Wildlife sightings - 12/04/17
AM, mid tide
Wader Lake:
Ringed plover 3
Avocet 21
Common snipe 5
Redshank 6
Oystercatcher 2
Pied wagtail 1
Black-tailed godwit 31
Kestrel 1
Northern lapwing 25
Stock dove 2
Saline lagoon:
Black-tailed godwit 1
Avocet 4
Shoveler 2
Oystercatcher 2
Gadwall 2
Hawthorn Wood:
Chaffinch 12
Greenfinch 3
Goldfinch 6
Dunnock 2
Great tit 4
Blue tit 2
Robin 3
Other birds on site:
A ferruginous duck in the white-headed duck pen
A sinensis cormorant (continental sub-species) on the River Wear
A peregrine falcon flying over the reserve
Mistle thrush in Spring Gill Wood (2) and North Wood (4)
Chiffchaff across the reserve (15)
Other wildlife species:
Two rabbits
Tadpoles
Flora:
Lesser celandine
Wood sorrel
Hart's-tongue fern
Ramsons
Bluebells
Cuckoo flower
Cowslip
Primrose
