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Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding
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September
2005 |
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Date and Time |
Species |
Location and Map Reference |
Comments |
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30th (15:00) |
Kingfisher (2) |
Macclesfield |
First sighting here for 10 years
for Maurice & Gillian Peall |
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29th (15:10) |
Barn Owl |
Tytherington Macclesfield |
Flying over rough ground with
pool, into trees adjacent to (unconfirmed report) |
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26th |
Green Woodpecker |
Siddington |
Ray & Margaret Perry |
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26th |
(a) Red
Kite (b) Dunlin (2) |
Tittesworth Area (a) Drifting North towards
“The Roaches” (b) |
Paul Flackett |
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25th |
Red-legged Partridge (11) |
High Legh Nr. Knutsford |
Ray and Margaret Perry |
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24th (p.m.) |
(a) Great Crested Grebe (2),
Cormorant, Pied Wagtail (sev.), Goldfinch (sev.) (b)
Peregrine Falcon, Common Buzzard (2), Grey Wagtail |
(a) Tittesworth Reservoir (b) Gradbach |
(No sign of Osprey) Gordon Howard |
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24th (c14:00) |
(a) Osprey*,
Common Buzzard (3), Whinchat (juv.), Merlin^ (b) Snipe (13), Dunlin |
(a) Tittesworth (b) Rudyard |
* over the hills ^ probable sighting, fast flight
hugging ground Paul Flackett |
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23rd |
Pochard (2m) |
Ridgegate Reservoir |
Tony & Margaret Hayter |
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22nd |
Osprey, Raven (pair), Snipe, Mistle
Thrush (20-30), Common Buzzard, Swallow (sev*) |
Tittesworth
Reservoir |
*successive
waves flying south Paul
Flackett |
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19th
(17:20) |
Sparrow Hawk (m+f) |
Fields
between Thirlmere and Pennington’s Lane |
Flushed
from large oak by crows Gordon
Howard |
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19th |
(a) Osprey (b) Ringed Plover (2), Snipe
(15), Shoveler |
(a)
Tittesworth Reservoir (b)
Rudyard |
Paul
Flackett |
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17th
(p.m.) |
Osprey |
Tittesworth
Reservoir |
Andrew
Foulkes |
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17th |
Raven (15)!! |
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Flying
East over “The Cat and Fiddle” Chris
Grime |
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16th |
(a) Goldcrest (b) Grey Heron |
Thirlmere Macclesfield |
(a) Garden Conifer (b) over flying house (twice) Ray & Margaret Perry |
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16th (10:00) |
Common Buzzard (2) |
Over the Macclesfield |
Between Prestbury and Bollington
roundabouts Nick Kirk |
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15th |
Long-tailed Tits (13) |
Garden / Thirlmere Macclesfield |
In amongst mixed tit flock |
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15th |
Long-tailed Tit (30+) |
Garden / Macclesfield |
In amongst mixed tit &
chaffinch flock Nick Kirk |
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12th
(12:00) |
Common Buzzard (6) |
Over
Wilmslow |
Flying
in a group Tom
Gibbon |
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8th
(10:20) |
Sparrowhawk (f) |
Over
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Soaring
high, drifting West Gordon
Howard |
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3rd |
Scaup (hybrid*), Wigeon (8^), Greenshank,
Snipe (11), Dunlin, Shelduck (5 juv.) |
Tittesworth |
*
Scaup (f) x Tufted Duck (m) ^
early winter visitors Logbook
record Ray
Perry |
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1st |
Yellow Wagtail (juv.) |
Tittesworth |
Logbook
Record Ray
Perry |
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