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Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and
Surrounding Areas |
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June 2010 |
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Legend (m) = male, (f) = female, (p) = pair, (ps) = pairs, (^)
= several, (~) = few (s) singing, (H) = Heard only |
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Date and Time |
Sighting |
Location and / or Map Reference |
Comments |
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30th (20:30) |
(a) Common Sandpiper (b) Great Crested Grebe – on nest – one egg |
(a) Trentabank Res. (b) Bottoms Res |
Roy Mullings |
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30th |
Oystercatcher (4) Lapwing (4) Swallow (2) House Martin (6) Garden Warbler Blackcap (3) |
Carsington Water |
40 species of plant identified
including Hedge Woundwort, not seen before on site, and at least 20 specimens
of the Common Spotted Orchid. An Azure damselfly was also seen. Ray & Margaret Perry |
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29th |
(a) Barn Owl (2) Oystercatcher (2) Red-legged Partridge (b) Hedgehog |
(a) Henbury area (b) late night garden sighting Tytherington |
David Tolliday |
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29th (inc. prev. week) |
Lapwing (with chick) |
Goostrey |
Joanna Stafford |
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28th |
(a) Red-legged Partridge (2) (b) Little Owls (2) |
(a) Pott Shrigley (b) Harrop Fold |
Geoff Atkin |
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27th (11:30) to (14:30) |
Grey Wagtails (2 + juv.) Pied Wagtail Meadow Pipit (^) Common Buzzard (3) Kestrel (f) Goldfinches (small
flock – several stream bathing) Wheatears (4) Curlew (H) Pheasant (H) |
River Dane between Three Shire
Heads and “The Chimney” (Danebower quarries)) |
Gordon & Rita Howard |
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27th (12:00) |
Wood Warbler (m) (s) |
Top of |
Chris N Grime |
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26th |
Ruddy Shelduck (2) (collection escapees ?) |
Redesmere Siddington |
David Tolliday |
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25th |
Oystercatcher (2) Lapwing (2) Blackcap (4) Chiffchaff Young of the following species
noted:- Canada Goose Mallard Moorhen Black-headed Gull Grey Wagtail |
Carsington Water |
Ray & Margaret Perry |
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25th |
(a) Barnacle Goose (b) Peregrine (p)(*) Skylarks (2) |
(a) Tittesworth Res. (b) Hen Cloud |
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Completing an in-flight food pass (possibly a feral pigeon) David Collis |
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22nd |
(a) Redstart (p) feeding young (b) Common Sandpiper (2) Little Ringed Plover Woodcock roding
at dusk |
(a) Ridgegate Res. (b) Trentabank Res. |
Steve Wright & Mat |
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21st |
(a) Spotted Flycatcher Blackcap Garden Warbler Chiffchaff Treecreeper (3) (b) Common Sandpiper (5) |
(a) Teggsnose Wood (b) Trentabank Res. |
David Collis |
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20th (p.m.) |
Tufted Duck (c12) Great Crested Grebe Mute Swan Mallard (^) Coots (40+) |
Chelford Sand Quarries (Bollington Pits – Stubby
Lane) |
No sign of hirundines Gordon & Rita Howard |
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19th |
Skylark (2) |
Messuage Farm Marton |
David Tolliday |
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15th (06:00) |
(a) Common Sandpiper (2) Cuckoo (H) (b) Short-eared Owl Whinchat Cuckoo (H) (c) Peregrine Falcon (p) Cuckoo (H) |
(a) Trentabank Res. (b) (C) The Roaches |
Steve Wright |
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10th |
(a) Mandarin (2f) one with 7 ducklings other with 3 Duckling (b) Hobby (m) |
(a) Ridgegate (b) Flying low over Bottoms Res. |
David Collis |
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9th |
Bar-headed Goose |
Redesmere Siddington |
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8th (17:00) & (18:00) |
(a) Common Sandpiper (b) Wood Warbler (s) |
(a) Trentabank Res. (b) Top of |
Chris Grime |
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8th (16:30) |
Short-eared Owls (2) |
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Matt Lawton & Steve Wright |
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8th (15:00) |
Peregrine Falcon (f) |
Circling (10 minutes) over
Macclesfield town centre (Roe St), seemed to be hunting? |
Matt Lawton & Steve Wright |
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7th (19:00) |
Cuckoo (seen
calling) Meadow Pipits |
Nesitt Hill – |
Again being mobbed by pipits (see
below) Chris Grime |
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7th |
Linnets (6) Skylark Peregrine Falcon |
Hen Cloud (The Roaches) |
David Collis |
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7th (09:30) |
Little Egret |
Adlington Flying over London Road (A523) from
stream to large pond in the fields |
Roger Gregson |
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6th (17:00) |
Cuckoo (seen
calling) Meadow Pipits |
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Being mobbed by the pipits Chris Grime |
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4th |
Whitethroat (4) Blackcap (3) Linnet Reed Warbler (2) Sedge Warbler Reed Bunting (8) Bullfinch Oystercatcher (5) Shelduck (10+) Little Ringed Plover Black Swan (2) Teal (4) Shoveler Gadwall (8) Wigeon (2) Black-headed Gull (^) on nests Green Woodpecker (2) Hobby (2) Hunting
dragonflies |
Neumann’s Flash & Haydn’s Pool |
David Collis & Steve Wright |
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4th (06:00) |
Cuckoo (H) |
vicinity of |
Heather Delaney |
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3rd (21:50 & 22:00) |
(a) Short-eared Owl (b) Little Owl |
(a) 0.5 miles from Cat & Fiddle
returning from Buxton (b) On road just below Tegg’s
Nose car park |
Scott G Lamont |
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2nd (13:00) |
Red-legged Partridge |
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Roy Mullings |
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1st |
Spotted Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher |
Mixed Woodland rear of Ridgegate
Reservoir Near water treatment plant |
Steve Wright |
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