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Wildlife Sightings 15/11/21

Wildlife Sightings 15/11/21

Weather: Cloudy

Wind Speed: Low

River Wear Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake

Teal - 122
Shelduck - 9
Grey Heron - 1
Wigeon (2m, 1f) - 3
Lapwing - 67
Moorhen - 2

Saline Lagoon

Wigeon (f) - 1
Teal - 6

Hawthorn Wood

Treecreeper - 1
Nuthatch - 1
Willow tit - 1
Long-tailed tit - 6
GS Woodpecker (1m, 1f) - 2
Bullfinch (2m, 1f) - 3
Chaffinch - 9
Coal tit - 3
Blue tit - 4
Robin - 2

Lookout feeding station

Bullfinch (6m, 3f) - 9
Willow tit - 1
GS Woodpecker (m) - 1
Chaffinch - 3
Great tit - 5

Other birds noted around site

Goldfinch - 3 (Dragonfly ponds)
Long-tailed tit - 9 (Spring Gill)
Redshank - 3 (River Wear)
Tufted Duck - 19 (Resevoir)

Flora/Fungi

Smoky Polypore - 10 (Lagoon Footpath)

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