Monday, 30 May 2016
birdrecords@macclesfieldrspb.org.uk
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30th (15:00)
Grasshopper Warbler (singing)
Danes Moss N.R.
David Tolliday
29th (c13:00)
CUCKOO (on a electricity wire being harassed by small bird
Cut Thorn Hill Nr. Three Shires Head
Rob Barker
27th May
CUCKOO - Three separate sightings
1 Allgreave, near Rose and crown
1 Between Gradbach and Flash
1 Hollinsclough
Ring Ouzel
Wheatear
Danebower
Golden Plover (5)
Lapwing
Curlew
Red Grouse
Top of Cumberland Clough.
Spotted Flycatcher
Grey Wagtail
Gradbach.
All above reported by
Chris Grime
26th (15:15)
RED KITE
Overflying Prestbury village centre
Steve McCoskery
26th
Dipper (adult feeding juv.)
River Bollin / Spencer brook intersection opposite Prestbury village club
Steve McCoskery
24th (am)
Stock Dove (garden sighting)
Ashbrook Drive
Mandarin Duck (f with young)
Near sewage works
Prestbury
Steve McCoskery
24th (am)
Yellowhammer (heard)
Withington area
Rob Barker
22nd
Tree Pipit
Derbyshire Bridge
Yellowhammer(heard)
Jodrell Bank
Chris Grime
20th (pm)
RING OUZEL (pair)
Wheatear (m + f)
Snipe (heard)
Danebower Quarries (Nr. Chimney)
Viewed from lay-by on A54
Rob Barker
17th
Great Crested Grebe (pair)
Coot (sev.)
Moorhen (sev.)
Oystercatcher
Chelford
Les Gradwell
15th (19:00)
HOBBY
Sutton - Macclesfield
Chris Grime
15th (am)
Kingfisher (sev)
Goosander (m+f)
MINK - working along the river bank
River Bollin near Prestbury Sewage Works
Steve McCoskery
14th
Hobby
4 Spotted Chaser D/Fly (sev.)
Danes Moss N.R.
Les Gradwell
11th
Chiffchaff
Mandarin (m)
Wildboarclough (near Cragg Hall)
Les Gradwell
10th
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER
Pikelow Farm - Marton
Also:
Cuckoo (calling daily)
Marton Heath Woodlands
David Taylor
10th
Chiffchaff
Goyt Valley
Les Gradwell
8th (report date)
NORTHWICH WOODLANDS
CETTI'S WARBLER (2m)
Butter finch Bridge
at confluence with River Weaver
also
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Showing regularly)
Grasshopper Warbler
David James (Ranger)
7th
WHISKERED TERN (2)
Elton Hall Flash - Sandbach
Mike Atkinson
7th
SWIFTS
Over Bramhall / Cheadle Hulme
Peter & Margaret Derbyshire
6th
Cuckoo (Heard)
Staffordshire Moorlands - Nr. Black Brook N.R.
David Holt
5th
Grey Wagtail
Wildboarclough
Les Gradwell
5th
Tree Pipit
The Roaches
Les Gradwell
5th
SWIFTS
Over Hurdsfield (Macc.)
Chris Revett
5th (09:00)
SWIFT - 1st report!!
Over Ullswater (Ivy Farm Est. - Macc.)
Simon Jackson
4th (18:45)
CUCKOO (heard)
Between Gradbach and Flash
Chris Grime
4th
Little Ringed Plover
COMMON SANDPIPER (2) 1st report !!
Tree Pipit (2)
Redstarts (3)
Goyt Valley by Errwood Res.
Paul Flackett
4th (am)
Swifts (6)
Swallows
House martins
Kingfishers - nesting
Mandarin duck (2m, 1f)
Blackcaps (m)
Lapwing (pair)
Chiffchaffs
Reed bunting
Common Buzzards - still at nest site
Bollin Valley Way Prestbury Sewage Works area
Steve McCoskery
3rd
Whinchat (m)
Langley - Macclesfield
Matt Lawton & Steve Wright
2nd
CUCKOO (Heard)
Marton Heath Woods
David Taylor
1st
Bullfinch (m)
Garden sighting - Blakelow Rd. (Macc.)
(First occurrence in over 10 years)
Barry Hayter