hexham
Dumfries
SouthTyne
Blanchland
Kielder
Hadrian's Wall
The Solway
Carlisle City Centre Shopping
The Lanes, Carlisle
Gretna Green Outlet Village
Longtown
Brampton
Second Hand Bookshops
Pub Food
Geltsdale Brewery
Harris Museum
Carlisle Cathedral

Things to do:
Fishing
Walking
Cycling
Riding
Birdwatching
Wildlife watching
Sailing
Canoeing
Open water swimming

Things to do at the cottage
Birdwatching
Wildlife watching
Play house and swing
The large lawned garden over looking the moss
Games
Books
Cooking with the fine local farm produce
Painting
Photography
Visitor reading list

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