Thursday November 6th 2014 

Visible Bird Migration - Hutton Roof from Burton In Kendal (off Vicarage Lane and on the Bonk) 
0700hrs -0900hrs. Wind: SE 15-25mph and felt very cold, 4c temp, 94% cloud cover, 19300m visibility, 1005mb pressure. Small passerine to South/South East, Thrush movements either North or South. 

Again with the Thrush movement there seemed to be two separate lines, one strictly to the North (this still going on (but very occasional) and with Redwing, the fieldfare seemed to have given up on this routing by about 0830hrs). If anything compared to yesterday this was a more North orientated than yesterday's North West. The birds appeared to be coming in from a more South South West direction as though from the Borwick/Nether Kellet direction and going out to a Killington/Sedbergh direction. It looked like all these parties had no option but to carry on North under duress whilst their little heads were all pointing towards the south east and their tails to the north west, in other words "side on" compensating flight like you regularly see with the Mipits. 

The other routing which just involved three parties (160,50,50,6) all Fieldfare seem to come from the back of Hutton Roof and out towards Over Kellet and Lancaster areas (a similar Southern line to yesterday) 

Chaffinch: 42 
Linnet: 3 
Goldfinch: 8 (one party) 
Fieldfare: 607 (341N and 266S) best parties: 1x160,2x80,4x50) 
Redwing: 163 N (2x50,1x40) 
Starling: 110 (5,30,20) 
Woodpigeon: 163 

Bryan Yorke 
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