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Wildlife Sightings - 08/06/2021

Wildlife Sightings - 08/06/2021

Weather: Sunny

Wind speed: Light

River Wear tide level: Low


Wader Lake

am/Low

Avocet 16+3 (3 newly hatched chicks on island)

Oystercatcher 3+3 chicks

Lapwing 7

Redshank 2+1 juvenile

Little Ringed Plover 2

Common Tern 200

Black Headed Gull 60+22 chicks

Grey Heron 16

Mute Swan 2

Gadwall 6

Teal 2


Saline Lagoon

am/Low

Shelduck 1

Shoveler 2

Gadwall 2


Hawthorn Wood

Bullfinch 4

Greenfinch 4

Coal Tit 1

Nuthatch 1

Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 (male)

Robin 3


Lookout feeding station

Stock Dove 1 adult 1 juvenile

Bullfinch 2

Long Tailed Tit 4


Other birds noted around site

Mute Swan 4 (River)

Starling 1 (Wader Lake Meadow)

Sedge Warbler 1 (Amphibian Pond)

Reed Warbler 2 (River Reedbed)

Reed Bunting 1 (Lagoon Reedbed)

Tufted Duck 10 (Reservoir)


Other Wildlife species around site

Invertebrates

Common Blue - Stream Channel

Flora/Fungi

Ragged Robin - Amphibian Pond

Cuckoo Flower - Amphibian Pond

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