A bright clear blue sky morning with sunshine,on a NW>3 at 6 degrees.
All quiet until 0900 hrs then the flood gates opened with Pink Footed Geese piling through. They were very distant to the south of me all heading east but towards the sun in very milky skies making viewing difficult and photos even worse. I didnt think the 300mm lens would have picked them up but putting them on full contrast I could get a count though some of the skeins were barely visible.
I thought I had a good count but further south the vis miggers there had amazing numbers with
Anglers CP....8000
Manchester...10000
Harden, Penistone..6000
Low Moor...........3000
plus several sites were getting Whooper Swans.
Other than the Pinks, Swallows were trickling through whilst 5 Stonechat were present.
Mid afternoon at Oxenhope Reservoir saw a continuation of Swallow movement with birds piling through all the hour that I was there. A Buzzard moving day with 4 >SE coinciding with a good count over Manchester. Otherwise it was just the usual species with a moderate count of gulls.
Fly Flatts
1796 Pink Footed Geese....>E 9 skeins 250, 300, 191, 68, 185, 397, 79, 112, 214.
28 Swallow........................>S
5 Stonechat
Oxenhope reservoir
136 Swallow.....................>S
4 Buzzard........................>SE
18 Lapwing
c 250 BH gull
c 50 Herring gull
c 75 LBB gull
c 25 Common gull
+ usual sp.
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