Oxenhope... 2012-08-12

Copyright 2012

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Sunday 12 August 2012
Counting period: 6:35-15:15
Weather: wind ENE4, cloud-cover 8/8, visibility 2800m, temperature 12 ℃, 9ok, becoming SE F3, 4ok, sunny intervals, 19degC, 36000m, QNH 1015 falling 1011
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Lester Ward

Moving Birds:
Ringed Plover 2 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 265 -
Lapwing 2 -
Herring Gull 2 -
Dunlin 4 -
Swift 20 -
Snipe - 1
Swallow 49 -
Whimbrel 1 -
Meadow Pipit 7 -
Curlew - 12
Wheatear 9 -
Black-headed Gull 282 -
Crossbill 3 -
Common Gull 5 -

Totals: 664 individuals, 15 species, 8:40 hours

Present: Hobby 2

Comments: Visibility, in and out of cloudbase taking a long time to improve. Blocking conditions still in place up here but a better day than yesterday and improving from mid morning. The Ringed Plovers and Dunlin left unseen, probably together and again Swallows moving west

Dave