Oxenhope... 2012-08-23

Cormorant overhead....



Four images Copyright 2012

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Thursday 23 August 2012
Counting period: 6:40-11:00
Weather: wind West6, cloud-cover 7/8, precipitation rain, visibility 10000m, temperature 12 ℃, Squally showers, W F4/6, becoming SW F3/4, 3ok, 50000m, 14degC, QNH1013 falling 1012 Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Lester Ward

Moving birds:
Cormorant 2 -
Herring Gull - 2
Ringed Plover 1 -
Swallow 13 -
Snipe 1 -
Meadow Pipit * 16 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 46 -

Totals: 81 individuals, 7 species, 4:20 hours
Comments: Never much potential this morning with squally heavy showers coming over from Lancashire from just after 0700. A chaotic sky developing with much interest but did nothing for the birds, with virtually no moving passers, no bhg and lessers well down. Conditions improving later on but still few moving birds.

Dave 

Oxenhope... 2012-08-21

Redstart at the watchpoint....

Three images Copyright 2012

 

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Counting period: 6:15-11:45
Weather: wind SE1, cloud-cover 4/8, visibility 20000m, temperature 12 ℃, becoming SSE F3 with upper wind SSW, 9ok, 400m before improving 45000m and more, QNH 1017 falling 1015 Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Lester Ward

Moving birds:
Cormorant 1 -
Swallow 185 -
Golden Plover 5 -
House Martin 2 -
Curlew 3 -
Meadow Pipit 42 -
Black-headed Gull 5 -
alba wagtail sp. 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 60 -
Goldfinch 3 -
Swift 1 -
Linnet 9 -

Totals: 317 individuals, 12 species, 5:30 hours

Present: Redstart 1

Comments: End of nice nocturnal conditions with initially a wonderful fogscape complete with great rolling fogbanks over the tops and inversion fog below.... fogs soon coming up however and morning rapidly deterioratingwith little visibility for a long while. An early morning Redstart hanging around the watchpoint was good. Very interesting initially but soon closing down, not to recover as the morning improved.

Dave 

Oxenhope... 2012-08-20

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Monday 20 August 2012
Counting period: 9:30-10:30
Weather: wind NE2, cloud-cover 8/8, precipitation drizzle, visibility 2500m, temperature 14 ℃, becoming SSW F3, 8ok, drizzle 2500m, 15degC, QNH 1018 rising
Observers: Howard Creber

Totals: 0 individuals, 0 species, 1:00 hours

Comments: Tremendous fogscapes with almost calm air and inversion fog up to top level c800ft asl for first 90mins of light. Aborted earlier 0700 set off due to the onset of torrential rain advancing west, continuing til c0900hr then improving. Up at the watchpoint mid am, drizzle and intermittant low cloud prevailed with no moving birds seen.

Dave and Howard