Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
June 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	Hobby (over the garden at lunchtime chasing a Swallow) Marsh Tit	Trapp Street, Lower Withington	Peter and Gill Brierley
24 12.30pm	Citrine Wagtail (Flew of towards Astle Park after 10 mins) Tree Sparrow (7) Green Sandpiper Whitethroat (3) Reed Warbler Sedge Warbler	Chelford Sand Quarries	Mike Bebbington
16	Barn Owl	Adlington	Ray Evans David Tolliday
14 12.30pm	Common Sandpiper	Ridgegate Reservoir	Margaret Hayter
10 Midday	Cuckoo	Gawsworth Hall	Denise Gore
9 4pm	Buzzard Short-eared Owl Curlew Reed Bunting (m) Meadow Pipits Stonechat (p) Grey Wagtail Whinchat (m)	Derbyshire Bridge, Goyt Valley	Chris Grime
9 6pm	Wheatear (Pair plus three young) Grey Heron Skylark Peregrine (Stoop at Rook -----Missed!!)	Danebower	Chris Grime
7	Swift (200+) House martin (50+) Ruddy duck (3 m 2 f) Black Swan (2) Tufted Duck (25) Gadwall (12) Ringed Plover (1) Bullfinch (p) Willow and Reed Warblers (calling)	Neumans Flash	Marc Granville
6	Cuckoo	Heard calling from Erwood Hall car park in the Goyt Valley	Jane Johnson
4	Cuckoo on fence post by hedge being 'mocked' by single Yellowhammer (m)	Lower Withington, from footpath Map ref. 827691	Peter and Gill Brierley
3	Cuckoo Swift Peregrine	The Roaches	Geoff Atkin
1 (08:45)	Kestrel (m)	Hunting fields adjacent to Pennington's Lane	Gordon Howard