Watchpoint 22-08-2005 eve
Members only watchpoint 22-08-2005 eve
Monday 22nd August 2005
1915 – 2045hr
Weather and Sky:
A deteriorating evening with some heavy rain during visit. Wind: initially NE F1, becoming W F2. Temp: 11. Visibility: >Leck Fell / Humber Bridge. Cloud: very deep and black, overhead, and extending many miles to both east and west but a thin line of clearer sky visible in both of these directions. Pressure: rising 1018.
Dramatic conditions in the hills and a good drenching, but well worth it. The only one passerine seen throughout the 90 minute watch, a single Swift charging fast > SW on the back edge of the rain and heading for the open sky. The bird was far out to the north-west and silhouetted against the more open sky!
Note in the log book – via PC that KM had a single Whimbrel over this mid afternoon and three Whimbrel in to land.
Moving Birds:
Swift 1 > SW
Dave
The Sky Tonight 22nd August 2005 (c)
Monday 22nd August 2005
1915 – 2045hr
Weather and Sky:
A deteriorating evening with some heavy rain during visit. Wind: initially NE F1, becoming W F2. Temp: 11. Visibility: >Leck Fell / Humber Bridge. Cloud: very deep and black, overhead, and extending many miles to both east and west but a thin line of clearer sky visible in both of these directions. Pressure: rising 1018.
Dramatic conditions in the hills and a good drenching, but well worth it. The only one passerine seen throughout the 90 minute watch, a single Swift charging fast > SW on the back edge of the rain and heading for the open sky. The bird was far out to the north-west and silhouetted against the more open sky!
Note in the log book – via PC that KM had a single Whimbrel over this mid afternoon and three Whimbrel in to land.
Moving Birds:
Swift 1 > SW
Dave
The Sky Tonight 22nd August 2005 (c)
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8/22/2005 09:59:00 pm
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