Chilean flamingos off show

Our Chilean flamingo flock is currently being housed indoors. This is a temporary measure as a precaution to avian influenza (bird flu). We will let you know as soon as they are safe to be outdoors. Thank you for your understanding.

Wildlife Sightings 15/8/2022

1 min read • 15 August 2022

Weather: Warm-cloudy & breezy

River Wear Tide Level: High

Wader Lake Species

Black-tailed godwit - 9
Curlew - 16
Lapwing - 89
Redshnk - 18
Dunlin - 1
Little Ringed Plover - 1
Oystercatcher - 1
Avocet - 6
Common tern - 47
Black-headed gull - 109
Lesser Black-backed gull - 2

Saline Lagoon Species

Snipe - 1
Lapwing - 25
Lesser Black-backed gull 2 juv. - 3

Hawthorn Wood Species

Greenfinch - 11
Bullfinch (2m,1f) - 3
GS Woodpecker 3 juv. - 3
Goldfinch - 5
Coal tit - 2
Sparrowhawk (m) - 1

Lookout Feeding Station

Bullfinch (3m,1f) - 4
Great tit - 7
Chaffinch - 4
Blue tit - 5
Coal tit - 1

Other bird noted

Mute Swan River Wear - 2

Invertebrates

Common Froghopper
22=spot Ladybird
Harlequin Ladybird
7-spot Ladybird
Comma Catterpillar
Hawthorn Shieldbug 5th instar
Hoverfly lavae

Flora/Fungi

Fleabane
Gypsywort
Ribbed Melilot
Elder berries