Oxenhope.... 2012-09-19

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Wednesday 19 September 2012 Counting period: 6:05-14:05
Weather: wind West2, cloud-cover 1/8, visibility 45000m, temperature 7 ℃, becoming W F5 gusting F7, 4ok, 11degC, 80000m, cunim with heavy squalls later but all missing us,
QNH 1018 rising 1020
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber.

Moving Birds:
Cormorant 3 -
Black-headed Gull 2 -
alba wagtail sp. 10 -
Pink-footed Goose * -   340
Common Gull 4 -
Wheatear 1 -
Red-breasted Merganser 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 184 -
Mistle Thrush 5 -
Red Kite 1 -
sterna sp   - 1
Jackdaw 25 -  
Marsh Harrier * - 1
Woodpigeon 37 -
Raven 1 -
Sparrowhawk 2 -
Collared Dove 1 -
Starling 21 -
Common Buzzard 1 -
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 -
Chaffinch 9 -
Kestrel 4 -
Skylark - 11
Greenfinch 7 -
Merlin 1 -
Sand Martin 3 -
Goldfinch 38 -
Peregrine 3 -
Swallow 1510 -
Siskin 27 -
Golden Plover 4 -
House Martin 107 -
Linnet 2 -
Curlew - 4
Meadow Pipit 2681 -

Totals: 5053 individuals, 35 species, 8:00 hours

Present: Willow Warbler 1

Comments: A exhilarating morning in all respects. Mips piling through in good numbers almost throughout. Swallows same but associated with and in front of squalls bulked into large waves and passing very rapidly. Trans-Pennine pink passage getting going, all north west today and spread right through the morning, initially very high but reducing as the wind picked up. Twelve skeins detected. Siskins on the boil again. Diverse raptor passage. Gulls still suppressed or falling off. A couple of incedental uncommons were nice. The adjacent clough produced an additional 24 siskins, 45 goldfinch and 45 chaffinch not detected at the watchpoint. (BV)

Dave