ideallic to difficult!.... 2011-10-22

 Sunrise this morning..... (c) 2011

 Looking east... at the beginning (c) 2011

 Whoopers.... Cookrise Plantation beyond... (c) 2011

 Whoopers.... Pole Stoop beyond.... (c) 2011

 Whoopers.... Flasby Round Haw beyond.... (c) 2011

 Woodpigeons > S.... (c) 2011

 Woodpigeons > S.... (c) 2011

 Thrushes!.... (c) 2011

The End of the Morning.... (c) 2011

Oxenhope, Bradford (W Yorks, England)
Saturday 22 October 2011
Counting period: 7:00 - 12:00
Weather: wind SSE5, cloud-cover 4/8, visibility 40m, temperature 6 ℃, CALM becoming S F4 becoming SE F5/6, 6 becoming 2ok, 6degC, 65 becoming 30km, QNH 1014 falling 1009
Observers: Dave Barker, Howard Creber, Lester Ward

Cormorant 3 -
Common Gull 42 -
Redwing - 38
Whooper Swan - 7
Lesser Black-backed Gull 6 -
Jackdaw 50 -
Goosander 3 -
Woodpigeon 1108 -
Starling - 58
Golden Plover 8 -
Skylark 1 -
Chaffinch 12 -
Snipe 3 -
Meadow Pipit 24 -
finch sp. 15 -
Curlew 3 -
alba wagtail sp. 6 -
Greenfinch 31 -
Black-headed Gull 35 -
Fieldfare - 1942
Goldfinch 8 -

Totals: 3403 individuals, 21 species, 5:00 hours

Comments: Weather on the change this morning from ideallic to difficult. Woodpigeons moderate for the first hour. A skein of seven early morning Whoopers NW was interesting. Thrushes, few initially came through in a front, high thick and fast NW for about an hour during the middle part of the morning, right on the shift of the wind to SE, seemingly a continuing arrival. Starlings poor again. Well before lunch time the sky was empty again with long periods of nothing.

Dave