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Wildlife sightings - 21/06/16

a.m. Tide level: Low

Wader Lake

Avocet 18 + 22 chicks/juvenile

Oystercatcher 3

Little ringed plover 1

Lapwing 3 + 4 chicks/juvenile

Barn swallow 2

Pied wagtail 2 juvenile

Gadwall 3 * eclipse

Shoveler 4 *eclipse

Lesser black-backed gull 1

Common tern 190 + chicks

Saline Lagoon

Shelduck 2

Lapwing 7

Whitethroat 1 + 2 fledgelings

Barn swallow 4

Hawthorn Wood

Goldfinch 6

Great tit 3

Bullfinch 6

Duccock 1

Willow tit 2

Great spotted woodpecker 1 + 1 juvenile

Other birds

Kingfisher - 1 (female)- Window on the Wear

Greenfinch - 1 - centre feeders

Sedge warbler - 1 - Wader Lake footpath

Other wildlife/flowers

Common toadlets

Fish

Sticklebacks

Speckled wood butterfly

Tree bumble bee

Axure damselfly

Bee orchid

Northern Marsh orchid

Ragged Robin

Elderflower

Yellow flag iris

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