British Garden Birds - YWT Spurn Point

Spurn Point is owned by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is arguably one of the best places in Britain for rarities and is the main reason the first bird observatory was established here.

Spurn is a spit of land stretching from into the mouth of the Humber estuary from the north. The habitats are mainly sandy and muddy shores and scrub, including sea buckthorn, hawthorn, elder and sycamore, but also farmland with ditches and hedgerows.

My visits have been in the autumn with the hope of seeing some of these rarities. Alas, I'm neither expert enough nor lucky enough to have done so, but the number of species that can be seen here is still impressive.

What You Might See
Arctic Skua Arctic Tern Bar-tailed Godwit Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Black Redstart Blue Tit Brambling Brent Goose Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Collared Dove Common Buzzard Common Eider Common Gull Common Scoter Common Tern Coot Cormorant Curlew Dunlin Dunnock Fieldfare Gannet Goldcrest Golden Plover Goldfinch Great Black-backed Gull Great Crested Grebe	Great Tit Greenfinch Greenshank Grey Plover Herring Gull House Martin House Sparrow Jackdaw Kestrel Kingfisher Kittiwake Knot Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Little Grebe Little Owl Little Stint Linnet Magpie Mallard Meadow Pipit Merlin Moorhen Mute Swan Oystercatcher Peregrine Pheasant Pied Flycatcher Pied Wagtail Pink-footed Goose Pintail Red-backed Shrike	Redshank Redstart Redwing Reed Bunting Reed Warbler Ringed Plover Robin Rook Sand Martin Sanderling Sandwich Tern Scaup Shelduck Siskin Skylark Sparrowhawk Spotted Redshank Starling Stonechat Swallow Teal Tree Sparrow Tufted Duck Turnstone Wheatear Whimbrel Wigeon Willow Warbler Wood Pigeon Woodcock Wren Yellow-browed Warbler