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Wildlife Sightings - 25/9/16

Wader Lake

Tide Level High A.M

Common Snipe: 8

Black-Tailed Godwit: 5

Redshank: 37

Grey Heron: 2

Eurasian Teal: 5

Lapwing: 7

 

Saline Lagoon

Tide Level High A.M

Kingfisher: 1 (on perch in reedbed pool)

 

Hawthorn Wood

Sparrowhawk: Female 1

Willow Tit: 2

Blue Tit: 1

Robin: 1

Coal Tit: 1

Great Tit: 1

Bullfinch: 1

 

Other Birds

Mistle Thrush: 1 (in Hollowood)

Ferruginous Duck: 1 (in White-Head Pen)

Jay: 2 (in Top Meadow)

Grey Heron: 1

Cormorant (Juvenile): 1 (Window On The Wear)

Kestrel: 1 (Stream Channel)

 

Other Wildlife/Flora

Grey Squirrel

Speckled Wood butterfly

Red Darter dragonfly

Water Mint

Fungi: Shaggy Ink Cap; Artists Bracket; Turkeytail; Brown Roll Rim; Velvet Shank and Sickener.