Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

May 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
Cuckoo
Heard calling from Erwood Hall car park in the Goyt Valley
Jane Johnson
28
40 species of bird identified including:
Barnacle Goose (4)
Common Buzzard
Common Tern (2)
Swift (2)
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Whitethroat (2)
Reed Bunting (2)
 
Additional information:
6 butterfly species and
37 plant species in flower identified.
Carsington Water
Ray and Margaret Perry

24

(11:30 to 15:00)

Mistle Thrush (p), Wren, Chaffinch (p#), Meadow Pipit^, Wheatear (3), Ring Ouzel (p), Grey Heron, Pheasant (H), Curlew (H)

Walk around

Holt, Three Shires Head & Danebower

Chaffinch (f) on the nest, Grey Heron overflying

Also seen – grey mouse crossing path

Gordon & Rita Howard

 

17

Raven

Jodrell Bank

Matt Lawton
14
Peregrine
The Roaches flying south to Hen Cloud
J A Bianchi
J Cardwell
T Fine

12

Raven (8)

Wildboarclough

Mark Arnold

9

(a) Mandarin Duck (m)

(b) Garden Warbler (2s), Wood Warbler (s), Pied Flycatcher (s)

(c) Redstart (3), Pied Flycatcher

(a) Trentabank Resvr.

 

(b) Visitor Centre

 

(c) Tegg’s Nose Woods

Phil Oddy

9
(11.30)

Ring Ouzel

"The Chimney"
A54 near Allgreave.

Peter and Margaret Derbyshire

9
(7.30)

Dipper

Bollington

David Tolliday

7

Yellowhammer

A535 south of Chelford

David Tolliday

7
(17.30)

Peregrine

Linnet

Goldfinches

Hen Cloud

Andy Gregory

7

32 species including:

Swift

Willow warbler

Chiffchaff

Blackcap

Garden warbler (heard)

Lesser whitethroat (heard)

Mandarin duck (2 males on the canal)

'Showing Birds to People' walk from Bollington (Adlington Road Car Park) on the Middlewood Way returning via Macclesfield Canal

Ray Evans

6

Dipper    

River Bollin behind the Rainbow Cafe, off Mill Lane

Mark Arnold

6

Sand Martin (4)

Bottoms Reservoir

Mark Arnold

6

Dipper (3)

Wildboarclough

Mark Arnold

6

Raven (16)

Behind Lower Nabbs Farm, Wildboarclough

Mark Arnold

6

Redstart (3)

Tegg's Nose slope

Mark Arnold

6
(17.15)

Swift

Flying over Fairfield in Buxton

Andy Gregory

5
(15.50)

Dipper

River Bollin just above Windmill Street bridge, in Macclesfield for
about 5 minutes, on stones and at the water's edge, before flying off upstream.

Michael Calam

5
(9.30)

Swift (5)

Circling over Ashbrook Drive, Prestbury

Steve McCoskery

5

Redstart (2)
Pied Flycatcher
Mandarin Duck (3)
Common Whitethroat
Linnet
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Willow Warblers

Langley and Macclesfield Forest area.

Steve Wright

4

Short-eared owl (pair)

Between Standing Stone car park and Shutlingsloe.

Scott Lamont

3

Lesser Whitethroat (s)

Lostock Hall

Poynton

Phil Oddy

3

Wood warbler (2m)

Trentabank V.C.

Brian Grieve & Peter Rhodes

3

Whinchat (m)       

Derbyshire Bridge

Brian Grieve & Peter Rhodes

2

Pied Flycatcher

RSPB Coombes Valley, by pond

Michael Grimditch

2

Redstart

Great spotted woodpecker

Hay Dale near Buxton

Andy Gregory and Janet Smith

2

Reed bunting (m)

Upper Goyt valley near Bunsal Cob

Andy Gregory and Janet Smith

2

Common sandpiper

Errwood Reservoir

Andy Gregory and Janet Smith

1

Lesser whitethroat

(male singing)

Railway embankment,
Knutsford end Tatton Park

Brian Grieve