Birding Group Visit To Macclesfield Forest 24th May 2011
The weather looked reasonably good for a woodland walk and despite Anne and I both displaying symptoms of the onset of flu, we decided to go out for the birding walk anyway. We arrived at the car park on the far side of Teggsnose Reservoir about ten minutes late to find the others with their scopes already set up on a young Great Spotted Woodpecker being fed by its parent. The nest was about three trees back from the car park and about 20 foot up the tree. Our decision to do the walk was already justified given that neither of us had seen a nestling Woodpecker before.