Thousands of Redwing

 Got up early to head for soil hill as it looked like a good morning for vis-mig , but as I got past Shelf Roundabout thick fog made for a sudden u turn.When I got out of the car at home 200 + Redwing flew low straight over the house , the next 4 hours saw an unprecedented number of Redwing fly over my patch...20 , 454 in 4 hours , + Crossbill x 9 , Brambling x 3 , Cormorant , Snipe , Woodpidgeon 1000 + , great Spotted Wodpecker x 2 , Meadow Pipit 200 + , Goldfinch , 1 Swallow , Siskin , Reed Bunting , Alba Wagatails and surprisingly 30 + Mistle Thrush ...

The fog helped me in the end , From my watch point in  Northowram , I could see the fog bank sat on Shelf Moor to the west and thick total cloud cover abover , The masses of Redwing came in from the  north east and as the saw the fog on the hills turned more SSW and this took them right through Northowram in there thousands. As you can see Peniston was the same. All the sites west were fog bound and the Redwings did not cross the Pennine.s in any large numbers.  At one point there were a 1000 + Redwings in one flock twisting and turning and redirecting above Northowram ....

5 Red Admiral and 4 Comma in the garden in the afternoon..

5 Crossbill  Walshaw plantation ,(1 red male ) , 2 Barn Owl , 5 Goldcrest , 10 Siskin , 1 female Sparrowhawk and  44 Fieldfare dropped in last light..