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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

Wader Lake AM mid-level tide

Black-tailed godwit - 1

Little ringed plover - 1

Redshank - 2 plus 4 chicks

Avocets - 10

Lapwing - 4 plus 4 chicks

Grey heron - 8

Shelduck - 6

Gadwall - 8

Wigeon - 2

Common tern - 43

Shoveler - 2

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station

Bullfinch - 4

Greenfinch - 1

Chaffinch - 3

Blue tit - 1

Great tit - 2

 

Plus a reed warbler and a chiffchaff in the filter reedbed and a cormorant on the River Wear.

Invertebrates - a buff-tailed bumble bee in Hawthorn Wood.

 

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