Wildlife sightings - 25/07/2017
Wader Lake (AM, high tide):
Avocet 5 adult and 4 fledglings
Shoveler 1 adult and 1 juvenile
Grey heron 7
Black-tailed godwit 1
Redshank 9
Tufted duck 3
Lapwing 88
Shelducklings 6
Saline Lagoon:
Black-headed gull 14
Lapwing 3
Hawthorn Wood:
Greenfinch 2
Goldfinch 5
Robin 3
Bullfinch 14
Great-spotted woodpecker 1 (juvenile)
Chaffinch 8
Plus:
A kestrel at the amphibian ponds
A common sandpiper at Window on the Wear 1
A great-spotted woodpecker at the Pond Zone
A blackcap in North Wood
Mammals:
Stoat
Rabbit
Invertebrates:
Common carder bee
Soldier beetle
Flora:
Purple loosestrife
Betony
Hemp agrimony
Greater burnet
Teasel
Fungi:
Giant puffball
Purple brittlegill
Sulphur tuft
