The Whitfields / Victoria Rd.

Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
April 2009 (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
30 (8.45)	Red Kite	Drifted south over Higher Poynton	Steve Hind
28	Oystercatcher Common Sandpiper Curlew Lapwing Linnet Whitethroat Chiffcaff Willow Warbler Redpoll Sedge Warbler Blackcap Peregrine Falcon Stonechat Kestrel Ravens Little Ringed Plover	Tittesworth Reservoir and Meerbrook area	Stephen Machin
26	Cuckoo Ring Ouzel Wheatears Reed Bunting Stonechats Grey Wagtails	Small wood near Three Shires Head	Steve Wright
26	Cuckoo	Taxal	Andy Gregory and Janet Smith
26 (10:30)	Peregrine Falcon	Circling over Tegg’s Nose and Ward’s Knob	Mathew Lawton
25	Garden Warbler (s) Pied Flycatcher	Tegg’s Nose Wood & Trentabank conservation area	Phil Oddy
24 (09.30)	Wheatear (20) Grey Wagtail (3) Ring Ouzel (m + f) Raven	Danebower to Three Shires Head	David Bancroft
24 (11.30)	Pied Flycatcher in singing dual with Wood Warbler	Macclesfield Forest (Wood opposite visitor centre)	David Bancroft
23	Red Kite, Golden Plover (^)	Danebower	Derek Bradbury
22	Yellow Wagtail (m) Greylag Geese (2) Stock Doves (29) Wheatear (m)	Adlington Driving Range	Geese overflying Phil Oddy
21 (a.m.)	Peregrine Falcon Merlin Wheatears Curlews Red Grouse	Walking Cat and Fiddle, Dane Bower and Three Shire Heads area	David & Fabienne Haydock
21 (c09:00)	(a) Common Scoter (b) Mandarin (5m,1f), Wood Warbler (s) (c) Redstart (4m)(s)	(a) Ridgegate Res.- Overflying West (b) Trentabank + Visitor Ctr. (c) Tegg’s Nose Wood	Phil Oddy
20 (a.m.)	Peregrine Falcon (p), Red Grouse (3), Curlew (2), Reed Bunting (p)	The Roaches & Hen Cloud	David and Fabienne Haydock
19	Grasshopper Warbler (s)	Higher Poynton Marina	Phil Oddy
19	Ring Ouzel (m+f), Wheatear (2m,1f), Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtail, Skylark	Danebower Quarries	Chris Eccleston
18	Red-legged Partridge	Bollin Valley	Phil Oddy
16 (10:44)	Golden Plover (25)	SK202654 Meadow Place Grange, Over Haddon	J A Bianchi, S C E McCoskery, T Fine, D W Brain, J Cardwell
14	Whooper Swan	Acre Nook	Joan Halstead (via Graham Palmer)
14 (09:15)	Red Kite	Soaring over Weston Estate Macclesfield	Drifting towards Gawsworth No visible wing tags Dianne & Peter Sutcliffe
14 (06:45)	Raven (p)	Top end of Whirley Rd. Henbury	Ravens being mobbed by Jackdaws Scott G Lamont
13	Redstart (2), Blackcap (2), Chiffchaff (several), Willow Warbler (several)	Tegg’s Nose Woods	Brian Grieve
12	Redstart (m), Brambling (s)	Tegg’s Nose Wood	Phil Oddy
12	(a) Ring Ouzel (p), Stonechat (m), Meadow Pipit (several), Red Grouse (H), Curlew (H) Wheatear (several m+f), Common Lizard (f) (b) Red Grouse (m+f), Meadow Pipit (several) Skylark (3), Curlew (3)	(a) Danebower Quarries (b) Axe Edge	Wheatear males displaying Gordon Howard Ray & Jean Evans
12	Mallard + young (two families)	Macclesfield canal between Buxton Road Bridge and Black Road canal access.	Two families of mallard ducklings on canal. One being brooded on canal bank - several ducklings and the other (7) without a parent present, swimming on canal. Peter Hurst
11	(a) Grey Wagtail (2), Pied Wagtail, Swallows (5) (b) Red Grouse (m+f seen, 5/6 heard calling), Meadow Pipit (several), Wheatear (m+f), males displaying) , Curlew (H)	(a) Clough House Farm (b) Danebower Quarries	Wheatear males displaying Gordon and Rita Howard
11 (11.45)	Waxwings (11)	Between The Whitfields and Charnwood Close by Victoria Road	Paul Flackett
11	Redstart (m) Blackcap singing Chiffchaffs Willow warblers Teal	Rudyard (north end)	Tony and Margaret Hayter
10 (10:00)	Waxwings (c20)	Barbara Ryalls
9	Swallow	Higher Fence Road	Chris Revett & Joan Wilson
7	Red-legged Partridge	Bollin Valley	Phil Oddy
7	Siskin (2)	Ashbrook Drive, Prestbury	S C E McCoskery
6	Swallow	Ashbrook Drive, Prestbury (flying east)	S C E McCoskery
6	Red Kite (soaring overhead) Peregrine (Pair on telescope) Buzzard	Jodrell Bank	Peter Thomasson
6	Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers ( Several)	Lindow Common, Wilmslow.	Tom Gibbons
5	Willow Warbler (h)	Acre Nook, Chelford	Brian Grieve
2 to 5	Bramblings (4).	Thirlmere, Macclesfield	Ray and Margaret Perry
5	Red Kite	Three Shires, soaring over the valley.	Steve Davenport
5	Common Sandpiper Ringed Plover (2) Ruddy Duck (pair) Goldeneye (2f 1m)	Neumann’s Flash	Peter and Margaret Derbyshire (Logbook reports)
5	Blackcap (f) Sand Martins (30+) Reed Bunting Oystercatcher Buzzard (3) Black Swan (on nest) Gadwall	Haydn’s Pool	Peter and Margaret Derbyshire (Logbook Reports)
5	Red Kite (no wing tags)	Briefly this morning over Withington Hall Park and Acre Nook Sand Quarry.	Steve and Gill Barber
4	Red Kite (no wing tags)	Roaming widely between Chelford, Jodrell Bank and Chelford Sand Quarries	Steve and Gill Barber
4 (p.m.)	(a) Lapwing (10) Curlew (5) (b) Curlew (c) Dipper (ringed bird), Grey Wagtail, Curlew, Grey Heron	(a) Lamaload Res. (b) Standing Stone (c) Clough House Farm	Gordon Howard
4	100's of hirundines (Swallows & both Martins)	Budworth Mere	Paul Flackett
4	50 Curlew	Neumann's Flash	Paul Flackett
4	Blackcap Pintail (m) Goldeneye (2) Shelduck (several) Black-tailed Godwit Redshank	Marbury Country Park	Paul Flackett
3	Sand Martin (2), Greylag Geese (p)*, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker*	Poynton Pool	(*) seen on several dates Phil Oddy
3	Shoveler (m)	Poynton Pool	Phil Oddy
3	Shoveler (pair)	Ridgegate Reservoir	Steve Wright
3 18.00	Short-eared Owl Wheatear (m) Golden Plover Lapwing Skylark	Shutlingsloe and Macclesfield Forest	Chris Grime
3	Brambling (3m, 2f) Redpoll	Sutton	Chris Grime
2	Sand Martin (4)	Adlington driving Range	Phil Oddy
2	Chiffchaff (8)	Biddulph Grange, Congleton	S C E McCoskery R West J A Bianchi D W Brain
2	Kingfisher (p)	Whitemoor, south of Congleton	S C E McCoskery R West J A Bianchi D W Brain
1	Mandarin (6m,2f)	Macclesfield Forest	Phil Oddy
1 19.30	Short-eared Owl Raven Red Deer (13)	Standing Stone, Macclesfield Forest	Chris Grime
1 9.30	Brambling (3) Redpoll	Sutton	Chris Grime