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Wildlife Sightings 22-1-22

Wildlife Sightings 22-1-22

Weather: Sunny

Wind Speed: Mild

River Wear Tide Level: Mid

Wader Lake

Mute Swan - 2
Canada Goose - 8
Shelduck - 20
Wigeon - 2
Shoveler - 10
Teal - 26
Tufted Duck - 2
Grey Heron - 8
B.H. Gull - 21
Common Buzzard (Heron Hedge) - 1

Saline Lagoon

Curlew (meadow) - 3
Moorhen - 2
Teal - 4

Hawthorn Wood

Nuthatch - 1
Jay - 1
Bulfinch - 5
Willow tit - 1
Coal tit - 3
Greenfinch - 2

Lookout Feeding Station

Chaffinch - 2
Robin - 5
Pheasant - 2
Robin - 5
Bullfinch - 4
Blue tit - 6
Great tit - 3

Other birds noted around site

Bullfinch (3m,2f) Domestics pen 5
G.S.Woodpecker Centre Feedres 1
Long tailed tit Centre Feeders 5
Kestrel East Down 1
Teal River 5
Golden Eye River 2
Little Grebe River 1

Mammals

Grey Squirrel Hawthorn Wood
Roe Deer East Down

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