Wildlife Sightings 23/06/2023
Weather: Overcast and cold
River wear tide level: high
A.M
Wader Lake:
Teal - 5
Avocet - 13 + 4 nesting
Shelduck - 14 +1 brood of 12 chicks
Black-headed Gulls - 85 +19 chicks and 3 juvenile
Oystercatcher - 6 + 1 chick
Greylag Goose - 8
Tufted ducks 2 broods 8+15 ducklings
Common Tern - 47 37 chicks
Lapwing - 38
Gadwall - 1 + 3 male
Redshank - 2
Swallow - 1
Hawthorn wood:
Stock Dove - 2
Great-spotted Woodpecker - 2 +3 juvenile
Nuthatch - 1
Bullfinch - 3 +1 juvenile
Chaffinch - 5
Blue tit - 1 + 3 juvenile
Great tit - 1 + 3 juvenile
Goldfinch - 2
Greenfinch - 1 juvenile
Blackbird - 2
Other birds noted around site:
Oystercatcher - 2 adults + 2 juvenile (River wear)
Herring Gull - 11 (River wear)
Great dark-backed Gull - 2 (River wear)
Lesser black-backed Gull - 2 (River wear)
Tufted duck - 1 (River wear)
Tufted duck - 1 + 20 ducklings (Close encounters)
Greenfinch - 4 (The Lookout)
Bullfinch - 2 (The Lookout)
Chaffinch - 1 (The Lookout)
Great spotted Woodpecker - 2 (The Lookout)
Robin - 1 (The Lookout)
Reed Bunting - 1 juvenile (The Orchard)
Lapwing - 9 (Saline Lagoon)
Redshank - 7 (Saline Lagoon)
Teal - 2 (Saline Lagoon)
Great black-backed Gull - 1 (Saline Lagoon)
Canada Goose - 2 (Saline Lagoon)
Black-headed Gull - 15 (River wear)
Other Wildlife species spotted on site:
Flora / Fungi:
Giant Puffball - 1 (Middle wood)
Broad-leaved helleborine - 2 (With flowering spikes)
