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Wildlife Sightings - 12/08/2025

Wildlife Sightings - 12/08/2025

Weather : Hot, Sunny

am/pm

Wader Lake Species


Total

Avocet

12

Black-headed gull

10

Lapwing

163

Teal

16

Curlew

10

Shoveller

6 eclipsed

Mallard*2 broods, 4 juvenile, 4 ducklings*

5, 8 ducklings

Black-tailed godwit

3

Grey Heron

2ad, 1 juv

Greylag goose*1 with HSN darvick neck ring*

172

Canada goose

7

Canada x greylag goose

2

Gadwall

5 eclipsed

Snipe

2

Swallow

2

Kestrel

1 heard

Redshank

7

Herring gull

3

Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area

Total

Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area

Total

Greenfinch

1

Coal tit

2

Bullfinch

1m 1f 2 juv

Nuthatch

1

Chaffinch

1f

Robin

1

Blue Tit

4

Pheasant

1f 1 juv

Great Tit

3

am/pm

Bird Species Noted Around Site

Location

Total

Mallard

Reservoir

15

Tufted Duck

Reservoir

2

Moorhen

Reservoir

1

Mallard

Saline Lagoon

14

Grey Heron

Saline Lagoon

1

Cormorant

River Wear

1 juv

Curlew

River Wear

1

Black cap

North wood

1 calling

Black cap

Wader Lake hedge

1f

Sparrowhawk

Northwood

2 calling

Other Wildlife Species Noted Around Site

Mammals: Amphibians / Fish :Invertebrates :Flora / Fungi:

Roe deer x1 @Hidden meadow

Copper Underwing moth x5 @North Wood

Speckled wood x1 @Wader Lake hedge

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