Wildlife sightings - 24/1/2018
Wader Lake (AM, high tide):
Grey heron 4 (2 in hedge)
Mallard 98
Eurasian teal 83
Eurasian wigeon 2
Lapwing 44
Shelduck 17
Common buzzard 1 (flying over, heading North East)
Canada goose 1
Kestrel 1
Common snipe 10
Black-headed gull 25
Saline lagoon:
Shelduck 2
Eurasian teal 11
Hawthorn Wood feeding station:
Willow tit 1
Bullfinch 5
Siskin 4
Great tit 4
Blue tit 5
Coal tit 3
Plus:
A greater black-backed gull feeding on a dead pheasant on the river
A male kingfisher in the gully
A ferruginous duck in the white-headed duck pen
A great-spotted woodpecker calling in Spring Gill Wood
Lesser redpoll in the hawthorn scrub at the duckery 9
Tufted duck on the reservoir 42
Tree sparrow on the centre feeders 5
Emerging flora - snowdrops near the gully/compost toilet and bluebells, snowdrops, ramsons and lords-and-ladies in Hawthorn Wood and fungi - velvet shank fungi on a willow tree in the gully.
