Today's sightings Sat 30 July

a.m. Tide level: low

Wader Lake

Avocet 8 + 2 chicks

Lapwing 12

Oystercatcher 4

Redshank 18

Common sandpiper 2

Common tern 82

Grey heron 11

Saline lagoon

Common sandpiper 1

Lapwing 36

Black headed gull 90

Grey heron 3

Other birds

Cormorant - river

Willow warbler 1 + 2 juvenile - East Down

Chiff chaff  - Window on the Wear 2

Blackcap - gully

Common whitethroat 1 + 3 juvenile - Wader Lake footpath

Reed warbler - Round table ponds

Sedge warbler 1 + 3 juvenile - Round table ponds

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woodpecker

Jay

Nuthatch

Willow tit 2

Coal tit 4

Blue tit 16

Great tit 10

Bullfinch 21

Greenfinch 8

Goldfinch 2

Chaffinch 18

Mammals

Weasel - domestic pond

Amphibians

Froglets - amphibian pond

Invertebrates

Speckled wood butterfly

Comma butterfly

Wall brown butterfly

Meadow brown butterfly

Small tortoiseshell butterfly

Blood vein moth

Flora

Yellow bartsia

Yarrow

Black knapweed

Marsh thistle

Yellow wort

Common centaury

Wasp orchid

Field scabious

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