Oxenhope 1600-1700hrs
A night of thunderstorms followed by a day of thick fog and continuous rain until late afternoon with 1 hour of sunshine before the next storm rolled over leaving a dry but misty evening.
A visit to Oxenhope failed to supply the goods with nothing special in wildfowl or waders.
One late Curlew flew over onto the moor and 100+ Lapwings were in the fields along with several juvs on the shoreline.
Pre roost gull numbers are still on the up but a scope through dashed my hopes of Med or Yellow Legged.
300+Lesser Black Backed
4 Herring gull
3 Common gull
c160 BH gull
24 Canadas
8 Greylag
4 Mallards
The eye striped Mallard on the lagoons had 3 very young chicks
1 Curlew
1 Kestrel
1 Common Sandpiper
Sev Swifts >SW
Usual Mipits etc.
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