Back Lane Ogden... and how they came! 31-08-2009
Back Lane Ogden.... looking South (c) Brian Sumner
Back Lane Ogden... looking North (c) Brian Sumner
Back Lane Ogden... looking West (c) 2009
Back Lane Ogden... looking East (c) Brian Sumner
0730-1000hrs SW > 5 Some drizzle.
A quiet start with nothing but the usual on the water and very little in the skies.
By 0845 Swallows were starting coming from the north down the valley above the
plantation ,some low skimming the ground, others high above the wind turbines.
By 0855 the flood gates had opened and Swallows were now pouring through at a ridiculous
rate with up to 50 being counted in one sweep of the bins. A call to alert DCB at Oxenhope found that he was getting them but in smaller numbers meaning that they must have been skirting up Paul Clough and to the west of Daves watchpoint using the Ogden valley as a shelter from the wind. By 1000hrs the flow had slowed down. All birds passed to the west of me with nothing to the east between me and Soil Hill where yesterdays birds came through.
VIS MIG :-
887 SWALLOW.................> S
78 MEADOW PIPIT.........> SW
4 ALBA WAGTAIL...........> W
2 GREY WAGTAIL..........> W
32 LBB GULL....................> SW
1 Merlin licking its lips over the moor.
A quiet start with nothing but the usual on the water and very little in the skies.
By 0845 Swallows were starting coming from the north down the valley above the
plantation ,some low skimming the ground, others high above the wind turbines.
By 0855 the flood gates had opened and Swallows were now pouring through at a ridiculous
rate with up to 50 being counted in one sweep of the bins. A call to alert DCB at Oxenhope found that he was getting them but in smaller numbers meaning that they must have been skirting up Paul Clough and to the west of Daves watchpoint using the Ogden valley as a shelter from the wind. By 1000hrs the flow had slowed down. All birds passed to the west of me with nothing to the east between me and Soil Hill where yesterdays birds came through.
VIS MIG :-
887 SWALLOW.................> S
78 MEADOW PIPIT.........> SW
4 ALBA WAGTAIL...........> W
2 GREY WAGTAIL..........> W
32 LBB GULL....................> SW
1 Merlin licking its lips over the moor.
B Sumner
Great Stuff Brian... FANTASTIC!!
Here at Oxenhope we got next to nothing all morning (0555 - 1200hr) we were just too high and it was too windy at SW F6 becoming S F6. Agree that the Swallows wernt coming through Causeway Foot col and we couldent see any to our W coming over the moor... or to our NW and as you say that means they must have been coming low up the Worth and exiting via either Paul or Nan Scar which would be sheltered or alternatively a long shot coming over Coombe Cross col from Lancashire (from the NW) and skiring round the moor on its north flank, which would also be sheltered before striking up over the watershed and into the Ogden valley. There were watchers at Paul but I havent heard anything yet.... will post details later on if I get any.
Dave
posted by Dave Barker at
8/31/2009 02:03:00 pm
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