Oxenhope Watchpoint 29-09-2007

No Sunrise but Dense Fog at the watchpoint this Morning (c) 2007

Bins Down for the Duration Today (c) 2007

0700 - 1000hrs (Dave Barker / Howard Creber)
NE F2 rising NE F3, 8degC static, 200m, 8/8, fog stratus, rain later.

A terrible morning here with thick fog, deep dark and silent, virtually all of the time. We were in fact above the cloudbase which was only c50 feet below us but nevertheless it was enough to ruin our morning!! and worse still by 0945 as it started to clear it came on to rain very heavily. The only thing that kept us going were radio conversations with Mark several hundred feet lower and c3km distant in Denholme Clough, which was in the clear with some birds moving.

However some birds were seen on the move with a single group of c20 mipits cutting south through the fog at 0715 and a single Grey Heron going west at eye level not far away, also through the fog. Several Redwing calls were heard overhead. As the fog started to lift a large group of c50 mipits passed to the NE into the wind which was by now starting to bare rain. A group of Siskin were also heard and thats about it for this morning - might try again this pm.

Moving Birds:
Meadow Pipit c70
Grey Heron 1 > W
Siskin heard
Redwing 3

Dave

Fog Lifting and Rain Starting !!! (c) 2007