First-ever spotting at Spurn Point
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust were very excited in mid-July to record the discovery of the first white-letter hairstreak butterfly at Spurn!
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Spurn National Nature Reserve
Welcome to Yorkshire's very own Lands End. Start your adventure at Spurn from our Spurn Discovery Centre!
My mission
Megan is fascinated by the wide variety of British wildlife, particularly discovering what lives in the garden. She loves putting out the moth trap overnight and finding the moths in the morning.…
My turning point
Volunteering on a nature reserve turned Adam’s life around after a difficult time in life. As Assistant Reserve Officer, wildlife is both his stress relief and his career.
Spurn Point: The perfect winter day out at our own Land’s End
Discover the beauty of Spurn Point, a unique nature reserve offering a wild winter adventure through a constantly changing landscape of big skies, rich history, and incredible birdlife.
Walking to Spurn’s very own Land’s End
Spurn National Nature Reserve is a sandy peninsula jutting out, 3.5 miles from the end of the Holderness Coast, into the mouth of the Humber Estuary. This unique and iconic landscape may be ever…
Wild bee orchids spotted on Spurn Point NNR for the first time in 30 years
A species thought lost from Spurn Point National Nature Reserve since the 1990s – and which clings on in only small populations elsewhere in the area – has for the first time in 30 years flowered…
Devastating news for bees as Government reverses neonicotinoids ban
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is alarmed to learn the Government has agreed the use of a highly damaging pesticide - neonicotinoid thiamethoxam - for the treatment of sugar beet seed in response to…
Pine marten at Spurn National Nature Reserve
Imagine our surprise earlier this year when reports of a rare mammal - more at home in remote woodlands - began to reach us at Spurn National Nature Reserve.
History of Spurn
Discover the natural and human history at Spurn point, from military tunnels to lost villages.
A Year in the Life: Seagrass Restoration
Georgia Bennett, our Seagrass Restoration Assistant, takes us through how the team are working throughout the year to restore 30 hectares of lost seagrass meadow at Spurn Point as part of our…
Why Spurn is an ever-changing landscape
Recently, part of the route that leads down to Spurn point has been affected by winter storms. Adam, who manages our Spurn Discovery Centre, explains how coastal erosion affects Spurn and why it…