Oxenhope 03-09-2006

Members Only Watchpoint 03-09-2006
Sunday 3rd September 2006
0700 – 1100hr.
Weather and Sky:
An improving morning with rain initially and at the end of the watch. WSW F5 gusting F7 later, 15 rising 17, 5000m initially increasing Flasby Fells / Humber Bridge, low stratus with fractus breaking stratocumulus 7ok, horizontal driving drizzle for the first hour then dry. 999 rising 1001.

A poor morning with nearly all of the Meadow Pipits west just prior to cessation of rain on the very edge of the reducing drizzle between c 0745 and 0800hr. A couple of Skylarks were picked up calling as they went west. Not much else at all, just too windy for today.

Moving Birds:
Mipit 142 > W
Skylark 2 > W
House Martin 7 > W
Swallow 16 > S
Goldfinch 35 > W
Rook 6 > S
Sand Martin 1 > S
Linnet 1 > W
Chaffinch 1 > W

Other
Whinchat 1
Common Sand 2

Dave