Saturday October 25th 2014 
Visible Bird Migration - Hutton Roof from Burton In Kendal, Cumbria (from track on Vicarage Lane) 0800hrs to 1130hrs. Wind: South 10-15mph, 9c temp, 94% Cloud cover, 18700m vis, 1011mb pressure. A slow start, still with many birds heading to a SW bias at first before turning S (more in this within the flight study notes later). From 1000hrs birds started to find a good line and seemed to cut the winds better with some good large parties. 

Chaffinch: 1079 S/SSE (best parties: 25s,20s and lots of 10s with most parties at 5-8 birds) 
Goldfinch: 10 
Linnet: 7 (2,2,3) 
Greenfinch: 1 
Alba Wagtail: 35 (best 20) 
Starling: 53 (3,30,10,10) 
Woodpigeon: 332 (best parties 60,150,80) 
Mistle Thrush: 3W 
Redwing: 3W 

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Friday October 24th 2014 
Visible Bird Migration - Hutton Roof from Burton In Kendal, Cumbria (from track on Vicarage Lane 0800hrs to 0930hrs. Wind: South West 5-9mph, 10c temp, 75% cloud cover, 14400m vis, 1011mb pressure, gone colder. Another quiet day with the Chaffinches which again were very undecided and a large (100+ blogging party soon became established). 

Chaffinch: 315 S 
Linnet: 1 
Greenfinch: 1 
Redpoll: 1 
Redwing: 40W 
Alba Wagtail: 1 
Woodpigeon: 196 
Starling: 27W 

Bryan Yorke 
[arnsidesilverdale.blogspot.co.uk] 

By the way at 1300hrs on this coming Wednesday, why not check out Autumnwatch Extra on the BB2 Red Button with this old grey haired chap talking about VISMIG!!