Oxenhope.... minus six! 07-03-2010

Too much haze but no inversion... (c) 2010


Minus Six.... frosted juncus (c) 2010


Magpie in the Sun... (c) 2010

Calm becoming E F2 late morning, -6degC rising air temp 2 by lunch time, 30km, 0/8 open sky - haze, QNH 1031 rising then falling.

0650 - 1300hr

A wonderful morning, totally calm but here very little in the sky... possibly a bit too cold. Still frost on the grass in the shadows at 1300hrs when leaving. Meadow Pipits showing the first real signs of movement all north and throughout the morning. Curlews also well represented all going NW. Small gulls... very few in the sky, more Common than BHG and mostgoing east. Kept thinking that there might be some Whoopers but not to be this morning.

Moving Birds:
Collared Dove 1 > S
Magpie 4 > NW all high singles
Curlew 12 > NW
Meadow Pipit 12 > N
Lapwing 5 > NW all high singles
Wood Pigeon 2 > NE
small gulls 40 mostly east and mostly Common
Carrion Crow 5 > N
Greenfinch 4 > E
Goldfinch 1 > E
Golden Plover 36 > W
Skylark 3 > W and 1 > NE
Oystercatcher 2 > W
LBB Gull 2 > NW
Jackdaw 2 > NE
Cormorant 1 > NW

Dave