Weather: rain 14°C
Wind speed: moderate
River Wear Tide Level: low
Wader Lake - AM - water level low
Avocet 37 (10 nesting)
Lapwing 14 (1 renesting)
Little ringed plover 2
Oystercatcher 4 + 3 chicks
Redshank 3
Common tern 120 (114 nesting)
Black headed gull 78 + 2 chicks (40 nesting)
Herring gull 2
Lesser black backed gull 1
Shelduck 14 adults + 33 ducklings (3 broods)
Grey heron 40
Teal 1 male
Gadwall 5
Shoveler 3
Jackdaw 7
Swallow 2
Saline Lagoon
Shelduck 6
Black headed gull 4
Tufted duck 2
Hawthorn Wood
Great spotted woodpecker 4 (2 male, 2 female)
Nuthatch 1
Willow tit 1
Blue tit 6 + 6 juveniles
Great tit 5 + 3 juveniles
Coal tit 2
Greenfinch 2 + 2 juveniles
Chaffinch 7 + 2 juveniles
Bullfinch 7 (3 female, 4 male)
Reed bunting 1 male
Robin 3 + 1 juvenile
Dunnock 1
Other birds noted around site
Shelduck (Reservoir) 2 adults + 20 ducklings
Other wildlife species around site
Amphibians / Fish:
Many toadlets at Amphibian Ponds
Flora / Fungi:
Meadow cranesbill
Field rose
Common poppy
Bittersweet
Honeysuckle
