Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
November 2007 (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
30th	Hen Harrier Ring-tailed (or female)	Just outside the village of Pikehall, six miles from Carsington Water.	Ray and Margaret Perry
27th	Red Deer stag	Near Birtles Estate	via Paul Flackett (An unusual location)
27th Noon	Goldeneye (1m) Pochard (6m, 4f)	Ridgegate Reservoir	Tony and Margaret Hayter
26th 9:30am	60 to 75 Siskins	Riverside Park	Feeding in the Alder Grove adjacent to the Bollin River, one field on the Prestbury side/direction from the feeding station. Steve McCoskery
26th 10am	Goosander (25)	South Park Lake, Macclesfield	Maurice Peall
25th	11 Goosander (5m/6f) Mandarin (m) 50+ Siskins	Styperson Reservoir	Paul Hughes
23rd	6 Mandarin Duck (2m 4f)	Trentabank Res.	Geoff Atkin
23rd	6 Little Grebe 2 Pochard	Ridgegate Res.	Geoff Atkin
23rd	Flock of approx 50 Goldfinch/Greenfinch/Siskin	Macclesfield Forest	Geoff Atkin
22nd	Curlew (~50) -	New Platt Lane, Goostrey.	Ray and Margaret Perry
22nd	Buzzard (3)	Pexhill Lane, Siddington.	Ray and Margaret Perry
21st 10:15am	Raven (2)	Prestbury	Alerted by the sound of calling Crows – the ‘Intruders’ were a pair of Ravens. They circled 5/6 times in a big loop from over the west of the golf course adjacent to Dale Brow, Prestbury and across over Ashbrook Drive flying mainly below tree height level. Steve McCoskery
21st	Goosander (8) (including 2 adult males)	South Park Lake, Macclesfield	Maurice Peall
20th	Goldeneye (f) Goosander (f)	Trentabank Reservoir	Tony and Margaret Hayter
20th	Pochard 4(m) 3(f)	Ridgegate Reservoir	Tony and Margaret Hayter
17th	Water rail	Rudyard Lake Showing well in the shallows below the bridge of the Dane feeder	Stephen Machin
17th	Redpoll	Beech Farm Drive, Macclesfield On nyger seed (1st this season)	Tony and Margaret Hayter
17th	Redpoll	Rydal Place, Macclesfield In the garden on nyger feeder	Graham Palmer
16th	Kingfisher	Beech Farm Drive Macclesfield On tree by kitchen window	Tony and Margaret Hayter
15th	Goldeneye (f) Teal (about 80) Snipe (40) Kingfisher (2) Great Spotted Woodpecker (a pair) Fieldfare (about 200) Redwing (about 20) Goldcrest (2) Willow Tit (1) Siskin (2)	Tittesworth Water	Ray Perry
14th	Kingfisher	West Park Pool	R Moss
12th 6.45pm	Barn Owl	Marton Lane, Marton by the track to Walkersheath (SJ873706).	Richard Doran
12th 4pm	Teal (f)	Bottoms Reservoir	Steve Wright
12th	Common Snipe	Bottoms Reservoir feeding all day along far bank, opposite the cottages.	Steve Wright
Various	Lots of Redwings	West Park play area	R Moss
11th	70 Bramblings	Cumberland Brook Wood, (above Wildboarclough)	Mark Arnold
6th	18 Little Grebes	7 on Trentabank 11 on Ridgegate	Steve & Gill Barber
4th 10.00am	25 Goosander	Lyme Park duck pond (near the cafe)	Mark Arnold
3rd	2 Whooper Swans	Bosley Reservoir	Alan Kimber
3rd	175 Curlew flying in just as the light was fading 500+ Starlings flying over, probably to either the Witton Brook or Budworth Mere reed-beds 200+ Lapwing present most of the day 57 Golden Plover numerous Teal and Shoveler and the odd Wigeon	Neumann's Flash at dusk	Paul Flackett
3rd	65 Grey Herons sitting in the heronry	Budworth Mere	Paul Flackett
3rd	Curlew Raven 2 Buzzards in aerial combat	All flying over fields south of Marton	David Tolliday
2nd	circa 30 Pink-footed geese	Over flying Roe Wood Lane, heading south east	Mark Arnold