chance to relax!!.... 2011-10-16

 First sun.... (c) 2011

 First sun.... (c) 2011

 Misting rain advances off the moor.... (c) 2011

Clearing skies.... (c) 2011

at last!... chance to relax and take a few sky shots without the pressure of birds...

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Sunday 16 October 2011
Counting period: 6:45-13:10
Weather: wind West3, cloud-cover 7/8, precipitation drizzle, visibility 20000m, temperature 9 ℃, W F3/4, 9 reducing 3ok, 9degC, 400m increasing 65km, QNH 1019 rising 1020
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber

Pink-footed Goose 63 -
Meadow Pipit 9 -
finch sp. 43 -
Merlin 1 -
alba wagtail sp. 7 -
Greenfinch 29 -
Golden Plover 6 -
Wheatear 4 -
Goldfinch 3 -
Snipe 6 -
Fieldfare 61 -
Siskin 2 -
Black-headed Gull 218 -
Redwing 34 -
Lesser Redpoll 9 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 91 -
Jackdaw 25 -
Crossbill 4 -
Herring Gull 6 -
Carrion Crow 5 -
bunting sp. 1 -
Stock Dove 13 -
Starling 114 -
Red Admiral 7 -
Woodpigeon 115 -
Chaffinch 10 -

Totals: 886 individuals, 26 species, 6:25 hours

Comments: A changeable morning starting off with a cracking pre sunrise but fractus then fog stratus from the moor soon closing in to give a prolonged period of poor visibility with damping rain. Final third of the morning quickly improving but very few moving birds in evidence except for the gulls with many more than of late. No real thrush movement apparent but a few Crossbills went SE as did a couple of small high pink skeins. All in all a relatively diverse but very poor morning.

Dave