Lune estuary area Lapwings (functionally linked land!)

[Dan Haywood]

#2214

All on farmland land along W side of Heaton / Colloway Marshes– very few on saltmarshes:

Heaton / Overton fields;

650 at SD443612 (300 of which had been displaced from Aldcliffe Marsh N by recreational disturbance)

750 at SD444606

1000 at SD447601

220 at SD445593

500 at SD444588

(above all on improved grass)

380 at SD443584 (maize stubble)

100 at SD442576 (pony paddocks)

(SPA: c900 on Ashton stretch of estuarine mud cSD454575. Just 200 in same habitat at Glasson. 60 in centre of Glasson Marsh cSD438561).

Various fields to S and SE of Glasson viewed from Glasson / Jeremy Lane / Moss Lane: c2000 in total– mostly on improved grassland.

Black Plover / Green Plover: this male Lapwing took exception to me* at Glasson and aimed lots of fancy flying and plaintive crying my way. Saw thousands of tewits during my *birdingbikercise* today. Lucky me and lucky us. https://t.co/w0z1n31CZ8 pic.twitter.com/NkCWZwEQo7

— Lancaster & District Birdwatching (@LDBWSnews) January 25, 2021

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