Wildlife Sightings 7/5/2022
Weather: Overcast
River Wear Tide Level: Mid
Wader Lake
Swallows - 4
Sedge Warbler - 1 (heard)
Avocet (13 nesting) - 44
Oystercatcher (1 pair nesting) - 2(pair)
Jay (in hedge) - 1
Shelduck - 35
Shoveler - 1(m)
Teal - 4
Tufted duck - 3
Grey Heron (3 juvenile/chick, 1 1styear juvenile) - 11
Herring Gull - 6
Sand Martin - 4
Black-headed Gull (18 nesting) - 47
Common tern - 6
Lapwing - 5
Gadwall - 2(m)
Redshank - 7 (4 on meadow)
Curlew - 2(on meadow)
Canada goose - 7
Greylag goose - 11
Saline Lagoon
Sedge Warbler - 1
Shelduck - 1
Greylag goose - 1
Greylag x Canada hybrid (Canalag) - 3
Hawthorn Wood
Blackcap - 1(m)
Willow tit - 1
Dunnock - 1
Bullfinch (1m,1f) - 2
Coal tit - 1
Robin - 2
Lookout Feeding Station
Coal tit - 1(heard)
Robin - 2
Other birds noted
Gadwall The Reservoir - 1
Goldfinch Wader Lake Footpath - 6
Buzzard River Wear/Saline Lagoon (soaring together) - 3
Blackcap Wader Lake Footpath - 1
Reedwarbler Filter Reedbeds - 1
Song thrush Soutjwood - 1(singing)
Invertebrates
Silver ground carpet moth x 1 @ Middlewood
