Wildlife sightings - 20/06/18
Wader Lake (AM, high tide):
Little stint (rare visitor to site) 1
Little ringed plover 1
Avocet 24
Shelduck 4 plus 8 chicks
Common tern 74 plus 33 chicks
Grey heron 22
Redshank 7
Black-headed gull 46
Lapwing 4
Pied wagtail 1
Saline lagoon (AM, high tide):
Canada goose 1
Shelduck 4
Swallow (over meadow) 7
Hawthorn Wood:
Bullfinch 5
Chaffinch 3
Blue tit 6
Great tit 1
Jay 1
Coal tit 1
Plus:
Mute swan on the River Wear 2
Kestrel over the river 1
Oystercatcher in Ganderland 2
Common whitethroat on Wader Lake footpath 2
Tufted duck on the reservoir 22
Invertebrates:
Speckled wood butterfly
Red-tailed bumble bee
Buff-tailed bumble bee
Flora:
Common twayblade orchid
Foxgloves
Elderflower
