Oxenhope.... 2012-09-14

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 14 September 2012
Counting period: 6:15-10:30
Weather: wind WSW6, cloud-cover 1/8, precipitation rain, visibility 65000m, temperature 12 ℃, becoming W F7 gusting F9. 5ok then 9ok, 1000m in rain, QNH 1004 troughing, then rising 1007
Observers: Dave Barker, Lester Ward (briefly)
 
Moving Birds:
Dunlin - 6
Swallow 224 -
Snipe - 14
Meadow Pipit 156 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 122 -

Totals: 522 individuals, 5 species, 4:15 hours

Comments: A morning with spirit in moderating conditions after W F8 gusting F11 overnight. The old watchpoint with a chair behind the shelter of the wall a necessity! Mips still trying south throughout, some high ones rapidly so altho the low ones struggling. Swallows, virtually all that were seen, shooting fast east. Dunlin and Snipe as usual NW.

Dave

Oxenhope.... 2012-09-13

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)

Thursday 13 September 2012
Counting period: 6:20-11:30
Weather: wind SW3, cloud-cover 6/8, visibility 65000m, temperature 7 ℃, becoming W F4 gusting F6, 3ok, 12degC, QNH 1018 ridging then falling 1016
Observers: Dave Barker, Lester Ward

Moving Birds:
Goosander 6 -
Tree Pipit 1 -
Starling 94 -
Peregrine 1 -
Meadow Pipit 1215 -
Chaffinch 6 -
Black-headed Gull 31 -
flava wagtail sp. 1 -
finch sp. 10 -
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 -
Wheatear 2 -
Siskin 3 -
Skylark 5 -
Blackbird -
1 bunting sp. 1 -
Swallow 27 -
Mistle Thrush 8 -

Totals: 1413 individuals, 17 species, 5:10 hours

Comments: Mid morning seemed to get colder, before warming up again. Mipits moving well throughout including some very high flocks, especially late am, and all south. Swallows, gulls and finches down. All goosanders fast west or south and not out of roost. Skylarks starting to move west.

Dave 

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