Migration Festival

WOW what a weekend! Judging by the messages on twitter and the feedback we received during the event we think it fair to say that Britain’s first Migration Festival (AKA Mig Fest) was a great success and it surely won’t be the last.

11 September 2013

We’d like to thank all who attended we hope you had a great time. We would also like to thank all the volunteers who made such a great event not only possible but run smoothly, we know you enjoyed being part of it but thanks very much for your time and effort.

Andrew and Sue Wells would like to thank everyone who attended for treating their home with respect, they have also really enjoyed the experience.

If you have any comments you would like to pass on then please contact any of the partners in the festival: Spurn Bird Observatory Trust, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Birding Frontiers and Westmere Farm.

Here is a full list of the 134 species recorded during the weekend, the more notable species for Spurn in bold.

  • Mute Swan
  • Shelduck
  • Wigeon
  • Gadwall
  • Teal
  • Mallard
  • Pintail
  • Garganey
  • Shoveler
  • Tufted Duck
  • Scaup
  • Eider
  • Common Scoter
  • Pheasant
  • Red-throated Diver
  • Little Grebe
  • Great Crested Grebe
  • Red-necked Grebe
  • Fulmar
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Manx Shearwater
  • Balearic Shearwater
  • Leach’s Petrel
  • Gannet
  • Cormorant
  • Shag
  • Little Egret
  • Grey Heron
  • Marsh Harrier
  • Sparrowhawk
  • Common Buzzard
  • Kestrel
  • Hobby
  • Peregrine
  • Water Rail
  • Moorhen
  • Coot
  • Oystercatcher
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Ringed Plover
  • Golden Plover
  • Grey Plover
  • Lapwing
  • Knot
  • Sanderling
  • Little Stint
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Purple Sandpiper
  • Dunlin
  • Ruff
  • Snipe
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Whimbrel
  • Curlew
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Redshank
  • Greenshank
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Turnstone
  • Pomarine Skua
  • Arctic Skua
  • Bonxie
  • Mediterranean Gull
  • Little Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Common Gull
  • Lesser B.B.Gull
  • Yellow-legged Gull
  • Caspian Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Great B.B.Gull
  • Kittiwake
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Black Tern
  • Guillemot
  • Razorbill
  • Puffin
  • Feral Pigeon
  • Stock Dove
  • Woodpigeon
  • Collared Dove
  • Cuckoo
  • Swift
  • Kingfisher
  • Wryneck
  • Skylark
  • Sand Martin
  • Swallow
  • House Martin
  • Tree Pipit
  • Meadow Pipit
  • Rock Pipit
  • Yellow Wagtail
  • Grey Wagtail
  • Pied Wagtail
  • Wren
  • Dunnock
  • Robin
  • Redstart
  • Whinchat
  • Wheatear
  • Blackbird
  • Song Thrush
  • Grasshopper Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Reed Warbler
  • Lesser Whitethroat
  • Whitethroat
  • Garden Warbler
  • Blackcap
  • Chiffchaff
  • Willow Warbler
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • Pied Flycatcher
  • Blue Tit
  • Great Tit
  • Red-backed Shrike
  • Magpie
  • Rook
  • Carrion Crow
  • Starling
  • House Sparrow
  • Tree Sparrow
  • Chaffinch
  • Greenfinch
  • Goldfinch
  • Linnet
  • Common Rosefinch
  • Reed Bunting
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