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Wildlife Sightings 08/07/2025

Wildlife Sightings 08/07/2025

Weather : Sunny

River Wear Tide Level : Low, going out

am/pm

Wader Lake Species


Total

Avocet

2

Curlew

25

Greylag goose

1

Moorhen

6

Black headed gull

93 + 4 chicks

Mallard

1m 7f + 8 ducklings

Shelduck

4 + 14 ducklings

Teal

5f

Common Tern

8 + 2 chicks

Lapwing

31

Canada x Greylag hybrid

1

Pied Wagtail

1

Lesser Black backed gull

1

Herring gull

2

Grey Heron

1 juv

Coot

1

Oystercatcher

2 + 2 chicks

Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area

Total

Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area

Total

Great tit

6

Blue tit

7

Bullfinch

2m 1f +1juv

Coal tit

1

Dunnock

1

Long tailed tit

1

Moorhen

2 + 2 chicks

Goldfinch

1

Pheasant

1f + 2 chicks

Greenfinch

1

Chaffinch

2m 5f

Mallard

1f

am/pm

Bird Species Noted Around Site

Location

Total

Grey Heron

Heronry

3

Mute swan

River Wear

2

Herring Gull

River Wear

71

Black headed gull

River Wear

23

Curlew

Saline Lagoon

1

Lapwing

Saline Lagoon

1

Black headed gull

Saline Lagoon

1

Tufted duck

Reservoir

2f

Moorhen

Reservoir

1

Cormorant

Wader Lake Footpath

2

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