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Karen Foulkes


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80 Lapwing on the roof of Car People Ashton Moss at last light today.

Most appeared to fly off once it turned completely dark.

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Karen Foulkes


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c100 Lapwing at 1725 today on the roof of Car People, the most I have seen at this site for a long time.

4/02/15 c50 Lapwing around 1700hrs

I've checked this site regularly throughout the winter, mainly at weekends and hadn't seen any Lapwing for several months until last week.

-- Edited by Karen Foulkes on Thursday 5th of February 2015 06:19:53 PM

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c30 Lapwing were on the roof of Car People at Ashton Moss just after 5 today.


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At least 20 Lapwing were on the roof of Car People at Ashton Moss at last light today.

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I'm currently writing species accounts for Lapwing and Golden Plover for the Greater Manchester County Report. The basis of the report is the database of records formally submitted to the Greater Manchester Bird Recording Group which is in the safe keeping of Ian McKerchar and Steve Atkins.

I was rather shocked to find that there were rather few records of roof roosts of either species in the database when there are so many postings on this thread, so I took a closer look. It transpired that only about a quarter of the sightings below were ever submitted to GMBRG. Both these species are of conservation concern. Lapwing is red-listed and Golden Plover is amber-listed, both in part due to declines in their wintering populations - WE NEED YOUR RECORDS!

What concerns me most is that this situation must apply across the whole range of bird species and that the conservation of our birds may suffer just because people can't be bothered to submit their records. If you can post on this forum, you can enter the record on a spreadsheet, or Rodis or Mapmate or BirdTrack - Ian and Steve have provided enough options to make life easier for you. Neither of them have the time to read every post on the forum and type the details into the database.

Please make it a New Year's resolution to record your bird sightings properly - but start NOW!



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17/11/14 Newton Heath

Mixed flock of Lapwing and Golden Plover seen circling the Carpet Store at the junction of Oldham Rd and Droylsden Rd at about 8:30 this morning.
Rough estimate as driving past, 60 Lapwing 20 Golden Plover.


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Late posting for 10.45 ish yesterday Sun 2nd Nov.

30+ lapwing seen from M60 flying over then landing on roof of System 3 factory in Denton

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Sat 25 October - 14.00

just one Lapwing visible on Car People, Ashton Moss + c 25 Black-headed Gulls

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No-one has reported any roof-roosting Golden Plover this autumn.

If you do see any, this is the weekend of the European Golden Plover Census so please report any sightings of the species (whether on roofs or not) via Birdtrack.

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30 on the roof of the carpet store at Newton Heath 11.00 am

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Sunday Oct 6th. 06-45 hrs

Roof of "Tom Chandleys Oven Engineers" Windmill Lane, Denton.

c 6 Lapwing.

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Only 24 Lapwing on the roof of Car People, Ashton Moss today at 2pm.

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At least 25 Lapwing on the roof of Car People, Ashton Moss yesterday at 6pm.

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Karen Foulkes


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10 Lapwing on the roof of Car People Ashton Moss this afternoon. Numbers have been fluctuating in the last couple of weeks, but no more than 10 present

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In Wigan town centre, 36 Lapwing, accompanied by 1 Starling, just circled low past Chapel Lane car park then dropped towards the closed Santander building

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15 Lapwing on the roof of Car People, Ashton Moss this afternoon

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150+ lapwings on carpet right, broadheath retail park this morning.

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28 Lapwing on roof of Car People on Ashton Moss this afternoon

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Car People, Ashton Moss

21 Lapwing this afternoon

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Car People, Ashton Moss

10 Lapwing this morning and c20 this afternoon

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Steve Suttill wrote:

23 Lapwings on Car People, Ashton Moss this morning at 10.30 together with a few Starlings.




Thanks for counting the Lapwings this morning, Steve . I got to 20 before the tram set off!

Only one present this afternoon, after the rain

-- Edited by Karen Foulkes on Friday 8th of August 2014 05:42:15 PM

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23 Lapwings on Car People, Ashton Moss this morning at 10.30 together with a few Starlings.

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Car People, Ashton Moss

Over the past few days Lapwing numbers have increased generally.

15 were visible this afternoon, with a couple on top of the roof, there could have been some out of view on the other side.

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Car People, Ashton Moss

Nine Lapwing this morning and two late afternoon.

1/8/14

Four Lapwing present in the morning

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At least 8 on the roof of the bed store at Newton Heath at 11.45 and 13.10.

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Car People, Ashton Moss

30/7/14

Eight Lapwing in the morning, but only one in the afternoon

31/7/14

10 Lapwing this morning

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Car People, Ashton Moss

Nine Lapwing this morning and seven Lapwing this afternoon

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Six Lapwing on the roof of Car People Ashton Moss this morning

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Two Lapwing on the roof of Car People on Ashton Moss late afternoon today

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Just dropped a hire van off at Howarth Brothers which is between Oldham and Shaw near Derker.
Whilst there I was mobbed by a Lapwing in the car park, it was coming to within a couple of feet of my head.
Thought this unusual for the vicinity (although they do roost in quite large numbers on various roofs around here in the winter) so I enquired with the owners who told me they regularly nest on the roof there. It would be interesting to know how successful they are but I suspect observation would be a little tricky.
Great close up views however.

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Late post for Saturday 22nd Feb.

At 12.30pm approx 50-60 Lapwing circling over Tom Chandleys then over the NHS buildings on Windmill Lane, then back over Tom Chandleys, I'd driven further down towards Sainsburys so didn't see which roof they chose in the end.

-- Edited by Rob Creek on Monday 24th of February 2014 10:49:49 AM

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10 Lapwing visible this morning on the roof of Car People, Ashton Moss

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c100 Lapwings on top of Asda/Range at Milnrow

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Karen Foulkes


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20+ Lapwing present on roof of Car People, Ashton Moss this evening

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2 Lapwing visible this morning on the roof of Car People on Ashton Moss and 15 this evening

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112 Lapwings on the roof of Central Tyre, Blackburn Road, Bolton, at lunchtime


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3 Lapwing on roof of Car People at Ashton Moss at 1645 today

-- Edited by Karen Foulkes on Tuesday 21st of January 2014 06:36:24 PM

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10 Lapwing on the roof of Car People at Ashton Moss later afternoon today

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C.40 on the roof of The Carpet Store at Newton Heath at 12.05 today and again at 14.50

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150+ Lapwings flew from recycling works on Turton Street (Bolton) to Blackburn Road/Halliwell Road at 10.30am.


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2 Lapwing circling Altrincham retail park this morning.

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c170 Lapwings at the recycling centre on Turton Street, Bolton at 11.40am
Took off soon after and headed for Blackburn Road.


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100+ Lapwings around the Blackburn Road/Halliwell Road junction in Bolton at 10am.


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Approx 30 Lapwing on Tom Chandleys roof at 2.30pm

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Just short of 50 Lapwing this morning from Ashton moss presumably down on the Car people.


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C40 on the roof of The Carpet Store at Newton Heath @ 11.15 today

C100 at the same location @ 15.30 on 11/12/13

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3 Lapwing on roof of Car People, Ashton Moss, clinging on for dear life!


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Sunday Dec 8th. 07-15 hrs

Roof of"Tom Chandleys Oven Engineers" Windmill Lane, Denton.

c 5 Lapwing. ???

Was expecting a high count this morning (plus a good chance of Golden Plover).

Blows all my theories out of the water.
Not much change there then !

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Sunday Dec 1st. 07-15 hrs

Roof of"Tom Chandleys Oven Engineers" Windmill Lane, Denton.

c 91 Lapwing.

Think I timed it spot on this morning for a count ... some birds became unsettled after about 10 minutes and began to fly around in small groups

No Golden Plover. Only seem to be present when it is really cold (unless they had left earlier ..... do seem to leave before the Lapwings).

Roger.



-- Edited by Roger Baker 3 on Sunday 1st of December 2013 08:15:23 AM

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Just 8 Lapwing on roof of Car People, Ashton Moss yesterday 16.00

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