Denholme Clough 06-10-2007

Denholme Clough (Simon Johnson/Mark Doveston)
7.15 -10.30 Overcast low cloud to start, breaking to blue skys by end of watch also no wind to start increasing to F1 Southerly.

Birds were lower down to start but got higher and harder to pick up as the cloud broke. Steady passage of mpipits for here along with a good numbers of finches and Pied Wags moving through. Several groups of Lapwing headed East and small numbers of Magpies were heading high West.

Lapwing 82 >E (groups of 60,5,2,15) and 12>NW
Swallow 48 >SE
House Martin 2 >SE
Skylark 3 >E
Mpipit 221 Mainly >ESE
Pied Wag 35 >S
Redwing 172 >Various
Fieldfare >E
Song Thrush 4 >SW
Jay 2 >N
Magpie 11 >W
Coal Tit 2 >E
Chaffinch 121 >ESE
Brambling >N
Greenfinch 77 >ESE
Siskin 28 >E
Redpoll 23 >SSE
Linnet >E
Goldfinch 41 > ESE
Bullfinch 16 >E (groups of 5,5,4,2)
Reed Bunting 3 >S

Not a mega morning but still a good do.

Simon