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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Hazy Days, Soil Hill skywatch.

                       Haze to the North above the tree line.
                                          Haze over TMR
                                          Haze to the N.E.
     Haze to the west over Ogden
                                 Haze SW over Mixenden
          Blue skies and sunshine above.
                                       Vertical visibility only.

                                  Bombers Moon this evening.


After a real thunder and lightening display and torrential rain late evening yesterday we were left with dense fog this morning which cleared by midday but from Soil Hill this evening a 360 deg bank of thick haze hung in the valleys whilst the sky was clear and blue above.
1 hours skywatch, after checking the tree line for migrants, remember those, was difficult with vertical visibility only but enough to see if anything came over. Checking the sky horizontally was a no go in the haze.
                             Swallows were moving >SW throughout, very high, some out of sight to the naked eye whilst a steady flow of Mipits headed >W.
A Sparrowhawk nearly slipped past me skimming low over the grass lifting a flock of around 40 Mipits and 5 Skylarks before they dropped back into the long grass.

Vis Mig.   Non this a.m. due to fog.

c 60 Swallows..............................>SW
c 30 Mipits...................................>W
c 40 Mipits .................................blogging
5 Skylark ...................................blogging   possibly over wintering birds.
2 Alba Wagtails...........................>W
4 Chaffinch ................................>W
BS