Wednesday October 8th 2014 Majors Nursery - Dalton Hall Estate - Burton In Kendal from 0715hrs to 0900hrs then Burton In Kendal - Off Vicarage Lane from 0915hrs to 1100hrs. All movement South to South East unless specified. Wind: very strong today at SE 15-20mph and not letting up. Resulting from yesterday when I know I was missing hundreds of finches and pipits, I have decided to give a try out to a new vismig site for me, which is called Majors Nursery on the Dalton Hall Estate. This area is without doubt a superb vista and I am sure will prove to be a winner when the conditions are calm and allowing birds to get higher (eg: Winds 0-6mph) and preferably cold conditions (like yesterday). It should in theory pick up most of the Burton and Hutton Roof birds and take on three separate flight lines. All though I will try and give it a go in all conditions to get some sort of assessment. But today was not the day, simply because the birds were taking on a westerley side bias whilst on their south south East. and although they maintained that direction it kept the birds really low down and most out of view.
Chaffinch: 227 (25W) (1x9,1x8,1x7) no big parties. Meadow Pipit: 29 (1x6,1x5) Goldfinch: 40 (best: 12,2x10,5) Skylark: 19 (best: 12) Linnet: 2 Redpoll: 1 Reed Bunting: 1 Alba Wagtail: 7 (all singles) Grey Wagtail: 1 Starling: 3 Mistle Thrush: 3 Song Thrush: 1 Pink Footed Goose: 33 (17,8,8) all from Majors. Great Spotted Woodpecker: 1 Woodpigeon 12W Jay: 4 (3NW and 1S) Red Admiral Butterfly: 2 (1,1)
