Wildlife Sightings - 25/04/2020
Weather: Overcast 10°C
Wind speed: Light
River Wear Tide Level: Mid
Wader Lake - AM - MID water level
Avocet 34
Oystercatcher 2
Lapwing 16
Redshank 5
Black headed gull 23 (20 adults + 3 first summer birds)
Herring gull 12 (9 adults + 3 second summer birds)
Lesser black backed gull 2 adults
Swallow 12 (low over the lake)
Grey heron 36 adults + 27 chicks (26 nests)
Sparrowhawk 1 (male)
Saline Lagoon
Shelduck 4
Hawthorn Wood
Willow tit 2
Long tailed tit 2
Coal tit 3
Bullfinch 6
Chaffinch 8
Wren 1
Robin 2
Dunnock 2
Nuthatch 1
Treecreeper 1
Great spotted woodpecker 2 (male & female)
Red bunting 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Other birds noted around site
Tawny owl (Hawthorn Wood) 1
Mute swan (Round Table Ponds) 2
Reed warbler (Round Table Ponds) 1
Sedge warbler (Round Table Ponds) 2
Kestrel (Hawthorn Wood) 2 (male, female)
Buzzard (East Downs) 1
Tree sparrow (centre feeders) 2
