Macclesfield RSPB Wildlife Explorers

An essential part of any of our outdoor meetings are Leader Tim’s “Weather Warmups” 😁

Adults and children clearing paths with spades

Clearing paths with volunteers

A great turnout for this mornings ‘Happy Habitats’ outdoor meeting on the Middlewood Way. We are helping to improve ponds and the path edges.

The top 10 big garden Birdwatch birds from 2024 held up by wildlife explorers

Leader Tina explaining how to count birds

Wildlife Explorers walking round Victoria Park

A young wildlife explorer using binoculars

A lovely turnout of families for this mornings #BigGardenBirdWatch at Victoria Park. We saw around 18 different species including some Redwings. Thanks everyone for attending including our fabulous volunteer leaders 👍🏻 @rspb.bsky.social

It’s a chilly one but with beautiful blue skies, perfect for doing some citizen science in Macclesfield Victoria Park this morning 👍🏻 Join our friendly gang of wildlife enthusiasts from 10.30am to get involved in the RSPB #BigGardenBirdWatch

A cheeky Red Squirrel popping up from behind a tree, looking into the camera.

Today is #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay!

We're celebrating with this gorgous wee shot taken at our Loch Leven nature reserve by Hogan on Instagram, look at that face!

📷 instagram.com/hogan_x/

A red squirrel perches on a log, against a bright green background of ferns.

Hiya, Priscilla the scouse squirrel here - everyone ready to go nuts for Squirrel Appreciation Day?

Let's start with some stuff you probably didn't know about squirrels:

🦷Our teeth NEVER stop growing
💨We can run up to 20 mph
🦘We can jump up to 20 ft across

📸John Millar

A Starling, wings poised and feet stretched forward, is perfectly captured in mid-flight as it swoops towards a wooden perch. Its iridescent plumage glimmers with hints of green and purple, speckled with tiny white dots. The intensity of its focus and the blur of motion in its wings give this bird an air of determination, as if it’s on a very important mission.

3 days to go until the #BigGardenBirdwatch!

Last year’s 3rd most-spotted bird was the shimmering Starling. 😍

Will you spot one this weekend?

There's still time to sign up: https://buff.ly/4gXUE3y

Big Garden Birdwatch banner

Next Saturday! Meet us in Victoria Park, Macclesfield at 10.30am for some citizen science and the usual Wildlife Explorers fun and frolics

A wildlife explorers leader in a woodland wearing a latex duck mask

The Macclesfield RSPB Wildlife Explorers festive mallard would like to wish all our explorers and volunteer leaders a FANTASTIC Christmas and a Happy New Year🎅🏻🎄 See you for more wildlife themed fun in 2025!

Fantastic creations and silly hats! - Macclesfield Wildlife Explorers On Sunday the 1st of December, Wildlife Explorers gathered for our annual festive Tree Dressing meeting. A celebration of trees and their importance for wildlife and in human history and culture, our ...

So many fantastic clay creations and bonkers hats at our last meeting of 2024! Take a look at the meeting report on our website - group.rspb.org.uk/macclesfield... @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @cecrangers.bsky.social

'Arrivals' board with bird species listed with typical arrival and departure times. Redwing arrives Early October to November and departs February to Early March. Brent Goose arrives Early October to November and departs March to April. Fieldfare arrives mid-October to November and departs from late February to March. Long-tailed duck, Goldeneye, Red-throated Diver, Water Pipit, Great Grey Shrike, Shore Lark, and Woodcock all arrive from October to November, departing between March and May. Whooper Swan and Great Northern Diver begin to arrive later in October to November and depart between March and May. Glaucous Gull, Smew and Waxwing are all later arrivals from around November, departing in around February to March

Eyes on the skies for winter arrivals 👀

Let us know if you've spotted a Redwing, peeped a Fieldfare or seen Whooper Swan yet this season.

Sunday 15th, 3pm - 7.30pm with Cordiality Choir 6 30pm - 7.30pm

Saturday 21st, 3pm - 7pm

Sunday 22nd, 3pm - 7pm
Community Concert 6pm - 7pm

Christ Church Opening Times.
Sun 1st 1pm - 6pm
with Macclesfield Recorder Group from 2pm - 2.45pm.

Fri 6th, 13th, 20th 4 30pm - 7.30pm Organist TBC.

Saturday 7th 3pm - 7 30pm

Sunday 8th, 3pm - 7pm

Saturday 14th, 3pm - 7pm….

Christmas tree decorated with lots of wildlife themed items in a church

Macclesfield RSPB Wildlife Explorers have a tree at the wonderful Macclesfield Christmas Tree Festival at Christ Church on Bridge Street. Visit during December to see many dressed trees by local groups plus bookstall, refreshments & tombola. Christ Church Opening Times in the first comment below.

3D interpretation of The Green Man. Features from clay on the trunk of a tree with natural materials for hair/beard.

Annual Tree Dressing today. My creation:
@maccrspbwex.bsky.social @cecrangers.bsky.social

It's the Christmas countdown for nature lovers! ✨🎄

Every day, we’ll bring a little magic from the wild to your feed.

Who’s hiding behind door 1?.... Let’s take a peek…

#RSPBAdvent

Group of people stood in a circle in a woodland

Two children with silly hats in a wood

A young boy with his thumb up in front of a clay tree dressing decoration in a wood

A young girl making a tree decoration

A great turnout for our ‘Tree Dressing and Silly Hat Competition’ outdoor meeting. Some excellent artistic creations and some equally fabulous silly hats! 🎩