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Wildlife sightings - 29/06/2020

Wildlife sightings - 29/06/2020

a.m. Tide Level: High

Wader Lake

Mediterranean gull (adult) 1

Avocet 23 (22 adults / 1 chick)

Redshank 5

Oystercatcher 5 (4 adult / 1 juvenile)

Curlew 4

Lapwing 8

Common tern 102 (29 adult / 73 chicks)

Black-headed gull 263 (239 adult / 24 chicks)

Pied wagtail 2

Lesser black-backed gull 2

Sand martin 10

Swallow 5

Saline Lagoon

Redshank 4

Oystercatcher 1

Curlew 1

Lesser black-backed gull 1

Hawthorn Wood

Greenfinch 2

Great spotted-woodpecker 4

Bullfinch 9

Robin 2

Willow tit 1

Chaffinch 15

Blue tut 9

Great tit 10

Other birds

Common sandpiper - 3 - River Wear

Cormorant - 1 - River Wear

Goldfinch - 2 - Amphibian ponds

Reed bunting - 1 - Wader Lake path

Common whitethroat - 3 - Wader Lake path

Grey heron - 8 - Heron hedge

Kestrel - 3 - Hawthorn Wood

Long-tailed tits - 4 - South Wood

Willow warbler - 2 - Hollowood

Flora/fungi

Lesser trefoil

Reed sweet grass

Rosebay willowherb

Upright broome



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