Oxenhope.... 2012-09-14

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 14 September 2012
Counting period: 6:15-10:30
Weather: wind WSW6, cloud-cover 1/8, precipitation rain, visibility 65000m, temperature 12 ℃, becoming W F7 gusting F9. 5ok then 9ok, 1000m in rain, QNH 1004 troughing, then rising 1007
Observers: Dave Barker, Lester Ward (briefly)
 
Moving Birds:
Dunlin - 6
Swallow 224 -
Snipe - 14
Meadow Pipit 156 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 122 -

Totals: 522 individuals, 5 species, 4:15 hours

Comments: A morning with spirit in moderating conditions after W F8 gusting F11 overnight. The old watchpoint with a chair behind the shelter of the wall a necessity! Mips still trying south throughout, some high ones rapidly so altho the low ones struggling. Swallows, virtually all that were seen, shooting fast east. Dunlin and Snipe as usual NW.

Dave