Oxenhope.... struggle! 06-11-2010

Colourles Dawn.... (c) 2010


Lancashire Clagg!... (c) 2010


Sterile Sunrise!!... (c) 2010

Fingers of Fog!!... (c) 2010

The "hight2 of the day!... (c) 2010

USAF Boeing C-135 variant (I think?)... Eight miles High!! (c) 2010

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Saturday 6 November 2010
Counting period: 7:00-11:15
Weather: WNW F3, 4degC, 20km E, 2/8, QNH 1016 rising
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Chris King, Lester Ward

Moving birds:
Cormorant - 2
Stock Dove 21 -
finch sp. 16 -
Sparrowhawk 1 -
Woodpigeon 566 -
Greenfinch 8 -
Peregrine 1 -
Meadow Pipit 3 -
Goldfinch 12 -
Golden Plover 1 -
alba wagtail sp. 2 -
Linnet 1 -
Lapwing - 59
Fieldfare 86 -
Lesser Redpoll 1 -
Black-headed Gull 5 -
Song Thrush - 1
Reed Bunting 3 -
Common Gull 15 -
Jackdaw - 14
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3 -
Starling - 214

Totals: 1035 individuals, 22 species, 4:15 hours

Comments: Broken overnight becoming essentially open from dawn. Wind from NW qtr with QNH ridging 1018 at 1030. Little activity in our sphere of vision with far fewer pigeons and starlings than expected. Few thrushes but a noticeable and accelerating move of Common Gulls west through out the day.... A definate feel of the advancing "back end calms" here.... but still hoping for better tomorrow!
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Counting period: 13:30-17:00
Weather: WNW F3, 7degC, 65km, 5/8, QNH 1016 falling
Observers: Dave Barker

Moving birds:
Common Gull 34 -
Skylark 1 -
Stock Dove 23 -
Fieldfare 119 -

Totals: 177 individuals, 4 species, 3:30 hours

Comments: Roosts checked but not counted

Dave and Howard