1. Passage movements and the arrival and departure of winter visitors are difficult to separate. 2. Peak numbers occur between December and February, and most winter visitors have departed by late March. 3. Regular winter visitor and passage migrant. 4. Some winter visitors stay on until mid-April. 5. The arrival and departure of winter visitors overlaps passage, but peak winter counts are usually made in December or January. 6. The three native species are all winter visitors in the central and southern parts of the region. 7. The turnstones are winter visitors to Britain. 8. Winter visitors probably arrive in November, sometimes October, and are most numerous in November and December. 9. An old diary records winter visitors, including bull elk with five points on each antler. 10. And not all winter visitors are of the cross-country persuasion. |