Oxenhope.... 2012-09-21

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 21 September 2012
Counting period: 6:15-16:15
Weather: wind North2, cloud-cover 8/8, precipitation drizzle, visibility 10000m, temperature 11 ℃, becoming NE F3 8ok, the N F3 7ok (opening to N), 8degC, QNH 1014 rising 1016
Observers: Dave Barker, Rodney Procter (briefly) and Howard Creber (PM)

Moving Birds:
Cormorant - 1
Curlew - 10
alba wagtail sp. 5 -
Grey Heron - 1
Redshank 2 -
Starling 21+ 44
Canada Goose * - 28
Black-headed Gull 3 -
Chaffinch 1 -
Merlin 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 93 -
Greenfinch 1 -
Golden Plover 1 -
Swallow 3 -
Goldfinch 2 -
Dunlin - 1
House Martin 4 -
Snipe - 45
Meadow Pipit 107 -

Totals: 374 individuals, 19 species, 10:00 hours

Comments: A poor morning for passerines, virtually absent after the initial rush. Waders quite at home tho below the low cloubase with a good snipe passage including a flock of 25, and all NW. Clear edge to cloudbase appearing far to north and through the drizzle, right across the sky but taking an age to move in our direction and in fact never reaching us. A skein of canadas NE out of Lancashire was interesting.

Dave