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Today's Sightings

Wader Lake     Time/AM     Tide/Mid-Low

Avocet - 16 + 9 chicks

Ringed Plover - 7

Shelduck - 12 +18 chicks

Common Tern - 120+

Gadwall - 8

Oystercatcher - 2 + 1 chicks

Redshank - 3

Sand Martin - 4

Lapwing - 2 + 4 young

Black-headed Gull - 3

 

Saline Lagoon     Time/AM     Tide/Mid

Lapwing - 2 + 3 fledged young

Shelduck - 4 + 5 duckling

Grey Heron - 3

 

Hawthorn Wood

Great Spotted Woodpecker

 

Other Birds

Coal Tit (Hawthorn Wood) - 2 + 9 fledged young

Chiffchaff (south Wood) - 1 + 4 duckling

Long-tailed Tit (lagoon path) - 2 + 7 fledged young

 

Other Wildlife Species

Mammals:

Bat trapping 4 June

Soprano Pipistrelle - 11

Common Pippistrelle - 3

Daubenton Bat (Water Bat) - 3

 

Fox (Lagoon path) - 1

Hedgehog (Wader Lake path) - 2

 

Invertebrates:

Chimney Sweeper Moth (Old Oak Meadow)

Orange Tip

Tree Bumblebee

 

Flora:

Birds Foot Trefoil

Field Buttercup

Common Vetch

Yellow Rattle

Northern Marsh Orchid

Pignut

 

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