Wildlife sightings - 15/07/2018

Wader Lake (AM, high tide):

Avocet 10 adults plus broods of 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2 and 3

Stock dove (outside kestrel box) 1

Grey heron 9 (2 adults and 7 juveniles)

Little ringed plover 4 (2 adults and 2 chicks)

Lapwing 29

Redshank 13

Curlew 2

Mallard 10

Shelduck 4 (2 adults and 2 juveniles)

Common tern 140

 

Saline lagoon (AM, high tide):

Lapwing 16

Grey heron 1

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station:

Nuthatch 1

Great-spotted woodpecker 1 (juvenile)

Chaffinch 5

Robin 3 (juveniles)

 

Plus:

Mute swan at Window on the Wear 3

Southern hawker in Hollowood

Azure damselfly at Forgotten Meadow Pond

Yarrow and scarlet pimpernel

 

 

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