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Wildlife Sightings - 22/05/2020

Wildlife Sightings - 22/05/2020

Weather: Sunny

Wind speed: Very strong

River Wear Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake - AM - Water level low

Avocet 40 + 8 chicks (4 broods)

Oystercatcher 2

Redshank 6

Lapwing 13

Common tern 125 (35 with nest/eggs)

Black headed gull 80 (33 nests)

Lesser black backed gull 1

Shelduck 20 (1 brood of 4 ducklings)

Shoveler 7 (5 male, 2 female)

Gadwall 4 (2 male, 2 female)

Grey heron 30

Sand martin 2

Saline Lagoon

Shelduck

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woodpecker 3 (2 male, 1 female)

Nuthatch 1

Willow tit 1

Bullfinch 5

Chaffinch

Other birds noted around site

Reed bunting (Stream Channel) pair nesting

Mute swan (River Wear) 2

Herring gull (River Wear) 10

Lesser black backed gull (River Wear) 2

Other wildlife species around site

Mammals:

Roe deer 2

Invertebrates:

Speckled wood

Flora / Fungi:

Field scabious

Guelder rose

Yellow rattle

Pignut

Oxeye daisy