A decent flock of Lapwing has built up around Bredbury Park Industrial Estate, probably 300+ were flying around near the BP station early afternoon. The flock was splitting with some remaining airborne and some settling briefly on both modern and old industrial buildings behind the petrol station.
127 Lapwing on the roof of Car People, Ashton Moss this morning, until all, bar one, were spooked by a Magpie. When I went past in the afternoon, most appeared to have settled back on the roof.
80+ Lapwings at Central Tyre, Blackburn Road, Bolton, at 9.25am. Just about to count the last few when they flew off stopping me getting an exact count.
I was visiting the Screwfix store which is on the opposite side of the Car People building from Sheldon Way. So if they are resting on that side they will probably not be seen by folk travelling along Sheldon Way or using the trams.
Posted this using iPad just to check if double spacing is a device problem but it is the same as with a PC.
23 Lapwing at 15:45 on the southeast slope of the Car People roof at Ashton Moss
If I have my bearings correctly aligned, that would be the section of roof not visible from Sheldon Way? That could explain my count of three on Monday. The sneaky devils.
there has been a group of lapwing on a factory roof on Swan Lane in Hindley green for around 3 months.numbers at the minute are around 30 but before christmas they were around 80ish.