Wildlife Sightings - 09/05/2020
Weather: Sunny 20°C
Wind speed: Light
River Wear Tide Level: Low
Wader Lake - AM - Mid / dropping
Avocet 44 (11 pairs nesting)
Lapwing 20 + 2 chicks (8 pairs nesting)
Oystercatcher 3
Curlew 1
Common tern 24
Black headed gull 42 (15 pairs nest building)
Herring gull 2
Lesser black backed gull 1
Redshank 2
Teal 2
Jackdaw 26
Saline Lagoon
Avocet 2
Black headed gull 4
Redshank 2
Hawthorn Wood
Jay 1
Great spotted woodpecker 1 (male)
Nuthatch 1
Treecreeper 1
Bullfinch 2
Chaffinch 3
Blue tit 5
Great tit 4
Coal tit 2
Robin 2
Mallard 2 (pair)
Other birds noted around site
Common sandpiper 3 (River Wear)
Oystercatcher 1 (River Wear)
Gadwall 2 (pair) (River Wear)
Cormorant 1 (River Wear)
Mute swan 4 (2 River Wear, 2 Round Table Pond)
Tawny owl chicks (3) have fledged from Hawthorn Wood nest box
