Wildlife Sightings - 10/02/2020
Weather: sunny/windy
Wind Speed: strong gusts
River Wear Tide Level: high (going out)
Wader Lake
AM
Water Level: high
Stock Dove (pair outside kestrel box) - 2
Grey Heron - 15
Black-headed Gull - 200+
Herring Gull - 26
Great Black-backed Gull (3rd winter) - 1
Lapwing - 7
Shoveler - 4 (2 pairs)
Saline Lagoon
Tide Level: High
Teal - 64 (40 males, 24 females)
Redshank - 1
Gadwall - 3 (pair & single drake)
Curlew - 1
Hawthorn Wood
Greenfinch - 1 (male)
Bullfinch - 12 (5 males, 7 females)
Nuthatch - 2
Goldfinch - 5
Robin - 3
Dunnock - 3
Coal Tit - 6
Blue Tit - 19
Great Tit - 14
Other Birds Noted Around Site
Amphibian Ponds
Kingfisher - 1 (female)
Stock Dove - 1
Kestrel - pair
Spring Gill Wood
Treecreeper - 1
Blue Tit - 2
Bullfinch (Old Oak Meadow scrub) - 5
Stock Dove (Top Meadow) - pair
Sparrowhawk (Centre Feeders) - 1
Flora/Fungi
Scarlet Elf Cup
