Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

May 2010
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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

30th

(13:30)

Ring Ouzel

Danebridge

(close to the bridge)

Roy Mullings

28th

(11:30)

Pied Flycatcher (p)

Picnic area

Ranger Station

Trentabank Res.

David Collis

26th

Barnacle Goose (5)

Oystercatcher (2)

Lapwing (5 – with chicks)

Curlew

Redshank (2)

Swifts (15)

Dunnock (2 – fledged young noted)

Whitethroat

Blackcap (2)

Willow Warbler (2)

Carsington Water

Additional note – 29 species of flowering plants noted

 

Ray Perry

 

23rd

Peregrine Falcon (2)

Hobby

Stonechats

Whitethroat

Cuckoo

The Roaches area

Steve Wright

&

Mat Lawson

22nd

(17:30)

Oystercatchers (2)

Flying low and calling over

Lyme Green Retail Park

David Tolliday

22nd

Cuckoo

Goyt Valley

Steve Wright

18th

(18:30)

(a) Redstart (m+f)

 

(b) Redstart (5 m s)

(a) Langley Cricket Club

 

(b)  between Langley & Tegg’s Nose

Chris Grime

18th

Grasshopper Warbler (H)
         Reed Warbler (4)
Sedge Warbler

Shelduck (30+)
 Shoveler (p)
Blackcap (1)
Whitethroat (2)
Black Swan (p)
Little Ringed Plover (2)
Teal (4)
Redshank (1)
Raven (1)
Gadwall (8)

Wigeon (p)

Neumann’s Flash

&

Haydn’s Pool

David Collis

13th

(11:20)

Cuckoo

The Roaches.

Grid Ref: SK003625

Tony Bianchi

(via Jacqueline Hamerton)

13th

Ring Ouzel (m)

Limestone Way path @ SK130800 (SW of Castleton). Sat on wall @ summit of path, close to site of disused mines.

Christine Hilton

13th

Cuckoo

Curlew

Stonechat

Wheatear

Buzzard

Meadow Pipit

Lapwing

Bullfinch

Willow Warbler

Blackcap

Goldsitch Moss / Roaches area

Geoff Atkin

12th

(p.m.)

Mandarin Ducks (5)

Ridgegate Reservoir

Roy Mullings

11th

Sand Martins (33)*

Swifts (17)*

Skylarks (4s)

Blackcaps (3s)

Whitethroat (s)

Garden Warbler (2s)

Willow Warbler (^s)

Little Ringed Plover

Chelford Sand Quarries

* feeding over the water

 

Mike Bebbington

(via Ray Evans)

11th

(p.m.)

Great Crested Grebes (p)

Redesmere


Mike Eccleston

11th

(p.m.)

Swift

Feeding high over fields N. side of Pennington’s Lane

Gordon Howard

10th

(a) Common Sandpiper

 

(b) G. C. Grebe

(a) Trentabank Reservoir

(b) Bottoms Reservoir

Grebe on floating nest – with one egg

 

Roy Mullings

10th

(13:00)

Pied Flycatcher (m)

Redstart (m)

Tawny Owl

Tegg’s Nose

David Collis

4th

Redstart (4)

Wood Warbler

Garden Warbler (2)

Blackcap

Woods at base of Tegg’s Nose

Geoff Atkin

4th

Raven

Turks Head Reservoir

Being mobbed by a Carrion Crow

David Collis

4th

(15:30)

Swifts (2)

Over Ivy Farm Estate

Jean Evans

2nd

(a) Goosander (m)

 

(b) Wood Warbler (2m),(s)

 

(c) Golden Plover

(display flight)

(a) Trentabank Reservoir

(b) 300yds S of

Trentabank visitor ctr.

 (c) Shining Tor

Brian Grieve & Peter Rhodes

1st

Cuckoo (H)

Lindow Moss

Brian Grieve