Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

November 2006
(Please click on photos or any underlined comment for larger images and/or more information)

Legend

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

(s) singing, (H) = Heard only

Date and Time

Sighting

Location and / or Map Reference

Comments

28th

a) Short-eared Owl
b) Raven
c) 50 Fieldfares

a) Moor below Shutlingsloe
b) Over Shutlingsloe
c) Flying over moor

Andrew Foulkes

28th

a) Mixed flock of Bramblings and Chaffinches

b) Several flocks of Redwing

c) Tawny Owl heard

a) Trees opposite the main car park at Trentabank Reservoir in Macclesfield Forest.

b) Flying over forest

c) Main car park in Macclesfield Forest

Andrew Foulkes

21st

Curlew (20)

New Platt Lane

Goostrey

Ray & Margaret Perry

20th

Ring-billed Gull

Tittesworth Reservoir

Nick Pomiankowski

(Staffs Recorder)

Via Ray Perry

19th

Tawny and Little Owl, Kestrel, Wigeon (2)
several Reed Buntings, Kingfisher, several hundred Starlings, Redwing.

Rudyard walkway

Mick Sway

  17th
(17.00)

Short Eared Owl (2)

Below Shutlingsloe Macclesfield Forest

Chris Grime

16th

Kingfisher

West Park pool

Robert Moss

Regular dates

Pied Wagtail roost
150+ birds but there could be many more.
They come in to roost at 4:30pm-ish at the moment

In the two trees at the bottom of Pickford Street car park, Macclesfield

Paul Flackett

8th

Pied Wagtail (^)

West Park Playground

Robert Moss

8th

(10:30)

Sparrowhawk (m)

Garden sighting

Rear of Thirlmere

Ivy Farm estate

Taking Blue Tit off feeder and plucking on nearby tree.

Gordon Howard

7th

(14:50)

Curlew (3)

Marton

Nr. Bunce Lane Farm

Bruce Lane

Michael Calam

2nd

(a) Golden Plover (c30), Lapwing (c250)

(b) Tufted Duck (c20)

(c) Fieldfare (c60*), Siskin (c15)

(d) Pochard (2), Little Grebe (2), Tufted Duck (2), Raven**

Adlington G C.

(a) adjacent to airfield

(b) main pond

 

(c) Macclesfield Forest

(d) Ridgegate Reservoir

(*) several flocks

 

(**) Overflying

 

Nigel Troup

1st

(11:00-12:00)

(a) Buzzard*

 

(b) Fieldfare** (100/150)

(a) Macclesfield

 

(b)Seen from Gritstone Trail, main path to Tegg’s Nose from Teggsnose Reservoir

* soaring high over Paradise Street

 

* * feeding on berries (whitebeam preference)

 

Alan Brereton

1st

(11:00)

Fieldfare (200+), Redwing (300+)

Wildboarclough

(above Lower Nab’s farm)

Flushed by passing helicopter

Mark Arnold