Wildlife Sightings - 23/05/2020
Weather: Overcast / sunny
Wind Speed: Very strong
River Wear Tide Level: Mid
Wader Lake - AM - Water level low
Avocet 40 + 4 chicks (4 broods with a chick each)
Oystercatcher 3
Redshank 4
Lapwing 10
Little ringed plover 1
Curlew 1
Common tern 168 + 1 first summer
Black headed gull 65
Shelduck 21 + 2 ducklings
Lesser black backed gull 4
Grey heron 27
Saline Lagoon
Shelduck 8
Grey heron 2
Hawthorn Wood
Blue tit 8
Great tit 5 + 5 juveniles
Coal tit 1
Willow tit 1
Bullfinch 5
Chaffinch 4
Goldfinch 1
Robin 3
Nuthatch 1
Blackbird 2
Great spotted woodpecker 2
Jay 1
Other birds noted around site
Tree sparrow (centre feeders) 1
Treecreeper (North Wood) 1
Swallow (Stream Channel) 3
