intermission!... 2011-10-17

 Pre sunrise.... (c) 2011

 Sunrise over Lincolnshire.... now moving south very rapidly!!... winter very soon.. (c) 2011

 Sunrise, the real picture... (c) 2011

 Post sunrise... Scunthorpe on the horizon.... (c) 2011

Dismal sterile winter skies.... (c) 2011

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Monday 17 October 2011
Counting period: 6:50-9:30
Weather: wind SW6, cloud-cover 8/8, visibility 110000m, temperature 8 ℃, SW F5/6 gusting more, 8ok, 8degC, 110km reducing 40, QNH 1013 falling1011
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber

Black-headed Gull 3 -
Redwing 27 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 -
Starling 22 -
Stock Dove 11 -
Chaffinch 2 -
Woodpigeon 24 -
Greenfinch 4 -
Meadow Pipit 2 -
Goldfinch 2 -
Fieldfare 35 -

Totals: 134 individuals, 11 species, 2:40 hours

Comments: A raw, birdless morning here, with intermission and waiting for the next continental top up. A deceptably good sunrise with visibility out over industrial Lincolnshire and beyond but to the west deep cumulus and rain over Lancashire. Everything well suppressed with resultant sterile skies.

Dave and Howard