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Wildlife Sightings 15/06/25

Wildlife Sightings 15/06/25

Weather :Sunny, Breezy

River Wear Tide Level : High, going out

am/pm

Wader Lake Species


Total

Avocet1 brood around red shank reef with 1 chick, 1 brood on middle island with 1 chick and parent still nesting

39, 2 chicks

Black-headed gull

66

Oystercatcheradult and 1 juv towards N.Water hide

3, 1 juv

Lapwing

73

Common Tern

37

Grey Heron

7 juv, 2 ad

Shelduckadult and 9 juv towards N.Water hide

21, 9 juv

Greylag

1

Gadwall

11

Shoveller

3

Starling

1ad, 2 juv

Canada goose

2

Swallow

1

Red shank

6

Herring gull

40

Lesser black backed gull

2

Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area

Total

Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area

Total

Chaffinch

5

Bullfinch

3

Goldfinch

2ad, 3 juv

Great tit

4

Blue tit

3

am/pm

Bird Species Noted Around Site

Location

Total

Common Whitethroat

Amphibian Ponds

1

Reed Bunting

Amphibian Ponds

1 calling

Goldfinch

Amphibian Ponds

3

Wren

Spring Gill

2

Long tailed tit

Ganderland

4

Oystercatcher

Ganderland

2ad, 2 juv

Avocet

Saline Lagoon

1

Other Wildlife Species Noted Around Site

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

Roe deer x1 at Hidden Meadow

Speckled wood butterfly- across site

Green carpet moth x1 at Vic Robins Hide

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