Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas
September 2011
Legend (m) = male, (f) = female, (p) = pair, (ps) = pairs, (s) singing, (H) = Heard only
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Date and Time	Sighting	Location and / or Map Reference		Comments
30th	Crossbills (20+) with Siskins Swallows (10)	Standing Stone car park (Macclesfield Forest)		Steve Wright
30th (12:17)	Chaffinch (f)	Several flocking on Danes Moss		Les Gradwell
29th	Willow Tit	Knypersley Reservoir (Biddulph)		David Collis
25th (18:00)	Hobby	Overflying Roewood Lane Higher Hurdsfield		Good views before heading off S.E. Mark Arnold
27th (a.m.)	Red Kite	The Roaches		Stephen Machin
25th (17:30 to 18:00))	Black Tern (3) (2 ad. + 1 juv.)	Tittesworth Reservoir (by the dam wall)		In winter plumage – excellent views - feeding with Black-headed Gulls Chris. N. Grime
24th	(a) Dunlin (2) Snipe Goldcrest (2) Treecreeper (b) Green Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper (2) Ruff (4) Mistle Thrush (6) Little Owl	(a) Neumann’s Flash (Northwich) (b) Elworth Flash (Sandbach)		David Collis & Daniel Bailey
23rd (17:30)	Crossbills (8)	Standing Stone car park Macclesfield Forest		Chris. N. Grime
22nd (13:38)	Great Spotted Woodpecker (m)	Danes Moss (SJ 906704)		Les Gradwell
21st (17:10)	Linnet (m)	Garden (feeder) sighting Rear of Clare Drive Tytherington		2nd sighting Sue Colville
19th (10:00)	Curlew Sandpiper (2) Black-tailed Godwit (9) Curlew (4) Ruff (4) Green Sandpiper Lapwing (200+) Teal (100+) Wigeon (30+) Shoveler (7) Gadwall (2) Tree Sparrow	Elworth Flash Sandbach		David Collis
18th/19th (18:00)	Linnet (p)		Garden (feeder) sighting Rear of Clare Drive Tytherington		Sue Colville
17th (08:40)	Goldcrest (p)	Car park Fairways Garden Centre		Louise Cunningham
16th	Little Egret	Flying South over Tytherington		Steve Fry
11th	Mandarin (3) Common Sandpiper	Ridgegate Res.		Dave Bancroft
11th (a.m.)	Sandwich Tern	Astbury Mere - on a small island which has been created by low water levels.		Jonathan Livesley
10th (15:50)	Common Buzzard (2)	Danes Moss SJ906704		Les Gradwell
9th (14:30)	Swallow and House Martin mixed flock (100+) – being harassed by Hobby	Sutton		Chris N. Grime
6th	Sparrowhawk (m)	Garden – rear of Bullocks Lane - Sutton		Daniel Bailey
5th	Common Tern Raven (2) Gadwall (2)	Tittesworth Res.		David Collis & Daniel Bailey
3rd (10:00)	Kingfisher	South Park Macclesfield		Maurice Peall (His first for this location)
2nd (20:00)	Barn Owl	Langley		Steve Lawton
2nd	Mandarin (f)	On River Wye - Wye Valley between Buxton and Bakewell		Stephen Davenport
2nd	? Bar-headed Goose (Juv.) (escapee ?)	Rear of Clarke Lane Langley		(hybrid ?? / comments welcome – ed.) Steve Wright
2nd	(a) Little Grebe (p) – with 3 chicks (b) Kingfisher	(a) Trentabank Res. (b) Holehouse Lane pool (below Bottoms Res.		David Collis
1st	Canada Goose (97) House Martin (30+)	Bottoms Res.		House Martins staying for app.10mins Steve Wright