Caldene Fields, Low Moor.... 04-10-2010

Low level mist at the watchpoint!... (c) Martyn Priestley 2010

Caldene Fields, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Monday 4 October 2010
Counting period: 7:00-9:15
Weather: Dry with 80% thick ground mist clearer to the E, slight drop in temp to 6c and no wind of note. At 7.30 50% open skies from the S/W and then a further increase in low mist and fog. Vis ranging from 1 to 10 miles,
Observers: Martyn Priestley

Moving Birds;
Mallard 4 + 2
Redwing 6 -
finch sp. 1 -
Black-headed Gull 104 -
Jackdaw 7 -
Greenfinch 4 + 9
Woodpigeon 10 + 39
Rook 1 -
Goldfinch 63 + 34
Meadow Pipit 61 -
Carrion Crow 8 + 3
Lesser Redpoll - 1
Grey Wagtail - 1
Starling 3 -
Snow Bunting 1 -
alba wagtail sp. 19 + 2
Chaffinch 2 -

Totals: 385 individuals, 17 species, 2:15 hours

Comments: A possible good day spoilt by mist and fog causing birds to fly high. To illustrate this point I found 2 high flying parties of Goldfinch in a break in the mist 1 containing 38 birds and the other 25. Mips were moving here but seen birds were few. Another Rook was noted again to the S and Woodies are getting a bit restless possiblely due to the slight drop in tempreture here with a flock of 100+ moving S only to break up and move in all directions. The highlight today (at last ) was a calling Snow bunting (s) at 07.23 which moved to the S/E and a possible further bird moved a few minutes later also to the S/E but was not counted.

Martytn Priestley