Wednesday 17th September 2014 Visible Bird Migration - Burton In Kendal from first light 0640hrs to 0830hrs All movement South East unless stated otherwise. Wind 3mph Easterly, 10ctemp, 36% Cloud cover, 13900m vis, 1016mb air pressure. Colder, Misty/Haze throughout especially to West.
Again movement very quiet
Swallows: 192 (best parties: 2x40,3x30, single figures after). Had to curtail hirundine counting for up to one hour to allow birds to clear out, there could well have been up to 500 at least in the sky at the same time which did eventually move out to the SE. After that only trickles were seen so presume there would have been a continual movement which will have gone through at great altitude and subsequently missed. Meadow Pipits: 77 (best parties: 7, 3x6, 3x5) Chaffinch: 58 (7W) (best parties: 6, 5, 6x4s) Skylark: 1 Woodpigeon: 33S (one party 30) Alba Wagtail: 1 Pink Footed Goose: 6SE
