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Wildlife Sightings 10/07/19

Wildlife Sightings 10/07/19

Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid

Shelduck - 17 (brood of 7 & 6)

Oystercatcher - 3 (1 chick)

Avocet - 31

Redshank - 17

Curlew - 4

Black-headed Gull - 188

Lapwing - 35

Black-tailed Godwit - 1

Gadwall - 6 (brood of 5)


Saline Lagoon Time/AM Tide/Mid

Common Sandpiper - 1

Swallow - 4

Lapwing - 8

Gadwall - 4 (brood of 3)

Shelduck - 1


Hawthorn Wood

Jay - 1

Nuthatch - 2

Willow Tit - 1

Bullfinch - 8 (2 juvenile)

Chaffinch - 10

Goldfinch - 11 (4 juvenile)

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 juvenile


Other Birds Noted Around Site

Long-tailed Tit (Amphibian Ponds) - 12+

Chiffchaff (Amphibian Ponds) - 1

Song Thrush (Amphibian Ponds) - 3

Swift (over east of site) - 10

Grey Heron (Wader Lake footpath) - 1 juvenile

Tawny Owl (Hawthorn Wood) - 1

Tufted Duck (reservoir) - 21 (7 duckling)


Other Wildlife Species Around Site

Mammals:

Roe Deer (top meadow)

Common Shrew (centre feeders)


Amphibians:

Toadlets (in front of lagoon hide)


Invertebrates:

Painted Lady

Speckled Wood

Ringlet

Meadow Brown

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