Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

June 2007
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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 / or Map Reference

Comments
       
18th
Lesser whitethroat
In scrub beside the stream running into the eastern end of Ridgegate Reservoir
at 3.30 pm
Tony and Margaret Hayter
17th
Nuthatch
Blackcap
Dipper
Grey wagtail
Pied flycatcher
Great-spotted woodpecker
Grey heron
Also seen
Mayfly
Chimney sweeper moth
Black and red froghopper
Circular walk of Taxal and the nature reserve

Andy Gregory and Janet Smith

(see report)
16th
Curlew - Numerous flying and calling
Lapwing - (^)
Skylark - two singing in flight
Raven - (H)
At the top of Laneside, New Mills
Andy Gregory and Janet Smith

16th 

Redstart
Blackcap
(3) Little ringed plovers

North end of Rudyard Reservoir

at about noon 

Tony and Margaret Hayter

10th

(a) Little Ringed Plover (2) Curlew
Grey Heron (3+3 juv.), Wood Warbler

 

(b) Common Sandpiper (2), Spotted Flycatcher

(a) Tittesworth Res.

(West Hide)

 

(b) Errwood Res.

 

 

Andy Gregory & Janet Smith

10th

Great Crested Grebe (2ps)

Bottom's Reservoir

Both pairs nesting

 

Steve Wright

8th

(19:00)

Song Thrush, Dipper (3+juv.), Grey Wagtail (3), Pied Wagtail,  Redstart, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chiffchaff (H), Nuthatch*, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Buzzard, Little Owl

Evening walk from Danebridge along River Dane, to Barleighford Bridge, Nettlebeds, Wincle Grange and down to “The Ship”

(*) small family party

Also seen:

Small herd of Red Deer (c12)

 

Ray & Jean Evans + Gordon Howard

7th

Barnacle Goose (p*), Oystercatcher (3), Ringed Plover, Lapwings**, Redshank (2), Common Sandpiper, Common Tern (2)

Carsington Water

(*) with well developed gosling

 

(**) with chick

 

Ray & Margaret Perry

5th

(14:40)

Sparrowhawk

Ivy Road

(Macclesfield)

Bird swooped low along main road adjacent to Co-op and dived between houses to scatter a Starling flock

Gordon Howard

4th

(a) Golden Plover, Curlew, Meadow Pipit, Linnet^, Grouse

 

(b) Ring Ouzel, Wheatear, Mistle Thrush

 

(c) Lapwing

 

(d) Kestrel*, Buzzard, Stonechat, Little Owl, Reed Bunting

 

(e) Wood Warbler

 

(f) Cuckoo, Swallow

(a) Cat and Fiddle

 

(b) Danebower

 

(c) Knotbury

 

(d) Roaches

 

(e) Gradbach

 

(f) Knar

 

 

(*) Kestrel mobbing Buzzard

 

 

 

Geoff Atkin

1st

Great Crested Grebe (5), Mute Swan* (f), Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover (4), Common Redstart (p**), Song Thrush (3), Spotted Flycatcher (2), Pied Flycatcher (p***), Linnet (4), Reed Bunting (2,m,s)

Tittesworth Res.

(*) rarity at Tittesworth

(**) Feeding young – nest box

(***) Feeding young – nest box by River Churnet

 

Note! Pied Flycatcher did not breed at this site in 2005 & 06

 

Ray & Margaret Perry