Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

November 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
       
30
Pied wagtails (200+)
Pickford St car park roost arriving between 4.00 and 4.30 pm
Mark Arnold
28
12 noon
Goldeneye (m)
Trentabank
Tony and Margaret Hayter
28
11.30am

Pochard (4m, 5f)
Goldeneye (m)
Ridgegate
Tony and Margaret Hayter
24
Spotted sandpiper
Tittesworth

Paul Flackett

20
10.25am

Siskins (20-24)
Fanshawe Lane, Henbury
Steve McCokery
Tony Bianchi
17
Waxwings (12)
Private site, Macclesfield
Please advise any other sightings
12
Whooper swan (3)
Bottoms Resevoir
7.30 am Flew off shortly after.
Steve Wright
12
Pink-footed Geese
(Large flock)
Over Poynton
Steve Wright
12
Whooper Swan (yellow colour ringed bird)
Shoveler (2)
Brambling (2m) in chaffinch flock

23 Whooper Swans flew East at 3.35pm
Adlington by golf centre
Phil Oddy
10

Whooper Swan
Shoveler (3)
Tufted Duck (3)
Buzzard (2)
Adlington by golf centre
Phil Oddy
9
Whooper Swan
Pink-footed Geese (37)
Snipe (7)
Teal
Goldcrest (2).
Adlington by golf centre
Phil Oddy
Daily but max on 9th
Goldfinch (52)
Trap Cottage
Trap Street
Lower Withington
Peter and Gill Brierley
9
Teal (21)
Snipe (4)
Great Sptd Woodpecker (3)
Sparrowhawk (2)
Redwing (40+)
Fieldfare (90+)
Willow Tit (2)
Stonechat (1 female) Meadow Pipit (40+)
Lesser Redpoll (5)
Tittesworth
Ray Perry
(including records from the log book)
9

Whooper Swan
Pink-footed Geese (34)
Shoveler (2)
Snipe (5)
Fields between Adlington Golf Centre and Woodford Airfield
Nigel Troup
8
Whooper Swan
On the fields between Adlington Golf Centre and Woodford Airfield
Nigel Troup
7
Fieldfare (130)
Wood Pigeon (100)
Whinchat (2)
Cat&Fiddle/Goyt Valley
Geoff Atkin
6
Whooper Swan
On the fields between Adlington Golf Centre and Woodford Airfield
Nigel Troup
3
Great Northern Diver (1)
Redshank (2)
Redwing (20)
Raven (1)
Bullfinch (1 male)
Carsington Water
Ray and Margaret Perry
3
Fieldfare (~100)
Near Longcliffe, Derbyshire (about 3 miles north of Carsington Water).
Ray and Margaret Perry

3

Noon

Whooper swans
(5 adult, 3 immature)
Wigeon (pair)

 Trentabank Reservoir

Tony and Margaret Hayter
and
Geoff Atkin
2
9.30am
Siskins (15-16)
Ashbrook Drive
Prstbury
Steve McCoskery

2

Starling Flock (80-100)

Fields North side of Pennington’s Lane

Very active all day

Flock rising, swirling for several minutes in formation and falling back to feed again.

Gordon Howard

1
11.00am

Goosander (14, all redhead)
Mandarin Duck (m)

South Park Macclesfield

Maurice Peall

1

Fieldfare (50)

Marton

David Tolliday