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Maintenance Notice - Saline Lagoon

Today (Thursday 23 April), our reserve team will be working around the saline lagoon to complete some important upkeep. This may cause brief disturbance to local wildlife.

We appreciate your support while we carry out this essential work

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Today's Sightings

Time: AM/ Tide level: Low

 

Wader Lake

Black-tailed Godwit - 2

Avocet - 9

Lapwing (8 in territories) - 18

Oystercatcher - 3

Grey Heron - 28 (plus 8 chicks)

Snipe - 2

Gadwall - 6

Shoveler - 4

Tufted Duck - 30+

Mute Swan - 2

 

 

Saline Lagoon

Shelduck - 6

Avocet - 1

Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2

Gadwall - 2

 

Saline Lagoon Path

Long-tailed Tit - 2 

 

River Wear

Cormorant - 1

 

Hawthorn Wood

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 (Drumming)

Sparrowhawk - 1

Chaffinch - 3

Bullfinch - 6

Great Tit - 5

Blue Tit - 5

Coal Tit - 2

Reed Bunting - 2

Dunnock - 1

Grey Squirrel - 1

 

Spring Gill

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3

 

Forgotten Meadow

Shelduck - 6

Common Toads

 

Wet Woodland

Stoat

 

Invertebrates

Brown Lacewing (Hawthorn Hide)

Peacock Butterfly (Lagoon Orchard)

Bumblebee (Wader Lake path)

 

Flora

Primrose (Flowering - Spring Gill Wood)

Butterbur (Gully)

Lords & Ladies (Starting to show - Hawthorn Wood)

Colts Foot (~Throughout reserve grassland)

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