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Wildlife Sightings - 15/03/2024

Wildlife Sightings - 15/03/2024
A.M
Weather: sunny / mild
River tide level: high
Wader Lake:
Grey Heron - 26 (21 in the hedge)
Black-headed + Med Gull Hybrid - 1
Black-headed Gull - 112
Herring Gull - 21
Lesser black-headed Gull - 3
Avocet - 2
Mute Swan - 3
Canada Goose - 24
Graylag Goose - 7

Shelduck - 38

Tufted duck - 22

Wigeon - 4

Gadwall - 3

Teal - 8

Mallard -19

Lapwing - 31

Oystercatcher - 2

Starlin - 3

Hawthorn wood:

Reed Bunting - 1

Nuthatch - 1

Blue tit - 5

Chaffinch - 6

Stock Dove - 3

Coal tit - 3

Blackbird - 1

Great tit - 4

Siskin - 7

Robin - 1

Dunnock - 1

Bullfinch - 2

Birds noted around:

Chiffchaff - 2 (1 car park - 1 North wood)

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 3 (Centre feeders)

Grey Wagtail - 2 (Stream Channel)

Greenfinch - 2 (Centre feeders)

Gadwall - 3 (Reservoir)

Tufted duck - 6 (Reservoir)

Wigeon - 2 (Saline Lagoon)

Gadwall - 2 (Saline Lagoon)

Teal - 4 (Saline Lagoon)

Oystercatcher - 1 (Saline Lagoon)

Long-tailed tit - 1 (Amphibian ponds)

Greenfinch - 2 (Amphibian ponds)

Mute Swan - 5 (River Wear)

Redshank - 2 (River Wear)

Grey Heron - 1 (River Wear)

Shelduck - 1 (River Wear)

Teal - 4 (River Wear)

Mallard - 4 (River Wear)

Invertebrates:

Buff-tailed Bumblebee

Flora / Fungi:

Coltsfoot

gorse

lungwort

Blackthorn

Common Butterbur


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