Oxenhope.... gulls gulls and more gulls! 02-08-2010

Younger and younger!! Wheatear passage... (c) 2010


The Armies Invade.... redlegs on the warpath!!.. (c) 2010

1400 - 1530hr

gulls gulls and more gulls... but little else this afternoon!

torrential downpour at 1500hr thus birds on the deck counted only

LBB Gull 298

BH Gull 630

Common Gull 2

Brian Vickers

W F4, 17degC, 50km, 8/8, QNH 1018 rising

1900 - 2000hr

Rain storm now ceased but few gulls remaining and nothing else arriving.... the most interesting feature of the evening was the almost total lack of mips moving west which seemed to have become a normal feature of the 1900 - 2000hr time slot over the past week... only a single mip was seen going west and most unusually for this time, non on the deck.... especially interesting after last evenings considerable flow.

Moving birds:

Wheatear 1

LBB Gull 126

BH Gull 30

Curlew 3

Common Gull 2

Oystercatcher 2

Mipit 1

Other:

Goosander 1

Dave, Malcolm and Francis