Howdo,
This morning I visited a local reservoir and saw 6 Crossbill flying over heading WSW. This brought back memories of the last few Autumns (Falls?) where I took part in visible migration counts.
My interest started about 4 years ago when I was introduced to the phenomena and now it takes over my Autumn birding!
The first year I watched a site regularly on my own, the following year I shifted sites and other local birders started watching elsewhere. The next year we co-ordinated our efforts and word got out to other like minded folk up and down the UK, and now we are all counting and reporting back via a users-group.
It's hard to explain the buzz you get during a "big day" when thousands of birds have been passing overhead, but it is very addictive (and not against the law!)
Is any body out there interested in joining?
This is a UK based co-ordinated watch, but I'm sure if anyone elsewhere in the world posts interest here they would find like minded folk to set up something similar.
The group address is;
http://groups.yahoo/group/vismig
:t: Mark
This morning I visited a local reservoir and saw 6 Crossbill flying over heading WSW. This brought back memories of the last few Autumns (Falls?) where I took part in visible migration counts.
My interest started about 4 years ago when I was introduced to the phenomena and now it takes over my Autumn birding!
The first year I watched a site regularly on my own, the following year I shifted sites and other local birders started watching elsewhere. The next year we co-ordinated our efforts and word got out to other like minded folk up and down the UK, and now we are all counting and reporting back via a users-group.
It's hard to explain the buzz you get during a "big day" when thousands of birds have been passing overhead, but it is very addictive (and not against the law!)
Is any body out there interested in joining?
This is a UK based co-ordinated watch, but I'm sure if anyone elsewhere in the world posts interest here they would find like minded folk to set up something similar.
The group address is;
http://groups.yahoo/group/vismig
:t: Mark