Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
February 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, (^) = several, (~) = few (s) singing, (H) = Heard only
Date and Time	Sighting	Location and / or Map Reference	Comments
28	Cormorant	Fishing on canal between Bullocks Lane and Lyme Green	David Collis
25	Reed Bunting (m) in partial summer plumage	My bird table, Bullocks Lane	David Collis
24 (17:30)	Greylag Geese (10)	Low flying (E) over Thirlmere (Nr Thornton Sq.)	Gordon Howard
24 (14:30)	Lapwing (100+)	Fields adjacent to Marton Lane	Gordon Howard
21 11.15am	Waxwing	One waxwing in a flock of starlings on the Tytherington estate	Amanda
21 1.30pm	Mandarin pair	Macclesfield Canal (nr Styperson Park)	Dave Bancroft
21 2.30pm	Goosander (2m 2f)	2m 2f Goosander on Styperson Pool at 14.30hrs Sunday 21st Feb	Dave Bancroft
19	Goosander (f) Goldeneye (m) Grey heron (5 -some nest-building) Tufted Ducks Mallards	Trentabank Reservoir	Graham Palmer
Various	Redpolls	Rainow Garden Last two weeks on niger seed feeders.	Paul Flackett
18	Mute swans	Swan's Pool, Higher Fence Avenue Pair present since Feb 1st. Today at 9.30am there was a third bird present	Peter Hurst
13 10am	Oystercatcher Goldeneye (2m 5f) Goosander (20)	Redesmere (main road end)	David Haydock
12 9am	Curlew (3)	Flew over Turkshead Reservoir heading east towards the moors	David Collis
8	Teal (100+) Gadwall (11) Shoveler (5) Shelduck (11) Raven (2)	Haydn's Pool	David Collis
8	1st Winter Common Gull	Redesmere in amongst all the Black-headed Gulls at the feeding end	Celia & David Bailey
6	Goosander (9f, 6m) Tufted duck (12) Mandarin (m) Wigeon (m) Raven	Styperson Pool	Peter Dowse
4 7.00am	Barn Owl	Wrigley Lane. Perched in tree on left as you go up, almost directly opposite the entrance to farm on right. Very close. Sat for a bit before flying off.	Scott Lamont
3	Wigeon (p)	Turkshead Reservoir	David Collis