Oxenhope.... 2021-09-28

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 28 September 2012
Counting period: 6:25-18:00
Weather: wind SW4, cloud-cover 7/8, precipitation rain, visibility 20000m, temperature 8 ℃, becoming W F5 gusing F7 and more, many intermittent rain squalls and misting rain, shifting fog stratus then improving, 65000m, QNH 1006 ridging 1008 then falling 1007
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, (Lester Ward, Rodney Procter, Brian Vickers, Giselle Murison, all briefley)

Moving Birds:
Cormorant 5 -
Curlew - 1
Rook 5 -
Canada Goose - 20
Black-headed Gull 1 -
Starling 24+ 35
Goosander * 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull * 58 -
Chaffinch 3 -
Common Buzzard 1 -
Collared Dove 2 -
Greenfinch 21 -
Merlin 1 -
Skylark * 7 -
Goldfinch 20 -
Golden Plover - 2
Swallow 20 -
Siskin * 9 -
Snipe - 11
Meadow Pipit 1933 -

Totals: 2180 individuals, 20 species, 11:35 hours

Comments: A morning with much potential but masked by the conditions, thus an under representation. Urgent mipits keeping going throughout the morning but often impossible to watch due to torrential downpours and shifting fog stratus. albas strongest to date and also keeping going including an exceptional train of 13. Another buzzard shot unusually fast south across a rain squall and a merlin doing similar. Swallows almost absent today. More canadas out of Lancashire in a high single skien crossed Airedale and away to the NE. An eye-to-eye with a Tornado pilot was fantastic, as was a low and close Hercules....

Dave