Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
August 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
30 (10:35)	Sparrowhawk (f)	Soaring over Ivy Farm estate - Thornton Square area	Gordon Howard
29 (p.m.)	Black-headed gulls (c300)	Over flying Wilmslow	Unusual numbers – migrating? Tom Gibbons
28 (19:30)	Swifts (4)	Over Ivy Farm estate - Thornton Square area	last sighting?? Jean Evans
26	Greylag goose, red-crested pochard (m. eclipse), house martin (100+), kingfisher, turnstone (juv.)	Carsington Water	Ray & Margaret Perry
16	Redstart (1 ad. + 1 juv.), lesser whitethroat, kestrel (3), green woodpecker, pipits + goldfinch + linnets (c30 mixed group)	Tegg’s Nose area	David Haydock
14	Yellowhammer (H) little owl	Mow Cop area	David Haydock
12 (11:15)	Red kite	Over flying Morley Green	Bird moving in from Bollin / Styal and on towards Mobberley initially being harried by 3 crows Jennifer Cooksey
11	Crossbills (2)	Over Higher Poynton, heading in a WNW direction away from Lyme Park	Steve Hind
8	20 to 30 ravens flew off as we arrived. No sign of ring ouzels but a lot of wheatears and pipits. Also a dozen or so red grouse	Dane Bower, not far from the chimney	David Haydock
2	Ruddy shelduck	Redesmere	Prob. escapee Chris Eccleston
Reported 1	Little egret, grasshopper warbler(2)(H)	Chelford Sand Quarries	Mike Bebbington