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Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

 August 2011
(Please click on photos or any underlined comment for larger images and/or more information)

Legend

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

(s) singing, (H) = Heard only

Date and Time

Sighting

Location and / or Map Reference

Comments

30th

Little Ringed Plover (3)

Dunlin (2)

Little Egret

Goosander (6)

Teal

Tittesworth Res.

Chris N. Grime

29th

Cormorant (3)

Goosander (11)

Tittesworth Res.

David Collis

27th

Peregrine Falcon (p)

Jodrell Bank

Resident on the Lovell Telescope

Stephen Davenport

22nd

(a.m.)

Kingfisher

Whitethroat

Bottom’s Reservoir

Langley

Steve Wright

21st

Starling (4)

Pochard (5)

Cormorant (9)

Greater Black-backed Gull (3)

Curlew (21)

Black-tailed Godwit (6)

Redshank (3)

Shoveler (f)

Lapwing Lane Silt Ponds

Daniel Bailey

21st

(12:00)

Common Buzzard (3)

On thermals over Ivy Farm Estate

Gordon Howard

20th

Lapwings (200+)

Hobby

Teal (7)

Pochard (4)

Curlew (2)

Lapwing Lane Silt Ponds

David Collis

18th

Sparrowhawk

Garden kill – Thirlmere

Ivy Farm Estate

 

Gordon Howard

18th

(a) Wheatear (6)

Raven (12)

Kestrel

Common Buzzard

 

(b) Little Grebe

Mandarin

(a) Danebower

 

(b) Trentabank

David Collis

& Daniel Bailey

17th

Kingfisher

Bridge at junction

Hall Lane / Jarman (Sutton) 

David Collis

16th

Black-tailed Godwit (4)

Teal (8)

Black Swan

Common Sandpiper (2)

Whitethroat (5)

Common Gull (5)

Gadwall (3)

Reed Warbler (2)

Lapwing (300+)

Neumann’s Flash

David Collis

&

Daniel Bailey

12th
(11:00)

Spotted Flycatcher – adult feeding min. 3 young

Treecreeper

Oystercatcher (4)

Tittesworth

(rear of visitor centre)

David Collis

10th

(10:00)

Common Sandpiper

Macclesfield Canal
Nr. The Fool’s Nook

Skimming above the water, and under the wooden footbridge

David Collis

9th (11:00)

Pochard (m)

Teal (4)

Lapwing Lane silt ponds

David Collis

9th

Dippers (2)

Green Woodpecker (H)

Wildboarclough & Gradbach

David Haydock

8th

(16:50)

Swift

Junction of

Park Lane / Ryles Park Rd.

David Haydock

6th

Grey wagtail (p)

South Park – along stream across pitch & put course

David Haydock

5th

(11:30)

Yellowhammer

Wigeon (f)

Lapwing Lane silt ponds

David Collis &

Daniel Bailey

5th

(08:00)

Goldcrest

Leek Old Road

David Collis

2nd

Swallows (50+)

Flock over Pikelow Farm - Marton

David Taylor