Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
March 2008 (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
31st	Osprey Kestrel (2) Goldeneye (2) Swallows (2) Chiffchaff.	Over Bottoms Reservoir at 6.45 pm. It stayed circling for about a minute then flew off in the direction of Trentabank. It was being mobbed by a carrion crow.	Steve Wright
31st	Goldcrest	Prestbury garden (In fact almost daily for the past 4 weeks)	Jacqueline Hamerton
31st	Green Woodpecker (one seen and another heard at the same time)	Langley, Grid Ref 945719	Chris and Alec Johnston
30th	Wheatear	Danebower Quarries	Ray & Jean Evans
30th	Chiffchaff	Hinds Clough Wood Tittesworth (Dam end of Res.)	Singing lustily! Gordon Howard
30th	Dipper	Sutton, nr junction of Hall Lane and Jarman	Scott Lamont
30th	Swallow	Bottoms Reservoir, Macclesfield Forest	Scott Lamont
30th	Red Kite being mobbed relentlessly by a raven. Chiffchaff	Cromford and High Peak Railway trail near Cromford Black Rocks.	Andy Gregory and Janet Smith
29th	Chiffchaff (2) singing Redwing (6)	Middlewood Way	Bernard & Margaret Robinson
28th	House Martin (2)	Blakelow Road Macclesfield	Tina Hanak
26th 10.15am	Hen Harrier (f), being mobbed by Crows	Lower Withington	Ray Perry
26th 12 noon	Wigeon (4m, 4f) Goosander ( 6m, 4f) Mandarin (1m)	Trentabank Reservoir	Tony and Margaret Hayter
26th	Bramblings (pair)	In garden Ashbrook Drive, Prestbury	S. McCroskery
25th 13:15	Mistle Thrush (2) Redwing	Field between Ivy Farm estate and Pennington’s Lane	All three birds in close proximity - actively feeding Gordon Howard
25th 13:00	Common Buzzard	Overflying Ivy Farm estate	Drifting North ! Gordon Howard
24th	Barn Owl	Monk's Heath	Tina Hanak
24th	Chiffchaff	Heard at Rudyard this morning with snow falling	Tony and Margaret Hayter
23rd	Chiffchaff in song	Lindow Common	Paul Hughes
23rd	White wagtail feeding with pied wagtail	Just north of Nelson Pit, Middlewood Way, Higher Poynton on a new manure heap.	Paul Hughes
21st	Chiffchaff (heard)	My first of the year along Marbury Lane	Nigel Troup
21st	A single brave Swallow and three Sand Martins. Also present: Shelduck (4) Shoveler (30+) Oystercatcher (2) Redshank (3) Snipe	Budworth Mere this lunchtime	Nigel Troup
20th 10:30	Sand Martins (20-30)	Tatton Mere	Tony Bianchi & John Partington
19th	Pied Wagtail (60)	Fields adjacent Prestbury Sewage works	Geoff Atkin
19th	House Martin - one among six Sand Martins	Redesmere	Steve & Gill Barber Its our earliest ever by 11 days. The earliest ever in Cheshire was on 14th March in 2000 at Hurleston Reservoir.
18th	Wheatear	Moors above Tittesworth	Chris Revett
18th	Iceland Gull	Sutton Reservoir early pm	Steve & Gill Barber A second winter bird with c300 Lesser Black-backed & Herring Gulls
18th	Wheatear	On and by the wall at Danebower	Steve & Gill Barber
18th	Sand Martin (3)	Bottoms Reservoir	Steve Wright
17th	Whooper Swan (32)	Chelford Sand Quarries	Steve Barber
17th	Goosanders (12) Tufted Duck (28) Mandarin (pair) Snipe (17) Dipper Fieldfare (8) Redwing (9)	Tittesworth	Ray and Margaret Perry
17th	Several Sand Martins and a singing Chiffchaff	Redesmere	Steve Barber (The first report of summer migrants)
16th 11am	Flight of 30-40 swans coming from the hills, heading NW. Large birds, but too far away to identify whether mute or whooper, did anyone else see them? Could have passed close to Macclesfield.	Bosley Reservoir	Tony and Margaret Hayter
16th	50 Fieldfare (Approx 50)	Green Fairfield, Buxton	Andy Gregory and Janet Smith
16th	Peregrine	Tittesworth	Ray and Margaret Perry ( Logbook entry)
15th	Goldeneye (3) Curlew (114) Song Thrush (12)	Tittesworth	Ray and Margaret Perry ( Logbook entry)
15th	Raven (2) Grey Heron Meadow Pipits (numerous)	Three Shires Head	Andy Gregory and Janet Smith
14th	Brambling (m+f) Bullfinch (4) Siskin (30+) Goldfinch (12+).	Sutton garden	Chris Grime
13th	Barn Owl	Nether Alderley	Simon Coppock
13th	Curlew (2)	Flying over Bottoms Reservoir	Steve Wright
12th	Goshawk	Flying over Macclesfield	Julian Hanak
12th	Barnacle Goose (21) Wigeon (32) Oystercatcher (2) Curlew (3) Redshank (4)	Carsington Water	Ray and Margaret
9th at 11:15am	Buzzards (7)	Overhead at Tytherington and Bollin Valley towards Prestbury	Howard Rowley
8th	Mandarin (16m and 8f)	Etherow Country Park, near Stockport (at the far end from the car park, near the weir)	Tom Gibbons
5th	Pink-footed Goose swimming with Canada Geese Oystercatcher (4) Redshank (3)	Carsington Water	Ray and Margaret Perry
5th	Barn Owl	Flying across a field close to Ashbourne at about 11am! (Grid reference SK 172459)	Ray and Margaret Perry
3rd	Cattle Egret	Higher Poynton	Paul Flackett
2nd	Lapwing	Cut-thorn Hill	Geoff Atkin
2nd	Meadow Pipit Skylark Stonechat	Shutlingsloe/Wildboarclough	Geoff Atkin