Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

October 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
       
31
11.00am
Wigeon (m)
Tegg's Nose Reservoir
Mark Arnold
30
1.00pm
Merlin (f)
Higher Poynton
Steve Hind
29
8.30am
Goosander (2 m)
Swan's Pool,
Higher Fence Road
Peter Hurst
26
Short-eared Owl
Goyt Valley
near Pym Chair

Matt Lawton
20
Sparrowhawk
Frequent visitor to back garden near Poynton High School
Dave Bancroft
18

Fieldfare and Redwing
(large flock)
Langley
Steve Wright
17
6.00pm
Short-eared Owl (3)
Between Shutlingsloe and Standing Stone in Macclesfield Forest
Chris Grime
16
8.25am
Goosander (8)
Over flying Higher Hursdfield
Mark Arnold
16
7.45am
Redwing (24)
Passing through Buxton
Mark Arnold
14
8.30am
Swallow (2)
Bailey's Farm, Higher Fence Road
Peter Hurst

13

Honey Buzzards

Blakelow Road, Macclesfield

A single Honey Buzzard flew over at treetop height heading south at about 2:00pm - only a brief sighting. A few minutes later 4 YES FOUR Honey Buzzards circling directly over our house at little more than tree-top height. Two light phase adults + two dark ones (juveniles?). They were virtually posing for five minutes, hanging in the wind, hovering and calling to one another before they drifted off southwards over the golf course.

Rob Hutchings
12
Linnet (15)
Mount Farm, Gawsworth.
Ray Perry

12
(11.30pm)

Greylag Goose - number unknown.
Over Ivy Farm estate
Ray Perry
(Identified in the dark by calls)

11

12.05pm

Pink-footed Geese (100+)

Seen from B & Q car park Macclesfield

Single (fragmented) skein

Birds heading South

Ray & Jean Evans
also reported by
Tony and Margaret Hayter

9

Kingfisher

Swan's Pool
Macclesfield

Peter Hurst

9

Swallows (2)

Still at Bailey's Farm
Higher Fence Road

Peter Hurst

8

11.45am

Common Buzzard

Soaring over Bailey Ridding

(Pennington's Lane)

(Drifting West)

Gordon Howard

7
5.20pm

Late Swallows (2)

Bailey's Farm
Higher Fence Road
Macclesfield

Peter Hurst

6

Pochard
30 Coot (c30)
Little Grebe (12)

Ridgegate

Tony and Margaret Hayter

2
6.30pm

Short-eared Owl (2)

Near the Cat and Fiddle on the Buxton road

Steve Wright