Oxenhope... ideallic winter conditions! 03-01-2010
The difficult road before Sunrise! (c) 2010
Sun Pillar at Sunrise (c) 2010
First Sun on the Hill (c) 2010
Rising Sun skimming the Hilltops (c) 2009
0745 - 1120hr
Calm increasing N F1, -7degC, 65 reducing 30km, light snow later on, 1 ok, QNH 1024 rising
A terrific morning to be out with birds on the move as well. The first noteable morning of the freeze here... a sign of things tightening I think... it cant be long now before the deluge if it keeps going this way!! Ideallic cold and calm with gentle snow moving in from the NE and falling towards the end of the morning. Fieldfares jetting very high SW from first light in small flocks set the scene with maximum flock of 43. Most were out high over the snow fields of the west.... most interestingly a small flock were on the solid ice of the reservoir... possibly looking for something to drink!!... they soon were off SW. Three small groups and several single Skylarks went high west during the mid morning with the last going over as I was leaving. A few woodies, large gulls and mipits also on the move SW. The birds of the day were however a skien of 105 pinks at 1050hr exceptionally high travelling WNW across the leading edge of the approaching snow front. A Redshank over the ice west was unexpected as was a Collared Dove in the wood (previously rare here).... the only brid present today. Most interestingly no small gulls were seen at all today.... and the water 100% frozen and drifted over with snow was unsuitable to support the normal roost which last night had failed!
Moving birds:
Fieldfare 214 > SW
Woodpigeon 2 > SW
GBB Gull 10 > SW
Herring Gull 24 > SW
Meadow Pipit 2 > SW
Pink footed Goose 105 > WNW @ 1050
Redshank 1 > W
Skylark 21 > SW
Carrion Crow 6 > E
Other:
Collared Dove 1
Magpie 1
The Frozen Water (c) 2010
The Frozen Water.... drifted over with Snow (c) 2010
The Snow Front Approaching (c) 2010
The Church through the falling Snow (c) 2010
Gently falling Snow (c) 2010
Dave
posted by Dave Barker at
1/03/2010 03:12:00 pm
2 Comments:
Great pics Dave, love the sunrise and the snowstorms.
Just Skyped an e mail from my phone to the Qby blog and it went on immediately. Nigel altered it today so I could do it direct.
Yes I can now mail direct to all of the blogs to which I contribute but only intend to use that facility as a matter of life or death though to give earliest warning on a giga day. Can also more to the point mail to the vis Group and receive their mails whilst on site.... a terrrrriffic benifit in the season during long days in the field, to be able to keep in touch with the vis minded community on a big or infact any day! Sure just as email communication was the thing of the last decade, the real time birding benefit of FOC mobile Skype will be the development during this.... time will tell but we are off to a belting start.... Dave.
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