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Wildlife sightings 20/07/2021

Wildlife sightings 20/07/2021

Weather:sunny River Wear Tide Level:mid

A.M

Wader Lake:

Oystercatcher - 2

Black Tailed Godwit - 3

Lapwing - 300+

Black Headed Gull - 74

Moorhen - 5

Common tern - 80

Redshank - 4

Shelduck - 40

Avocet - 8

Curlew - 3

Grey heron - 9

Saline lagoon:

Lapwing - 4

Redshank - 3

Curlew - 3

Mallard (adult) - 4 (Chicks) - 2

Black Headed Gull - 3

other birds noted around site:

Kestrel - 2 (old oak meadow)

Nuthatch - 4 (saline lagoon wood)

Hawthorn wood:

Coal tit - 1

Robin - 2

Chaffinch - 3

Blue tit - 5

Greenfinch - 1

siskin - 1

Lookout feeding station:

Bullfinch - 3

Chaffinch - 8

Magpie - 2


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