Members Sightings in the Macclesfield Area

September 2003

Date and Time

Sighting

Location and Map Reference

Comments

1st   Kingfisher Riverside Park Perched on branch, eating fish
(Peter Kirk)
3rd Kingfisher Riverside Park (Peter Kirk)
3rd Little Grebe Ridgegate Reservoir (Peter Kirk)
4th

(a.m.)

Kingfisher, G.C.Grebe (with young), Grey Heron, Tufted Duck, Cormorant, Mallard, Mute Swan, Coot Moorhen, B.H Gull, Lesser B.B.Gull Marbury C.P. From screen over mere

(Gordon Howard)

4th

(p.m.)

Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Wren, Robin, Blackbird Marbury C.P. Woodland walk

(Gordon Howard)

5th Kingfisher Riverside Park (Peter Kirk)
7th Buzzard Adlington Flying over A523
(DaveTolliday)
11th Buzzard Over Broken Cross (John Bird)
11th Goldfinch (500++) Riverside Park Remarkable numbers
(Peter Kirk)
12th Buzzards (x6) !! Over Marton Village Circling
(DaveTolliday)
13th Raven
Buzzards (x2)
Standing Stone
(Macclesfield Forest)
(John Bird)
13th Buzzard Lindow Common
Wilmslow
(Peter Kirk)
14th Pectoral Sandpiper, Little Gull, Black Tern, Ruff, Little Stint Pennington's Flash (DaveTolliday)
15th Hobby Marton Heath Trout Pools Seen chasing swallows
(David Taylor)
15th Greenshank Banks Road, Heswall
(Wirral)
SJ252816
(Graham Palmer + John Bird)
15th Little Stint, Golden Plover (x9), Snipe (x5) Inner Marsh Farm
(Wirral)
(Graham Palmer + John Bird)
18th (am) Wood Sandpiper (x3) Haydn's Pool
Anderton C.P.
(Marbury)
(Peter Kirk)
18th (am) Kingfisher, Little Grebe Pickmere (Pete Kirk)
19th
(p.m.)
Buzzard
House Martins (*)
Alderley Wood (*) Large Nos, Clearly Migrating
(Peter Kirk)
20th Kingfisher Riverside Park (Pete Kirk)
21st
(p.m.)
Garganey (*), Green Sandpiper, Ruff (x3), Stock Dove, Snipe (15+), Curlew (50+), Lapwing (500+), General Wildfowl, Tree Sparrows (#) Elton Flash
Sandbach
(*) eclipsed
(#)on roadside verge
(Ray & Jean Evans + Gordon Howard)
23rd
(p.m.)
Little Owls (x2*),
Buzzards (x3**), Jay, Sparrowhawk, Goldfinch Flock
Pexal Road
Rodeheath
(SK88*67*)
(*) Perched,
(**) Soaring
(Ray Evans, Gordon Howard, Graham Palmer)
28th (p.m.) Dipper(*), Sparrowhawk, Goldfinch flock, (100+) Riverside Park (*) Occasional winter visitor to Riverside Park
(Peter Kirk)
29th Lapwing (x95) Swynnerton, Staffs
(SJ845363)
Observed on a field of bare earth
(Graham Palmer)
30th (a.m.)

Buzzard

Riverside Park Rare over Riverside Park
(Peter Kirk)