Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

June 2006
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Legend

(m) = male, (f) = female, (p) = pair, (ps) = pairs, (^) = several, (~) = few

(s) singing, (H) = Heard only

Date and Time

Sighting

Location and Map Reference

Comments

 

 

 

 

28th

(15:30)

Green Sandpiper

Side of Wilkins Lane

Styal

Trisha Thompson

27th

(evening)

Common Tern

Astbury Mere

Congleton

Not there on the 28th

 

Mike Atkinson

22nd

(a) Linnet (2)

(b) Redpoll (2), Pheasant (2), Redstart (p**), Goldfinch (~)

(c) Curlew

(d) Common Buzzard

(a) Tegg’s Nose Lane

(b) Clough House Farm

(c) Tegg’s Nose Car Park

(d) Tegg’s Nose Quarry

Robert Moss

19th

Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Merlin, Willow Warbler, Linnet, Garden Warbler, Goldfinch, Barn Swallow, Long-tailed Tit

The Roaches

Geoff Atkin

18th

Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Lapwing (~), Swift (^), Skylark, Swallow (^), House Martin (^), Meadow Pipit (~), Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, Dipper (family), Redstart (m+f), Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff (H), Willow Warbler (s), Marsh Tit, Nuthatch, Common Raven, Goldfinch (^), Bullfinch (m+f)

White Peak

 

Brushfields, Priestcliffe, Litton Mill, Cressbrook and Monsal Dale

Highlights only, 38 species seen, many with young.

 

Gordon Howard, Ray and Jean Evans

17th

(a) Lapwing (2), Wheatear

(b) Common Buzzard

(c) Green Woodpecker

(d) Whitethroat

(a) Shutlingsloe

(b) Over Trentabank Res.

(c)Tegg’s Nose Quarry

(d) Tegg’s Nose Lane

Robert Moss

17th

Common Scoter (5m,6f)

Tittesworth Reservoir

Mark Buxton

15th

(a) Grouse, Golden Plover, Curlew, Meadow Pipit, Skylark

(b) Wheatear, Ring Ouzel Carrion Crow

(c) Grey Wagtail, Stonechat

(d) Garden Warbler, Cuckoo, Chiffchaff, Kestrel

(e) Willow Warbler, Barn Swallow, Swift

(f) Linnet, Goldfinch

(a) Cat and Fiddle

(b) Dane Bower

(c) Three Shire Heads

(d) Knar

(e) Gradbatch

(f) The Roaches

Geoff Atkin

13th

(a) Dipper (2)

(b) Common Sandpiper (2)

(c) Cuckoo, Common Buzzard

Goyt Valley area

(a) River Goyt

(b) Errwood Res.

(c) Goyt Bridge

Robert Moss

12th

(evening)

Hobby(*), Kestrel (2)

Shining Tor Slopes

(*) Close views (10 mins.) hunting and eating insects on the wing

Mark Arnold

11th

(p.m.)

(a) Golden Plover, Skylark, Curlew, Lapwing

(b) Mandarin (2m+1f+7ducklings)

(a) Shutlinsloe

 

(b) Ridgegate Res.

Also seen:

(a.m.) 2 weasel

(p.m.) Painted Lady (3)

Chris Grime

10th

(a.m.)

Short-eared Owl, Wheatear, Golden Plover(*), Curlew

Shining Tor

(*) with 2 young

 

Mark Arnold

9th

Red-legged Partridge (2)

Redesmere (Fields)

Robert Moss

8th

(17:30)

Red Kite

Over “Flying Fields Drive”

(Gawsworth end of Moss Lane)

Clear (binoculars) view, young bird, no tag visible, harried by crow, drifted high and to NW

Peter & Dianne Sutcliffe

6th

(a) Stonechat (2), Whinchat, Little Owl,

(b) Common Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon

(c) Little Owl

(a) Three Shire Heads

(b) Danebower Nr Cat & Fiddle

(c) Walkers Barn

Robert Moss

3rd

Garden Warbler (3), Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker

Bosley Reservoir

Geoff Atkin

3rd

Yellowhammer (2s), Pied Flycatcher, Red-legged Partridge

Marton Lane

Gawsworth

David Tolliday