Cold Edge / Hunger Hill Calderdale 26-09-2009

Cold Edge/Hunger Hill, Calderdale

Vis Mig 06.45 - 10.00 Dave Sutcliffe Martyn Hayes
(Martyn - I have sent you an email with the hourly counts split up if needed)

Most birds heading W to SW
Meadow Pipit - 716
Swallow - 52
Linnet - 34
Goldfinch - 29
Skylark - 19
Pink-footed Goose - 14 W> at 10.00
L B B G's 6 NE>
Greylag Goose 5 (going round in circles!)
Snipe - 5
Chaffinch - 4
Mistle Thrush - 3
Starling - 3 NE>
Woodpigeon - 3
Grey Wagtail - 2
Pied Wagtail - 2
Jay - 2
Goosander - 2 NE>
Greenfinch - 1

Also present nearby
2 Wheatears
1 Wren
1 Robin
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Green Woodpecker
2 Little Owls calling in the valley
1 Kestrel
8 Canada Geese dropped into fields near Mt Tabor
1 Cormorant - dropped into Ogden - and 6 Mallard
1 probable Golden Plover - but at a distance
Several Jackdaws, Carrion Crows and a Pheasant
1 Brown Hare


Dave and Martyn

Stainburn Moor, Harrogate 26-09-2009

Stainburn Moor, Harrogate (N Yorks, England)
Saturday 26 September 2009
Counting period: 6:50-11:30
Weather: cools start milder later; dry. Wind W variable 0-2 /8 cloud max
Observers: Andrew Hanby, John Blacker

Moving Birds:

Cormorant 24 -
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 -
Starling 52 -
Grey Heron 4 -
Skylark 12 -
Chaffinch 3 -
Pink-footed Goose 18 -
Swallow 53 -
Goldfinch 15 -
Greylag Goose 60 -
House Martin 18 -
Siskin 2 -
Mallard 5 -
Meadow Pipit 622 -
Linnet 171 -
Common Snipe 23 -
Grey Wagtail 3 -
Reed Bunting 1 -
Common Gull 2 -
alba wagtail sp. 22 -
Red Admiral 5 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 18
Mistle Thrush 3 -
Woodpigeon 35 -
Jay 3 -

Totals: 1175 individuals, 25 species, 4:40 hours

Present: Red Kite 5, Sparrowhawk 3, Common Buzzard 4, Kestrel 4, Golden Plover 60, Lapwing 200, Stock Dove 3, Skylark 35

Comments: Lovely morning with fog over the vale of York. Good variety, though nothing unexpected and no large numbers.

John and Andy

Oxenhope... a bleak cold morning! 26-09-2009

Pre Sunrise this Morning... yet again open sky out to the east but deep cloud overhead! (c) 2009


Sunrise this morning (c) 2009


Crepuscular Rays!... looking east (c) m2009

Streets of stratocumulus... looking north mid morning (c) 2009

Central Leeds at Sunrise!! (c) 2009

Pinks west past the Whetstone Gate reporting point (c) 2009

Wheatear in from the north (c) 2009

Greylags going east (c) 2009

0650 - 1045hr Dave Barker Howard Creber

WNW F3 rising F4, 10degC at 0630, 65km reducing 30, 7/8 stratocumulus st fractus, QNH 1025 steady.

Yet again open skies to the far east with deep cloud overhead at sunrise breaking only slowly here. A cold bleak morning with little in the sky initially... no pre or post sunrise mipit rush... but by 0835 mipits were flowing well with reassureingly increasing size of flocks going through upto mid morning with the maximum flock size being 85 today.... a good sign! Woodpigeons were noteable with the first real southward passage albeit small, noted this autumn! A small skein of Pinks picked up way out over Airedale continued west rather than south. Otherwise a further decrease in gull numbers in the sky.... and nothing much else at all. Just a bit too windy here for the finches.

Moving birds in order of appearance:

Meadow Pipit 957 > S

Chaffinch 5 > W

BH Gull 8 > W

Mistle Thrush 11 > W

Woodpigeon 30 > s

Goldfinch 32 > S and SW

Greenfinch 6 > W

Sparrowhawk 1 > S

Grey Wagtail 1 > W

Starling 1 > S

Reed Bunting 4 > W

Lapwing 5 > NW

Swallow 21 > S
Peregrine 1 > S

Skylark 5 > w

Pink footed Goose 11 > W

Wheatear 1 > SW

Green Woodpecker 1 > W

alba wagtial 3 > SW

LBB Gull 3 > W

House Martin 1 > W

Greylag Goose 5 > E

Dave