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Path closures and Chilean flamingos off show

Due to the current weather conditions, parts of our site are closed for safety. Please ask on arrival which areas are accessible that day. Our Chilean flamingo flock is also currently being housed indoors. This is a temporary measure as a precaution to avian influenza (bird flu). We will let you know as soon as they are safe to be outdoors. Thank you for your understanding.

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Wildlife sightings - 27/05/2024

Wildlife sightings - 27/05/2024

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Wader Lake

Avocet 24 + 1 chick

Gadwall 10

Tufted duck 2

Lapwing 1

Redshank 2

Black-headed gull 128 + 2 chicks

Common tern 65

Hawthorn Wood

Chaffinch 1

Stock dove 1

Great-spotted woodpecker 1

Willow tit 1

Blue tit 3

Great tit 1

Magpie 1

Dunnock 1

Nuthatch 1

Bullfinch 4

Goldfinch 2

Other birds

Swift - 1 - Over Hawthorn Wood

Mute swan - 2 - River Wear

Buzzard - 1 - Hollowood

Sedge warbler - 3 - Wader Lake footpath

Willow warbler - 1 - Orchard

Sand martin - 3 - Wader Lake footpath

Long-tailed tit - heard - Middle Wood

Blackcap - 2 - Around site

Nuthatch - 1 - Hawthorn Wood

Song thrush - 1 - Pen 1

Greenfinch - 1 - Gully

Wren - 2 - Close Encounters

Moorhen - 1 - Gully

Invertebrates

Small white butterfly

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