mid-day shadows lengthen!... 2011-11-12

 pre sunrise.... (c) 2011

 Lancashire clagg.... mid am (c) 2011

 cirrus fibratus on advance.... (c) 2011

 Baildon and beyond... pre sun!... (c) 2011

 pinks with Sandwith moor backdrop.... (c) 2011

 pinks with Sunnydale backdrop.... (c) 2011

 pinks with Bradup backdrop.... (c) 2011

 pinks with White Crag backdrop.... (c) 2011

 pinks with Cringles col backdrop.... (c) 2011

autumn on the Big moor.... and mid-day shadows lengthen! (c) 2011

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Saturday 12 November 2011
Counting period: 7:10-14:30
Weather: wind South2, cloud-cover 3/8, visibility 45000m, temperature 7 ℃, SW F1 becoming SE F2, 4 becoming 2ok, 7degC, 45 becoming 30km, QNH 1020 rising 1026
Observers: Dave Barker, Lester Ward, Howard Creber

Cormorant 1 -
Starling - 305
Pink-footed Goose 325 -
Chaffinch 14 -
Golden Plover 4 -
finch sp. 10 -
Lapwing 57 -
Greenfinch 17 -
Woodpigeon 168 -
Goldfinch 7 -
Meadow Pipit 2 -
Reed Bunting 1 -
Blackbird 3 -
Red Admiral - 1
Fieldfare 168 -

Totals: 1083 individuals, 15 species, 7:20 hours

Comments: A much better day with trans-pennine pinks moving both east and west, most very low today, thus easier for our friends down below to see but much more difficult for us. Lapwing movement was however very high with a movement SE out of Lancashire. A Red Admiral going north at lunchtime may well be our last of the season!

Dave