Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

February 2008
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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
28th
Curlew - (H), first this year
Tawny owl (H)
Grey wagtail (2)
Ridgegate Reservoir
Tony and Margaret Hayter
23rd
Teal (c20)
Goldeneye (3)
Shoveller (4)
Shelduck (5)
Pochard (1)
Gadwall (20+)
Tufted duck (c20)
Black-tailed godwit (4)
Lapwing (c150)
Mute swan (3)
Grey heron (2)
Buzzard
Green woodpecker (2)
Linnet (1)
Neumann's Flash
Northwich
Tony and Margaret Hayter
20th
23 species including:
Common Gull
Goosander(23)
Widgeon
Pochard
Tufted Duck
Little Grebe
GC Grebe
Goldeneye
Buzzard
Siskin
Goldfinch
Brambling
Tree Creeper
Macclesfield Forest
and reservoirs
Geoff Atkin
19th
Water rail
Poynton Park
Peter Dowse
16th
Barnacle Goose
Swan's Pool, Higher Fence Avenue, Macclesfield
Steve Wright
15th
Sparrowhawk
Alderley Edge garden
Alfred Faulkner
14th
Brent Geese (2)
Swan's Pool feeding with Canada geese
Peter Hurst
13th
Cattle Egret
Close to the Middlewood Way & Jacksons' Brickworks in Higher Poynton

Martin James
12th
Golden Plover (20)
On moorland opposite the Cat and Fiddle
Geoff Atkin
10th
Crossbills (2)
Raven
Macclesfield Forest
Martin James
10th

Lapwing (13)
Little Owl (in tree by ponds)
Teal (4)
Peregrine (hunting along the runway)
Skylarks (30)
Snipe (8)
Meadow Pipit (6)
Raven (overflying)
Buzzard
Kestrel
Adlington / Woodford area. From the fields alongside the golf centre
Nigel Troup
9th
Brambling (f)
Marton
David Tolliday
7th
Blackcap (m)
St Pauls Road
Macclesfield
Peter Dowse
7th
Goosanders (11m, 9f)
Styperson Pool
Adlington
Peter Dowse
6th
Great Northern Diver (1)
Barnacle Goose (40)
Goldeneye (1f)
Little Owl (1)
Oystercatcher (4)
Lapwing (about 300)
Redshank (1)
Carsington Water
Ray and Margaret Perry
5th
Raven
Overflying Poynton
Jean Crouch

5th

Goosander (3f)
Great Crested Grebe
Mute Swans (pair)

Knights Pool
Macclesfield

Peter Hurst
3rd
Peregrine
Raven
Goosander (3)
High path from Rainow to Lamaload
Paul Flackett