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Wildlife Sightings - 18/03/2024

Wildlife Sightings - 18/03/2024
A.M
Weather: sunny / warm
River tide level: Hight
Wader Lake:
Oystercatcher - 2
Shelduck - 63

Canada Goose - 22

Grey Heron - 35 + 5 juvenile

Tufted duck - 22
Black-headed Gull - 65

Redshank - 37

Gadwall - 1

Little Grebe - 1

Mute Swan - 2

Graylag Goose - 6

Shoveler - 1

Avocet - 11 (3 coloured ringed birds)

Teal - 9

Hawthorn wood:

Siskin - 8

Blue tit - 1

Coal tit - 1

Great tit - 3

Robin - 1

Dunnock - 1

Chaffinch - 3

Bullfinch - 1

Greenfinch - 1

Goldfinch - 2

Woodpecker - 2

Birds noted around:

Chiff Chaff singing (across site)

Tufted duck - 2 (River Wear)

Mute Swan - 1 (Saline Lagoon)

Gadwall - 2 (Saline Lagoon)

Shelduck - 9 (Saline Lagoon)

Teal - 18 (Saline Lagoon)

Oystercatcher - 2 (Saline Lagoon) Flying over singing

Curlew - 8 (Saline Lagoon)

Siskin - 8 (The Lookout)

Amphibians / Fish:

Toads mating - 10 pairs (Reservoir)

Toads mating - 12 pairs (Forgotten Meadows ponds)

Flora / Fungi:

Hairy-bittercress (Orchard flowering)