indifferent!!.... 2011-10-28

 Pre sunrise.... (c) 2011

 Sunrise.... (c) 2011

 No significant Cloud.... (c) 2011

 Sun now up.... (c) 2011

Pink-footed Geese today.... six images... (c) 2011

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 28 October 2011
Counting period: 7:15 - 14:35
Weather: SSE F1 becoming CALM then WSW F3, 0ok no sig, 2degC, 100 becoming 15 then 65km, QNH 1019 ridging 1022 then 1021
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Lester Ward

Cormorant 5 -
Skylark 7 -
Chaffinch 21 -
Grey Heron 1 -
Meadow Pipit 14 -
finch sp. 59 -
Pink-footed Goose 295 -
alba wagtail sp. 2 -
Greenfinch 9 -
Goosander 1 -
Fieldfare 72 -
Goldfinch 17 -
Golden Plover 1 -
Mistle Thrush 1 -
Siskin 1 -
Stock Dove 21 -
Jackdaw 75 -
Linnet 4 -
Woodpigeon 2477 -
Raven 1 - Reed Bunting 3 -
Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 -
Starling - 165
Red Admiral 1 -

Totals: 3256 individuals, 24 species, 7:20 hours

Comments: Gulls not counted, ideallic out but only indifferent migration with no good counts of anything. Visibility initially very good but by 1020hr deep haze and fog stratus was invading over the high moor from Lancashire taking the edge off the day. Thrushes, no migration, Starlings gone right down, pinks moving east today and could have been good but wernt although a large skein coming low right overhead was exciting. Hardly a bird in the sky during the last few hours!

Dave