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Wildlife Sightings - 05/09/2022

Wildlife Sightings - 05/09/2022

Weather: overcast/ warm

River Wear tide level: high

A.M

Wader Lake:

Snipe - 19

Gadwall - 4

Black-tailed Godwit - 25

Lapwing - 121

Teal - 25

Swallow - 2

Common Tern - 4

Curlew - 8

Redshank - 19

Dunlin - 5

Ruff - 1

Avocet - 3

Saline Lagoon:

Little Egret - 3

Black-headed Gull - 4

Teal - 8

Grey Heron - 1

Moorhen - 1

Other birds noted around site:

Cormorant - 2 (Floating upstream on the lagoon river)

Hawthorn Wood:

Great tit - 3

Greenfinch - 7

Bullfinch - 10

Chaffinch - 10

Nuthatch - 1

Robin - 1

Pheasent - 3

Lookout Feeding Station:

Great tit - 7

Blue tit - 1

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