A strange morning weather wise with clear skies over Bradford to the east but dense fog at Fly Flatts which kept threatening to clear as the sun broke through only to be enveloped with another bank of cloud. Short periods of blue sky above but fog below kept appearing
in which birds could be seen to be moving and the morning had potential for a good count if it wasnt for the visibility. Even in the thick fog Mipits could be heard moving over but the fog persisted throughout, even though a phone call to DCB just over the hill found them to be mainly in the clear.
Meadow Pipit.........................................48 >SW
Swallow...................................................17 >S
Alba Waftail...........................................4 >W
2 Wheatear
2 Red Grouse
1 Common Sandpiper
BS
2 comments:
I was at Ned Hill at 8:30am. There seemed to be lots of Meadow Pipits on the way up through Taylor Lane. Although it was clear at Ned, there were plenty of fog banks around which explains why I had a total of around 100 Mipits in reverse, coming back to the hill. At one point, they seemed to be on every available post wall and bit of wire.
I could see Ned Hill from Hunter Hill in the middle of the fog banks but in the clear, think the Mipits were a bit disorientated and most seemed to give up and come down. There should be a good early morning move tomorrow.
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