Oxenhope... a quiet but windy morning 31-08-2009

Open skies to the east... just after sunrise (c) 2009


Deep cloud to the west and over the Pennines (c) 2009
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0555 - 1200hr D Barker H Creber
SW F6 becoming S F6, 15degC, 100km+, 4/8 becoming 8/8, more or less dry, QNH 1007 falling

Just too windy up here for much movement but never-the-less things were trying and there was still a bit albeit exceedingly thin... The first mipit, a single diddent come until 0643 then followed by a few more all low and going W and SW. The first Swallow came at 0707, with just a very few following on up until c0900 when a wave of movement first noted by BS over the hill at Ogden was noted obviously fringing us. We did suspect however that all Brians Swallows at Ogden were approaching him low from out of the Worth basin to our NW as we could see very few in the onslaught of the winds. A single Cormorant went west at 0923 and a single Snipe at 1027 followed by a very high and fast whisp of seven all going west at 1030hr were today the best birds on offer. The distant horizon views to the east however were impressive and kept us occupied in the famine... so nothing was lost!

Moving birds in order of appearance:

Meadow Pipit 73 > W and SW
LBBGull 79 > SW and NW
Swallow 122 > SW
Sparrowhawk 1 > W
Cormorant 1 > W
Grey Wagtail 3 > W
Snipe 8 > W
BH Gull 1 > SW

Dave