different coloured footsteps made from pebbles take a united walk across a sandy beach
different coloured footsteps made from pebbles take a united walk across a sandy beach on Spurn Head. Spurn Head is a unique coastal reserve. This mile long, narrow and curving peninsula provides perfect opportunities for watching birds, marine and coastal wildlife It is well worth the journey to this fascinating, curving spit of land, which stretches for three-and-a-half miles across the mouth of the mighty River Humber. Our National Nature Reserve at Spurn Point has good facilities with car parks, a visitor centre, tea room and numerous hides. It has wonderful views, sand dunes and bracing 10,000 years ago after the retreat of the ice cap, the peninsula is made up of debris washed down, by the action of wind and water, from the soft clay cliffs to the north. It is constantly being eroded and re-formed. Its fragile nature means that, to a great extent, it is inhabited by wildlife that thrives on or exploits the changing conditions; marram grass, for example. There is much botanical interest. Sea buckthorn dominates; lyme-grass, marram, sea-holly and sea rocket are among the hundreds of species recorded. On the Humber mud, cord-grass is a place to observe and study birds and their migration, Spurn is incomparable. It is truly a birdwatcher's paradise. As well as migrants there are large numbers of wintering and passage waders and wildfowl and the ever-present likelihood of rarities. Roe deer, hares and foxes roam the land, and seals and harbour porpoise are sometimes seen on the coastal stretches. It is also important nationally for many species of insects. Butterflies of note include brimstone, green-veined white, orange-tip, green-hairstreak, common blue, gatekeeper and wall and meadow brown all breeding residents. In summer the warm air also brings out dragonflies and is much more to Spurn; its geomorphological importance, for example, and a long and fascinating history rivalling that of any other site in England.
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Location: Spurn Point, Spurn Head, River Humber, Yorkshire, UK
Photo credit: © Gillian Young / Alamy / Afripics
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