Latest sightings
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Lapwing - 95 Heron - 15 Shoveler - 15 Canada Goose - 9 Greylag Goose - 1 Herring Gull - 10 Greater Black-backed Gull - 1 Black-headed Gull - 30 White Mallard - 1 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 5 Great Tit - 8
27 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - Mid Lapwing - 75 Black-headed Gull - 25 Herring Gull - 20 Greater Black-backed Gull - 1 Heron - 5 Shelduck - 8 Teal - 1 Canada Goose - 9 Greylag Goose - 1 Saline Lagoon Teal - 25 Other Birds Tufted Duck - Reservoir - 5 Long-tai
25 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Time: AM / Tide Level: Mid. Wader Lake - partly frozen. Redshank - 2 Lapwing - 10 Black-headed Gull - 70 Herring Gull - 7 Grey Heron - 7 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 4 Teal - 11 Reservoir Tufted Duck - 40+ Shelduck - 5 Hawthorn Wo
24 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Tide - Low/Time - AM Black-headed Gull - 46 Herring Gull - 3 Lapwing - 22 Saline Lagoon/Tide - Low/Time - AM Shelduck - 8 Teal - 32 Moorhen - 10 River Wear Goldeneye - 2 Redshank - 10 Grey Heron - 2 Great Black Backed Gull - 4 Black-headed Gull
23 January 2015
Black-tailed godwit
A black-tailed godwit in winter plumage was on Wader Lake this morning - a rare visitor on site at this time of year :-)
20 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid 100% frozen Lapwing - 68 Black-headed Gull - 50+ Black-tailed Godwit - 1 Teal - 30 Herring Gull - 2 Saline Lagoon 100% frozen Shelduck - 12 Curlew (meadow) - 1 Hawthorn Wood Bullfin
20 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Time: AM / Tide Level: Very low! Wader Lake - 100% frozen Lapwing - 44 (on island) Curlew - 5 (in the meadow) Canada Goose - 12 (in the meadow) River Wear Black-headed Gull - 100+ Herring Gull - 15 Redshank - 3 Teal - 18 Grey Heron - 5 Goldeneye -
18 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Wigeon - 4 Shelduck - 6 Teal - 4 Black-headed Gull - 110 Herring Gull - 21 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Lapwing - 11 Grey Heron - 1 Hawthorn Wood Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 Nuthatch - 1 Jay - 1 Long Tailed Tit - 10 Coal Tit - 8 Great Tit - 14
17 January 2015
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE / AM / MID-TIDE Mute Swan - 2 Grey Heron - 5 Shelduck - 15 Teal - 50 SALINE LAGOON / AM / MID-TIDE Teal - 26 HAWTHORN WOOD / AM Great spotted woodpecker - 1 Jay - 3 Bullfinch - 26 Chaffinch - 7 Coal Tit - 10 Blue Tit - 22 Great T
16 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - High Black-headed Gull - 105 Lapwing - 32 Shelduck - 4 Redshank - 2 Herring Gull - 17 Goldcrest (path) - 2 Bullfinch (path) - 2 Saline Lagoon 100% Frozen Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 8 Jay - 1 Robin - 3 Blue Tit - 6 Coal Tit - 2 R
14 January 2015
Otter sighting
At 3.10pm, a radio message from our reserve manager John: "I'm just sitting at Window on the Wear 2 watching an otter play in the river. It's heading downstream with the flow of the tide". Great stuff!
13 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/am Tide mid/high Teal - 7 Shelduck - 9 Canada Geese - 10 Tufted Duck - 9 Black Headed Gull - 36 Mute Swan - 2 Lapwing - 1 Grey Heron - 2 Greylag Goose - 1 Shoveller - 2 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 17 Blackbird - 3 Robin - 2 Treecreeper - 1 B
12 January 2015
Sightings Update
Kingfisher spotted from Widow on the Wear
11 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Tide - Mid/Time - AM Shelduck - 7 Greylag Goose - 2 Lapwing - 5 Black Headed Gull - 60 Herring Gull - 4 Lesser Black Backed Gull - 1 Teal - 25 Saline Lagoon Redshank - 1 Shelduck - 2 Other Birds Mistle Thrush - Hunters Creek - 1 Jay - Hawthorn
11 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Time: AM Tide Level: Mid Weather: Windy but sunny Wader Lake Shelduck - 2 Canada Goose - 9 Teal - 4 Saline Lagoon Lapwing - 20 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 6 Long-tailed Tit - 2 Nuthatch - 1 Sparrowhawk - 1 Robin - 2 Chaffinch - 5 Blackbird - 2 Other Spe
10 January 2015