Migfest Camping (5th - 11th September)

One of our favourite events is held at a cracking bird migration hotspot known as Spurn Point Nature reserve. It has a great pub, even better campsite and some superb movements of both rare and common migrant birds. Other animals include bats, moths, dragonflies, butterflies, hare, deer, weasel and fox, all of which we have seen personally.

I am so reluctant to mention the campsite as it only just has enough room for a few units. One of the sad parts of the campsite over the years, is that more and more static caravans have taken up year round residency, which to my eye makes sites look a touch scruffy and of course limits availability. That out of the way, it's in a superb place within spitting distance of the Humber and North sea.

The campsite we stayed at is Driftwood Campsite

This is from a Migfest a few years back where at 06:00 people take part in visible migration counts whereby with any luck, thousands of birds can be seen on migration in a morning. Meadow Pipits, Swallow etc.

Anything can turn up such as this Bluethroat and Red Backed Shrike that I captured several years ago via my early digiscoping setup.

This was the botany walk, by a very knowledgeable Spurn regular John Law AKA "rag a bit up" an education at many levels. 

Another love of ours is moth trapping, and a communal event at the Migfest is a great opportunity to meet like minded folk with great experience. New moths are also possible.

 

The Crown and Anchor pub is a big part of the community, and the view whilst having an evening meal or drink is second to non.

Typical view out in the evening over the Humber estuary.

I like to add the temps for every trip that the tent recorded. As you can see the minimum was not too bad.