Sunday, November 15, 2009

Oxenhope... winter is here! 15-11-2009


Pre Sunrise... (c) 2009

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Sunday 15 November 2009
Counting period: 7:30-9:30
Weather: SSW F3/F4, 5degC, 50km haze, 3/8, QNH 999 rising 1000
Observers: Dave Barker

Moving Birds:
Greylag Goose 2 -
Woodpigeon 10 -
Common Gull 3 -
Meadow Pipit 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 -
Starling 15 -
Herring Gull 1 -

Totals: 33 individuals, 7 species, 2:00 hours

Comments: Migration all but dried up generally. Gulls on the move almost absent this morning, with no black heads at all! Only five very small parties of Starlings NW and the advance of cirrus spissatus in the high sky from the SW in the short term bodes bad! Winter is here in the hills!

Dave

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