By Angela Turner When I lived in East Sussex in southern England in the early 1990s, one of my favourite birding things to do at spring and autumn migration time was to go to the south coast between Beachy Head and Cuckmere Haven. The patches of scrub and grassland along the imposing white cliffs, together … Continue reading Signs of spring
Shifting migrant baselines
By Alexander Lees “The fall of 3rd September 1965 in Suffolk was by far the heaviest of its kind ever recorded in Britain. Axell and Pearson1, in a very detailed account of events in the county, have estimated that more than half a million birds descended along the 24 miles of coast between Sizewell and … Continue reading Shifting migrant baselines
Tales from the flyway 