Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

 September 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

(18:00-18:15)

Hen Harrier (f)

(ring tail)

Quartering the moors between Standing Stone and Shutlingsloe hunting Meadow Pipits.

Chris Grime

28th

(a.m)

Quail

(escapee)

Garden sighting – Thirlmere

Ivy Farm estate

Gordon Howard

28th

Pink-footed Geese (c100)

Flying West over Macclesfield

Mark Arnold

25th

(16:30)

Crossbills (sev.)

Macclesfield Forest - top path close to Standing Stone car park

5 on the ground – drinking from puddle, several more feeding on pine cones above

Christine Hilton

25th

(08:30)

Pink-footed Geese (c130)

Flying East over

Ashbrook Drive - Prestbury

Steve McCoskery

24th

Pectoral Sandpiper

Rudyard Lake

North end

Present over previous 2/3 days

Paul Flackett

23rd

(18:30)

Short-eared Owl

Below Shutlingsloe

Macclesfield Forest

Chris Grime

23rd

(a) Lapwing (c700)

Black-tailed Godwit (4)

Redshank (2)

Black Swan (2)

Teal (20+)

 

(b) Peregrine (2)

Shelduck (4)

Lapwing (200+)

Teal (8)

Shoveler (4)

(a) Neumann’s Flash & Haydn’s Pool

 

 

(b) Lapwing Lane Silt Ponds

David Collis

21st

(18:30)

Short-eared Owl

Below Shutlingsloe

Macclesfield Forest

Chris Grime

21st

Hobby (perched)

Crossbills (13)

Stoat

Top of Macclesfield Forest

Mathew Lawton

20th

Willow Warbler

Ashbrook Drive

Prestbury

Steve McCoskery

17th

(18:00)

Peregrine Falcon – in full stoop on a feral pigeon

Over the St James Church

Sutton

The pigeon escaped !

Chris Grime

11th

Canada Geese (c35)

Flying WSW over Thirlmere

(Ivy Farm estate).

Very low (c25 mtrs.) and calling loudly

Gordon Howard

10th

(p.m.)

Knot

Astbury Mere

Congleton


Mike Atkinson

5th

Hobby

Jackson’s Brickworks

Peter Dowse
(Ranger)

4th

(18:00)

Mink

Stream by Water Treatment Works below Ridgegate Reservoir

(Reported for interest)

Chris N Grime

3rd

(p.m.)

Ravens (19)

Dane Bower

Gliding, tumbling and even fighting

Graham Palmer

3rd

(a.m.)

Common Buzzard

Marton Lane

Gawsworth

Perched on Telegraph Pole

Gordon Howard

2nd

Hobby

Little Owl

Turks Head Res.

David Collis