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Wildlife sightings - 26/07/2017

Wader Lake (AM, high tide):

Avocet 5 adult and 1 fledged young

Dunlin 1

Oystercatcher 1

Teal 3

Lapwing 2

Little-ringed plover 127

Black-tailed godwit 1

Greylag goose 39

Common tern 69

Pied wagtail 2

 

Saline Lagoon:

Canada goose 17

Black-headed gull 32

 

Hawthorn Wood:

Bullfinch 9

Great-spotted woodpecker 1

Jay 1

Chaffinch 12

Robin 4

Goldfinch 6

Greenfinch 2

Willow tit 1

 

Plus 2 whitethroat on the lagoon footpath and a grey heron on the River Wear

 

Fungi:

Sulphur tuft

Bay bolete

Purple brittlegill

Birch polypore

 

Flora:

Betony

Teasel

Hemp agrimony