Oxenhope.... influx! 18-08-2010
Infant congestus.... not much more than fractus (c) 2010
Someone else's cunim at dusk! and far to the NE.... (c) 2010
1400 - 1530hr
BH Gull 254
LBB Gull 225
Yellow legged Gull 1
Common Gull 1
Teal 2
BV, RHP
W F3/4, 14degC, 65km, 2/8, QNH 1005 falling
1840 - 2100hr
Open sky overnight becoming broken during daylight hours until early pm when heavy shower, then improving late pm and evening. Light to moderate wind from westerly quarter, almost dry with QNH gradually falling throughout. The rapidy developing congestus out of the west was different... with dark and evil masses towering overhead by the time I left. Tremendous influx of gulls, especially BHG by early evening suggesting a big movement this afternoon and still coming in with very many in the fields remaining uncounted.... no count of flying gulls tonight as it was just impractical but the vast majority had moved on by dusk. A good resurgence of Meadow Pipits west and most interestingly a Tree Pipit calling overhead going SW, the first evening record ever for me of this common diurnal migrant!!
BH Gull 864 present
LBB Gull 531 present
Meadow Pipit 79 > W
Tree Pipit 1 > SW
Curlew 2
Dave
posted by Dave Barker at
8/18/2010 08:42:00 pm
2 Comments:
Well done Dave. Theres always something to be said for a first sighting. It never gets old. :-)
Cheers Glen, even on morning watches the Tree Pipit here is just that little bit special, easily told by its call as it goes over.... 10 would be an exceptional count in say 3 hours at this time of year whilst 3000 or more would be a big morning count of its open country cousin the Meadow Pipit which havent really started moving yet. Dave
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