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Wildlife Sightings - 23/05/2020

Wildlife Sightings - 23/05/2020

Weather: Overcast / sunny

Wind Speed: Very strong

River Wear Tide Level: Mid

Wader Lake - AM - Water level low

Avocet 40 + 4 chicks (4 broods with a chick each)

Oystercatcher 3

Redshank 4

Lapwing 10

Little ringed plover 1

Curlew 1

Common tern 168 + 1 first summer

Black headed gull 65

Shelduck 21 + 2 ducklings

Lesser black backed gull 4

Grey heron 27

Saline Lagoon

Shelduck 8

Grey heron 2

Hawthorn Wood

Blue tit 8

Great tit 5 + 5 juveniles

Coal tit 1

Willow tit 1

Bullfinch 5

Chaffinch 4

Goldfinch 1

Robin 3

Nuthatch 1

Blackbird 2

Great spotted woodpecker 2

Jay 1

Other birds noted around site

Tree sparrow (centre feeders) 1

Treecreeper (North Wood) 1

Swallow (Stream Channel) 3

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