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Today's Sightings

WADER LAKE / AM / LOW TIDE

Avocet - 26

Avocet juvenile/fledgling - 24

Redshank - 2 + 1 juv

Lapwing - 62 + 5 chicks

Oystercatcher - 3 + 1 juv

Little Ringed Plover - 2

Ringed Plover - `

Common Tern - 140 +30 chicks

Black-headed Gull - 70 + 7 chicks

Grey Heron - 16

Shelduck - 7 +33 ducklings

 

SALINE LAGOON

Avocet - 5

Redshank - 2

Lapwing - 3

Oystercatcher - 2

Swallow (low over meadow) - 11

 

OTHER BIRDS

Cormorant (River) - 2

Shoveler (River) - 2

Reed Warbler (Round table pond) - 2

Sedge Warbler (Round table pond) - 2

Song Thrush (Stream) - 1

Long Tailed Tit (East Down) - 2 + 5  juv

Swift (above site)

 

HAWTHORN WOOD

Willow Tit - 2

Coal Tit - 3

Blue Tit - 5

Great Tit - 11

Bullfinch - 14

Greenfinch - 4

Goldfinch - 6

Chaffinch - 7

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

Robin - 3

 

OTHER WILDLIFE SPECIES

Amphibians

Smooth Newt

Invertebrates

Small Tortoiseshell

Red Admiral

Comma

Small White

Speckled Wood

Meadow Brown

Ringlet

Flora

Bell Flower - Gully