MIgfest 2015: September 4th-6th

Planning for Migfest 2015 is well underway and it will be bigger and better than ever as this already legendary event continues to grow.

07 May 2015

Please put the dates in your diary and make sure you don’t miss out.

Tickets will go on sale in June and details of how to book will be announced in due course so please check back regularly.

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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.

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Moments at Migfest; captured by young photographers

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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!

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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.

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