Oxenhope Watch point. Raptor evening

   This big brown job low over the moor made me look twice.. juv LBB

       Avoid the raptors, fly with a big mate, Swallow and LBB

           Hundreds of Tortoiseshell moving through

                                           Resident Mistle Thrush.

A poor sky late afternoon with cloudless blue and that menacing big yellow blinding ball .
Despite this the 2 hour I had there was active, mainly with distant raptors out to the west and all moving >NE.
Swallows were still coming through all >S mainly low below the banking with a small number very high with Mipits in tow.
The area was alive with Tortoiseshell butterflies all slowly heading >S.

1 Merlin..........................>NE
3 Kestrel........................>NE
1 Peregrine.....................>NE
1 Sparrowhawk.............>NE
Swallows and Meadow Pipits.....>S

Present
2 f Goosander
c50 LBB gulls
28 BH gulls
5 Mistle Thrush
+ usual sp.
BS