Starlings piling through
Soil Hill. pm visit 75% cloud cover but some sun. Dead calm.
As this morning skies were relatively quiet apart from Swallows moving through very high up. Blogging Mipits were everywhere probably ready for tomorrows early morning move.
At 1530hrs I scoped a massive flock of birds very high and to the north towards Ingleborough and as they got nearer I could see they were Starlings. The flock spread out to a broad front between Soil Hill and the wind turbines and carried on through Causeway Foot col and down the Calder Valley.
Movers :-
38 Swallows............................>SE
182 Starling.............................>S
2 Wheatear on deck
Other :-
c50 Blogging Meadow Pipit
c 40 Linnet
11 Woodpigeons, sev were juvs, no white neck band.
Sev Common and LBB gulls moving to TMR and several >S, probably to roost.
BS