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Wildlife Sightings - 22/09/22

Wildlife Sightings - 22/09/22

Weather: cloudy / slight rain

River wear tide Level: low

A.M

Wader lake:

Grey Heron - 2

Teal - 59

Gadwall - 1

Black- talied Godwit - 1

Lapwiing - 65

Shoveler - 1

Hawthorn wood:

Greenfinch - 16

Willow tit - 1

Nuthatch - 1

Bullfinch - 1

Coal tit - 2

Lookout:

Bullfinch - 3

Chaffinch - 4

Blue tit - 3

Great tit - 2

Birds noted around ground:

Grey Heron - 2 (River wear)

Gooseander - 2 (River wear)

Curlew - 1 (River Wear)

Mistle thrush - 1 (Wader lake footpath)

Robin - 1 (Wader lake footpath)

Blackcap - 1 (Wader lake footpath)

Long-tailed tit - 3 (Wader lake footpath)

Snipe - 3 (Saline Lagoon)

Black-headed Gull - 3 (Saline Lagoon)

Teal - 4 (Saline Lagoon)

Swallows - 4 (Hawthorn Wood)

Lapwing - 6 (River wear)

Redshank - 2 (River wear)

Other Wildlife species spotted around grounds:

Flora/Fungi:

Sulphur tuft - 50 (Paddy Fleming Hide)

Common Puffball - 100 (Middle wood

Shaggy Inkcap - 2 (Saline Lagoon)