Wildlife sightings - 03/06/2021
Wader Lake (AM, low tide):
Shelduck 28 plus 11 chicks
Avocet 24 plus 2 chicks
Redshank 5 plus 1 fledgling
Moorhen 2 plus 3 chicks
Lapwing 8
Canada goose 17
Tufted duck 5
Black-headed gull 30
Grey heron 18
Common tern 208
Oystercatcher 7 plus 2 chicks
Gadwall 2
Shoveler 2 male and 1 female
Mute swan 1
Saline Lagoon (AM, low tide):
Avocet 3
Shelduck 1
Hawthorn Wood:
Bullfinch 3 male and 3 female
Blue tit 2
Great tit 5
Reed bunting 1 male and 1 female
Greenfinch 1
Magpie 3
The Lookout feeding station:
Bullfinch 3
Nuthatch 2
Chaffinch 4
Great tit 1
Other birds and wildlife of note:
Mute swan on the River Wear 2
Sedge warbler at the amphibian ponds 3
A buzzard in Spring Gill wood
An oystercatcher on the stream channel
Wall butterfly and orange-tip butterfly at the amphibian ponds
