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Wildlife sightings - 12/07/18

a.m. Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake

Avocet 12 ad + 17 chicks: broods of 4, 4, 3, 2, 2 and 2 (new brood)

Black-tailed godwit 2

Little-ringed plover 1

Common tern 80 ad + 9 young

Black-headed gull 117 + 3 chicks

Grey heron 11

Saline Lagoon

Lapwing 3

Common gull 1

Black-headed gull 43

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woorpecker 2

Bullfinch 6

Greenfinch 2

Goldfinch 4

Chaffinch 8

Coal tit 3

Other birds

Cormorant - 3 - River Wear

Curlew - 8 - River Wear

Mute swan - 2 - River Wear

Jay - 7 - Flew across river

Willow tit - 3 (1 ad + 2 juv) - Spring Gill

Tree sparrow - 1 - Centre feeders

Grey wagtail - 1 - Gully

Pied wagtail - 4 - Wader Lake

Other wildlife

Southern Hawker dragonfly

Flora

Meadowsweet

Knapweed

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