Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

 February 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

28th

(a) Raven

 

(b) Cormorant

(a) Overflying Buxton Road/Wayside Road Estate

(b) Perching on Union (Hovis) Mill beside the Marina.

Peter Hurst

28th

Curlew (100+)

Reed Bunting (10)

Lapwing (25)

Oystercatcher (p)

Pochard (6)

Song Thrush

Tittesworth

David Collis
&
Daniel Bailey

27th

Sparrowhawk

Siskins (2+ daily)

Lesser Redpoll (2+ daily)

Wilmslow garden



Peter Denny

27th

Siskin (5m,1f)

Rear garden – Thirlmere

Ivy Farm Estate

First Siskins of the Winter season

Ray & Margaret Perry

27th

(13:45)

Water Rail

Little Grebe (H)

Brick pond – Wayside Estate

Barracks Lane

Rail seen under overhanging bushes

Peter Hurst

25th

(a) Skylark (6s)

(b) Skylark

(a) Stubble field South of Hurdlow

(b) overflying Danebower

Geoff Atkin

24th

(latepm)

Bittern #

Tawny Owl (p) - roosting

Marbury C.P.

# Showing from Bittern screen, at front of reed bed before flying briefly twice.

Christine Hilton

24th

(a) Lapwing (100’s)

Wigeon (100’s

Tree Sparrow

Redshank

Shelduck (4)

Cormorant (5)

 

(b) Shoveler (20+)

Lapwing (100’s)

Teal (50+)

Curlew (5)

Black-tailed Godwit (2)

Green Sandpiper

Oystercatcher (4)

Sparrowhawk

(a) Sandbach Flash

 

 

 

(b) Neumann’s Flash

David Collis

&

Daniel Bailey

22nd +

Lesser Redpolls (40+ daily)

Mealy Redpoll (2) #

Siskin (up to 10 daily)

garden sightings

Poynton

#  1 mealy now on 72nd consecutive day – 2nd mealy occasional visitor

Dave Bancroft

22nd

(pm)

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Marbury C.P.

Bittern not showing

Christine Hilton

22nd

Crossbill (2)

Ravens

Near Standing Stone car park

Macclesfield Forest

Steve Wright

22nd

(am)

Bullfinch (p)

Near allotments – Ryles Park Rd area

David Haydock

21st

(10:45)

Sparrowhawk (m) -

 taking a Tree Sparrow

Garden (not accessible) rear of Thirlmere

Initially a stand-off in the hawthorn between a Blue Tit, Tree Sparrow and the Sparrowhawk

Gordon Howard

20th

Lapwing (800+)

Shelduck (8)

Oystercatcher (2)

Dunlin

Golden Plover

Lapwing Lane silt ponds

David Collis

18th

(am)

Shoveler (m)

Goosander (f)

Swan’s Pool

Higher Fence Rd.

Peter Hurst

16th

Skylarks (s)

Moors below Shutlingsloe

Steve Wright

16th

(a) Goosander (m)

 

(b) Pochard (m)

(a) 14:30 – Trentabank Res.

(b) 14:40 - Ridgegate Res

Roy Mullins

15th

(dusk)

Woodcock

Flew across A537 – just East of Monksheath crossroads

Pete Atherton

15th

Tree Creeper (3) # – using feeders !!
Siskin (3)**

Rear garden sighting
Buxton Old Rd.
Macclesfield

 # regular visitor over past 6 weeks
** first Siskins for this winter

Damien Healey

15th

(am)

Dippers (p) – nest building

Flying to and fro under bridge
Hall Lane - Sutton

Carrying beaks full of moss

David Collis 

14th

(15:20)

Great Spotted Woodpecker

In trees on Highfield Road, off Prestbury Road

Derek & Daryll Bailey

14th

Great Northern Diver Barnacle Goose (30+) Goldeneye (1m) Oystercatcher
Lapwing (c250)
Redshank (2)
Willow Tit (2)

Carsington Water

Ray & Margaret Perry

14th

Lesser Redpoll – single bird

Garden rear of Thirlmere

(Ivy Farm)

Gordon Howard

11th

(15:45 to 16:45)

(a) Short-eared Owl - hunting

 

(b) Barn Owl - hunting

Tawny Owl (H)

(a) Ridge above Goyt Valley

(b) Goyt Valley

Christine Hilton

10th

(pm)

Siskin (f) – single bird

Garden rear of Thirlmere

(Ivy Farm)

Gordon Howard

10th

(am)

Brambling (15)

Lesser Redpoll (3)

Redwing (16)

Garden - Roewood Lane

Macclesfield

19 species visited a.m.

Mark Arnold

9th

(14:30)

Raven (2)

Flying over School Lane
Marton

Gordon Howard

8th

(p.m.)

(a) Goosander (p)

Smew (4m, 6f)

 

(b) Shelduck (11)

Lapwing Lane silt ponds area

(a) seen from South end of lane

(b) on North pond

Peter Denny

8th

(am/pm)

(a) Fieldfare (c100)

Grey Heron (4) – showing courtship behavior

Goldeneye (2m,3f)

Canada Geese (c120)

 

(b) Fieldfare (100+)

Kestrel

Common Buzzard

Red Grouse (H)

 

(c) Cormorant (8) – NB see note ##

Grey Heron (12) – nest building

Goosander (3m,3f)

(a) (10:00 to 11:30)

Redesmere

 

(b) (12:00)

Sparbent (A54)

 

(c) (12:30 to 16:30)

Trentabank 

## Possibly including race
 P. carbo sinensis !!,
but subsequently considered doubtful (click on image and follow link)  

Chris Eccleston

8th

Sparrowhawk (m)

Continuing to hunt over gardens rear of Thirlmere (Ivy Farm)

Gordon Howard

8th

Common Buzzard (10)

Soaring on thermals above 17th fairway

Tytherington Golf Club

John Wilde

8th

Lapwings (many 100’s)

Wigeon (many 100’s)

Teal (50+)

Curlew (5)

Redshank

Shoveler (p)

Snipe

Sparrowhawk

Tree Sparrow

Sandbach Flash

David Collis

&

Rob Hutchins

8th
(08:05)

Grey Heron

Overflying Templar Court

heading towards Prestbury

Derek & Daryll Bailey

6th (11:40)

& 7th (08:20)

Parrot / Parakeet ??

(2 birds – still visiting)

Heybridge Lane

Prestbury

feeding on sunflower hearts

Tony Bianchi

4th

(a) Goosander (3m)

Great Crested Grebe (*)

Goldeneye (3m,5f)

Common Gull (3)

Grey Wagtail

 

(b) Lapwing (1000+)

Teal (4)

Shelduck (2)

Pochard (4)

Oystercatcher

(a) Redesmere

 

(b) Lapwing Lane silt ponds

(*) First sighting since the big freeze

David Collis

3rd

(07:15)

Woodcock

In field opposite Recycling Centre, Anson Road, Higher Poynton

Christine Hilton

1st

Mealy Redpoll

 – with Lesser

Redpolls (47)

Poynton Garden



Dave Bancroft