Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
October 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
31	Peregrine	Billinge Quarry, diving onto an unsuspecting group of woodpigeons	Paul Flackett
29 9.24am	Fieldfares (200+)	Near Cat and Fiddle flying toward Derbyshire Bridge (Grid: SK003718)	A Bianchi S C E McCoskery R West T Fine J Cardwell
29 9am	Golden Oriole	Congleton then flying off west across the countryside towards Sandbach.	Mike Atkinson
29	Redpoll Siskin (2) Small flock of Goldfinches Snipe Willow Warbler	Tittersworth Reservoir	David Collis
27	Lone Little Grebe attacking, or playing with several Mallard. The Dabchick swam within a few feet of each Mallard dived and came up under the duck, giving it a shock. When the duck flapped and splashed away several feet, the Grebe set about the next Mallard. This was repeated 10 or 20 times over 5 minutes.	Turkshead Reservoir	David Collis
26	Lapwing (1000+) Shoveler (40+) Golden Plover (30+) Teal (20+) Gadwall (6)	Neumann's Flash	David Collis
24 4.30pm	Golden plover (50+) Lapwing (120+)	Next to the Mermaid Inn. Left hand turn off the A53 just before the Winking Man pub on the Leek to Buxton road.	Stephen Machin
19	Pochard (50+) Mandarin (8) Ruddy Duck (6)	Stubby Lane, Chelford	David Collis
17 2pm	Peregrine (Made several unsuccessful attacks on a large flock of Fieldfare)	Rose and Crown pub Widlboarcolough	Matthew Lawton
17	Fieldfare (500+ heading west) Redwing (47)	Lamaload	Paul and Anne Flackett
16	Swallows (2) Kingfisher Snipe (10+)	Tittesworth	Paul Flackett and Chris Grime
13 9am	Green Sandpiper	Ridgegate Reservoir	Steve Wright
12 5pm	Green Sandpiper	Bottoms Reservoir	Steve Wright
11	Redwing (c.30)	South Park, Macclesfield	Maurice Peall
10	Grey Wagtail	On clothes line!  Garden	Maurice Peall
8 11am	Pink-footed geese (110)	Flying north westerly direction Dunbrook ~ 1.5 miles south east of Hollinsclough	Steve  McCoskery Tony Bianchi Robin West Dunstan Brain
8	Green Sandpiper	Ridgegate Reservoir	Tony and Margaret Hayter
6	Mandarin (6m & 2f)	Small pool below Bottoms Reservoir on Holehouse Lane	David Collis
5	Grey Heron (2) Barnacle Goose (45) Common Buzzard Yellow-legged Gull Robin - many singing Blackcap - singing A small patch of the plant Marsh Hawk's-beard	Carsington Water	Ray and Margaret Perry
5 1.30pm	Kingfisher	Macclesfield Canal at Fools Nook	Damien Healey
5	Crossbills (20-30)	Macclesfield Forest near  Standing Stone car park	Steve Wright and Matt Lawton
3	Cormorant	Swans Pool, Higher Fence Road	Peter Hurst