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Wildlife Sightings 6-02-2022

Wildlife Sightings 6-02-2022

Weather: Wet & Cold

Wind Speed: Mod. Winds

River Wear Tide Level: High

Wader Lake

Oystercatcher - 2
Lapwing 9 on meadow - 43
Grey heron 6 in hedge - 14
Shoveler (6m,4f) - 10
Shelduck - 9
Teal - 28
Wigeon (4m,1f) - 5
Canada Goose - 2
Herring Gull - 73
Black-headed Gull - 163

Saline Lagoon

Redshank - 1
Shelduck - 2
Lapwing - 1
Common Snipe - 3
Curlew (meadow) - 1

Hawthorn Wood

Blackbird (1m,1f) - 2
G.S.Woodpecker (m) - 1
Coal tit - 3
Wood pigeon - 3
Bullfinch (2m,2f) - 4
Robin - 2

Lookout Feeding Station

Dunnock - 4
Robin - 3
Bullfinch (5m,5f) - 8
Great tit - 2
Blue tit - 2
Chaffinch - 4

Other birds noted around site

Golden eye (2m) River Wear - 2
Goosander (2m) River Wear - 2
Mute Swan River Wear - 1
Long-tailed tit Amphibian Ponds - 5
Jay Hawthorn Wood - 2

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