David

Below is a copy of a message just sent to Ian Campbell.

There have been, I think, two flocks of rooftop Lapwings in Bolton for some time. The Northern flock are invariably around the junction referred to below. The Southern flock could be seen on rooftops adjacent to St Peter's Way in the Raikes Lane area (in particular the VanLiners roof). There was no sign of the Southern flock today and I cannot recall seeing it for some time.

Regards

George Warburton




Ian

Cen Tyres is at junction of Higher Bridge Street, Halliwell Road and Blackburn Road.

If you enter Bolton along St Peter's Way (the dual carriageway accessing the motorway network), carry straight on at traffic lights at end of St P Way, pass B & Q on right, through next lights and pass Mercedes dealership on right. The said junction is at next t/lights.

The birds were on CT roof, the Motor World/AIS roof across the road, on new warehousing behind CT, and on older property behind Motor World.

Regards

George Warburton

Howard St, just off Blackburn Rd/Halliwell Rd junction

Where is Central Tyres?

The small flock I usually see near Sainsbury's in Bolton has been absent this year so far (probably down to the increased frequency of Peregrine sitings in that area).

Tues 16 Nov 2010 at 15.30

Central Tyres, Bolton and neighbouring rooftops:

150 min Lapwings
20 Golden Plovers

Sunday Nov 14 07.00 - 08.00

c 180+ Lapwings & 32 Golden Plover on the roof of " Tom Chandley Oven Engineers "

Oldham St.........off Windmill Lane, Denton.
Facing the gasometres.

My daughter works nearby and told me they are always knocking about........ only problem is parking is impossible on week-days.

Roger.

C 40 (against the light) on Carpet Right roof, Newton Heath 8.35 a.m. today

c30 Lapwing on roof behind Gala Bingo Ashton under Lyne at 15.50 10/11/10

5th November.

At least 20 Lapwing - probably more (not possible to see much of the roof space) - on the roof of the British Aerospace building at Woodford in the early afternoon.

Cheers,

Bill.

50-60 lapwings on chadderton tesco filling station and floors to go building also c100 starlings at 12.30 today also of interest on this thread next to the old seddon atkinson buildings on shaw road is another set of buildings owned by howarth brothers van and truck rental and while hiring a van the owner and i got talking about the lapwings and he informed me that they breed on the roof every year and he has had to return chicks back onto the roof that have fell of

-- Edited by stuartherring on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 06:16:01 PM

c40 Lapwing on roof of Gala Bingo Ashton under Lyne at 1420 today

12 Lapwings on top of the shops at Ormskirk Rd Newtown

6 golden plover and lapwings on tyre centre roof Howard St Bolton yesterday.

c30 Lapwing at 1515 on building behind Ashton Retail Park near IKEA seen from work!
Ashton under Lyne

-- Edited by Karen Foulkes on Friday 22nd of October 2010 06:20:07 PM

30 to 40 lapwings (very approx as was travelling reasonably fast) landing on roof of System 3 windows, next to M60. Think this bit is Denton, between junc 24 & 25.

200+ lapwings wheeling around Greengates Industrial Park, Chadderton this afternoon at 14:40 . They appeared to settle on roof of Accent Windows..Also two grey wagtails over Chi Yip car park. Cheers Chris..

Martland Mill

While doing Webs this morning

35 Lapwings came off the roofs nr to GUS old factory spooked by Sparrowhawk not sure which factory roof but will check this week

Cheers Jimmy

I'm used to seeing lots of Lapwings roosting on Grosvenor Windows' roof off the M61 near Horwich, as I'm sure many of you are, but I noticed that over 100 birds were on a roof on the opposite side of the Motorway yesterday, on one of the J.Dickinson Recycling & Skip Hire buildings roofs.

Just looked at it on Google Street Map to see if they had captured them, but their shots were obviously taken in the summer with bright sunshine and no birds to be seen!?! On a different note, the Street Map facility is pretty useful if you are visiting new sites that have a road running by, as you can have a pre-look at a location if the Google Camera Car has been past!?

50+ lapwings on roofs on & adjacent to former Pilot Works near Vauxhall Showroom on Manchester Road, Bolton at 2.30pm today. No sign of Golden Plover among them.

96 Lapwings on Homebase roof at Broadheath Retail Park this morning at 11.30am.

central tyres in bolton,9am just passing by, only 12 lapwings present maybe a local can
give a better count.

cheers geoff

C100 Lapwing at Broadheath Retail Park on Sunday, flushed off (I think) Halfords roof and flew towards the old Budenburg arae.

First couple I've seen this autumn in Bolton, on Express Electrical around 9.00am this morning.

Approx 25 Lapwing circling over Carpet Right at Newton Heath tonight at 1900hrs.

That's interesting, Dave. I'd seen them heading that way from Horrocks Flash a couple of times and wondered if they were going towards the fields near Morrisons. Seaman Way makes sense!

c500 Lapwing in the air, then settling on to a roof (not sure which one) at Wigan Enterprise Park this morning (the former Gullicks site off Seaman Way)

1st August.

At 8.30 - c235 Lapwing on both sides of the roof of the Century Seal warehouse at Pilsworth. This was formerly the Geodis warehouse I think. Also present on the roof at that time - c50 Starling and 2 Feral Pigeon. Lapwings were still arriving in small numbers and on my return journey at around 9.40, Lapwing numbers had increased to c260. 2 Black-headed Gulls had also taken up residence.

Cheers,

Bill.

-- Edited by Bill Myerscough on Sunday 1st of August 2010 10:54:45 AM

I,ll bet you can set your calender by some birdsThe broadheath retail flock are back best count of lapwing 170 so far,mostly seen a bit further down on the ind est.

cheers geoff

It's that time of year again!
40+ Lapwing of the roof of Car People on Ashton Moss yesterday.

Steve

c100 with Black-headed Gulls & Starlings on Grosvenor Windows factory this p.m. Seen from the M61 just northwest of Junction 6

60 Lapwings at Geodis, PIlsworth today.

Central Tyres, Blackburn road, Bolton this am:

Golden Plover 7
Lapwing 244

20 Lapwings on Geodis roof at Pilsworth, opp ASDA, at about 1430.

C 45 on Adamson's Tue. tea-time (8th) -sorry for late post; I blame the delirium of finally getting to view the Mystery Bird updates

A small flock of about Lapwing were flying around the Ancoats area at 08:20 yesterday morning. This morning I could see three on the roof of the Westway Nissan garage. There may have been more, but only the edges of the roof are visible from road level.

76 Lapwings on the furrowed roof just west of B+Q, Broadheath Retail Park this afternoon in the rain. Unforch, no Goldies.

Good numbers of Lapwings c75 at least, unsure if there was any Golden Plovers with them due to driving this morning and on their usual rooftops of Central Tyres/Kwik Fit and surrounding rooftops on Blackburn road.

Rewarded with c50 Lapwing flying and then landing on the roof of Gala Bingo, Ashton under Lyne at 1.50 today, sometimes it pays to have a quick look!

-- Edited by Karen Foulkes on Wednesday 2nd of December 2009 05:41:20 PM

-- Edited by Karen Foulkes on Wednesday 2nd of December 2009 10:44:40 PM

8 Lapwings on Aldi roof, Scot Lane, Wigan today

Today 13.30

Sainsbury's retail park Bolton - 50 Lapwing and 30 Golden Plover in flight

c 100 on Carpet Right at Newton Heath at 0915hrs

29th November.

c70 Lapwing on the roof of Palletways at Rhodes Business Park, Rhodes at 10.50am.

Bill.

At least 39 Lapwing (I think more were on the far side of the roof) at Hindley Green Business Park, Leigh Road, Hindley Green on Monday 23rd Nov. I think the building they were on was called Centrium. Not a site I go past often, but haven't seen them on there previously.

22nd November.

Driving through Rhodes at 10.50 this morning a flock of c60 Lapwing were either being disturbed from or trying to land on the roof of Palletways in Rhodes Business Park. They didn't settle and flew off towards Middleton - none on the roof of McBrides but at 11.15, I counted 58 on the roof of Central Tyres just off the roundabout near Middleton Bus station. Driving whilst simultaneously counting birds on roof tops .....let's see them try that advanced driving skill on Top Gear! Only joking officer!

Cheers,

Bill

Another day at the office,brightened by 100+ lapwing on the roof of motor world opposite kwikfit in bolton at 11 ish

cheers geoff

The Broadheath Retail flock has been sporadic (or may be i,ve been to busy to notice them) so a nice surprise today 165 lapwing and 63 golden plover basking on top of Cotton Traders roof Atlantic St

cheers geoff

They do seem to be moving about a lot more these days at all locations although still in the general area. Asbestos corrugated roofs are usually favoured though.

That's their old favorite. They also used to use roofs on the old BT building just off Lees Road ( now a small business centre, I think) as well as the light roofs visible behind the Black Swan on Huddersfield Rd. As Riggers noted earlier these used to be favorite roosts 4/5 years ago, but had seemed to be deserted in recent years.

Adamson's car body shop roof is the most likely one I suspect

Sounds like where I had them yesterday, Kerry. They're in an awkward place to count properly and there were some in the middle bit the 'V', when I looked behind.

My flock yesterday may have been part of Steve's also, 'cause looking at the map the two places aren't that far apart as the Lapwing flies

1:30 pm today - at least 30 Lapwings on the roof of a large building (I think its a car showroom) at the junction of Lees Road (A669) and Cross street (B6194), Oldham. Was going past in the car at the time, so didn't get an accurate count.