BTO Bird Migration Blog

The last few days have seen a large movement of thrushes (mostly Fieldfares ) and Starlings across the North Sea, prompted by high pressure...

Well, at least winter thrushes are. It finally happened during the early part of this week; Redwings seemed to be everywhere as they arrived...

You know it's October when birds begin turning up from all points of the compass. The first real westerly storms of the autumn brought m...

The westerly airflow produced the good in the shape of several North American landbirds this week. At least three Red-eyed Vireos were see...

After almost a month of easterly airflow that resulted in and amazing autumn for visible migration and the arrival of large numbers of scar...

With easterlies still dominating it is hardly surprising that birds from the east have dominated too. Two species have occurred in exceptio...

With high pressure on the continent and low cloud over much of the UK for periods of time last week, a good visible migration showing was a...