Wildlife sightings - 10/02/2019
Wader Lake (AM, high tide):
Grey heron 5 (with one pair courting)
Stock dove 1 (in heron hedge outside nesting box)
Tufted duck 16
Gadwall 2 (pair)
Black-headed gull 149
Herring gull 15
Greater black-backed gull 1
Canada goose 16
Shelduck 17
Shoveler 2 (pair)
Kestrel 1 (female)
Saline lagoon (AM, high tide):
Grey heron 1
Redshank 1
Wigeon 4
Shelduck 2 (pair)
Hawthorn Wood feeding station:
Lesser redpoll 2
Siskin 1
Chaffinch 9
Bullfinch 12
Blackbird 4
Great-spotted woodpecker 2 (pair)
Jay 1
Plus:
A jay at the amphibian ponds
A treecreeper on Wader Lake footpath
A female goldeneye on the River Wear
