Celebrating migration
10 Sep 2014
The recent high pressure and settled weather has provided great conditions for summer migrants to begin departing. Coupled with this, an easterly airflow has been pushing birds that bred in Scandinavian and continental Europe our way.
During 5–7 September the second Spurn Migration Festival celebrated the marvels of autumn migration. The excellent conditions meant that visitors were able to witness – and log in BirdTrack! – large numbers of common migrants such as Willow Warbler and Swallow, along with scarcer species like Barred Warbler and Wryneck.
Young birders at the event created a clever little video about the birds that best sum up Spurn as a migration hotspot for some of the participants.
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