Broadheath retail flock,all up in the air this afternoon looks like 200+ but they settle on different rooves(spell check) and I could only see 147,and as they say if you can,t be with the birds you love,watch the ones you can.
err ah ohm,broadheath retail park 56 on the carpet right unit ,the others were hiding somewhere,interestlingly 150 bh gulls spooked off tesco,s roof, can any one see the top of the store??
12 or so Lapwings on disused factory roof Kings Road/ Tameside trail Audenshaw (towards Debdale Park) Sunday 06-07-08 1.15pm. Kestrel hunting on wasteland next to M60 close by also.
16.45 today at least 2 birds on one of the large soil heaps in the cordoned-off area at Dean Lane, near the Carpet World roost. This is the site of an old flat-roofed L'Oreal building (now demolished for new housing) over which I'm seen birds displaying in several past Springs. It will be interesting to see if sightings on the grass patch opposite are down this Summer, in the same way that sightings at Morrisons in Failsworth stopped when the old mill was converted to a much lower building.
50+ Lapwing on the house roofs opposite Central Tyres, Bolton. Also a flock of 44 Golden Plover on same roofs. Both flocks were very moblie and only landed for a few seconds.
The 'Peep Peep' of a reversing delivery lorry sent the Goldies into a frenzy! and set them of in another couple of laps of the housing estate before landing again.
200+ lapwings on central tyres bolton this afternoon, plus some on kwikfit and motorworld, in amongst the central tyre 200 was a single golden plover (get in!) nice one simon!
210+ Lapwings - 90+ on the sloping roofs of the curry house and the flooring warehouse opposite Tescos & a further 120+ on the flat roof of the petrol filling station itself. Some Golden Plover did turn up here last winter - but haven't seen any so far this winter .
Got a few funny looks standing in the supermarket car park in pouring rain holding a pair of binoculars! Shouldn't be too surprised!