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