Oxenhope.... multithrush! 16-10-2010
CWF col at first light!.... (c) 2010
First Sun.... (c) Howard Creber 2010
multithrush.... (c) 2010
POWER.... > NW!.... (c) 2010
Early Doors... (c) 2010
The BIG Moor.... quite Watsonian!... (c) Howard Creber 2010
Thermals establish... (c) Howard Creber 2010
Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Saturday 16 October 2010
Counting period: 7:00-14:30
Weather: NW F2 becoming NE F3, 7degC rising, 65km, slight shower at dawn, 4/8, QNH 1021 rising
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Chris King, Rodney Procter
Moving birds:
Cormorant 6 -
Collared Dove 1 -
Starling 236 -
Sparrowhawk 1 -
Skylark 1 -
Chaffinch 4 -
Common Buzzard 1 -
Swallow 20 -
finch sp. 13 -
Peregrine 1 -
Meadow Pipit 90 -
Greenfinch 10 -
Golden Plover 2 -
alba wagtail sp. 9 -
Goldfinch 15 -
Lapwing 40 -
Fieldfare - 1930
Siskin 3 -
Common Snipe 2 -
Redwing - 618
Lesser Redpoll 2 -
Black-headed Gull 52 -
Long-tailedTit 13 -
Lapland Bunting 1 -
Common Gull 21 -
Blue Tit 1 -
Reed Bunting 7 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 53 -
Great Tit 1 -
bunting sp. 2 -
Herring Gull 1 -
Jay - 1
Woodpigeon 41 -
Magpie 4 -
Totals: 3203 individuals, 34 species, 7:30 hours
Comments: Broken to open overnight, wind from northerly qtr and QNH rising throughout. A brief shower at dawn was off putting as were showers tracking south out to the east during the morning... The first really good morning since early last week with high and exceptionally high thrushes virtually all between NW and NNW with just a few W, quite obviously an arrival straight in! Many more Redwing than of late with 29 pure or mixed flocks noted but Fieldfare were most in evidence with 71 flocks noted (largest 138), the vast majority of which were pure. No surface movement of thrushes at all, just way up!! but occasionally they would drop from great height into the trees. A single group of 20 Swallows high south was exceptional, Starlings all NW were well represented, Longtail Tits were exceptional with two flocks east, Magpies high south, A Lap Bunt and spread through the morning, a couple of bunt sp SE, Buzzard S and Jay NE were all good birds. Some time lost mid morning whilst talking to the locals.
Dave and Howard
Saturday 16 October 2010
Counting period: 7:00-14:30
Weather: NW F2 becoming NE F3, 7degC rising, 65km, slight shower at dawn, 4/8, QNH 1021 rising
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Chris King, Rodney Procter
Moving birds:
Cormorant 6 -
Collared Dove 1 -
Starling 236 -
Sparrowhawk 1 -
Skylark 1 -
Chaffinch 4 -
Common Buzzard 1 -
Swallow 20 -
finch sp. 13 -
Peregrine 1 -
Meadow Pipit 90 -
Greenfinch 10 -
Golden Plover 2 -
alba wagtail sp. 9 -
Goldfinch 15 -
Lapwing 40 -
Fieldfare - 1930
Siskin 3 -
Common Snipe 2 -
Redwing - 618
Lesser Redpoll 2 -
Black-headed Gull 52 -
Long-tailedTit 13 -
Lapland Bunting 1 -
Common Gull 21 -
Blue Tit 1 -
Reed Bunting 7 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 53 -
Great Tit 1 -
bunting sp. 2 -
Herring Gull 1 -
Jay - 1
Woodpigeon 41 -
Magpie 4 -
Totals: 3203 individuals, 34 species, 7:30 hours
Comments: Broken to open overnight, wind from northerly qtr and QNH rising throughout. A brief shower at dawn was off putting as were showers tracking south out to the east during the morning... The first really good morning since early last week with high and exceptionally high thrushes virtually all between NW and NNW with just a few W, quite obviously an arrival straight in! Many more Redwing than of late with 29 pure or mixed flocks noted but Fieldfare were most in evidence with 71 flocks noted (largest 138), the vast majority of which were pure. No surface movement of thrushes at all, just way up!! but occasionally they would drop from great height into the trees. A single group of 20 Swallows high south was exceptional, Starlings all NW were well represented, Longtail Tits were exceptional with two flocks east, Magpies high south, A Lap Bunt and spread through the morning, a couple of bunt sp SE, Buzzard S and Jay NE were all good birds. Some time lost mid morning whilst talking to the locals.
Dave and Howard
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10/16/2010 08:18:00 pm
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