Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
November 2010 (Please click on photos or any underlined comment for larger images and/or more information)
Legend (m) = male, (f) = female, (p) = pair, (ps) = pairs, (s) singing, (H) = Heard only
Date and Time	Sighting	Location and / or Map Reference	Comments
30th	Waxwings (60)	Behind Tile Giant and White Street, Macclesfield	Paul Flackett
30th 10.15am	Waxwings (40)	Communal gardens bordering Union Street / Crossall Street / Paradise Street / Bridge Street	Alan Brereton
30th 8.30am	Water Rail	Garden adjoining South Park, Macclesfield.	Maurice Peall
29th	Waxwings (13)	Berry-laden tree at Broken Cross island, Macclesfield	Pete Atherton
29th 2.30pm	Waxwings (60+)	Crossall Street behind Tile Giant	Mark Arnold
29th	Waxwings (60)	Middlewood Way, just south of Clough Bank Car Park, Grimshaw Lane, Bollington	Peter Dowse
28th and 29th	Waxwings (50 to 90)	White Street, Macclesfield.  Off the Silk Road near the Byron’s Lane junction – just a bit further along towards Leek on the opposite side quite near The Albion pub	Report via Simon Brown and Tom Grindley
28th	Redpolls (6)	On hornbeam, Macclesfield Road, Prestbury Village	Steve McCoskery
28th	Waxwings (18)	Feeding on remaining rowan berries - from 1100 hours today 28/11. Communal gardens bordering Union Street / Crossall Street / Paradise Street / Bridge Street	Alan Brereton
27th	Common Gulls (2)	Redesmere	David Tolliday
27th	Waxwing Woodcock	Jacksons’ Brickworks, Poynton	Peter Dowse
26th and 27th	Rose-ringed parakeet	Ryles Close, Macclesfield	John McKellar (Has anybody else seen one of these birds, it would be interesting to know if they are moving in to our area.)
26th	Treecreeper	Highfield Road, off Prestbury Road, Macclesfield	Derek and Daryll Bailey
26th (pm)	Great Northern Diver Pochard Sparrowhawk Possible Scaup x Tufted Duck hybrid	Astbury Mere, Congleton	Chris Eccleston
26th (am)	Goosander (40)	Redesmere	Chris Eccleston
25th	Goosander	Landed briefly on the Macclesfield Canal Bridge 13 (Higher Poynton)	Christine Hilton
24th	Blackbird (Leucistic)	Corner of Hawthorn Grove and Princes Incline, Higher Poynton	Christine Hilton
24th 3.30pm	Snow Bunting	Sponds Hill on Gritstone Trail, Lyme Handley	Len Wakefield
24th	Kingfisher Siskin (20+) Bullfinch (5) Reed Bunting (f)	Canal towpath between Fool's Nook and Gaw End Lane	David Collis
23rd & 24th	Redpolls (10 & 13)	Poynton Garden	Dave Bancroft
23rd	Hen Harrier (m)	Swallow Moss	Matt Lawton
21st	Great Northern Diver	Astbury Mere, Congleton	Mike Atkinson
21st	Starlings (thousands) Sparrowhawks (2) Peregrine	Coming into roost in Coward reedbed on Budworth Mere (Marbury CP) at dusk. Unfortunately one starling never made it into the roost as it was taken by one of the hawks	Paul Flackett
21st	Redpolls (5)	Ashbrook Drive, Prestbury Feeding on birch seeds	Steve McCoskery
21st 2pm	Waxwings (30+)	In fruit trees along Redesmere Lane, about 500 yards past the main car park at the lake front (please take care, this is a narrow lane)	Jonathan Livesley
20th	Woodlark	Brereton Heath	Mike Atkinson
19th	Woodlark Little Owl Tree Sparrows	Stubble fields opposite entrance to Brereton Heath CP	Geoff Atkin
19th 7am	Tawny Owl (2)	On the ground on Artist’s Lane, Alderley Edge. Just after turning left at the Wizard pub. One flew right towards the car headlights before veering off up into a tree.	Scott Lamont
17th	Barn Owl	Great view perched on a post by the bridge over River Dane. Main road between Bosley and Congleton (Rode Heath area)	Chris Grime
16th & 17th	Redpolls (2 on 16th and 6 on 17th)	Poynton Garden	Dave Bancroft
16th	Green Sandpiper Redshank Lapwing (lots) Teal (lots) Goosander (8) Shelduck Grey Partridge Little Owl	Lapwing Lane Silt Ponds	David Collis
16th	Merlin (f)	Opposite Cat and Fiddle	Geoff Atkin
16th	Golden Plover (200) Lapwing (50)	On ranges above Upper Hulme opposite Mermaid pub	Geoff Atkin
16th (a.m.)	Waxwings (2) Mistle Thrush	Roewood Lane Higher Hurdsfield	Top of local tree – trying to get to nearby berries but tree being guarded by a Mistle Thrush Clair Arnold
15th (19:30)	Barn Owl	Above Coombs Nr Chapel-en-le-Frith	Chris Grime
14th (16:00)	Hen Harrier (f) – dived into a flock of Fieldfare Barn Owl	Swallow Moss (Staffordshire Moors)	Matt Lawton
13th	Red Kite	Flying over A53 - Gib Torr (between Leek & Buxton)	Ray & Margaret Perry
13th	Woodlarks (2)	Stubble fields adjacent to Brereton Heath Country Park (by Bagmere Bank Farm)	Showing on and off all week Mike Atkinson
12th (p.m.)	Great Northern Diver	Astbury Mere Congleton	Mike Atkinson
12th (09:30)	Waxwing (single bird)	Communal garden area bordered by Paradise Street / Bridge Street / Union Street / Crossall Street, Macclesfield	No more seen for the rest of the day Alan Brereton
11th (14:30)	Waxwings (11)	Communal garden area bordered by Paradise Street / Bridge Street / Union Street / Crossall Street, Macclesfield	B & Q rowans virtually exhausted Alan Brereton
11th (15:30)	Tree Sparrow	Garden sighting rear of Thirlmere – Ivy Farm Estate	First in garden for c15 years - single bird gleaning under garden feeder. Gordon Howard
11th (12:45)	Waxwing	Garden sighting Moss Chase	Mrs. Lynne McKie
10th	Waxwings (30)	Leather’s Smithy Macclesfield Forest	Rick Gaskell (via Ray Perry)
10th	(a) Pink-footed Geese (x100’s) Tree Creeper (b) Dippers (p) (c) Lapwings (x100’s) Teal (x100s) Shoveler (8) Green Woodpecker Bulfinch (p) Redshank (2) Snipe Golden Plover (18) Tree Sparrow (2) Siskin (2)	(a) (08:50) Leek Old Rd. (over flying) (b) (09:30) Hall Lane – Sutton (c) (12:00) Neumann’s Flash	David Collis & Ken Higgs
10th (08:30)	Waxwing	Fitzwilliam Avenue Sutton	short staying John Cadman
10th (07:55)	Pink-footed Geese (1000+)	Flying S. East over Tytherington	David Tolliday
9th	Lesser Redpolls (m+f)	Lower Withington	Arrival on exact same date in 2009 Peter Brierley
9th (11:00 – 12:00)	Waxwings (12)	Communal garden area bordered by Paradise Street / Bridge Street / Union Street / Crossall Street, Macclesfield	Alan Brereton
9th (11:00)	Waxwings (12)	B & Q car park	David Collis
7th (13:00)	Peregrine Falcon	Circling over Macclesfield town centre before heading South	Mike Atkinson
7th 11.45am	Waxwings (9)	B & Q car park	David Tolliday
6th 11.30am	Waxwings (6) (Update - 9 in afternoon)	B & Q car park	Mike Atkinson
6th (& prev.)	Waxwings (9) - on the 6th	B & Q car cark	Dave Bancroft
Various Oct and Nov dates	Sparrowhawk	Back garden, Blakelow Road, Macclesfield	Rob Hutchings
5th	Waxwings (6)	B & Q car park	Paul Flackett
5th	Waxwings (6)	B & Q car park	David Tolliday
5th (13.15)	Waxwings (6)	B & Q car park, tree adjacent to Halfords store	Derek & Daryll Bailey
5th (a.m.)	Waxwings (6)	B & Q Car Park	Graham Palmer
5th 8.30am & 12.30pm	Waxwings (6)	B & Q Car Park	Scott Lamont
4th (p.m.)	Waxwings (6)	B & Q Car Park	Feeding on rowan berries Paul Flackett
4th (11:30)	Waxwings (4)	Communal garden area bordered by Paradise Street / Bridge Street / Union Street / Crossall Street, Macclesfield	Feeding on rowan berries Variable crop of rowan berries this year but sufficient to keep small numbers of waxwings happy for a few days! Alan Brereton
4th (a.m.)	Waxwings (5)	Crossall St. (behind “Tile Giant”)	Bizarrely I've just watched them fly catching from the TV aerials rather than eating the berries! Paul Flackett
3rd (c12:00)	Waxwings (c12+)	Flying across the 10th Tee Macclesfield Golf Club	G.R.A. Sumner
3rd (a.m.)	Brambling (f)	Garden sighting Ivy Farm Estate	Graham Palmer
2nd (10:00)	Kingfisher Bullfinch (6) Siskin (10+) – feeding on Alders	Canal Towpath between the Fools Nook and Gaw End Lane.	David Collis
1st (p.m.)	Goosanders (20)	Styperson Pool (SJ 932796):	Christine Hilton
1st	(a) Wigeon (3m,1f) Goldeneye (f) (b) Goosander (f) Pochard (4m,1f) (c) Shoveler (18) Shelduck Teal Lapwing (200+) Ruddy Duck (m) (d) Goosander (20+) – fishing with Cormorants (2)	(a) 08:30 - Turkshead reservoir (b) 12:00 Redesmere (c) 13:00 Lapwing Lane silt ponds – top pool (d) 13:00 Lapwing Lane silt ponds – bottom pool	David Collis
1st	Waxwings (5)	Leek Seen by the Adams Foods site main entrance on Sunnyhills Road (Off Newcastle Road)	Have been seen there for a few days Paul Flackett