Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
February 2005 (Please click on photos or any underlined comment for larger images and/or more information)
Date and Time	Sighting	Location and Map Reference	Comments
28^th (a.m.)	Waxwings (22+)	Rydal Place (Thornton Sq. area)	Graham Palmer
25^th (15:30)	Redwing (30+)	Field North side of Pennington’s Lane	Grazing field rear of Thirlmere (Thornton Sq. area) Gordon Howard
24^th (14:10)	Lapwing (20+)	Field North side of Pennington’s Lane	Grazing? snow covered field rear of Thirlmere (Thornton Sq. area) Gordon Howard
22^nd (p.m.)	Lapwing (c100), Stock Dove (c30), Redwing & Fieldfare (c100)*	North of Pexhall Rd. Rodeheath	* mixed flock, (approx 50/50) Graham Palmer & Ray Evans
22^nd	Pink-footed Goose	Poynton Pool	Single bird grazing with resident Canada Geese Bernard Robinson
21st	Waxwings (80+)	Park Lane, Poynton 8.45 am	Flocking from tree to tree, small berry trees. John Donovan
20th	For a report on Bramblings, a Crossbill and other species click here	Goyt Valley and Macclesfield Forest	Nigel Troup
17^th	(a) Lapwing (c50), Common Buzzard (b) Common Buzzard (*) (c) Tawny Owl	(a) Lower Withington (b) Siddington (c) Rear of Thirlmere (Nr. Thornton Sq.)	(*) Extremely pale bird Ray Perry
17th	**Unconfirmed Report** Male Hen Harrier	Goyt Valley and Shutlingsloe	Please submit any sightings to this website
17th	(a) Goldeneyes (3m + 2f) (a) Pochard (b) 100+ Siskins	(a) Ridgegate Reservoir (b) Macclesfield Forest Ranger Centre	Chris Grimes
16^th	Jackdaws (c1500)	Danes Moss Gawsworth	Flying in to roost Ray Perry
14^th	Waxwings (c150)	Stevenage Drive, Nr Oxford Rd Macclesfield	Paul Flackett
14^th	Waxwings (100+) Mistle Thrush	Bridge St. / Paradise St. Gardens SJ914733	Several visits thru the day, Mistle not really defending Alan Brereton
14^th (12:15)	Pink-footed Geese (7)	Rear of Bosley School	Returned to site Wendy Taylor
13^th	Waxwings (c100)	Broken Cross Macclesfield	Feeding on yellow berried Rowans outside Post Office Paul Flackett
13^th	(a) Fieldfare (200+) (b) Redwing (c50)	Gawsworth (a) Mount Farm (b) Middle Moss Farm	Ray Perry
13^th (16:15)	Pink- footed Geese (7)	Rear of Bosley School	Graham Palmer, Ray Evans & David Tolliday
13^th (13:30 to 14:30)	Waxwings (150+), Mistle Thrush	Bridge St. / Paradise St. Gardens SJ914733	Mistle still around and defending Alan Brereton
12^th (15:55)	Waxwings (35)	Hope St West Macclesfield	David Tolliday
12^th (a.m.)	Pink-footed Geese (7)	Rear of Bosley School	Wendy Taylor
10^th	Waxwings (40)	Whalley Hayes Macclesfield	On tall trees Paul Flackett
9^th (13:00)	Waxwing (c20), Mistle Thrush	Brock St. (off Coare St.) Macclesfield	Juliet Woodley
8^th	Waxwings (c20)	Brock St. (off Coare St.) Macclesfield	Juliet Woodley
7^th (09:15)	Redwing (50+)	Trees / Field North side of Pennington’s Lane Gawsworth	Gordon Howard
6^th	Grey Heron, Song Thrush (3), Fieldfare (110+)	Woodhouse End Rd. Nr. Fodens Farm Gawsworth	Ray & Margaret Perry
5^th (10:00)	Egyptian Goose, Mute Swan (8), Black-headed Gull (80), Great Crested Grebe (2), Pochard (m), Redwing (20+)	Poynton Pool	Nigel Troup
4th	Pallas's Warbler	Crossley North Rode SJ 896654	Steven Round
4^th	Goosander (4m,4f)	Ridgegate Reservoir Langley	Tony & Margaret Hayter
3^rd (16:15)	Fieldfare (Single Bird)	Large Oak North side of Pennington’s Lane Gawsworth	Perched high, behaving like a storm cock? Gordon Howard
3^rd (c15:30)	Pallas’s Warbler	Crossley North Rode SJ 896654	John Bird, Ray Evans, Graham Palmer
1^st (15:30)	Waxwings (60+)	White St. (off High St.) Macclesfield	Feeding on Rowan Natalie Abbot