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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