Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
September 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
29th	Black-necked Grebe	Redesmere - present to at least 1330 hrs.	Steve Barber
27th	Redwings coming in from the east. Between 9am and 11.30am parties of between 5 - 50 birds all heading west - c400 in all. Also small numbers of Meadow Pipits on the move.	Canal aqueduct over the River Dane near Bosley (Also reports of Redwings in Mobberley)	Steve & Gill Barber
27th	c30 Redwings at 9.45 am	Flying over Prestbury	Mark Arnold
27th (c08:00)	Pink-footed Geese	Ivy Farm Estate and Pennington’s Lane Gawsworth	2 Skeins (170+ and 60+) Overflying East (high) Gordon Howard
27th	Pink-footed Geese Two skeins flew east, again at 7.55am - c120 over the golf course and another c70 were visible further south	Marton	Steve Barber
26th	Pink-footed Geese a skein of c80 flew east over the village at 7.55am	Marton	Steve Barber
24th	Brambling	Pikelow Farm, Marton	David Taylor
23rd	Linnet (40+)	Near Manor Farm, Gawsworth	Ray Perry
22nd	1 juvenile Water Rail 7 Golden Plover 2 Green Sandpiper 15 Snipe 1 Redshank 2 Reed Warbler 5 Black Swans	Neumann's Flash or nearby Haydn Pool:	Paul Flackett
22nd	36 Pink-footed Geese flew in at dusk just ahead of 80+ Curlew	Neumann's Flash	Paul Flackett
20th	Mandarin duck (f)	Macclesfield Canal north of Bollington	Geoff Aitkin
18th	Snipe (3) Dipper (1) - very uncommon at Tittesworth these days.	Tittesworth	Ray Perry
18th	67 Pink-footed geese	Flying south east over Pikelow Farm, Marton	David Taylor
17th	Willow Warbler (4) Red-crested Pochard (5) Common Pochard (12m)	Carsington Water	Ray Perry
15th	Ring-necked Parakeet	Neumann's Flash	Paul Flackett
12th	Mistle Thrush(*) Jay	Fields N side of Pennington’s Lane	(*) issuing loud alarm rattle Gordon Howard
11th	Adult Great Crested Grebes being pursued by youngsters who presumably wanted feeding.	Bottoms Reservoir	Michael Calam
11th	Two Little Grebes feeding two young (plus several other adult birds)	Ridgegate Reservoir	Michael Calam
9th	Grey Heron	Fields N side of Pennington’s Lane	Flying East (low) Gordon Howard
4th (a.m.)	Sparrowhawk (2)	Fields N side of Pennington’s Lane	2 birds flying West together (no obvious size difference) Gordon Howard
Week One	Red Kite	Marbury C.P.	Two sightings reported via David James (Marbury C P Ranger)