Oxenhope.... 2012-09-21

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Friday 21 September 2012
Counting period: 6:15-16:15
Weather: wind North2, cloud-cover 8/8, precipitation drizzle, visibility 10000m, temperature 11 ℃, becoming NE F3 8ok, the N F3 7ok (opening to N), 8degC, QNH 1014 rising 1016
Observers: Dave Barker, Rodney Procter (briefly) and Howard Creber (PM)

Moving Birds:
Cormorant - 1
Curlew - 10
alba wagtail sp. 5 -
Grey Heron - 1
Redshank 2 -
Starling 21+ 44
Canada Goose * - 28
Black-headed Gull 3 -
Chaffinch 1 -
Merlin 1 -
Lesser Black-backed Gull 93 -
Greenfinch 1 -
Golden Plover 1 -
Swallow 3 -
Goldfinch 2 -
Dunlin - 1
House Martin 4 -
Snipe - 45
Meadow Pipit 107 -

Totals: 374 individuals, 19 species, 10:00 hours

Comments: A poor morning for passerines, virtually absent after the initial rush. Waders quite at home tho below the low cloubase with a good snipe passage including a flock of 25, and all NW. Clear edge to cloudbase appearing far to north and through the drizzle, right across the sky but taking an age to move in our direction and in fact never reaching us. A skein of canadas NE out of Lancashire was interesting.

Dave

Oxenhope.... 2012-09-20

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Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Thursday 20 September 2012
Counting period: 6:15-12:00
Weather: wind SW2, cloud-cover 8/8, precipitation drizzle, visibility 20000m, temperature 8 ℃, becoming SW F3, 9ok, 200-2000m then 30000m, QNH 1017 falling 1016
Observers: Dave Barker, Lester Ward
 
Moving Birds:
Lesser Black-backed Gull 135 -
Starling 4+ 21
Swallow 119 -
Goldfinch 11 -
House Martin 2 -
Linnet 4 -
Meadow Pipit 379 -
Lesser Redpoll 7 -
Redwing * 1 -

Totals: 683 individuals, 9 species, 5:45 hours

Comments: Single Redwing call well before sunrise from the low cloudbase at 0625 (LW) unfortunately just before I arrived. Otherwise a poor morning after yesterday with variable visibility but more Redpoll contacts were different. Even tried low watchpoint to get below the cloudbase which had dropped by 0700hr but to no avail. Eventually reasonable visibility did come back with increasing numbers of birds sneaking through the col but far too late in the day for me.

Dave