Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

 August 2010
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Legend

(m) = male, (f) = female, (p) = pair, (ps) = pairs,

(s) singing, (H) = Heard only

Date and Time

Sighting

Location and / or Map Reference

Comments

31st

Blackcap (m)

Ashbrook Drive

Prestbury

Steve McCoskery

31st

(a) Goosander (3f)

(b) Hobby (2)

(a) (11:00) Bottoms Res.

(b) (17:00) over Sutton

Steve Wright

31st

Goldcrest

Bullocks Lane

(His first since the big freeze)

David Collis

29th

(17:30)

Hobby

Leather’s Smithy

Ridgegate Res.

Chris N. Grime

28th

(18:00)

Common Redstart (2)

Higher Poynton SJ938842 feeding on hawthorn: path right of Bluebell Rise, Middlewood Rd, at fishing pond.

Christine Hilton

27th

(p.m.)

Ravens (14) – v. active group

soaring and wheeling

Common Buzzard (2)

Kestrel (f)

Wheatear (sev.)

Meadow Pipit

Rd Grouse (H)

Danebower Area

 

Chris Eccleston

25th

Long-billed Dowitcher

Ashton’s Flash

(Marbury)

via David James

(Marbury C.P. ranger)

25th

Northern Wheatear (p)

Sutton End - (between Higher Sutton and Wincle)

Ray Perry

22nd

(a) Linnet (10)

 

(b) Raven (12)

(a) (10:00) Forest Chapel

(b) (10:45) Danebower Quarry

Chris Grime

19th

(a) Lapwing (400+)

Teal (8)

Hobby

Shoveler (4)

 

(b) Ruddy Shelduck (2)

(a) Lapwing Lane Silt Ponds

 

(b) Redesmere

David Collis

18th

(19:10)

Sparrowhawk

(Front window strike)

 

Thirlmere

Ivy Farm estate

Probably attempting to fly through the lounge to rear garden birds.

Bird recovered and flew off over rooftops.
Gordon Howard

17th

(20:00)

Merlin

Footpath at Dane Bridge

(Nr. The Ship Inn - Wincle)

Roy Mullings

12th

Spotted Flycatcher (feeding second brood)

Dipper

Danebridge

David Collis

Various Dates

Red Kite corroboration

Seen from Moss Lane South toward  Lyme Green and Macc. waste disposal area

Several (naked eye) sightings

 

Mike Grimditch

11th (c11:30)

Red Kite

flying West over Henshaw's Tip, Moss Lane , Macclesfield.

Steve Wright

11th

Lapwing (300+)

Black Tailed Godwit (4)

Common Sandpiper (2)

Green Sandpiper

Golden Plover (2)

Teal (20+)

Gadwall (10)

Shoveler (5)

Greylag (50+)

Green Woodpecker

Neumann’s Flash & Haydn's Pool

David Collis

 

11th

Hobby

Jackson’s Brickworks

Peter Douse
(Ranger)

10th

Kingfisher

Brookside Garden Ctr.

Flew upstream alongside miniature railway station
Dominic Reist

10th

Hobby (2)

Kingfisher (2)

Jackson’s Brickworks

Peter Douse
(Ranger)

9th

(a) Wheatear (2)

(poss. f + juv.)

 

(b) Green Woodpecker

(a) SJ963804 - On Lyme Park's southern perimeter wall

(b) SJ944837 - Red Legg Fm Higher Poynton (Bridge 16 Middlewood Way).

Woodpecker also seen here 21 July

Christine Hilton

1st

Linnets (p)

SJ973813

Bowstones Farm, top of Lyme Park 

Christine Hilton