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Your reference to the cemetery in Cleethorpes certainly stirred my early memories, Dave. Back in the early 1950s, I was taught by my mentor, the late Len Watkinson, that migrants could be found quite regularly, in the appropriate seasons, in Cleethorpes cemetery. This fact meant that in order to see good birds, it was not always necessary to cycle to my boyhood dream habitat at Tetney marshes.
Cleethorpes was, of course, less built-up in those days, but even so the cemetery was well-confined within the growing urban sprawl. Despite this, the quiet and pleasantly green habitat regularly produced the likes of warblers, Tree Pipits, Redstarts, Pied and Spotted Flycatchers. Most migrant numbers were much larger then, but it still makes one wonder how many interesting migrants descend into other urban properties, scraps of habitat and gardens of non-birders only to be irretrievably lost and unrecorded.
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