Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
February 2006 (Please click on photos or any underlined comments for larger images and/or more information)
Date and Time	Sighting	Location and Map Reference	Comments
28th (18:00)	(a) Short-eared Owls (pair) (b) Red Grouse (3)	Macclesfield Forest (a) Displaying over “Standing Stone” (b) Below Shutlingsloe	Chris Grime
26th (17:45)	Short-eared Owls (pair), Red Grouse (2 pairs)	Between top of Macclesfield Forest and Shutlingsloe	Chris Grime
26th	(a) Grey Heron (pair), Kestrel, Little Grebe (2), Goldeneye (pair), Goosander (m+2f) (b) Little Grebe (3), Goldeneye (2 pairs) (c) Little Grebe (3), Great Crested Grebe, Goosander (f) (d)Goosander (pair) (e) Common Buzzard, Mistle Thrush (3), Jay	(a) Trentabank Reservoir (b) Ridgegate Reservoir (c) Bottoms Reservoir (d) Tegg’s Nose Reservoir (e) Wildboarclough	Click for photos Andy Gregory and Janet Smith
23rd (13.35)	Redwing (4), Song Thrush (2), Great Tit (2), Wren	High Lea Park New Mills	Andy Gregory
21st	Red Kite	Over Macclesfield Golf Club	Bird being mobbed by 60-80 Jackdaws Chris Sennitt
20th	(a) Goosander (m+2f) (b) Great Spotted Woodpecker (pair)	(a) Leadbeaters Reservoir (b) Bailey’s Farm (Higher Fence Road)	Peter Hurst
18th	(a) Bullfinch (m), Siskins (sev) (b) Dipper	(a) Marton (b) River Dane Havannah	John Percival
16th	Siskin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Treecreeper	Macclesfield Canal Nr. Danes Moss	Robert Moss
16th	Goosander (2f) Mute swan (pair)	Knights Pool Macclesfield	Peter Hurst
15th	Blackcap	Back garden, Thirlmere, Macclesfield	Ray and Margaret Perry
13th	Black necked grebe (see report for full list)	Paul Stanley Hide at Carsington Water	Andy Gregory
13th	Smew (1m) Goosander (3 pairs)	Tegg’s Nose Reservoir	Reports combined from Peter Hurst and Alan Brereton
13th	Goldeneye (2 pairs) Little Grebe (4)	Ridgegate Reservoir
13th	Little Grebe (3) Kingfisher	Bottoms Reservoir
13th	Goosander (1 pair) Goldeneye (4) Little Grebe (3) Heronry very active with many birds present and several nests being prepared Cormorant (4 adults + 2 Immature) one pair building nest alongside heronry	Trentabank Reservoir
12th	Red-legged Partridge (7)	High Legh, near Knutsford	Ray and Margaret Perry
11th	Smew	Tegg’s Nose, Bottoms & Ridgegate Reservoirs	Paul Flackett
11th	Goosanders (3)	Tegg’s Nose Reservoir	Paul Flackett
11th	Ravens (2)	Over Tegg’s Nose (the hill not the reservoir)	Paul Flackett
11th	Goldeneye (4)	Ridgegate Reservoir	Paul Flackett
11th	Kingfisher Grey Wagtail (1st winter bird)	Bottoms Reservoir Bottoms reservoir outflow	Paul Flackett
11th	Drake Smew	Showing well - Tegg's Nose Reservoir, (down Holehouse Lane, Langley).	B & M Robinson
10th 17:30)	Short Eared Owl	Below Shutlingsloe - Macc. Forest side	Chris Grime
9th (Noon)	Waxwings (7)	Woodley Shopping Precinct, Stockport	Tom Gibbons
8th	Tawny Owl	King’s School Playing Fields	Robert Moss
8th	Common Buzzard (4)	Monks Heath and Siddington areas.	Ray and Margaret Perry
7th	Dipper, Snipe	Riverside Park	Robert Moss
5th	Smew	Bosley Reservoir	Paul Flackett
4th (p.m.)	Smew (m)	Bosley Reservoir (in bay East of dam)	David Bailey
2nd	Waxwings (29)	Shopping precinct Woodley	Denise Brough