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Wildlife Sightings - 04/07/26

Wildlife Sightings - 04/07/26

Lots of Avocet, some lovely Common Sandpipers and Swifts drinking from Wader Lake

am/pm
Wader Lake Species
Water Level
Total
Lapwing
24
Mallard
7
Avocet
62
Black headed gull
160
Greylag
5
Oystercatcher
5
Oystercatcher
6
Redshank
4
Curlew
6
Teal
1
Common Tern
6
Grey Heron
6, 2 juv
Herring gull
31
Common Sandpiper
1
Shelduck
1, 13 juv
Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area
Total
Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area
Total
Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 juv
Great tit
1, 1 juv
Robin
1 juv
Dunnock
1
Blue tit
1
Willow tit
1 juv (juvenile from call)
am/pm
Bird Species Noted Around Site
Location
Total
Cormorant
River Wear
1
Redshank
River Wear
1
Swallows
Saline Lagoon
2

Other Wildlife Species Noted Around Site  

Mammals:
Roe Deer x1 @Wader Lake footpath
Amphibians / Fish:
Invertebrates:
Common Blue at North Wood- female teneral
Ringlet and Meadow Brown across the site
          Flora / Fungi:
Broad leaved helleborine x10 across the site- starting to flower
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