Still a maximum count of 21 birds between 8.45 and 9.10pm last night, the 8th although they took a while to assemble and circle together.
A report from a very reliable observer of another gathering last night around 9pm over the Vale area of Lancaster. He described a circling group given away ‘by the noise they were making’ very high and ‘there must have been a couple of hundred or more of them…I’ve never seen anything like it before…I even called my wife out to see the spectacle’ . He knows his stuff and is NOT prone to exaggeration. It was a very clear and red sunset and in early August this is when the big gatherings take place. Worth looking again tonight??
