Oxenhope.... 2012-10-19

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 19 October 2012
Counting period: 7:00 - 15:30
Weather: wind SW2, cloud-cover 4/8, visibility 20000m, temperature 8 ℃, becoming N less than F1, then SW F2 reducing F1, 13degC, 80000m, QNH 1006 rising and ridging 1008 the falling 1007
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Rodney Procter, Gordon Holmes

Moving Birds;
Cormorant 6 -
Swallow 4 -
Jackdaw - 113
Pink-footed Goose * 365 +  410
Meadow Pipit 446 -
Raven 1 -
Goosander 3 -
alba wagtail sp. 4 -
Starling - 118
Sparrowhawk 1 -
Wheatear 1 -
Chaffinch 18 -
Golden Plover 5 -
Ring Ouzel * 1 -
finch sp. 44 -
Lapwing - 30
Blackbird - 2
Greenfinch 68 -
Curlew - 4
Fieldfare - 17
Goldfinch 32 -
Black-headed Gull 165 -
Song Thrush - 1
Siskin 5 -
Common Gull 9 -
Redwing 156 -
Linnet 6 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 346 -
Mistle Thrush - 21
Twite 1 -
Woodpigeon 114 -
Long-tailed Tit - 32
Lesser Redpoll 2 -
Green Woodpecker - 1
Jay 14+ 1
Reed Bunting - 2
Skylark - 9
Magpie 5 -
Silver Y 1 -

Totals: 2584 individuals, 39 species, 8:30 hours

Comments: Deep stratus to the east for a long time. Did break up eventually to let the light through. No evidence of thrush arrivals today but a few more more Fieldfare in evidence as well as calls on several occasions from unseen bird/s overhead. Mips excellent for the time of year and trans-Pennine pinks travelling each way today in big skeins along the normal routes. Good views of a Ring Ouzel going east by its self as did a twite. Jays again today but with the majority going south. Undoubtably the best birds for us tho were two large flocks of long tailed tits west over the moor without fear! Four late swallows south were very good. Gulls up in numbers dramatically with very much high movement south. Raptors just about absent.

Dave