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Wildlife Sightings - 23/04/2020

Wildlife Sightings - 23/04/2020
Weather: Sunny 9°C
Wind Speed: Light
River Wear Tide Level: Low
Wader Lake - AM - MID water level

Avocet 37

Oystercatcher 4

Lapwing 18

Redshank 2

Black tailed godwit 3

Grey heron 27 adults + 21 chicks

Shelduck 14

Shoveler 6

Gadwall 2

Swallow 4

Sand martin 2

Black headed gull 21

Herring gull 23

Lesser black backed gull 4

Saline Lagoon

Common snipe 5

Oystercatcher 1

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woodpecker 2 (1 male, 1 female)

Nuthatch 1

Reed bunting 2 (males)

Blackbird 1 (female)

Wren 1

Willow tit 2

Long tailed tit 2

Coal tit 3

Bullfinch 5

Chaffinch 8

Goldfinch 1

Other birds noted around site

Tufted duck (Reseroir) 22

Greylag (Reservoir) 7 adults + 7 goslings

Canada goose (Reservoir) 1

Sedge warbler (filter reedbed) 1

Common whitethroat (Wader lake footpath) 1