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Wildlife Sightings -28/04/2022

Wildlife Sightings -28/04/2022
Weather: Fine/overcast

Wind speed: mod

River wear tide level: low

A.M

Wader lake:

Grey Heron - 15 + 14 chicks

Avocet - 14 (3 nests on/ near island)

Lapwing - 12 + 2 chicks

Oystercatcher - 4

Common Snipe - 1

Common tern - 5

Black Headed Gull - 18

Herring Gull - 6

Gadwall - 6

Shoveler - 6

Barnacle Goose - 1

Saline Lagoon:

Shelduck - 4

Lapwing - 2

Redshank - 1

Swallow - 1

Other birds noted around site:

Sparrowhawk - 1 (Low over Wader lake)

Mistle Thrush - 2 (Stream channel)

Song Thrush - 3 ( Spring Gill)

Blackcap - 2 ( Waderlake footpath)

Willow Warbler - 3 (Waderlake footpath)

Reed warbler - 1 (Waderlake footpath)

ChiffChaff - 3 (Waderlake footpath)

Hawthorn wood:

Great spotted woodpecker - 1

Nuthatch - 1

Bullfinch - 3

Chaffinch - 6

BlackCap - 1

Willow tit - 1

Lookout feeding station:

Willow tit - 1

Long-tailed tit - 2

Greenfinch - 2

Bullfinch - 2

Robin - 1

Reed Bunting - 1