Oxenhope... waders still passing! 02-10-2009

Sunrise through heavy drizzle... yet again clear out to the east but deep cloud and rain invading out of Lancashire! (c) 2009


Multiple cloud layers (c) 2009


Moderate Rain invading out of Lancashire! (c) 2009

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 2 October 2009
Counting period: 7:00-9:30
Weather: W F3/4, 9degC, 45km reducing 20, 8/8 stratus, altostratus, fractus, drizzle becoming moderate rain, QNH 1017 falling
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber

Moving birds:

Golden Plover 19 -
alba wagtail sp. 5 -
Common Snipe 20 -
Mistle Thrush 3 -
Black-headed Gull 1 -
Starling 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3 -
Chaffinch 14 -
Meadow Pipit 425 -
Greenfinch 2 -

Totals: 493 individuals, 10 species, 2:30 hours

Present: Dunnock 1


Comments: A poor day after yesterday with virtually no finches and with visibility not condusive to seeing pinks. Meadow Pipits still trickeling through south with a few west. Snipe and Golden Plover still going strong however... more Goldies heard than could be counted but we did manage to see some. All Snipe were going west with Goldies south. A Dunnock was in the wood!

Dave