PFG Tsunami Oxenhope 19-02-2009

Hey up Dave,

Fantastic movement of pinkies today, pretty much right over my house (Oxenhope, Worth Valley, W Yorks) Between 12.10pm and 12.35pm, circa 2500 passed WNW, in 16 skeins, largest being circa 400 birds.

Quite a spectacle !!!!

Cheers,
Howard....

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Yet more reports of pinkies over West Yorkshire today, this one, on the Queensbury web of birds over Swales Moor / Ringby in Calderdale:

http://queensburybirder.blogspot.com/2009/02/swales-moorringby_19.html

(DJ Sutcliffe / Andy Cockroft)

and

this one on Calderdale Birds from Fly Flatts on the Aire-Calder watershed:

http://calderbirds.blogspot.com/2009/02/fly-flats_19.html

(DJ Sutcliffe)

Dave
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Also later information confirms the passage extended today into N Yorks....

Hello Dave

I see from vismig site that there has been a movement of Pinkfoot through.
As I approached Fewston Res (Washburn Valley, N Yorks) in the car today at c13.45hr, high and in the distance was a skein of about 100 birds. The formation led me to believe that they were also Pinkfeet.

The birds were going away from me heading west towards Thruscross.

Regards

Shaun Radcliffe

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Also yet more news from Caldedale Birds:

http://calderbirds.blogspot.com/2009/02/17-goldfinches-looking-at-niger-seed.html

Dave