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

at home in the fogs!!... 2011-11-11

at home in the fogs!.... (c) 2011

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 11 November 2011
Counting period: 7:05-8:40
Weather: wind East5, cloud-cover 8/8, precipitation drizzle, E F5, 9ok, 8degC, 50 - 100m fog stratus and drizzle, QNH 1016 falling
Observers: Dave Barker

Blackbird 2 -

Totals: 2 individuals, 1 species, 1:35 hours

Comments: Two Blackbirds west in the fog very first thing was all that there was. Abandoned as pointless today up here.

Dave

fog banks roll!... 2011-11-10

 Fog down below and on approach!.... (c) Lester Ward 2011

 Wall of fog rolls in.... (c)2011

 Wall of fog rolls in.... (c) 2011

 Almost upon us... the last few moments of visibility!... (c) 2011

 Gloom at mid day!.... (c) 2011

Gloom at mid day!... (c) 2011

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Thursday 10 November 2011
Counting period: 7:15-14:25
Weather: wind East1, cloud-cover 8/8, temperature 9 ℃, E F1, CALM, E F2, 9ok, 9degC, fog banks rolling in and out, 100m - 19km variable, QNH 1017 rising 1018
Observers: Dave Barker, Lester Ward

Cormorant 1 -
Chaffinch 3 -
Merlin 1 -
finch sp. 4 -
Dunnock 1 -
Greenfinch 1 -
Fieldfare 90 -
Siskin 1 -
Starling - 10
Crossbill 1 -

Totals: 113 individuals, 10 species, 7:10 hours

Comments: First half hour produced all of the few birds there were except for the merlin and comorant which came through after lunch. Tremendous rolling fog banks spoilt the mid/last part of the morning but before lunch the sky was open again but calm and absolutely void of any passerine movement. HC picked up c 75 Starling on the usual track NW at one of our lower watchpoints but hardy any up here.

Dave