Please respect all graves and headstones! Spurn Bird Observatory's reminder to over-zealous twitchers

 

Dating from about 1864, St Helen's Church in Kilnsea is now redundant - but worshipper have been replaced by birders because the surrounding trees and shrubs are often a magnet for unusual birds (photo: KJP1 via Wikimedia)  

SPURN Bird Observatory officials this afternoon issued a reminder to birders to respect the graves and headstones in Kilnsea Churchyard and Easington  Cemetery.

This follows suggestions  that a few may have trampled over graves in their zeal to get close-up shots of rare birds.

This week the star attraction in the churchyard has been a Pallas's Leaf Warbler.

However, at this time of year, it is famed for attracting other scarce species such as Red-flanked Bluetail, Arctic Warbler, Icterine Warbler and Wood Warbler.

There are also past records of Golden Oriole and Black-throated Thrush.

Easington Cemetery is not such a rarity hotspot as the churchyard, though it can be a stopping-off point  for Bramblings and Waxwings.

Bird observatory officials have urged birders always to keep to the paths in the two destinations.                                           

Pallas's Leaf Warbler - this bird was photographed by Elena Fedotova in Russia (photo Wikimedia Commons)