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Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding
Areas |
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October 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
11.00am |
Wigeon
(m)
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Tegg's
Nose Reservoir
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Mark
Arnold
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30
1.00pm |
Merlin (f)
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Higher
Poynton
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Steve
Hind
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29
8.30am |
Goosander (2 m)
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Swan's
Pool,
Higher Fence Road |
Peter
Hurst
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26
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Short-eared
Owl
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Goyt
Valley
near Pym Chair |
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20
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Sparrowhawk
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Frequent
visitor to back garden near Poynton High School
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Dave
Bancroft
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18
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Fieldfare
and Redwing |
Langley
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Steve
Wright
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17
6.00pm |
Short-eared Owl (3)
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Between
Shutlingsloe and Standing Stone in Macclesfield Forest
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Chris
Grime
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16
8.25am |
Goosander
(8)
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Over
flying Higher Hursdfield
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Mark
Arnold
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16
7.45am |
Redwing
(24)
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Passing
through Buxton
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Mark
Arnold
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14
8.30am |
Swallow
(2)
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Bailey's
Farm, Higher Fence Road
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Peter
Hurst
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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 |
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12
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Linnet
(15)
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Mount
Farm, Gawsworth.
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Ray
Perry
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12 |
Greylag
Goose - number unknown.
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Over
Ivy Farm estate
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Ray
Perry
(Identified in the dark by calls) |
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11 12.05pm |
Pink-footed Geese (100+) |
Seen from B & Q car park Macclesfield |
Single (fragmented) skein Birds heading South Ray & Jean Evans |
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9 |
Kingfisher |
Swan's Pool |
Peter Hurst |
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9 |
Swallows (2) |
Still at Bailey's Farm |
Peter Hurst |
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8 11.45am |
Common Buzzard |
Soaring over Bailey Ridding (Pennington's Lane) |
(Drifting West) Gordon Howard |
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7 |
Late Swallows (2) |
Bailey's Farm |
Peter Hurst |
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6 |
Pochard |
Ridgegate |
Tony and Margaret Hayter |
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2 |
Short-eared Owl (2) |
Near the Cat and Fiddle on the Buxton
road |
Steve Wright |