Thursday 20th October 2016 - Vicarage Lane (on hill of Lane) SD54157659
Burton In Kendal 0730 to 1200hrs
Wind: North 10mph, 6c, 85% Cloud, 18000m vis, 1025mb pressure. All movement SE unless stated otherwise. A obvious Thrush peak day. Which although I got a good start this soon petered out by 0830hrs, but then by about 1000hrs Fieldfare and to a far lesser degree Redwing starting coming through on a regular basis. And by my finish at 1200hrs I had over 3000 Fieldfare. And I was to later find that the passage must have been busy all afternoon, because birds were still going through at 1700hrs when I had to further parties of 30 and 47 Fieldfares. Earlier in the morning the passage had all been to the NW but when the move restarted around the 1000hrs the movement was all to the North. The birds had been seen coming from further back over Dalton Hall. Also a nice surprise with a late Swallow. I expect tomorrow to be a super day!!
Chaffinch: 385 (best: 15,2x14,2x10)
Goldfinch: 33 (best: 13,6,)
Skylark: 35 (best: 15,9)
Alba Wagtail: 1
Fieldfare: 3165 NW or N (58 parties - best parties: 3x150,2x120,5x100,1x90,3x80.
Redwing: 457 NW or N (17 parties - best parties: 1x50,1xc40,2x30
Thanks Ste, yes it was a good day, and I was doing a presentation in the afternoon for the RSPB at Carnforth which tied me down for the afternoon, but when I went back up at 1700hrs birds were still going through in large parties. So obviously they must have been going all day and I'll bet there must have been over 6000 on the day. Todays numbers dropped but I still think there should be yet another peak or two before they finish.
