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Wildlife Sightings - 01/06/2020

Wildlife Sightings - 01/06/2020

Weather: sunny

Wind speed: very light

River Wear tide level: high

Wader Lake – AM – water level low

Avocet 37

Lapwing 18

Shoveler 1 male

Oystercatcher 2 + 1 young

Common tern 247

Redshank 5

Little ringed plover 2

Curlew 1

Black headed gull 107

Lesser black backed gull 3

Shelduck 38 + 16 chicks

Jackdaw 40

Saline Lagoon

Lapwing 2

Oystercatcher 2

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woodpecker 1 male

Blue tit 4

Chaffinch 5 female

Great tit 3

Bullfinch 2 male

Robin 3

Goldfinch 4

Nuthatch 1

Chiffchaff 2

Dunnock 1

Other birds noted around site

Grey heron (Heron Hedge) 18

Blackcap (Spring Gill Wood) 1

Song thrush (Old Oak Meadow) 1

Mute swan (River Wear) 1

Willow Warbler (Amphibian Ponds) 1

Other wildlife species around site

Amphibians / Fish:

Toadlets

Invertebrates:

Common blue

Orange tip

Small white

Speckled wood

Chimney sweeper

Common carder blue

Flora / Fungi:

Smooth meadow grass

Cats ear

Goats beard

Small sweet grass

Field horsetail

Meadow vetchling

Burnet rose

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