January 2011

Bird Sightings in the Macclesfield and Surrounding Areas

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

Our Best Wishes to all for a Happy and Prosperous New "Birdwatching" Year

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

Glossy Ibis

Iceland Gull

Sparrowhawk

Black Tailed Godwit (4)
Shellduck (30)
Wigeon (40)

Sandbach Flashes

Adam Jones

31st

(am)

Cormorant (3)

Leadbeaters Reservoir

David Beer

30th

(a) Crossbills (10+)

(b) Goosander (10)

(a) Top of Macc. Forest, just below the Shutlingsloe stile

(b) Trentabank Reservoir.

Paul Flackett

28th

Tufted Duck (3p)

Mallard (2p)

Green Woodpecker (H)

Common Buzzard

Tawny Owl (H – 11:00)

Styperson Pool

Rob McEwen

27th

Glossy Ibis

Sandbach Flash

Elton Hall Flash

Harold Cooper

27th

Redwing (few)

Garden sighting

Tytherington

Amanda

24th

(13:00)

(a) Redwing (300+)

Fieldfare (20+)

(b) Wigeon (2p)

Teal (1p)

(a) Blossoms Lane Woodford , with your back to stables in big field to left.

(b) Church Lane, on big pond!

Peter Derbyshire

24th

(c12:00)

Blackcap (m + f)

Garden sighting

Tytherington

Amanda

21st

Pink-footed Goose (2)

in with Greylag Geese

Redesmere

Siddington

Mike Atkinson

21st

(am)

(a) Goosander (11m 6f)

Tufted Duck (3p)

Mallard (1m)

Grey Heron

(b) Teal (c20)

Tufted Duck (3p)

Shoveler (p)

(c) Brown Hare (2)

(a) Styperson Pool

(b) Adlington Driving Range

Rob McEwen

20th

(am)

(a) Siskin

Lesser Redpoll (5)

(b) Com. Pheasant (4m)

Brown Hare

(a) Garden sighting

Thirlmere (Ivy Farm est.)

(b) Field rear of Thirlmere

Gordon Howard

19th/20th

Redwing (c20)

Garden sighting Knutsford

feeding on Holly berries

Roy Mullings

19th

Dipper (p)

Sutton Hall Lane

Nr. Sutton Hall

Chris Grime

18th

(10:30)

Brambling (c45)

Goyt Valley

(see below)

Steve McCoskery

17th

Goosander (2m 2f)

Kingfisher

Fieldfare

Redwing

Langley

Holehouse Lane

& Bottoms Res.

Chris Grime

16th

Brambling (c30)

Whaley Bridge - Take Fernilee road out of Whaley and park in lay by on your right. Take footpath down to the river (200 yards. or so)

Dave Bancroft

16th

Siskin

Goldfinch

Redpoll

Fieldfare

Redwing

Wigeon

Teal

Tittesworth

Chris Grime

16th

Nuthatch

Birtles

(Macclesfield)

Richard Spence

14th

Lesser Redpoll (27)

Red Fox (2)

click here

Garden sighing

(Poynton)

Dave Bancroft

14th

(am)

(a) Goosander (10m 6f)

Mandarin Duck (10m 5f)

Tufted Duck (3p)

Mallard (3p)

Grey Heron

Common Buzzard (2)

Kestrel

House Sparrow (2)

(b) Bullfinch

Treecreeper

Fieldfare

Redwing

Red Fox (2) – sunning

themselves on field edge.

(a) Styperson Pool

(b) On nearby lanes

Rob McEwen

13th

Pink-footed Goose (2)

(in with the Greylag Geese)

Redesmere

(Siddington)

David Tolliday

13th

Willow Tit

Kingfisher

Pochard (8)

Teal (22)

Tittesworth Res.

West Hide

David Collis

11th

(11:15)

Blackcap

Garden sighting, off Abbey Road near Bollinbrook School

Michal Leigh

9th

(am)

Lesser Redpoll

Siskin (small flock)

Garden sighting

Tytherington

Amanda

8th

(am)

Goosander (7m 8f)

Teal (p)

Mallard (6p)

Tufted Duck (3p)

Mandarin Duck (m)

Goldcrest (small flock c4/5)

Long-tailed Tit

(small flock c8/10)

Pink-footed Goose (c30)

(skein heading NW @ 10:45)

Styperson Pool

Rob McEwen

7th

(am)

(a) Goosander (15m 11f)

Green Woodpecker (2H)

Tufted Duck (3p)

Common Buzzard (3)

Styperson Pool

Rob McEwen

7th

Goosander (22m 5f)

Poynton Pool

Richard & Vivienne

Arnold

7th

(am)

(a) Merlin

Bullfinch (4)

Goldcrest (2)

Treecreeper (2)

Fieldfare (2)

Jay (3)

(b) Tufted Duck (4)

Goosander (30)

Goldcrest

(a) Sugar Lane

(Adlington)

(b) Styperson Pool

(Pott Shrigley)

Adam Jones

4th

(12:40)

Sparrowhawk (f)

Drifting slowly over fields

North side Pennington’s Lane

Gordon Howard

4th

(am)

Blackcap (m)

Garden sighting

Rydal Place – Ivy Farm Est.

Graham Palmer

4th

(09:35)

Treecreeper (4)

Garden sighting

Templar Court – Macclesfield

Derek & Daryll Bailey

2nd

Pintail (p)

Goosander (10)

Teal (100’s)

Wigeon (100’s)

Lapwing (100’s)

Common Gull (3)

Golden Plover (4)

Redshank (3)

Snipe (2)

Tree Sparrow (5)

Elworth Flash

(Sandbach)

David Collis

Daniel Bailey

& Rob Hutchings

2nd

(am)

Goosander (12m 11f)

Tufted Duck (3)

Mallard (6)

Mandarin (3p)

Wigeon (1juv.)

Common Buzzard

Grey Heron

Cormorant

Styperson Pool

(Pott Shrigley)

Rob McEwen

1st

Kingfisher (m)

(with prey)

Pikelow Farm

Marton

David Taylor