Saturday October 4th 2014 
Visible Bird Migration - Burton In Kendal from 0830hrs to 1000hrs 
All movement South/South East unless stated otherwise. Wind: NW 14mph, 10c, 100% Cloud, 9200m, 1007mb pressure. No good starting before because of heavy rain showers. The strangest thing about today for me was that the birds started moving during a rainy period (obviously the lighter rain showers), and I was stood there with binos in one hand and the umbrella in the other - but good parties of Chaffs and Mipits during this period. However shortly afterwards the rainy weather abated and cleared up yet you would have thought then that the birds would have made haste, but no, the birds just stopped coming through! 

Chaffinch: 111 (22W) (best parties: 10,9,8) 
Meadow Pipit: 25 (best parties: 9,7,6) 
Goldfinch: 12 
Alba Wagtail: 3 
Collard Dove: 1W 
Greenfinch: 1 
House Martin: 11 (one party 

Sunday October 5th 2015 
Visible Bird Migration - Burton In Kendal from 0715hrs to 1200hrs 
All movement South/South East unless stated otherwise. Wind: South 9mph 8c, 75% Cloud, 19000m vis, 1018mb. Another scenario at first with birds going through "heavy" rain showers, suprised because they were just passing trees which I thought they would use for shelter, but no onward they went. Today was great with birds all the way up to leaving. In fact at leaving they were still going through at 2/3 per minute. Chaffinch were the main mover as usual, but also good numbers of Meadow Pipits and Goldfinch. Bonus included a party of Tree Sparrow. 

Chaffinch: 775 (68W) 
Goldfinch: 52 (10,20,16,6) 
Linnet: 5 
Redpoll: 1 
Meadow Pipit: 96 (best parties: 2x14,10) 
Alba Wagtail: 6 
Swallow: 3 
Tree Sparrow: 10 (one party) 
Skylark: 1 
Song Thrush: 2 
Small Turdus species: 8 (5,1,2) 
Pink Footed Goose: 10 (one skein to the West) 
Greylag Goose: 2 (one paired to the West) 
Jay: 1 
Woodpigeon: 28 
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 1E (possibly local) 
Common Snipe: 1 

Bryan Yorke 
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