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Monday, March 14, 2016

Roper Lane Watchpoint, early evening

  Early Queensbury fog
                                    Sun burning through
                                 From Roper Lane 1800 hrs
                                       Looking over Bradshaw to The Withins


                                                            Going down

A bright and clear day after early morning fog which soon cleared with a cool ESE>4.
Nothing skyward midday from Foxhill Park so a quick 20 minutes watch westward from Roper Lane early evening till sun down.
3 Cormorants left Ogden and headed >E to roost whilst 28 LBBs and around 60 small gulls headed through the col towards the Oxenhope roost.
2pr Goosander flew up the Calder Valley heading for the same destination as the gulls and around 70 Lapwing left the Bonnet field and headed off >W.
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