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Wildlife Sightings - 21/03/2020

Wildlife Sightings - 21/03/2020

Weather: Sunny - some cloud

Wind Speed: Breezy

River Wear Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake - AM - MID water level

Avocet - 11

Shoveler - (Male) 6 (Female) 2

Shelduck - 60

Wigeon - (Male) 1 (Female) 1

Lawping - 24

Common Snipe - 1

Herring Gull - 48

Lesser black back gull - 3

Black headed gull - 97

Canada Goose - 12

Greylag - 9

Saline Lagoon

Gadwall (Male) 1 (Female)

Greylag - 2

Canada Goose - 2

Other Birds noted around the site

Bullfinch (Spring gill wood) - 2

Mute swan (River wear) - 2

Oyster catcher (River wear) - 2

Goosander (River wear) - 2 (Male)

Curlew (River Wear) - 2

Redshank (River wear) - 2

Grey Heron (Heron Hedge) - 13

Hawthorn wood

Robin - 1

Blue tit - 8

Great tit - 6

Great spotted woodpecker (Male) - 1

Chafinch (Male) 1 (Female) 2

Sparrow Hawk (Male) 1 (Female) 1

Mammals

Roe deer (Top meadow hedge) - 5

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