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Wildlife Sightings - 07/08/21

Wildlife Sightings - 07/08/21

Cloudy/Breezy/Low Tide


Wader Lake

am/low

Teal 4

Shoveler 1 (male)

Shelduck 8

Avocet 3

Common Tern 10+2 chicks

Black Tailed Godwit 8

Common Snipe 2

Lesser Black Backed Gull 1

Black Headed Gull 17

Grey Heron 5 (2 broods of chicks in heronry)


Saline Lagoon

Curlew 1


Hawthorn Wood

Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 (male)

Great Tit 4

Coal Tit 2

Blue Tit 3

Chaffinch 4

Willow Tit 1

Stock Dove 2

Jay 2

Tree Sparrow 1


Lookout feeding station

Bullfinch 4 (male)

Chaffinch 2 (male+female)

Willow Tit 1

Coal Tit 1

Blue Tit 1

Great Tit 2

Robin 1 (juvenile)

Greenfinch 1


Other birds noted around site

Grey Wagtail 1 - Veranda

Cormorant 1 - River Wear

Redshank 7 - River Wear

Blackcap 2 (juveniles) - Gully

Goldcrest 2(adults)+4(juveniles) - Hollowood

Long Tailed Tit 6 - Hollowood

Willow Warbler 2 - Hollowood



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