Oxenhope.... autumn deepens! 22-07-2010

Bowland Fells through the glowming... beyond the Ark!... (c) 2010


Banner in Tow!... > NW... (c) 2010


The resultant damage to date!.... (c) 2010

NNE F2, 11degC, 65km, 8/8, QNH 1018 rising all day.

1845 - 2100hr

Another day with a considerable spell of almost static exceptionally heavy showers over our immediate area during the morning with much evidence of further inundation! Very little gull movement through the hills again although a turnover of small plovers kept the interest alive. The first Wheatear of the autumn went through with an undoubted sign of things to come being the first evening when absence of Oystercatcher, Curlew, Lapwing and Common Sand was noted. Currently a stratus ceiling extending over the full width of the eastern half of the country but open sky out to the far NW... Autumn deepens!.... and the moors silence....

Moving birds:

LBB Gull 80

BH Gull 6

Ringed Plover 2

Little Ringed Plover 1

Swift 5

Dave

Overcast and cool.

1345 - 1530hr

Ringed Plover 3

Little Ringed Plover 2

Common Gull 1

Curlew 1

BH Gull 11

LBB Gull 33

Wheatear 1

Brian Vickers