Wintersett + Epic Mipit VisMig + Gull Roost 28.09.19

13-14 degrees with 7/8 cloud-cover and a light south westerly.  Rain and heavy showers from around 09.00 to 11.30, then brightening.
Anglers CP VisMig: per Paul Meredith
An amazing morning for Meadow Pipits - never thought that we would better last years total but we have!. After a very slow start (no more than 30 in the first 1 1/2 hours) they started flooding through, running totals being:
08.55 - 09.25: 1000.   
09.25 - 09.55: 2546 (reached 2000 @ 09.40).  
09.55 - 10.20: 3500 (reached 3000 @ 10.09).
10.20 - 10.55: 9100 (totally bonkers - 5,600 in 35 minutes! - sky was full of waves of mippits on a very broad front, almost too many to count - had to give up with the clicker and count in 100s!).
Biggest numbers going through in the heavier spells of rain.
10.55 - 11.25: 10913.  
11.25 - 11.55: 11555  (slowed down a lot as skies started to clear).
11.55 - 12.55: 11930 (still going through in small numbers).
Finally reached 12004 at 13.07 hrs.
Meadow Pipits still moving late afternoon, flocks of 6-30. None after 18.40 hrs.
Did not have chance to count much else, but not a lot moving except Skylarks which are probably under recorded.
Going south:  Final total of  Meadow Pipit 12225  a record count for the site!!   Skylark 95.  Kestrel 2.  Swallow 48.   House Martin 66.  Thrush sp. 5.   alba Wagtail 5.  Linnet 12.
Going west: Snipe 2.  
Going east:  Golden Plover 1  
Anglers CP:  Peregrine 1 juvenile.    Hobby 2.   Yellow-legged Gull 3 adults and  Pintail 1.
Lepidoptera:  Red Admiral 1 and Speckled Wood 1 at ACP.    Small White 1 Wintersett Village.
Anglers CP Gull Roost tonight per Steve Denny: Great Black-backed Gull  5,  Herring Gull  24, Yellow-legged Gull 10,  Lesser Black-backed Gull 260.    A Goosander was also on the CP.

Paul Meredith modelling the new ACP VisMig. Rain Shelter - thanks to Gray Speight and Steve Denny