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First avocet
Our first avocet of the season is down on Wader Lake this morning.
4 March 2016
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE 90% FROZEN / MID TIDE Lapwing - 14 Grey Heron - 14 Redshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 1 Stock Dove - 2 Mute Swan - 2 Black- Headed Gull - 130 Mistle Thrush - 2 Eurasian Teal - 4 Shelduck - 26 SALINE LAGOON FROZEN OTHER BIRDS Lesser
29 February 2016
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE / AM / MID-LOW Oystercatcher - 2 Lapwing - 11 Grey Heron - 17 Canada Goose - 4 Eurasian Teal - 14 Shelduck - 16 Mute Swan - 2 OTHER BIRDS / AM Tufted Duck (River Wear) - 4 Goldcrest (Spring Gill Wood) - 1 Mistle Thrush (Spring Gill Woo
28 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Lapwing - 25 Shelduck - 26 Redshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 2 Grey Heron - 25 Canada Goose - 36 Jay - 1 Song Thrush - 1 Saline Lagoon Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 3 Stock Dove - 1 Other Birds Song Thrush - Duckery - 1 Redshank
21 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Grey Heron - 19 Teal - 1 Shelduck - 24 Lapwing - 4 Oystercatcher - 3 Black headed Gull - 84 Herring Gull - 25 Redshank - 1 Goosander - 1 Saline Lagoon Common Snipe - 6 Teal - 6 Other Birds Goosander - River - 3 Tufted Duck
20 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Black-headed Gull - 30 Shelduck - 12 Grey Heron - 14 Herring Gull - 10 Saline Lagoon Grey Heron - 1 Hawthorn Wood Reed Bunting - 1 Blue Tit - 10 Nuthatch - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Great Tit
17 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Mid Common Snipe - 1 Eurasian Teal - 14 Shelduck - 27 Grey Heron - 15 Saline Lagoon Grey Heron - 1 Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 2 Goosander - 3 Other Birds Jay - Orchard - 1 Kestrel - Reservoir - 1 Treecreeper - Hollowood - 3 T
14 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Tide Mid Curlew - 1 Shelduck - 8 Canada Goose - 40 Teal - 10 Heron - 12 Other Birds Mistle Thrush - Window on the Wear - 1 Tufted Duck - River Wear - 25 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 6 Long tailed tit - 8 G. S. Woodpecker - 2 Chaffinch - 6
9 February 2016
Today's sightings
Wader Lake (AM low tide): Lapwing - 3 Grey heron - 10 Shelduck - 9 Stock dove - 1 Eurasian teal - 9 Tufted duck - 3 Saline Lagoon (AM low tide): Curlew - 1 Shelduck - 2 Hawthorn Wood: Robin - 3 Long-tailed tit - 5 Blackbird - 4 Coal tit - 5
8 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Heron - 18 Shelduck - 3 Lapwing - 59 Canada Goose - 7 Redshank - 1 Stock Dove - 2 Eurasian Teal - 10 Greenshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 3 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 3 River Wear Grey Heron - 1 Redshank - 1 Other Birds Ferruginous
7 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Grey Heron - 16 Lapwing - 125 Redshank - 10 Oystercatcher - 2 Herring Gull - 43 Black Headed Gull - 134 Teal - 27 Shelduck - 9 Starling - 5 Stock Dove - 9 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 4 River Wear Little Grebe - 1 Goldeneye - 5
6 February 2016
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE / AM / MID TIDE Grey Heron - Canada Goose - 2 Lapwing - 29 Shelduck - 14 Redshank - 5 Eurasian Teal - 29 Curlew - 15 SALINE LAGOON /AM /MID TIDE Goosander - 4 OTHER BIRDS Eurasian Teal (Window on the Wear) - 2 Jay (Wader Lake foot
31 January 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM Tide - Mid/High Shelduck - 30 Curlew - 2 Lapwing - 30 Black Headed Gull - 15 Herring Gull - 3 Eurasian Teal - 30 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 5 Tufted Duck - 35 Other Birds Goosander - River Wear - 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker - Flying ov
30 January 2016
Today's sightings
Wader Lake (AM, mid tide): Shoveler - 1 (drake) Shelduck - 46 Canada goose - 10 Eurasian teal - 84 Grey heron - 4 Greater black-backed gull - 1 (juvenile) Lapwing - 28 Hawthorn Wood feeding station: Robin - 4 Long-tailed tit - 8 Willow tit - 1 Nuth
27 January 2016
Today's sightings
Wader Lake (AM, low tide): Shoveler (pair) - 2 Redshank - 8 Shelduck - 42 Eurasian teal - 69 Lapwing - 13 Black-headed gull - 9 Grey heron - 1 Lesser black-backed gull (adult) - 1 Hawthorn Wood feeding station: Great-spotted woodpecker - 1 (male) W
26 January 2016