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Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding
Areas |
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May 2008 |
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Legend (m) = male,
(f) = female, (p) = pair, (ps) = pairs, (^)
= several, (~) = few (s) singing,
(H) = Heard only |
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Date and Time |
Sighting |
Location and / or Map Reference |
Comments |
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31
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Whinchat
(2)
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Derbyshire
Bridge
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Robert
Moss
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29
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Black-winged
stilts (two adults and one chick) |
Neumann’s
Flash
|
Graham
Palmer
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29
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Heard,
then saw, a Cuckoo calling in flight
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Luds
Church
|
Michael
Calam
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29
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Wheatear
(2) |
Hanging
Stone
|
Michael
Calam
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28
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Three
Black-winged Stilt chicks have hatched.
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Neumann’s
Flash
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Amy
Crowther
RSPB Assistant Conservation Officer |
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28
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Red
Kite being mobbed by Jackdaws
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Over
Gawend Lane this morning. Gawend Lane is off the London Rd in the Lyme
Green area.
|
Mike
Bebbington
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27
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Common
Tern (2)
Two Black-headed Gull chicks with parents Oystercatcher (2) Redshank (2) Swift (100+) Swallow (50+) |
Carsington
Water
|
Ray
and Margaret Perry
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18
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Curlews
Lapwings |
Combs
Edge
|
Jacqueline
Hamerton
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17
2.45pm |
Common
Tern (3)
|
Over
Bottoms Reservoir
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Steve
Wright
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15
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Woodcock
Redstart Pied Flycatcher Blackcap (H) Garden Warbler (H) Grey Wagtail |
Coombes
Valley
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Local
Group Outing
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15
10:40am |
Peregrine |
The
southern end of the Roaches – it came out of rock face circled
above us and returned to the rocks
|
J.A.
Bianchi |
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12
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Common
sandpiper (2)
Pied flycatcher singing |
Trentabank
|
Tony
and Margaret Hayter
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11
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Buzzard
(3)
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Over
Tytherington School/Bollin Valley visitors centre
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Howard
Rowley
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11
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Short-eared
Owl
Cuckoo (heard) Stonechats |
Near
Derbyshire Bridge, Goyt Valley
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Steve
Wright
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8
10:50am |
Hobby |
Flying
over Cales Farm, Cales Dale (Gridref: SK166645), disturbing the Swifts
and Swallows
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J.A.
Bianchi
S.C.E. McCoskery D.W. Brain |
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8
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Hobby
(4)
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Risley
Moss
Nr Warrington |
David
Tolliday
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7
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Stonechat
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Roaches
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Geoff
Atkin
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7
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Lapwing |
Knotbury
|
Geoff
Atkin
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7
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Wheatear Ring Ouzel (f) Peregrine Curlew |
Dane
Bower quarries
|
Geoff
Atkin
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7
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Red
Kite at 11:50am |
Rudyard
Lake
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Stephen
Machin
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7 |
Red
Kite
(no wing tags) |
Near
the canal bridge at Cowbrook Lane, Cowley. Red Kite flew towards us
from the general direction of Gawsworth. It gained height to cross a
pylon line, circled a couple of times mobbed by a Carrion Crow and then
flew towards, then beyond, Whitemoor Hill.
|
Steve
and Gill Barber
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7
10am |
Hobby
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Flying
east over Ranger's office, Adlington Rd, Bollington
|
Paul
Hughes
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6
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Redstart
Wood Warbler Pied Flycatcher Meadow Pipit Tree Creeper Garden Warbler Swallow Swift |
Macclesfield
Forest
|
Geoff
Atkin
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5
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Mandarin
|
Styperson
Pool
|
John
Cutter
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5 |
Yellow
Wagtails (7)
4 Sand Martins (4) Linnets (3) Tree Sparrows (2) Wheatear Whitethroat |
Adlington
GC
|
Nigel
Troup
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5
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Redstart
(2) |
RSPB
Coombes Valley
|
David
Tolliday
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4
9:32am |
Osprey
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Over
Ashbrook Drive, Prestbury
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S.C.E. McCoskery |
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4
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Lesser
Whitethroat
|
Middlewood
Way,
near Springfield Farm (Marple end) |
Nigel
Troup
|
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4
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Garden
Warblers (2)
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Middlewood
Way,
between Barton Clough and Higher Doles Farm. |
Nigel
Troup
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4
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Little
Ringed Plover |
Adlington
GC
|
Nigel
Troup
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3
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Garden
Warbler
Blackcap Willow Warbler Chiffchaff Mistle Thrushes with 2 young |
Rudyard
(north end)
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Tony
and Margaret Hayter
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2
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Reed Warbler (2)
Garden Warbler Blackcap |
Redesmere
|
Steve
Wright
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1
2pm |
Swift
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Thirlmere
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Buxtors
Hill, over the SE corner of Macclesfield Forest. At least one bird was
calling near Standing Stones car park |
Steve
& Gil |
