Wildlife sightings - 16/05/17

a.m. Tide Level: High

Wader Lake

Avocet 29 + 9 chicks

Grey heron 22

Ringed plover 2

Shoveler 2

Redshank 4

Common tern 91

Eurasian teal 2

Lesser black-backed gull 2

Black-headed gull 23

Gadwall 4

Saline Lagoon

Tufted duck 7

Avocet 2

Shoveler 1

Hawthorn Wood

Nuthatch 1

Great spotted woodpecker 1

Bullfinch 12

Willow tit 1

Robin 4

Jay 1

Goldfinch 5

Chaffinch 8

Dunnock 2

Coal tit 4

Other birds

Sedge warbler - 1 - River reed bed

Swift - 2 - Stream channel

Swallow - 5 - Stream channel

Tree sparrow - 1 - Centre feeders

Blackcap - 1 - Near corn hut

Gadwall - 2 - Amphib ponds

Shelduck - 2 - Amphib ponds

Other wildlife

Rabbits

Tadpoles

Red-tailed bumblebee

Tree bumblebee

Nomada marshamella (cuckoo bee species)

Flora

Red campion

Northern marsh orchid

Bluebell

Red clover

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