Latest sightings
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid 100% frozen Lapwing - 68 Black-headed Gull - 50+ Black-tailed Godwit - 1 Teal - 30 Herring Gull - 2 Saline Lagoon 100% frozen Shelduck - 12 Curlew (meadow) - 1 Hawthorn Wood Bullfin
20 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Time: AM / Tide Level: Very low! Wader Lake - 100% frozen Lapwing - 44 (on island) Curlew - 5 (in the meadow) Canada Goose - 12 (in the meadow) River Wear Black-headed Gull - 100+ Herring Gull - 15 Redshank - 3 Teal - 18 Grey Heron - 5 Goldeneye -
18 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Wigeon - 4 Shelduck - 6 Teal - 4 Black-headed Gull - 110 Herring Gull - 21 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Lapwing - 11 Grey Heron - 1 Hawthorn Wood Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 Nuthatch - 1 Jay - 1 Long Tailed Tit - 10 Coal Tit - 8 Great Tit - 14
17 January 2015
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE / AM / MID-TIDE Mute Swan - 2 Grey Heron - 5 Shelduck - 15 Teal - 50 SALINE LAGOON / AM / MID-TIDE Teal - 26 HAWTHORN WOOD / AM Great spotted woodpecker - 1 Jay - 3 Bullfinch - 26 Chaffinch - 7 Coal Tit - 10 Blue Tit - 22 Great T
16 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - High Black-headed Gull - 105 Lapwing - 32 Shelduck - 4 Redshank - 2 Herring Gull - 17 Goldcrest (path) - 2 Bullfinch (path) - 2 Saline Lagoon 100% Frozen Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 8 Jay - 1 Robin - 3 Blue Tit - 6 Coal Tit - 2 R
14 January 2015
Otter sighting
At 3.10pm, a radio message from our reserve manager John: "I'm just sitting at Window on the Wear 2 watching an otter play in the river. It's heading downstream with the flow of the tide". Great stuff!
13 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/am Tide mid/high Teal - 7 Shelduck - 9 Canada Geese - 10 Tufted Duck - 9 Black Headed Gull - 36 Mute Swan - 2 Lapwing - 1 Grey Heron - 2 Greylag Goose - 1 Shoveller - 2 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 17 Blackbird - 3 Robin - 2 Treecreeper - 1 B
12 January 2015
Sightings Update
Kingfisher spotted from Widow on the Wear
11 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Tide - Mid/Time - AM Shelduck - 7 Greylag Goose - 2 Lapwing - 5 Black Headed Gull - 60 Herring Gull - 4 Lesser Black Backed Gull - 1 Teal - 25 Saline Lagoon Redshank - 1 Shelduck - 2 Other Birds Mistle Thrush - Hunters Creek - 1 Jay - Hawthorn
11 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Time: AM Tide Level: Mid Weather: Windy but sunny Wader Lake Shelduck - 2 Canada Goose - 9 Teal - 4 Saline Lagoon Lapwing - 20 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 6 Long-tailed Tit - 2 Nuthatch - 1 Sparrowhawk - 1 Robin - 2 Chaffinch - 5 Blackbird - 2 Other Spe
10 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - Low Shelduck - 13 Black Headed Gull - 32 Greylag - 1 Canada Goose - 11 Teal - 2 Saline Lagoon/Time - AM/Tide - Low Teal - 50 Other Birds Heron - River Wear - 1 Black Headed Gull - River Wear - 45 Tufted Duck - Reservoir - 47 Co
7 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low 100% Frozen Greylag Goose (meadow) - 32 Canada Goose (meadow) - 7 Lapwing (island) - 19 Saline Lagoon 100% Frozen Moorhen - 1 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 8 Chaffinch - 10 Great Tit -
4 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Teal - 45 Mute Swan - 2 Shelduck - 8 Greylag - 55 Canada Goose - 10 Greater Black-backed Gull - 10 Herring Gull - 4 Black-headed Gull - 24 Mallard - 18 Saline Lagoon Common Snipe - 9 Cormorant (river) - 3
2 January 2015
Sightings 31 Dec
Wader lake am mid tide Mute swan 2 Teal 6 Canada goose 10 Greylag 1 Redshank 5 lapwing 2 Saline lagoon Common snipe 6 Moorhen 4 Redshank 3 River Goosander 2 Goldeneye 1 Teal 86 Mallard 35 Spring Gill Great spotted woodpecker (drumming) 1 Lesser redpoll 4
31 December 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - Am/Tide - Mid/High 60% Frozen Black Headed Gull - 42 Teal - 40 Redshank - 21 Lapwing - 2 Jay - 1 Saline Lagoon - 10% Frozen Teal - 5 Curlew - 1 Grey Heron - 1 River Wear Mute Swan - 2 Cormorant - 7 Grey Heron - 2 Reservoir Shelduck - 8
30 December 2014