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Today's Sighting's

WADER LAKE / AM / MID TIDE

Avocet - 38 + 2 young

Little Ringed Plover - 2 + 3 fledging

Ringed Plover - 1 + 1 fledgling

Lapwing - 42

Redshank - 16

Oystercatcher - 6

Common Tern - 311

Black-headed Gull - 25

Grey Heron - 30

Shelduck - 14

Gadwall - 8

 

SALINE LAGOON / AM

Avocet - 4

Lapwing - 80

Common Sandpiper - 3

 

OTHER BIRDS

Swift (over site) - 22

Long-tailed Tit (Gully) - 12

Chiffchaff (Gully) - 6

Reed Warbler (Round table ponds) - 3

Sedge Warbler (Round table ponds) - 3

 

HAWTHORN WOOD / AM

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 2

Jay - 2

Bullfinch - 23

Greenfinch - 8

Goldfinch - 10

Chaffinch - 26

Willow Tit - 2

Coal Tit - 4

Blue Tit - 16

Great Tit - 15

Reed Bunting - 1

 

OTHER WILDIFE SPECIES

Mammals

Otter tracks - Window on the Wear

Amphibians

Froglets

Invertebrates

Broad Bodied Chaser

Azure Damselfly

Ruby Tailed Wasp (carpark)

Flora

Meadowsweet

Tufted Vetch

Common Knapweed