It seems unlikely you'd have a good days' birding, firstly arriving just after a Bee-eater has flown through and then missing a Red-rumped Swallow by minutes, but Spurn keeps on providing excellent birds, one after another. My visit today was mainly to watch the superb adult Rose-coloured Starling, one of several in the country at the present time. I have seen several juvenile birds at Spurn previously and an adult at Flamborough a couple of years ago, so I didn't want to miss the opportunity of seeing another of these fine vistors from Eastern Europe. This Rose-coloured Starling was attached to a flock of mainly juvenile Starlings and was found to be on the caravan site, where it found a food supply on the various feeders. I spent much of my time at the watchpoint by the old 'Warren'. I noticed there had been a trickle of Common Swifts going through during the morning and joined those counting the increasing movement of birds in a Southerly direction. In the space of a couple of hours, more than two hundred Swifts had passed close to us, so close you could here the wings fluttering as they darted past. Other hirundines moving South included smaller numbers of Swallows, House Martins and I noted a single Sand Martin.
Someone else keeping a watchful eye on the hirundines was this lovely adult Hobby which passed through just once. Comments are closed.
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