wildlife Sightings - 05/12/2021
Weather: Heavy Rain
Wind speed: Low / mod
River Wear tide level:low
A.M
Wader lake:
Shoverer - 7
Shelduck - 4
Teal - 40
Mallard - 76
Mute swan - 2
Lapwing - 3
Great black backed Gull - 5
Herring Gulls - 34
Black headed Gulls - 11
Saline Lagoon:
Shelduch - 2
Black headed Gull - 1
Other birds noted around site:
Redshank - 1 (River wear)
Grey Heron - 1 (Forgotten meadow)
Redwing - 3 (Hawthorn wood scrub)
Towny Owl - 1 (Hawthorn Wood)
Goldcrest - 1 (South wood)
Great spotted woodpecker - 1 (South Wood)
Hawthorn wood:
Coal tit - 4
Chaffinch - 23
Blue tit - 15
Black bird - 2
Bullfinch - 6
Stock dove - 1
Lookout feeding station:
Willow tit - 1
Bullfinch - 1
Robin - 2
Dunnock - 1
Chaffinch - 6
Great tit - 3
Other wildlife species nothed around site:
Mammals:
Roe Deer - 3
