Oxenhope.... 2012-10-29

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Monday 29 October 2012
Counting period: 7:15 - 10:35
Weather: wind SW3, cloud-cover 6/8, visibility 200m, temperature 5 ℃, becoming fog stratus, 9000m then fog stratus 300 - 400m, 7degC, QNH 1005 rising 1007
Observers: Dave Barker, Brian Vickers

Moving Birds:
Black-headed Gull 6 -
Starling - 987
Common Gull 1 -
Chaffinch 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 35 -
Greenfinch 8 -
Woodpigeon 6 -
Goldfinch 1 -
Meadow Pipit 7 -
Lesser Redpoll 1 -
Fieldfare 144 - Totals: 1197 individuals, 11 species, 3:20

Comments: Good visibility below watchpoint but closing down upon arrival with foul smelling murk over the moor, this time from the SW. Improving for a short spell but not for long. Starlings on heat again, today in the direction / regular tracks only bringing many very close to the watchpoint, fog no problem to them, with squads continuing to sythe through NW, to us tho the more distant birds lost. Little else seen but really the visibility was against.

Dave