BTO Bird Migration Blog

Calandra Lark by John Harding If rare birds are what makes you tick, the last week or so has to be one of the best spring periods on ...

Almost constant easterly airflow during the last week or so had the desired effect on bird migration and a sumptuous array of rare and scarc...

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 ...