In autumn, few people listen more intently to the weather forecast than birders. Especially that hardcore subset of the tribe known as twitchers, who chase down rare birds that wander to our shores from every point of the compass.
Twitchers are praying for westerly gales during autumn – often the fading end of tropical storms and hurricanes from the Americas – which bring vagrant North American songbirds across the Atlantic, to make landfall on islands and headlands on this side of the ocean.
