{"id":6283,"date":"2013-08-27T21:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:39:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:39:26","slug":"migration-at-its-best-spurn-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/migration-at-its-best-spurn-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration at its Best – Spurn Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSpurn Point lies on the English Coast of East Yorkshire, on the northern side of the humber estuary. It is renowned to be one of, if not the best, UK mainland Bird Observatory and migration watch point. Spurn has a great history of recording rare birds and insects and when migration is in full swing, many hundreds of migrants find land-fall in the area. Such was an occasion on Sunday 25th August 2013. Weather conditions on Saturday 24th and over-night were perfect for Drift Migration.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWe arrived at Easington just to the north of Spurn and quickly located Pied Flycatcher, Willow Warbler, a very brief and fleeting view of what was almost certainly a Nightingale and finally a Wryneck<\/span>. It was quiet windy as a North Easterly was blowing off the sea but very warm & sunny. We later found Common Redstart, Common Whitethroat and several more Willow Warbler. \n<\/p>\n

\n\tWe decided to head off to work the areas of Sammy's Point, Kilnsea, The Canal Bank, Spurn Point and Green Lane. The highlights during the day were as follows – We had remarkable views of Wryneck, one bird in particular allowed close approach and was not alarmed or afraid of the numerous birders, often at close quarters, allowing a unique opportunity for photographing this stunning species, (we saw 7 birds during the day) an Icterine Warbler<\/span> at Sammys Point, a Juvenile Red-backed Shrike<\/span> at Green Lane, around 20+ Whinchat<\/span>, 6 Common Redstart, 5 Pied Flycatcher, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Garden Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Willow Warbler, 3 Mediterranean Gull, 2 Greenshank and 13 species of Butterfly, including numerous immigrant Painted Lady and several Wall Brown. The year list moves on to 223.<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe famous Old Spurn Lighthouse at the point. – <\/strong>Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Lighthouse from the "Parade Ground", Spurn Point <\/strong>– Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tBird of the Day<\/strong> – A remarkably tame Wryneck at Kilnsea, taken at 5:30pm when everyone had gone home  – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tWryneck<\/strong> – Kilnsea – Tony Davison – More photos below of this stunning bird – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tAbove two images – Icterine Warbler<\/strong> – Sammy's Point – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tAbove two – Willow Warbler<\/strong> – Sammy's Point – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhinchat <\/strong>– Sammy's Point – well over 70 in the area of Spurn today, we saw around 20 – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tNorthern Wheatear – Sammy's Point – You can't beat a bit of old rusty barbed wire – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSpotted Flycatcher <\/strong>– Sammy's Point – plenty of Pied Fly's with a few Spotted Fly's mixed in – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSeveral hundred Golden Plover <\/strong>were moving about the estuary – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSpurn Point looking back towards the Control Tower.<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Beach at Spurn Point<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Lifeboat Station at The Point<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tRed Admiral <\/strong>– Spurn Point – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSmall Tortoiseshell – Sammy's Point – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tAbove three images – Painted Lady<\/strong> – lots of these migrant butterflies across the whole area of Spurn – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tCommon Blue<\/strong> – male – Sammy's Point – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tMigrant Hawker – Green Lane – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tAbove 12 images – Wryneck<\/strong> – Kilnsea – Tony Davison©<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spurn Point lies on the English Coast of East Yorkshire, on the northern side of the humber estuary. It is renowned to be one of, if not the best, UK mainland Bird Observatory and migration watch point. Spurn has a great history of recording rare birds and insects and when migration is in full swing, many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,18,529,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-203","category-birds","category-birdsof2013","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}