Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

June 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

 

 

 

 

23rd

Osprey

Overflying Macclesfield Golf Club

Probable male, initially sighted at low level, then rose very high

Scott G Lamont

23rd

Great Crested Grebe (adult + 1 juv.)

 Oystercatcher (4),

Redshank (3),

Common Tern (2)

Whitethroat (2)

Carsington Water

Ray & Margaret Perry

22nd

(p.m.)

House Martins (20-30)

Field adjacent to Danes Moss (CWT)

Low level feeding in high winds

Gordon Howard

22nd

Little Egret

Tittesworth

Conservation Pool

Bird arrived on the 17th

Ray & Margaret Perry

14th

(p.m.)

 

Wheatears

 

Danebower Quarries

Adults + Young

Gordon Howard

12

Ring Ouzel
Tree Pipits
Wheatears feeding young

Three Shires Head area

Steve Wright

11

Mandarin with young

Trentabank Reservoir

Chris Eccleston

See report for other birds seen

9

Grey Heron (1 juvenile)
Greylag Goose (1)
Red-crested Pochard (p)
Oystercatcher (3)
Lapwing (3 inc. a chick)
Redshank (1)
Common Tern (2)
Treecreeper (2)

Pair of Broad-bodied Chaser dragonflies - female ovipositing (laying eggs).

Carsington Water

Ray and Margaret Perry

8

Mandarin (p)

Styperson Pool

Nigel Troup

8
1pm

Garganey (2)

Bottoms Reservoir Macclesfield

Steve Wright

6

Pied Flycatchers

RSPB Coombes Valley

David Tolliday

4

Red Kite

Un-tagged bird over Danebower for
about 10 mins around 1130 hrs before drifting away in the direction of the Cat & Fiddle. It had moulted an inner primary from both wings.

Steve & Gill Barber

4

Crossbill (pair)

Perched atop a conifer behind the Trentabank heronry

Steve & Gill Barber

4

Mandarin

Two females just off the Trentabank heronry
lay-by with 6 chicks

Steve & Gill Barber