Doing a THROUGH!!
Doing a THROUGH
I have made my mind up that this year as in 2005 I am not going to stop! But continue on with a winter THROUGH, just like they do in the Netherlands! Weekends at least. The autumn is just turning at my site with "all species" sightings reducing. Soon, another two weeks, much of the movement here will almost stop, with by default, very sad, empty and quiet skies. But here at Oxenhope there is much sky to view and in some years the westerly hard weather moves have been impressive with wildfoul and waders pouring through when conditions really stiffen. There really is nearly always something on the move. December days in the right conditions can be wonderful, as can those in January. As in 2005 I intend to get to grips with as Stephen calls it, the "McKay Return", definate reallity here, with Woodpigeons streaming N, NE and E out of Lancashire, especially in January. Also in January the first leg of the PFG return is the very essence of vis, on the right days with multiple exceptionally high skeins > NW in what we call the 11 o'clock rush, with the timing due to multiple dawn departures from Norfolk...... exciting stuff when you know they will be coming! Its February that I'm not too keen on here. You are right Nick the "ten coat" Mitchelin Man mornings with double Damart under garments as well, are nearly upon us. Ice rind round the coffee cups, rock hard chocolate, broken teeth, frozen book pages, dead pens, dew drenched optics, snow bound cars, drift bound ice covered deckchairs, wind toppled trypods, frosted hair, frequent deckchair recovery from the water, frost bitten fingers, stiffened bodies, slurred speach, ultimate hypothermia and what ever other hardships winter brings to the vis watcher in the hills (a good subject here for a little storey) are almost reallity now. Just try drinking coffee with little shelter in a F7 gale, in fact all fluids go the same way here, ending up at Spurn! I think so far that the weather has this autumn been remarkably soft in relation to some I can remember in the last decade with BS, HC etal at Oxenhope – no big winds, no really hard frosts, no snow to date, no really preventative downpours – just in balance a few very foggy fogs!
Anyone joining in with the THROUGH? I know Mavis will!
After all if you've never tried it, you never know!
Dave.
White Hell!! - The Road to the Reservoir - Archive Material (c) April 1979
I have made my mind up that this year as in 2005 I am not going to stop! But continue on with a winter THROUGH, just like they do in the Netherlands! Weekends at least. The autumn is just turning at my site with "all species" sightings reducing. Soon, another two weeks, much of the movement here will almost stop, with by default, very sad, empty and quiet skies. But here at Oxenhope there is much sky to view and in some years the westerly hard weather moves have been impressive with wildfoul and waders pouring through when conditions really stiffen. There really is nearly always something on the move. December days in the right conditions can be wonderful, as can those in January. As in 2005 I intend to get to grips with as Stephen calls it, the "McKay Return", definate reallity here, with Woodpigeons streaming N, NE and E out of Lancashire, especially in January. Also in January the first leg of the PFG return is the very essence of vis, on the right days with multiple exceptionally high skeins > NW in what we call the 11 o'clock rush, with the timing due to multiple dawn departures from Norfolk...... exciting stuff when you know they will be coming! Its February that I'm not too keen on here. You are right Nick the "ten coat" Mitchelin Man mornings with double Damart under garments as well, are nearly upon us. Ice rind round the coffee cups, rock hard chocolate, broken teeth, frozen book pages, dead pens, dew drenched optics, snow bound cars, drift bound ice covered deckchairs, wind toppled trypods, frosted hair, frequent deckchair recovery from the water, frost bitten fingers, stiffened bodies, slurred speach, ultimate hypothermia and what ever other hardships winter brings to the vis watcher in the hills (a good subject here for a little storey) are almost reallity now. Just try drinking coffee with little shelter in a F7 gale, in fact all fluids go the same way here, ending up at Spurn! I think so far that the weather has this autumn been remarkably soft in relation to some I can remember in the last decade with BS, HC etal at Oxenhope – no big winds, no really hard frosts, no snow to date, no really preventative downpours – just in balance a few very foggy fogs!
Anyone joining in with the THROUGH? I know Mavis will!
After all if you've never tried it, you never know!
Dave.
White Hell!! - The Road to the Reservoir - Archive Material (c) April 1979
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11/08/2008 09:08:00 pm
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