Spurn National Nature Reserve
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Overview
The four-mile-long, narrow, crooked finger of sand of Spurn Point NNR beckons out from the Holderness coast across the mouth of the mighty Humber. It is probably most famous for its migratory birds, and huge numbers pass through Spurn during the year. The adjacent Humber Estuary is of international importance for its vast numbers of wildfowl and wading birds, which can be seen passing through in spring, autumn and winter. Plants include marram grass on the dunes mixed with stunted elder and orange-berried sea buckthorn bushes. On the Humber side of Spurn, a strip of saltmarsh lies between the land and the mudflats, supporting colourful flowering plants including sea lavender, sea aster and sea rocket, along with common glasswort and eel grass. Curlew, grey plover and knot also use the saltmarsh to roost at high tide, and shelduck and Brent geese are conspicuous on the mudflats during winter. Birdwatching will not only reveal passing seabirds, including the locally breeding little tern in the summer, but also harbour porpoises and even a passing minke or humpback whale.
Features
- Opening Times
- Open all year
About the area
Yorkshire’s East Riding is the only one left of a trio of ‘ridings’ which existed up until 1974. The North and West are gone, to be replaced by North, South and West Yorkshires.
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