Oxenhope.... colour rings! 14-08-2010

The Killer.... a close encounter!... (c) 2010

Report to follow...

N F5, 11degC, 25km, 8/8 drizzle, QNH 1019 rising

0725 - 1100hr

A wet night with more light to moderate rain over the Pennines tracking south but drying out early am to leave fractus down over the moors. Excepting occasional drizzle dry. Several colour ringed LBB Gulls from various parts of Europe but unable to read any... photos to follow tomorrow.

LBB Gull 656 by 0915 then a further 157 = 914

BH Gull none until 0920 when 3

Dunlin 4 > W

Common Gull 2

Meadow Pipit 21

Curlew 1

Swallow 45

Tree Pipit 2 at 1035

E F4, 17degC, 65km, 3/8, QNH 1020 rising

1215 - 2130hr

LBB Gull 564

BH Gull 210

Common Gull 9

Cormorant 1

Common Sandpipier 1

Swallow 31

Dave