July 2010

Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

July 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

31st

(c17:00)

Merlin

(or was it a Hobby?)

Cock Hall Lane

David Holt
(see comments)

29th

(19:30)

European Bee-eater (2)

(uncorroborated see note)

Adlington Golf Centre

(Flew off over Airfield)

Scott Lamont

(note)

27th

(a) Grey Wagtail (2)

Mandarin Duck (2f) – with 7 chicks

Kestrel (2) - hunting

Common Buzzard (3)

(b) Red Deer (3)

(c) Wheatear (3)

Kestrel - hunting

(d) Red Grouse (14)

Kestrel (3) – hunting

(e) Mistle Thrush (15)

(a) Ridgegate Res.

(b) Trentabank Res.

(d) Axe Edge Moor

(e) Nr. Standing Stone car park

Dave Bancroft

23rd

Lesser Spotted

Woodpecker

Jackson’s Brickworks

Poynton

Peter Dowse
(Ranger)

22nd

(a) Little Ringed Plover

(adult + 3 chicks)

(b) Spotted Flycatcher

(a) Trentabank Res.

(b) Tegg’s Nose Res.

David Haydock

21st

Siskin (m)

Wildboarclough

(100m lower down from Crag Inn)

David Haydock

21st

(07:30)

Sparrowhawk
with prey
(House Sparrow)

Garden sighting

Gleneagles Drive
Tytherington

David Tolliday

19th

(a) Little Ringed Plover (4)

Common Sandpiper

Barnacle Goose

(b) Peregrine (3)

Hobby

Wheatear (4)

(a) Tittesworth Res.

(b) The Roaches

David Collis

18th

(a) Little Ringed Plover with 3 chicks

(b) Chiffchaff (H)

Willow Warbler (H)

(a) Trentabank Res.

(b) Ridgegate Res.

Dave Bancroft

16th

Chiffchaff (s)

Middlewood Way

Bollington

David Tolliday

16th

(a) Lapwing (150)

Curlew (25)

Sand Martin (40+)

(b) Kingfisher

Little Owl

(c) Sparrowhawk (f) killed and part ate adult

Jay

(d) Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

(a) a.m. - Farmland adjacent to Catchpenny Pool

(b) Turkshead Res.

Sutton

(d) 17:00 hrs – Red Lane

(Bosley Cloud)

David Collis

12th

(18:30-19:00)

(a) Kingfisher

(b) Tufted Duck (with 7 chicks)

Mandarin (with 7 chicks)

Pied Wagtail family

Garden Warbler (H)

(a) Bottom’s Res.

(b) Ridgegate Res.

also seen Weasel family (4)

(Bottom’s Res.)

Dave Bancroft

8th

(a) Grey Heron

Lapwing (22)

Common Tern (3)

Wren (^s)

Blackcap

Reed Bunting

(b) Yellow Hammer

(a) Carsington Water

(b) Hognaston Village

Additional info. of interest:

Southern Hawker dragonfly. Common Blue damselfly - about six pairs mating. Nine species of butterfly identified
including Ringlet.

Plants in flower: 42 species. Not previously reported -
Cat's-ear, Great Willowherb, Hawkweed, Foxglove, Purple-loosestrife and Water Betony.

Ray and Margaret Perry

6th

Black-tailed Godwit (6)

Redshank (3)

Common Sandpiper

Lapwing (^)

Curlew

Oystercatcher (5)
        Teal (4)
        Black Swan (p)
        Reed Bunting
        Reed Warbler
        Sedge Warbler
        Bullfinch
        Tawny Owl
        Grey Wagtail
        Lesser Black-backed Gull (5)

Neumann’s Flash

Haydn’s Pool

David Collis

4th

(10:00)

Sand Martins (40+)

Redesmere

No sign of Ruddy Shelducks

Dave Bancroft

1st

Ruddy Shelduck (2)
(escapees?)

Redesmere

David Collis

1st
(13:00)

(a) Hobby (2) harassing a
Buzzard

(b) Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
Mandarin (f) with 3 chicks
Grey Wagtail (family)

(d) Great Crested Grebe

(on nest)

(a) Tegg’s Nose

(b) Ridgegate Res.

(d) Bottoms Res.

Dave Bancroft

1st
(11:00 to 12:45)

(a) Peregrine Falcon
Golden Plover (2) each with 2 young
(b) Lapwing with 3 young

(c) Meadow Pipits
Curlew
Buzzard

(d) Red Grouse

(a) Shining Tor summit

(b) Above Cat & Fiddle Tea Rooms

(d) Errwood Res.

SCE McCoskery

T Bianchi

D Hodgkinson

C Lawes

R West