Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
May 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
31st	Red Kite	Danebower	David Collis & Daniel Bailey
30th	Mandarin – resident with 4 chicks Green Woodpecker	Tegg’s Nose Reservoir	Steve Wright & Matt Lawton
28th	Stonechat (m)	Goyt Valley – on bracken stem	Ralph Cole
27th	(a) Redstart Pied Flycatcher Cuckoo Wood Warbler (H) (b) Golden Plover Lapwings Merlin Short-eared Owl	(a) Goyt Valley – nr. old quarry car park (b) Goyt Valley - moorland	Steve Wright & Matt Lawton
27th (10:00 to 12:00)	Garganey (m)	Neumann’s Flash (Northwich)	Showing well in centre of the LHS smaller pool when standing on eastern raised path - old black stilt viewing point Marc Granville
25th	Black-throated Diver	Carsington Water	Ray & Margaret Perry
24th	(a) Redstart (f) (b)Blackcap	Coombes Valley (a) at probable nest site (b) at edge of copse	Ralph Cole
24th (13:40)	Short-eared Owl	Behind the Cat & Fiddle Inn	Caren Lee
22nd (am)	Red Kite	Lower Withington	Over flew Trap Street and the Stewardship field behind. Peter and Gill Brierley
21st	Peregrine (2)	The Roaches area	David Collis & Daniel Bailey
19th	Sacred Ibis	Gawsworth / North Rode boundary	Ringed bird – also reported Congleton area David Taylor
19th	Peregrine Common Buzzard Kestrel Cuckoo (H)	The Roaches area	Tony Bianchi & Steve McCoskery
19th	Mandarin (p) – with 5 chicks	Ridgegate Reservoir	David Collis
19th	Little Grebe Pied Flycatcher (m) Mandarin (p) Great Crested Grebe (p) – with young	Trentabank Reservoir	Heather Green
18th	Cuckoo	Over flying Leek Old Road at Bishop’s Clough	passed within 20ft David Collis
16th	Pied Flycatcher (2m) Cuckoo (H) Treecreeper (3)	Goyt Valley	David Collis
13th	(a) Yellow Wagtail (p) (b) Goosander – with several young	(a) Saltersford Corner - Nr. Holmes Chapel (b) River Dane – Holmes Chapel	Matt Lawton & Rachel Giles
11th	Willow Warbler Chiffchaff (H) Whitethroat Reed Warbler (H) Garden Warbler (H) Blackcap (H) Sedge Warbler Cuckoo (H) Reed Bunting Tufted Duck	Oxmoor N.R. Halton - Runcorn	Geoff Atkin
11th (am)	Stonechat (p)	Goyt Valley near Derbyshire Bridge	Heather Green
11th (09:00)	Cuckoo (H)	Walker Lane Sutton	David Collis
7th (pm)	Ring Ouzel (f) Fieldfare	Danebower	Peter Atherton
5th & 6th	Cuckoo (H)	Langley and bottom of Tegg’s Nose	Mathew Lawton
5th	Lapwing (1) Curlew (1) Grey Wagtail (1) Mistle Thrush (1) Whitethroat (6) Spotted Flycatcher (1) Reed Bunting (1m)	Tittesworth Reservoir	Also seen - 22 species of flowering plants Ray & Margaret Perry
4th (pm)	Swift	Over flying Gleneagles Drive Tytherington	David Tolliday
4th	Barnacle Goose (14) Little Ringed Plover (2) Lapwing (8) Black-tailed Godwit (1) Redshank (1) Swift (1) Song Thrush (2)	Carsington Water	Ray & Margaret Perry
1st	(a) Wheatear (2) (b) Hobby (c) Short-eared Owl (2)	(a) Danebower (b) Three Shires Head (c) Derbyshire Bridge	Andrew Foulkes
1st	Swift	Over a Poynton garden	First - at exactly the same date as last year. Richard Arnold
1st (08:45)	Ring Ouzel (p) Wheatear (3)	Danebower	David Collis