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Wildlife Sightings - 19/07/2023

Wildlife Sightings - 19/07/2023
Weather: sunny

River wear tide level: low

A.M

Wader lake:

Avocet - 42

Shelduck - 2 + 13 chicks

Black-headed Gull - 83 +17 chicks

Common Tern - 8 + 2 chicks

Common Gull - 1

Dunlin - 4

Lapwing - 202

Oystercatcher - 1

Ruff - 3

Curlew - 1

Redshank - 1

Teal - 5

Hawthorn wood:

Nuthatch - 1

Stock Dove - 1

Robin - 2

Chaffinch - 7

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1

Great tit - 4

Blue tit - 1

Greenfinch - 1

Bullfinch - 1

Sparrow Hawk

Other bird Species spotted on site:

Wood pigeon - 3 (River wear)

Lapwing - 1 (River wear)

Herring Gull - 14 (River wear)

Lesser black-backed Gull - 3 (River wear)

Black-headed Gull - 1 +1 (River wear)

Lapwing - 32 (Saline Lagoon)

Black-headed Gull - 1 (Saline Lagoon)

Shelduck - 1 (Saline Lagoon)

Mallard - 3 (Saline Lagoon)

Goldfinch - 1 (The Lookout)

Bullfinch - 1 (The Lookout)

Great tit - 3 (The Lookout)

Other Wildlife species noted around grounds:

Flora / Fungi:

Queen Anne's Lace

Nettle Leaved Bellflower (Wader Lake footpath)

Broad Leaved Helleborine (Middle wood)