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Wildlife sightings - 11/08/17

1 min read • 11 August 2017

Wader Lake (AM, mid-tide):

Shoveler 1

Avocet 5

Eurasian teal 6

Dunlin 1

Ruff 1

Redshank 22

Lapwing 74

Curlew 2

Common tern 8

Saline Lagoon:

Black-headed gull 18

Eurasian teal 10

Hawthorn Wood:

Lesser redpoll 2

Greenfinch 1

Blue tit 6

Great tit 12

Bullfinch 5

Great-spotted woodpecker 1

Coal tit 4

Plus a cormorant and a grey heron on the River Wear

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