Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

July 2009
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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
28
Grey Partridge (2)
In a field by Woodhouse End Rd, Gawsworth.
Ray Perry
28
6.00pm
Red Kite
Higher Poynton, drifted east towards Lyme Park
Steve Hind
27
Barn Owl (2)
Near Henbury
David Tolliday
26
11.45am
Peregrine (f)
Sitting on a post 50 yards from the main A54 between The Rose & Crown and Berry Bank Farm.
David Collis
24
1.15pm
Hobby (2) flying low over the Heather
Near Derbyshire Bridge car park
David Collis
24
1.00pm
Short-eared owl posing on a stone wall
Posing on a stone wall
100 yards from Derbyshire Bridge car park
David Collis
24
10.30pm
Short-eared owl quartering over hillside.    
Derbyshire Bridge
Steve McCoskery
23
11.45am
Peregrine (m) repeated stoops and dives on a family of 5 Kestrels.
0.5 miles along the single track road from Hen Cloud to
Gradbach
David Collis

20
2pm to 4.30pm

Hobby (3)
Raven
Kestrel (2)
Derbyshire Bridge, Goyt Valley
Steve Wright and
Matt Lawton
16
Little Egret (1)
Barnacle Goose (1)
Lapwing (34)
Sparrowhawk (1 f)
Song Thrush (1)
Chiffchaff (1)
Blackcap (2)
Reed Bunting (1).
 
41 species of flowering plants
Beautiful Demoiselle
Carsington Water
Ray and Margaret
Perry
13
Hobby (2)
Derbyshire Bridge area Goyt Valley. They seemed to be catching moths and other large insects on the wing.
Steve Wright

13

Great Crested Grebe (p)

(with 2 young)

Leadbeatter’s Reservoir

Long staying

Dave Beer

7
1.30pm

Hobby

Flying over Teggsnose & Bottoms Reservoir, Langley

Matt Lawton

7

Peregrine (2)

Flying together near Three Shire Heads, then later circling near Wildboarclough

Matt Lawton

2
2.00pm

Quail calling

In the Stewardship field across the road from the Black Swan, Trapp Street, Lower Withington 

Peter and Gill Brierley

1

(18:40)

Swifts (20-30)

Very low feeding flock
Thirlmere /Ullswater Junction

50+ mins of spectacular low level manoevres between head height to rooftop
Gordon Howard