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Sightings Update
The first male Golden Eye on the season was spotted flying upstream on the Wear at 1:05pm.
13 November 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/Low Tide/AM Shelduck - 3 Wigeon - 2 Teal - 71 Stock Dove - 2 Redwing - 9 Grey Heron - 4 Saline Lagoon Teal - 9 Mallard - 11 Other Birds Great Black Backed Gull - River - 2 Black Headed Gull - River - 53 Waxwing - Flew Over Site - 12 Long Tailed
13 November 2012
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/LOW TIDE Teal - 77 Gadwall - 1 Wigeon - 2 Redshank - 4 OTHER BIRDS/AM A Great Spotted Woodpecker and four Jay in Hollow wood HAWTHORN WOOD/AM Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Bullfinch - 4 Blackbird - 2 Coal Tit - 3 Blue Tit - 6 &
11 November 2012
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/LOW TIDE Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Herring Gull - 3 Black-headed Gull - 1 Shelduck - 1 Teal - 76 Gadwall - 4 Wigeon - 2 Redshank - 11 Lapwing - 21 OTHER BIRDS/AM Wader Lake footpath Siskin - 24 Lesser Redpoll - 5 Long Tailed Tit - 9
10 November 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/AM/Mid Tide Teal - 87 Mallard - 42 Black Headed Gull - 60 Moorhen - 5 Heron - 3 Hybrid Duck - 1 Other Birds Waxwing - Site Count - 4 Redwing - Hollowood - 9 Siskin - Hollowood/Reedbeds - 6 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch Nuthatch Great Spotted Wood Pec
9 November 2012
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/HIGH TIDE Wigeon - 2 Teal - 36 Common Snipe - 2 Black-headed Gull - 41 SALINE LAGOON/AM/HIGH TIDE Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Mallard - 15 OTHER BIRDS/AM Siskin (Wader Lake Path) - 6 Kestrel (Forgotten Meadow) - 1 Sparrowhawk (
7 November 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/AM/High Tide Wigeon - 2 Teal - 54 Mallard - 27 Common Snipe - 3 Black Headed Gull - 36 Hawthorn Wood Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Nuthatch - 1 Robin - 2 Blackbird - 2 Greenfinch - 1 Bullfinch - 6 Chaffinch - 5 Willow Tit - 5 Coal Tit - 4
6 November 2012
3rd of November Sightings
Weather: cool and breezy with sunny spells. Wader Lake Time: AM - Tide Level: Low Teal - 98 Wigeon - 3 Shoveler - 21 Lapwing - 46 Curlew - 4 Black-Headed Gull - 65 Coot - 4 Saline Lagoon Tide Level: Low Rabbit - 1 Hawthorn Wood Nuthatch -
3 November 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Teal - 77 Mallard - 32 Black-headed Gull - 131 Moorhen - 4 Redshank - 8 Lapwing - 10 Widgeon - 3 Hawthorn Wood Willow Tit Nuthatch Coal Tit Bullfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Blue Tit Chaffinch Pheasant
2 November 2012
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM Teal - 99 Shoveler - 5 Mallard - 8 Moorhen - 6 Mute Swan - 4 (2 adults/2 cygnets) Snip - 13 Redshank - 31 Lapwing - 49 Blackheaded Gull - 106 Heron - 1 Pheasant - 1 SALINE LAGOON/AM Mallard - 2 Curlew - 1 OTHER BIRDS River Wea
1 November 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/am/Low Tide Teal - 150 Mallard - 25 Wigeon - 4 Black Headed Gull - 34 Common Gull - 1 Moorhen - 6 Coot - 1 Saline Lagoon Mallard - 6 Other Birds Mute Swan - Flew over farm - 6 Jay - North Wood - 2 Hawthorn Wood Magpie - 6 Pheasant - 12 Bullfinc
30 October 2012
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/LOW TIDE Teal - 95 Mute Swan - 1 Lapwing - 23 Black Headed Gull - 53 Common Gull - 1 Moorhen - 3 Snipe - 15 HAWTHORN WOOD/AM Pheasant - 10 Blue Tit - 6 Great Tit - 10 Coal Tit - 4 Chaffinch - 1 Robin - 1
29 October 2012
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/LOW TIDE Common Snipe - 5 Teal - 92 Mallard - 22 Black Headed Gull - 45 Lapwing - 48 Wigeon - 4 Redshank - 6 Grey Heron - 3 OTHER BIRDS/AM Wader Lake path Robin - 2 Mistle Thrush - 1 Long Tailed Tit - 6 Chaffinch - 4 Saline Lagoon Bla
28 October 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/am/Low Tide Mediterrainean Gull - 1 Black Headed Gull - 36 Common Gull - 1 Wigeon - 6 Teal - 146 Gadwall - 4 Coot - 2 Common Snipe - 5 Redshank - 34 Lapwing - 15 River Wear Goosander - 1 Redshank - 9 Cormorant - 2 Hawthorn Wood Nuthatch - 1 Tr
26 October 2012
Great grey shrike
A great grey shrike has been spotted in trees near the duckery/new sustainable garden area and in Close Encounters. This is only the second sighting on site, the first being in 1976!
25 October 2012