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wildlife Sightings - 21/05/2022

wildlife Sightings - 21/05/2022

Weather:Fine

River wear tide level:High

A.M

Wader lake:

Curlew - 1

Black-tailed Godwit - 1

Lapwing - 6

Redshank - 4

Oystercatcher - 4

Avocet - 36

Common tern - 156

Black-headed Gulls - 149 (77adults+72 1st calender year)

Herring Gulls - 4

Jackdaw - 42

Canada Goose - 7

Greylag - 6 (6+1)

Shelduck - 27( 27+1)

Saline lagoon:

Avocet - 1

Gadwell - 1

Reed warbler - 1

Shelduck - 2

Redshank - 2

Other birds noted around site:

Gadwall - 3 (Wader lake)

Shoveler - 2 (Wader lake)

Teal - 1 (Wader lake)

Grey Heron - 44 (9+35) (Wader lake)

Shoveler - 1 (Reservoir)

Shelduck - 2 (Reservoir)

Sedge Warbler - 1 (River Reedbed)

Song Thrush - 1 (Pen 1)

Goldfinch - 1 (Pen 1)

Great spotted woodpecker - 1 (Waderlake footpath)

Hawthorn wood:

Robin - 2

Bullfinch - 2

Great spotted woodpecker - 1

Great tit - 2

Lookout feeding station:

Great spotted woodpecker - 1

Bullfinch - 1

Robin