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Wildlife Sightings - 19/07/2022

Wildlife Sightings - 19/07/2022

Weather: Very Warm

River Wear Tide level: High

A.M:

Wader Lake:

Avocet - 57

Oystercatcher - 5

Little Ringed Plover - 1

Lapwing - 80

Wood Sandpiper - 1

Redshank - 62

Green Shank - 1

Black-tailed Godwit - 12

Curlew - 8

Common Snipe - 3

Common Tern - 110

Black-headed Gull - 217

Saline Lagoon:

Oystercatcher

Lapwing

Other birds noted around the Grounds:

Mute Swan - 2 (River)

Reed Bunting - 1 (Amphibian Pond)

Bullfinch - 2 (Amphibian Pond)

Kestrel - 1 (Hawthorn wood)

Sedge Warbler - 1 (Wader Lake Footpath)

Goldfinch - 36 (Wader Lake Footpath)

Hawthorn wood:

Great-Spotted Woodpecker - 2

Nuthach - 1

Greenfinch - 4

Bullfinch - 3

Lookout Feeding Station:

Robin - 2

Bullfinch - 6

Other wildlife spotted around site:

Invertebrates:

Ringlet

Meadow Brown

Wood

Flora / Fungi:

Yarrow


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