BTO Bird Migration Blog

The cold northerly winds that have been with us since last Saturday have reduced migration to trickle. The snowfall and freezing night time ...

Pretty much all of the long distance migrant species we would have expected to arrive in the UK by mid-April have done just that. But it st...

The warm southerly airflow over the last few days did result in an arrival of summer migrants, with most of the early season birds well repr...

Migration has been slow going until last weekend, but things have noticeably picked up since then with a change in wind direction. Chiffcha...

The cold northerly airflow has been holding things up during the last week but with lighter winds during the last couple of days some birds ...

The high-pressure that is currently sitting over most of the British Isles is producing fronts along its flanks and a predominantly north-e...

The cold northerly and westerly winds during the last week or so have pretty much put the brakes on the arrival of any early summer migrants...