Oxenhope... Swallow movement picks up! 18-08-2009

Swallow... Nab Water Lane (c) Brian Vickers 2009
Swallows moving today, found a flock of 50+ on Nab Water Lane resting on a fence this morning in the middle of the moors!
Later AM... 60+ Swallows moving south quickly with a Peregrine circling above them over Gooseye, the Peregrine was then mobbed by a Sparrowhawk. Then a steady movement south over the next 3 hrs at across Wharfedale.
CHATS PASSING THROUGH!
Fly Flatts,
4 Wheatear,
Nab Water lane,
1 Wheatear.
Brian Vickers.
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Glovershaw 18-08-2009
Just two Wheatear and a Whinchat in the fields by Golcar Farm this morning.
Paul King
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Rombalds Moor 17-08-2009
A Whinchat was with a family of Stonechat at Whetstone Allotments this afternoon.
Shaun Radcliffe