Rare Bird Alert Supporting SBOT

Despite only just handing over a cheque at this years MigFest for A thousand pounds Rare Bird Alert are once again kindly supporting the work of the observatory.

17 September 2018

They are holding a raffle to win a superb framed original watercolour by Ray Scally of the Derbyshire Dusky Thrush. Please follow the link to the RBA JustGiving page for full details.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rare-bird-alert

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.

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