Saturday 26th September 2015 - Hutton Roof (Whinn Yeates) 0645hrs to 0915hrs
Wind: SSWE 2mph, Temp 9c,85% Cloud, Pressure 1029mb All movement South unless stated otherwise.
Mipit did not start until about 0800hrs, extremely high and could not be heard, you only manage to find them occasionally in the milky cloud, more by luck, so I must have missed probably double the quantity I recorded. Absolutely scores of Robins contact calls on HR and also lots of small thrushes on way up. Situation certainly getting better and obviously better at my old spot for the Mipits, but not for the Chaffinch. Meadows Pipit: 119 (best: 8,7, lots of 5s and 4s) Chaffinch: 44 (best: 10) Goldfinch: 73 (best: 30,15,12) Redpoll: 9 (3,5,1 and some missed) Alba Wagtail: 2 Mistle Thrush: 9 (2,1,1,5) all West Blackbird:3 LBBG: 2E Starling: 14 (dribs ex Roost from West to East)
also 1030hrs to 1130hrs - Vicarage Lane, Burton In Kendal. Meadow Pipit: approx 35 over the hour Chaffinch: approx 20 over the hour Pink Footed Goose: 50 (one skein) heading SSE over Burton. Odd Swallows and House Martins. Skylark: 1 Mistle Thrush: up to 6 Redpoll - heard only