Back Lane Ogden 30-08-2009

30/08/2009 0730-1000hrs SW F3 early drizzle then cloudy.

An ideal vis mig morning throughout with good numbers of Meadow Pipits and Swallows moving through.The Swallows were at their peak at 0745hrs all low and fast through the Causway Foot Col and below the level of Soil Hill. By 0800hrs gulls were streaming onto the reservoir and several landed in surrounding fields.
Things quietened by 0930 although Swallows were still coming through but in smaller numbers.

VIS MIG :-

278 SWALLOW..............>S
192 MEADOW PIPIT....>W
4 HOUSE MARTIN.......>S
2 CORMORANT............>SW
6 ALBA WAGTAIL.......>W
42 LAPWING................>E could be locals ?
1 TREE PIPIT...............>W

Brian Sumner