Vis Mig - Hunter Hill

Cold Edge, Halifax (W Yorks, England)
Friday 21 October 2011
Counting period: 7:45 - 10:45
Weather: wind SW5, cloud-cover 8/8, temperature 8 ℃
Observers: David Sutcliffe

Grey Heron 1 N/E
Fieldfare 729 N/W
Sparrowhawk 1 N
Redwing - 4 N/W
Golden Plover 1 S
Jackdaw 18 S
Black-headed Gull 35 S 8 N
Raven - 2 N/W
Common Gull 7 S 1 N
Starling - 51 N/W
Woodpigeon 209 S/W
Chaffinch 49 S/W 10 N/W
Meadow Pipit 2 S/W
finch sp. 8 S/W

Totals: 1136 individuals, 14 species, 3:00 hours

Present: Sparrowhawk 1, Carrion Crow 15


Comments: A promising start with Fieldfare coming through heading N/W including 2 flocks of 100+ with an odd Redwing in with them. Woodpigeons coming through low in the valley S/W over Mixenden plantation towards the Calder Valley. Everything stopped at 09.45 and nothing other than odd Chaff's after that.