BTO Bird Migration Blog

North-easterly winds and the second week of June wouldn’t ordinarily be the perfect recipe for the arrival of migrant birds.   Common migran...

It's been much quieter this week, more due to the weather than to the end of migration. Migration should continue for at least a couple ...

It's been a much quieter week this week and it really does seem like the main thrust of migration is over. However it appears that there...

Last week was an extraordinary week, although the predicted Sociable Plover failed to show, it was a week for rare waders, with at least thr...

Although the predicted Sociable Plover didn't materialise, a superb 1st summer male Collared Flycatcher did; on the east coast at Holme...

Wednesday morning saw the first Swifts over the BTO headquarters here in Thetford, heralding their arrival across much of the country. Swift...

The strong east/north-easterly winds that were very much a feature of the weekend put paid to the mass arrival of Swifts, it did however, gr...