Wildlife Sightings - 30/04/2020
Weather: Part sunny / part overcast
Wind Speed: Light
River Wear Tide Level: HIGH
Water Lake - AM - MID
Avocet 36 (7 pairs nesting)
Lapwing 22 (10 nests)
Redshank 4
Oystercatcher 4
Black tailed godwit 1
Common tern 6
Black headed gull 30 (6 pairs moving twigs around)
Herring gull 2 (pair)
Lesser black backed gull 4 (2 pairs)
Gadwall 3 (2 male, 1 female)
Shoveler 4 (3 male, 1 female)
Saline lagoon
Shoveler 1 (male)
Lesser black backed gull 2
Oystercatcher 2
Hawthorn Wood
Nuthatch 1
Great spotted woodpecker 1 (male)
Greenfinch 2
Bullfinch 6
Goldfinch 2
Coal tit 2
Willow tit 2
Long tailed tit 1
Reed bunting 2 (male)
Other birds noted around site
Tawny owl (Hawthorn Wood) 3 (1 adult + 2 chicks)
Reed warbler (1 Roundtable Ponds, 2 river reed bed)
Sedge warbler 4 (2 Roundtable Pond, 1 Wader Lake, 1 river reed bed)
Blackcap 7 (site count)
Willow warbler 4 (site count)
Chiffchaff 9 (site count)
Common whitethroat 4 (site count)
Other wildlife species around site
Amphibians / Fish:
Smooth newt (Amphibian Ponds)
Toad tadpole (Amphibian Ponds)
Invertebrates:
Speckled wood
Bee fly
Flora / fungi:
Hawthorn in bloom
