BIRD SIGHTINGS IN THE MACCLESFIELD AREA
February 2003
1st Jodrell Bank Peregrine and two ravens roosting on the telescope
1st Budworth Mere, Marbury Country Park

Iceland Gull at 2.30pm in mixed flock of gulls (GH)

5th Redesmere 15 goosander, 15 shoveler and a similar numbers of goldeneye and greylag geese. 2 little grebes. Also 8 siskins in trees where road leaves lakeside at SE corner. (MA)
21st Redesmere/Henbury Hall area

2 Ravens, 50 redwings and 3 buzzards circling over Redesmere (JB)

28th Macclesfield Forest Area

10 crossbills at Nessit Hill (CG)
1 male brambling, male and female bullfinch and 20+ siskins at Sutton St James Church