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Spurn 2025 Calendar

14 November 2024

We’re once again pleased to announce we'll be producing a calendar for 2025, with a whole host of amazing artists who have supported the Observatory with their work.

Moments at Migfest; captured by young photographers

05 November 2024

Over the Spurn Migration Festival ‘Migfest’ weekend held in September 2024, we challenged anyone 25 or under to ‘capture a moment’, to take a photograph using any camera to hand - an old mobile through to a fancy new SLR - and provide a sentence or two of context to outline why the image represented this annual birdwatching festival for them. The caption was as important as the image - and the participants thoroughly delivered on both fronts!

October Sightings Roundup

01 November 2024

October started on a high note with 86 Barnacle Geese passing through and a Sooty Shearwater spotted over the sea. On land, lingering birds from September included a juvenile Pallid Harrier, an Arctic Warbler in the Canal Bushes, a Firecrest, and a Red-breasted Flycatcher in the Kew-to-Cliff Farm area. New arrivals at the Point included a Rosefinch and a Richard’s Pipit.

Winter Work Parties

28 October 2024

Join us this winter and help out with essential habitat management and maintenance.

Young birders take the prize at Spurn Migfest

10 October 2024

The 2024 Martin Garner Spurn Young Birders have been put through their paces, testing their general birding and identification at the Spurn Migration Festival, and the winners have been named.

September Sightings Roundup

01 October 2024

September started brilliantly in moderate easterly winds, with plenty of passage over the sea and a good arrival of passerines on the land too.

WINTER VOLUNTEER POSITIONS

01 October 2024

This year for the first time, we are looking for two residential volunteers to join the team over the winter months to help out with more practicle work around the Observatory. These roles have less emphasis on bird identification skills, so if you're handy with equipment and want to improve your birding skills and knowledge, then this role is perfect for you.

August sightings roundup

01 September 2024

The month started slowly, with three Cuckoos being the most noteworthy sightings on the 1st, although the reappearance of the American Golden Plover and White-rumped Sandpiper on the Humber off the Warren on the 2nd was notable. Both species were seen frequently throughout the month, with the American Golden Plover last observed on the 25th and the White-rumped Sandpiper on the 19th.

Migfest Tickets Almost Gone: Last Chance to Secure Your Place

28 August 2024

The highly anticipated festival is nearing full capacity as tickets continue to sell out rapidly.