rokermartin
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If you had a choose where would you move to for birdwatching the east coast or west coast.I live on the east coast and i think it's excellent for seeing a good variety of bird species.On the east coast you get falls of migrants,breeding seabirds and skuas,petrels,shearwaters,divers grebes seaducks Little Auks flying past.It has excellent migration hot spots like Spurn,Holy Island,St Abbs,Teeside,The Farnes,Filey,Flamborough,Bempton the Norfolk and Suffolk coast etc.I think i would find the west coast a bit boring especially at migrations times i would miss seeing YB Warblers,Greenish Warblers,Pallas's Warblers,RB Shrikes,Wrynecks, falls of migrants and all the rarities that the east coast gets as well as all the seabirds.But on the other hand the west coast has huge numbers of geese,swans and wildfowl that winter and nature reserves such as Martin Mere,Leighton Moss,Hilbre Island,St Bees for Black Guillemot and the Solway Firth.
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